Overview

Vela, our next-generation charting platform, gives you state-of-the-art charts for every market. Each chart shows one market. Change the symbol, timeframe, and style from the topbar, or type directly on the chart. Click the chart first so it has keyboard focus, then a letter opens symbol search and a digit starts a timeframe change.

Charts live in a workspace, which also holds your panels, including the watchlist. Open them at vela.luxalgo.com.

This page covers the chart itself. Paper Trading, Replay Mode, Drawings, Indicators, Pine editor, Screenshots, and Order Flow each have their own page, and every keyboard and mouse shortcut is collected in Shortcuts.

Layouts

The topbar Layout control sets how many charts appear together inside the current chart tab. Each tab can have its own layout: for example, a four-chart grid in one tab and a single chart in another. To keep another setup open, use workspace tabs; to save a separate named setup, create a workspace.

The layout picker also lets you preview a custom grid before applying it. Drag the splitters between cells to resize them; double-click a splitter to even the split.

The active cell

In a multi-chart layout, exactly one chart is active: the one you last clicked. Everything that targets "the chart" targets this cell: symbol changes, timeframe changes, drawings, indicators, and scripts from Quant. If an action seems to land on the wrong chart, check which cell is active first.

Sync charts together

In the layout picker, Sync links properties across charts. Each can be toggled independently:

• Symbol: changing the ticker on one chart updates every linked chart. Useful for watching the same market on several timeframes at once.
• Interval: changing the timeframe updates every linked chart. Useful for comparing several markets on the same timeframe.
• Crosshair: the cursor lines up across charts, so you can read the same moment in time on every cell.

Sync drawings on all charts is separate: it lives on the drawing toolbar and copies your drawings across cells.

Change the symbol

Click the symbol in the topbar, or type a letter on the chart, to open Symbol Search.

The search is organized in tabs: All, Stocks, ETFs, Crypto, Futures, Forex, Commodities. By default a symbol resolves to its primary venue; to pin a specific venue, use the PROVIDER:SYMBOL format, for example binance:BTCUSDT for Binance spot rather than an aggregate. Which venues exist per market, which plans can open them, and which of them provide order-flow data, is covered in Data.

Use the arrow keys to move through results and Tab / Shift+Tab to switch market tabs. A side panel shows details for the highlighted symbol, including the other venues it trades on under Also trades as. Searching a pair without a separator, such as BTCUSD, also finds venues that write it as BTC-USD or BTC/USD.

You can also add a result to your watchlist without changing the chart: use the + on its row. It adds to the list you last selected in the watchlist panel, even when that panel is closed. A check mark means the symbol is already on that list. Sign in to use quick add; your plan's list limit still applies.

Change the timeframe

Click the timeframe caret in the topbar. It opens a field where you can type any interval, for example 22m, 3h, or 2D:

• Enter charts the first match, and ↑ / ↓ move through the matches.
• Shift+Enter charts it and also pins it to the topbar as a one-click chip.
• With the field empty, it lists the presets (1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, 1D, 1W, 1M) and a Recent list of the last four custom intervals you used.

Presets are available on every plan. Custom intervals need a paid plan; on Free they are marked Upgrade.

Faster: type a digit on the chart to open the same field with that digit already entered, then finish typing it:

Star the timeframes you use often in the list. Starred intervals show as one-click chips.

Where the symbol has trading sessions (US equities, futures-style calendars), the bottom bar can switch between RTH (regular trading hours: only the main session) and ETH (extended trading hours, including pre- and post-market).

Open a chart link

A link into Vela can set the active chart's market and timeframe and mark a specific candle. Its optional URL parameters are:

Your plan's market, custom-interval, and history limits still apply. If the candle is older than your plan's chart history, Vela explains the limit and shows the oldest available candles.

To send a copy of your layout, drawings, and indicators, use workspace sharing.

Chart types

Open the chart style control in the topbar:

• Candles (default), Bars, Line, Area, Baseline, Heikin Ashi: standard price representations, all built from OHLC data.
• Footprint: replaces each bar with a per-price breakdown of bid vs ask volume. This is order-flow data, so it needs a symbol that provides it.
• TPO: Time Price Opportunity session profiles, showing how much time price spent at each level.

Footprint and TPO are full chart types with their own settings and their own documentation. See Order Flow.

Paper Trading

Every signed-in trader gets a $100,000 paper account to trade from the chart. Buy and Sell sit under the symbol, the Order panel on the panel rail is the full ticket, and the trading panel under the chart lists your positions, orders and trades. Orders are simulated against live prices and never reach a broker. See Paper Trading.

Replay Mode

Use Replay in the chart controls to study historical price action one candle at a time. Click the candle to start from, or choose a start date or a candle with the history slider, then begin playback. Every replay starts at 5x. The toolbar can float or be docked/pinned, and replay supports multi-chart layouts. With Paper Trading, you can buy and sell from the replay bar and get a results card when the replay ends.

Replay Mode is free with a signed-in account and runs in your browser. See Replay Mode for the full walkthrough.

Settings

Open Chart settings from the gear, or right-click the chart and choose Settings…. The dialog has these tabs:

When Footprint or TPO is the active style, the dialog gains additional tabs for that chart type's own options.

Keep candles in view

If an indicator's values are far from the market price, turn on Scale price chart only under Chart settings > Scales and lines. You can also right-click the main price axis and select it beneath Auto.

With automatic scaling on, this fits the main chart to its price bars. Indicator plots, their price lines, and script drawings still appear, but values outside that range may be off-screen. Turn the option off to include them in the scale again. Separate indicator panels keep their own scales.

The option is off by default. If you hide the price series, the chart continues to fit the visible indicators.

Settings templates

Template, at the bottom of Chart settings, saves the chart's look so you can reuse it:

• Apply defaults returns every setting to Vela's defaults.
• Save as… names the current settings as a template. Names must be unique.
• Your saved templates are listed below. Click one to apply it; hover it and click the trash icon, then Delete, to remove it.

A chart template keeps the chart's look, apart from the price style, baseline price and indicator order. Every indicator's settings dialog has the same Template menu, shared by every copy of that indicator; see Indicators. Sign in to save templates.

Price scale modes

Under Scales and lines (or by right-clicking the price axis):

• Regular: linear price.
• Percent: moves shown as % change from the left edge of the visible range. Good for comparing magnitude across assets with different prices.
• Indexed to 100: like percent, but rebased so the first visible bar equals 100.
• Logarithmic: equal vertical distances are equal percentage moves, not equal dollar moves. The usual choice for long histories and for assets that have grown by multiples.

Invert scale flips the axis upside down.

Live price animation

Open Chart settings → Symbol → Animation to control movement on the chart:

Turn off an animation if you prefer immediate visual transitions. These controls change how chart movement is displayed.

Faster paths

The chart's right-click menu starts with Reset chart view and Copy price, then actions at the clicked price, visibility controls, removal controls, and Settings…. Copy price includes the price you clicked. Shortcut hints appear beside actions that have a registered shortcut. Remove drawings and Remove indicators only appear when the chart has something to remove.

• Right-click the price axis: scale mode, including log and invert.
• Right-click the time axis: time zone.
• Press 0 with the chart focused to fit content to the viewport.

Control Symbol watermark and Replay watermark in the Symbol settings.

Inspect what's on the chart

The right-hand panel rail opens two inspection panels:

• Object tree: every drawing and indicator on the chart as a list: show/hide, lock, reorder, or remove each one. This is the fastest way to clean up a crowded chart.
• Data window: the exact values of every plot under the crosshair, useful when several indicators overlap.

Market events

Event markers along the chart's bottom edge put news, company events, and economic releases beside price action. You can review historical events and look ahead to upcoming events where data is available.

Choose which events appear

1. Open Chart settings using the gear at the bottom-right of the chart.
2. Select Events.
3. Use the News & company events and Economic releases groups to turn the categories you want to see on or off:

Close settings to return to the chart. Pan along the time axis to inspect the dates you want to review, including earlier events and upcoming dates. The available events depend on the selected symbol and event data.

Event display

The Event display group in Chart settings → Events has two controls:

• Show future event lines adds connector lines for upcoming events.
• Highlight the move on hover controls the price-move highlight when hovering an event.

The Events preview uses sample data. Choose Stocks or Forex in the preview to inspect the example event display; use the actual chart to review events for your selected market.

Read an event

Click a marker at the bottom of the chart to open its details. When it contains several events, use the compact horizontal slider to move between them. The information depends on the event type and available data:

• News shows a linked headline, its source, and publication time.
• Earnings can show the event date, EPS and revenue alongside estimates, and a result such as EPS beat.
• Dividends can show the ex-dividend date, amount, record date, payment date, declaration date, and payment frequency.
• Splits show the split ratio and effective date.
• Economic releases show the release name, time, country, and Actual, Estimate, and Previous values where available. One marker can open several releases.

Upcoming earnings are labeled Earnings (scheduled) and can show EPS and revenue estimates. Check the event date when distinguishing past from upcoming events: an economic entry can still display Scheduled when numeric figures are absent, even after its listed date.

Read each date label carefully: a dividend's ex-dividend date and payment date describe different parts of the same event.

For a day-by-day agenda of economic releases, earnings, dividends, splits, IPOs and market holidays, open the Calendar from the panel rail.

For a searchable headline feed across the symbols in your watchlist, use Watchlist → Advanced view → News. That feed is separate from the event markers on the chart.

Screenshots

Open the camera icon to Download screenshot, Copy to clipboard, or Select portion. With several charts visible, choose Entire layout or Active chart. A selected portion opens Screenshot Studio, where you can change the area, style, size, and included details before downloading a PNG. See Screenshots for the full workflow.

Alerts

Open Alerts from the right-hand panel rail. Price Alerts are unlimited on every plan, including Free. Custom Alerts watch indicator or strategy conditions, with active-alert allowances of Free 5, Essential 50, Premium 100, Ultimate 200, and AI Ultra 500. Webhook automation starts with Essential. See Creating Alerts for setup and Alerts for the full limits.

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