Workspace Tabs
Open charts and saved workspaces in tabs, understand where changes save, and arrange views and header widgets.
Tabs let you keep several charts and views open in one Vela window. A workspace is the named setup that saves your work; a tab is where you view and work on a chart or a view such as Journal. The tab strip can include charts from more than one saved workspace.
Sign in and open your own workspace in a desktop-width window to use the tab strip beside Quant. For a comparison with multi-chart grids, see Workspaces, tabs, and layouts.
New chart or saved workspace?
- New chart… opens a fresh chart tab that saves with the workspace in the first tab. It does not create another named workspace.
- Duplicate this chart makes an independent copy of a chart's layout, markets, indicators, and drawings in a new tab. The copy saves with the workspace in the first tab.
- From workspace opens an existing saved workspace's main chart in another tab. Edits save back to that workspace. Choose this when you want to use an existing setup alongside the charts already open.
For example, with Crypto in the first tab, a new ETH tab belongs to Crypto. Opening Equities through From workspace adds a tab whose chart saves to Equities. Changing its drawings updates Equities; it does not copy those drawings into Crypto.
To open a saved workspace, select +, then From workspace, and choose its name. If it is already open, Vela brings its tab forward. Closing this tab leaves the saved workspace in your workspace list. The workspace name in the chart topbar tells you where that chart saves; tabs opened from another workspace also show that name in their hover preview.
Save and restore tabs
Every chart tab autosaves its markets, chart layout, indicators, drawings, sync options, and chart panels to the workspace it belongs to. Indicators you hide stay hidden when the chart tab is loaded again.
The workspace in the first tab also saves the tab names and order, open view tabs, selected tab, and split view. It remembers which other saved workspaces you opened in tabs, while those charts continue saving their edits to their own workspaces. Reloading or reopening the workspace restores that arrangement.
A small checkmark briefly appears on a chart tab's logo when a change to that tab's chart is saved. The first chart tab stays first and cannot be closed; the other chart tabs save too.
Chart layouts, markets, drawings, and indicators can differ between tabs. Timezone, drawing-tool defaults and favorites, account-starred timeframes, and your plan's history depth are shared across the open chart tabs. Changing the timezone in one tab applies it to the others.
Opening Journal in a tab does not create a separate journal for that workspace: its trades and notes still belong to your account. Header widgets are saved separately in your browser.
Tabs restored in the background load their charts when you open them. Opening the workspace on a phone or in a narrow window preserves its saved extra tabs even though that window does not show the tab strip.
Open and organize tabs
- Select + beside the tabs, then New chart….
- Choose a market in Symbol Search to open its chart in a new tab.
- To copy the chart tab in front, choose Duplicate this chart from +, or right-click a chart tab and choose Duplicate.
The same + panel offers Journal, Watchlist, and Calendar under Views. Watchlist opens its Advanced view. Portfolio is available with the trading panel; it shows account value, positions, orders, and other account details. Opening a view that is already present returns to that tab.
Drag tabs to reorder them. Double-click a name, or right-click and choose Rename, to give a tab a name. Close a tab with its close control or middle-click. Undo after closing, or +, then Reopen closed tab, restores a recently closed tab during this visit.
Hover over a tab to see its market, timeframe, and preview. When the strip fills up, background tabs become compact. Use All tabs to search for a chart or view by name.
Open a Calendar tab
- Sign in and open your workspace in a desktop-width window.
- Select + beside the tabs, then choose Calendar under Views. You can also select Expand in the side Calendar.
- Choose Board for the week's five trading days or Timeline for releases arranged by currency and time.
- Select an event to read its details. Open chart, when available, opens the displayed market in a chart tab.
Opening Calendar again returns to its existing tab. To keep it beside a chart, open the chart, right-click the Calendar tab, and choose Split with current tab. Drag the divider to give Calendar more room. A narrow Calendar area shows the daily list instead of the weekly views.
For filters, event actions, and the difference between the two views, see Calendar.
Performance
Loaded chart tabs can keep running in the background. Several loaded tabs, especially those with multi-chart layouts or many indicators, can use more memory and processing power.
Vela limits how many chart tabs stay loaded. Less recently used charts may unload and load again when you return, keeping their setup.
If Vela feels slower, close chart tabs you no longer need or simplify their layouts and indicators. Leave a tab open while Quant is working on it.
Show two views together
Open one tab, right-click another, and choose Split with current tab. You can also drag a background tab down over the content area and choose a side. Drag the divider to adjust the space.
A split can pair a chart with Journal, Watchlist, Calendar, or Portfolio, or pair two of those views. It cannot pair two chart tabs. To see multiple charts together, use the chart's layout picker within one chart tab.
Right-click a tab in the split for End split view. Swap sides is available when the first chart tab is not fixed on the left.
Quant stays with its chart
Quant's mark identifies the chart tab its current run is working on. Switching to another tab does not redirect that run's chart changes. Quant can keep working on its original chart in the background. Closing that tab stops its remaining chart actions from being applied, so leave it open until the run finishes if you want those changes.
Add header widgets
Open +, then Widgets to add small readouts beside the tabs. Choose a widget from Markets, Trading, or Alerts & Quant. Market widgets include Price, Watchlist tape, Market stats, Next event, and Sessions. Quant watch shows what Quant is watching. Nothing is added by default.
For Price or Market stats, choose whether to follow the chart in front or show a particular market. Drag widgets to reorder them, or right-click one to move or remove it. Widget choices are saved in this browser, separately from the tabs saved with your workspace.
You can also add Quant watch from Watching, then Add to tabs in the Quant panel. The same row shows In your tabs and Remove once the widget is added. Click the widget to open a running watch's market and timeframe; with no watches running, it opens Quant. See Manage your watches for how it chooses between running watches.
Keyboard shortcuts
Use Option on Mac or Alt on Windows/Linux for these shortcuts when you are not typing in an input:
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| New chart tab | Option/Alt + T |
| Open tab 1–9 | Option/Alt + 1–9 |
| Close the active tab, except the first chart tab | Option/Alt + W |
| Reopen a closed tab | Option/Alt + Shift + T |
With focus in the tab strip, Left/Right moves focus, Enter opens the focused tab, and Home/End moves to the ends. Option/Alt + Shift + Left/Right reorders the focused tab.