Drawing Tools Reference Guide
With our extensive drawing and styling tools, including trend lines, average lines, channels, Fibonacci retracements, arrows, callouts, and doodles, you can confidently highlight and graphically analyze charts and studies creatively.
Drawing Palette controls
List view: Displays the drawing tools in a list view.
Grid view: Displays the drawing tools in a grid view.
Attach/Detach: Detaches the palette from the side of the screen, making the palette draggable anywhere on-screen.
No Tool: Deselects the current drawing tool; that is, sets the palette so that no drawing tool is in use.
Measure: Enables measurements of the chart, study, or series area.
Undo: Undoes drawing actions.
Redo: Restores drawing actions removed by Undo.
Drawing Tools dropdown menu: Enables selection of subsets of the drawing tools, such as text tools, statistics related tools, and favorites.
Drawing Tool list: With our extensive drawing and styling tools, including trend lines, average lines, channels, Fibonacci retracements, arrows, callouts, and doodles, you can confidently highlight and graphically analyze charts and studies creatively.
Stay in Drawing Mode: This allows you to continue drawing or performing actions without exiting the drawing mode. When enabled, this feature keeps you in the drawing mode even after creating a drawing, so it eliminates the need to repeatedly re-enter the drawing mode, providing a more seamless and efficient drawing experience.
Lock Drawings: This helps protect your added drawings on the chart. When you activate the "Lock Drawings" button, it prevents accidental modifications, ensuring that your drawings remain fixed in their positions.
Toggle Visibility Drawings: Turns the drawings on or off without completely deleting them.
Magnet: Causes a drawing tool to be attracted to a line, such as the main chart series, a comparison series, or a study. Magnetizing a tool to a line provides precise placement of the drawing on the line.
Clear all drawings: Removes all drawings from the display.
Restore default parameters: Restores all drawing settings to their default values.
Context Menu:
To edit or delete a drawing on desktop browsers, right-click the drawing to access a context menu, which provides the following options: ● Edit Settings: Accesses the style palette (see Style palette), which enables configuration of font, color, and other style settings. ● Clone Drawing: Creates a copy of the drawing, which can be applied elsewhere on the chart, study, or series. ● Layer Management: Positions overlapping drawings on the z-axis, relative to one another. Brings a drawing forward or sends it backward, moves it to the top or bottom of a stack of drawings. ● Delete Drawing: Removes the drawing from the display.
On touch devices ● Double tap a drawing to delete it; or tap the drawing to highlight it, then tap the delete icon to remove the drawing. ● To edit the drawing settings, tap the drawing to highlight it, then tap the settings icon to open the style palette.
Drawing Style palette
The style palette enables you to style lines and text to your preferences:
Detach: Detaches the palette from the top of the screen, making the palette draggable anywhere on-screen.
Filling color: Sets the background color of the drawing.
Outline color: Sets the foreground or text color of the drawing.
Line Style: Set the style of the wave lines, such as dashed or solid
Italic: Sets the font in italics.
Bold: Sets the font in boldface.
Font size: Specifies the size of the font.
Font: Specifies the font family.
Save config: Saves the style palette settings (the configuration) of the selected tool. The tool retains the configuration even after the chart is closed. To restore the tool’s default configuration, select the X next to the Save Config control.
Configuration toolbar (for Elliott Wave)
Magnitude: Select the wave magnitude, ranging from Grand Supercycle to SubMinuette
Impulse waves style: Choose the labeling style for impulse waves
Corrective waves style: Choose the labeling style for corrective waves
Wave label type: Set the type of wave label, such as a number enclosed in a circle
Show lines checkbox: Select whether wave lines are drawn or not
Save config: Save all settings so they can be applied to new drawings