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    Indicators and value scales

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    Chart studies come from the same engine as the scanner. An RSI(14) on the chart is the RSI(14) your scan filtered on, to the same decimal. The app decides where each study goes: on the candles if it shares the price scale, in its own panel below if it doesn't.

    Add a study

    1. Click Chart settings (the gear) and open the Indicators tab.
    2. Under Add indicator, type in Search indicators…, such as rsi or moving average.
    3. Click a study. It goes on the chart with its default settings and appears under Active indicators.

    Active indicators lists your studies in two groups: Overlays the price chart and Drawn in a lower panel. Every study and its defaults are in the study reference.

    Change a study

    In Active indicators, each row has three buttons:

    • Eye: hide or show the study without removing it.
    • Settings (pencil and cog): change its parameters, such as the period, its Line colors, its Inputs and its Modifier. Click Apply to redraw, or Reset settings to default.
    • Trash: remove it.
    • Inputs set the series a study runs on. A study starts on its own price inputs, such as the close. Point it at volume, or at a microstructure series, to run the same math on that. See Study inputs.
    • Modifiers transform a study before it's drawn, such as its slope or its correlation with another series. The scanner computes them the same way. Modifiers need Super Pro.

    You can add the same study more than once with different settings, such as a 50-day and a 200-day SMA.

    Panels and value scales

    A panel holds one scale. A study whose outputs share a scale draws in one panel. A study with outputs on different scales splits across panels, each named after its part:

    StudyPanels
    MACDThe MACD and signal lines in one panel, the histogram in its own (web).
    SqueezeCompression (a 0 to 100 rank) in one panel, Release (the on flag and the expansion) in another.
    Directional relative volumeThe volume reading and the conviction reading in separate panels.

    Value-colored panels

    On web, many lower panels color the study's main line by its value, so you can read a level without checking the axis. The colors run from orange at the low end, through gray, to teal at the high end. Orange and teal mark the two ends of a scale. They don't mean bad and good.

    • Bounded oscillators such as RSI, Stochastic, MFI and Williams %R keep a fixed axis. The chart shades the zone past each threshold and draws dashed lines at them: 30 and 70 for RSI, 20 and 80 for Stochastic and MFI, -80 and -20 for Williams %R.
    • Zero-centered studies such as ROC, momentum, PPO and the MACD histogram color above and below a zero line. The MACD histogram, and a few others, draw as colored columns.
    • Trend strength studies such as ADX color from weak to strong, with lines at 20 and 25.
    • Volatility studies such as ATR and standard deviation color each reading by where it sits in that study's own range on the chart.
    • Market data panels, such as the order book z-scores and the regime series, color the same way.

    Only the main line takes the color. Signal lines and smoothings keep their own color, and a study with a modifier draws plain.

    Mobile only.

    Plot market data

    The Market data tab on web, or Data series on mobile, adds data that isn't a price study: relative strength, regime, microstructure and order book features, short interest, short volume, insider transactions and fundamentals. Each field you switch on gets its own panel. The plans for each group are in Stock charts.

    Show your scan on the chart

    In your scan results, the Charts view can draw the studies your filters use, so each chart shows why the stock matched. A filter on RSI(14)<30 draws an RSI panel. A filter on SMA(50)crosses aboveSMA(200) draws both averages on the candles.

    1. Switch the results to Charts.
    2. Open Chart settings (the gear above the charts).
    3. Under Auto overlays, pick a mode:
      • Smart (the default): the few overlays that best explain your filters, up to two on the price chart and one panel below.
      • All: every overlay your filters imply.
      • Off: only your own chart settings.

    Auto overlays draw on top of your own settings without changing them. When you save a chart preset from the results, you choose whether to keep them in it. See Chart presets.

    Tips

    • Use the eye button to compare a chart with and without a study. Hiding keeps its settings, so you don't rebuild it.
    • Match your chart to your scan. If you filter on RSI(14)<30, chart RSI(14), not the RSI(9) another site uses by default.
    • Watch the colors on a panel you check often. An RSI line turning teal tells you it crossed 70 before you find the axis.

    Troubleshooting

    IssueCauseSolution
    A study I added isn't on the chart, with a lock note in Active indicators.Its input, or its modifier, needs a higher plan.Click Upgrade, or change the input back to a price series.
    My scan's studies aren't on the results charts.Auto overlays is Off, or your filters use no chartable study.Set Auto overlays to Smart or All.
    My saved preset lost the overlays from my scan.You saved without Include auto overlays.Save again with it checked.
    The panel colors don't show on my phone.Value colors are on web only.Open the chart on web.

    Related

    Stock chartsWhere charts appear and what the chart settings do.Study referenceEvery study, with its inputs and defaults.Study inputsThe series a study can run on, and which plans can use them.Chart presetsSave your studies and settings and load them anywhere.

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