Utility Tools
These essential utilities enhance your drawing experience, making it easier to create precise, organized, and consistent technical analysis on your charts.
Magnet Mode
Magnet Mode helps your drawing tools snap precisely to important price points, ensuring accurate placement of trendlines, patterns, and other drawings.
How to Use
- Standard Magnet: Click the magnet icon in the drawing toolbar
- Strong Magnet: Hold Cmd/Ctrl while drawing
- Temporary Activation: Hold Cmd/Ctrl at any time for quick snapping
Magnet Strength Levels
- Regular Magnet: Snaps to significant price levels (highs, lows)
- Strong Magnet: Snaps to every OHLC value of each bar
- Open, High, Low, Close prices
- Ensures ultra-precise placement
Practical Benefits
- Create perfectly aligned trendlines
- Place Fibonacci tools exactly on swing highs/lows
- Draw support/resistance levels with precision
- Ensure pattern measurements are exact
- Eliminate small errors in manual placement
Hide/Show Tool
The Hide/Show tool allows you to temporarily conceal drawings without deleting them, reducing chart clutter while keeping your analysis intact.
How to Use
- Hide All Drawings: Cmd/Ctrl + H
- Show/Hide Individual: Select drawing and toggle visibility in properties
- Toggle Groups: Control visibility of groups of related drawings
Practical Applications
- Clear chart view for fresh analysis
- Hide completed trades while keeping records
- Focus on specific drawing sets for different scenarios
- Present cleaner charts for sharing or screenshots
- Maintain multiple analysis layers
Sync Tool
The Sync tool allows drawings to be synchronized across multiple charts, timeframes, or workspaces, ensuring consistent analysis.
Synchronization Levels
- Global: Sync across all charts and workspaces
- Workspace: Sync only within current workspace
- Channel: Sync between linked charts
- Local: No synchronization (default)
Practical Benefits
- Maintain consistent analysis across timeframes
- View the same support/resistance levels on different charts
- Update drawings in multiple places with one edit
- Create unified analytical framework
Lock Tool
The Lock feature prevents accidental movement or modification of your drawings, preserving your careful analysis.
How to Use
- Lock Drawing: Select drawing and click lock icon (or Cmd/Ctrl + L)
- Unlock Drawing: Select locked drawing and click unlock icon
- Lock Multiple: Select multiple drawings to lock together
When to Use
- After completing precise analysis
- For important support/resistance levels
- When sharing workspaces with others
- To prevent accidental changes during active trading
- For drawings you reference frequently
Favorites Tool
The Favorites feature allows you to save frequently used drawing configurations for quick access.
How to Use
- Save as Favorite: Configure drawing, then click star icon
- Access Favorites: Click favorites menu in drawing toolbar
- Apply to New Drawing: Select favorite before creating new drawing
Practical Applications
- Save custom Fibonacci levels
- Store preferred color schemes
- Maintain consistent drawing styles
- Quick access to complex pattern templates
- Standardize analysis presentation
Remove All Drawings
The Remove All feature allows you to quickly delete all drawing objects from your chart at once. How to Use
- Click the trash icon in the drawing toolbar
- Select “Delete all drawings” from the popup menu
- All drawing objects will be removed, including locked ones
Important Notes
This action can be undone (click the Back icon in the top chart panel or press Ctrl + Z) Use with caution as it removes all drawing objects at once Provides a quick way to clear your chart and start fresh
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