Workspace

The drawing rail

Every drawing tool, grouped, in a thin rail down the left of the chart. It's always there: a tool your plan doesn't open shows a lock, and clicking it says why.

Tool groups

A group's button arms the tool you last used from it. Its corner opens the whole group with names, and the star in each row pins that tool to the rail's favourites at the top.

Lines
Trendlines, rays, info and angle lines, price levels and date lines.
Channels
Parallel, regression, flat and disjoint channels, and the pitchforks.
Arrows
Arrows and marks under a low or over a high.
Measure
A move's price, its time, or both, kept on the chart.
Gann
The fan, Square of 9, box, range square, time counts and three-pivot convergence.
Price–Time
Angles, arcs, the time conversion bar, natural ratios, the interval ladder, the mirror, ABC symmetry, the root of a root and the Ascendant clock.
Cycles
Cycles drawn trough to trough, summed and run on past the last bar.
Fibonacci
Retracements, extensions, time zones, fans, arcs, channels and the spiral.
Geometry
Circles, triangles and squares started on a high or low.
Freehand and Text
Hold and draw; click and type.

Switches

Below the tools sit the switches that aren't tools:

Zoom to a box
Drag a box to zoom into it.
⌥M
Measure: the price change, bars and days of any move.
⌥S
Magnet: clicks snap to swing highs and lows.
Stay in draw
Keep the tool armed after a drawing, to place several.
⌥L
Lock all drawings.
⌥X
Hide all drawings.
Delete all
Clear the chart's drawings.

At the foot: undo, redo and the shortcut sheet (?).

Placing and editing a drawing

  1. 1Pick a tool. The hint over the chart says what to click, one point at a time.
  2. 2Click the points. Esc drops a half-placed drawing.
  3. 3Click a finished drawing to select it and drag its handles. The floating bar holds its quick options; drag the bar anywhere out of the way.
  4. 4Open Properties from the bar for every setting, the drawing's measurements, and Test when you want a score.

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