Choose chart styles and view settings

Choose a style for a purpose#

AMM offers Candles, Heikin-Ashi and Renko through the chart-type menu and chart settings. Candles show the selected bar interval's price structure. Heikin-Ashi transforms bars to smooth their appearance. Renko organises displayed movement into price bricks. Use the exact contract and data-source labels when comparing styles; a similar shape does not establish that two feeds agree.

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Start with Candles when checking order prices against quoted market levels. A transformed chart can help inspect direction, but its visual open/close or brick construction is not a promise that a broker can execute at those values. Use the live bid/ask and the order confirmation to assess executable prices.

Change a chart type#

1. Select the chart whose view you intend to change.
2. Open its chart-type button, or right-click and choose Chart type.
3. Choose Candles, Heikin-Ashi or Renko.
4. When using Renko, set a positive Brick size. A suggested size is a starting value; choose a size meaningful for the instrument's price scale.
5. Allow any required chart refresh to complete. Review the title/status and indicators after the change.
6. Save the workspace if you want to preserve the configuration.

For example, an index CFD and a EURUSD pair differ greatly in price scale. Reusing a numerical Renko brick size across both without checking units can produce an unreadably sparse or noisy chart. Crypto price precision and futures tick sizes add their own constraints. A visual setting should follow the contract, not the asset's name alone.

Set appearance and visibility#

Open Chart settings… for the selected chart. The dialog separates chart/data configuration from its view. Fields can include Panel title, Instrument, Timeframe, chart type, data sources and view groups. The normal action is Apply; Cancel abandons the draft, while Reset returns chart/data fields to the saved chart. Validation identifies the first invalid field and prevents applying an invalid configuration.

The view includes overlays and trading controls such as Orders, economic Events, the Calendar pane, Signals, indicator visibility, crosshair and auto-scroll. Order bar, Trade buttons, Account / position line and Position details control how much trading information is visible. Position details can be On demand, Always open or Hidden. Hiding a control does not cancel an order or close a position.

Use gridlines and line-weight options to make dense charts legible. A high-density desktop may benefit from restrained overlays; a presentation or larger font scale may need fewer side panels. Change appearance for readability without assuming it changes the strategy's inputs.

Distinguish three scopes of change#

A normal toolbar toggle changes the selected chart. Copy to all charts beside a supported view setting copies that setting to open charts. Copy view to all charts applies the supported view group. New charts use defaults in Settings → Charts. A one-off change to all open charts does not rewrite future chart defaults or closed workspaces.

Supported toolbar secondary menus also offer Copy current setting to all charts and explicit Show/Hide commands. Indicators copy visibility, not the indicator list or its parameters; Crosshair copies visibility without changing its synchronization scope. Auto-scroll offers enable/pause semantics. Use Undo when the all-chart operation was accidental, then inspect any charts you had configured differently.

Work with data and time settings#

A chart has separate broker, live-data and historical-data roles. Use the broker for live and historical data keeps them aligned when that is what you want. Turning it off enables deliberate combinations, for example historical equity data from a licensed data provider and execution on an equity broker. Differences in adjustment, sessions, symbol identity, delay and price basis can remain visible. Do not infer that an arbitrary historical CFD and future can be joined safely.

Simulation/replay configurations expose their own source and timing fields, including replay speed, data/market selection and UTC start time where applicable. Simulation capital and fills are separate from connected-broker money. Always read the chart's mode and account before using its order bar.

Settings → Charts → Time zone for times and Label the time zone control displayed timestamps. Use the named zone rather than a fixed offset when comparing session opens across daylight-saving changes. A London display clock does not move an exchange's trading session.

Preserve a useful style#

Save a chart template after setting its style, studies and view. Apply it to an existing chart only after reviewing what it replaces; opening it as a new chart is a separate action. Save the enclosing workspace to preserve its layout. Drawings have independent local/layout/global scope and are not interchangeable with chart or workspace templates.

Troubleshoot unexpected output#

If a Renko chart is empty, validate brick size, loaded history and the selected source before shrinking the brick repeatedly. If Heikin-Ashi appears different from standard candles, compare the same instrument, interval and time window first. When an overlay disappears, check its visibility switch and toolbar overflow before re-adding it. If a data/source change is still busy, wait for the status to settle before issuing another change. Return to Candles and inspect live bid/ask when diagnosing executable-price differences.

Continue with related tasks#

Navigate charts and review trading records, Add, configure and interpret chart indicators, Draw, measure and share chart annotations.