TradingCharts

All Chart Types

Complete guide to all 22 chart types: how each is drawn, when to use it, and its key settings.

Bars Charts

Reading the full range and close location of every period without the visual weight of candle bodies.

HLC Bars Charts

Long lookback charts where opens add noise and you mainly care about range and close.

Candles Charts

General-purpose price analysis across any timeframe, from scalping to weekly charts.

Hollow Candles Charts

Seeing trend continuation versus intraperiod pullback in a single glance.

Volume Candles Charts

Confirming breakouts: a wide candle through resistance shows real participation, a narrow one suggests a fake-out.

Line Charts

High-level trend reading and quickly comparing multiple symbols.

Line with Markers Charts

Sparse or higher-timeframe data such as weekly or monthly series where each point is significant.

Step Line Charts

Series that genuinely change in discrete steps, such as rates, settlement prices or indicator states.

Area Charts

Portfolio, equity-curve and overview displays where aesthetics and instant trend reading matter.

HLC Area Charts

Watching volatility expansion and contraction as a widening or narrowing band.

Baseline Charts

Tracking performance versus a reference such as previous close, entry price or a yearly open.

Columns Charts

Displaying magnitude-style data such as volume or net change where bars from a baseline read naturally.

High-Low Charts

Volatility scanning, since wide and narrow ranges stand out immediately.

Heikin Ashi Charts

Riding trends longer by filtering the single-candle noise that shakes traders out.

Renko Charts

Filtering chop to reveal the underlying trend and clean swing structure.

Line Break Charts

Confirming trend changes with a fixed, objective close-based rule.

Kagi Charts

Reading shifts between demand and supply via yang/yin thickness changes.

Point & Figure Charts

Clean support, resistance and trendline analysis on the fixed box grid, including 45-degree trendlines.

Range Bars Charts

Scalping and day trading fast markets where consistent bar volatility helps timing.

Session Volume Profile Charts

Locating high-volume nodes and session POCs as magnets and support/resistance for intraday trading.

Time Price Opportunity Charts

Auction analysis: distinguishing balanced (bell-shaped) sessions from trending, elongated ones.

OrderFlow Charts

Scalping futures and liquid instruments by reading aggression, absorption and exhaustion inside each bar.