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Fib Circles

Watch price behavior as it approaches each arc from inside — arcs act like curved support/resistance that rises or falls with time.

What it draws

Draws concentric circles (ellipses on most scales) centered on a swing, with radii at Fibonacci ratios of the swing's length. Because circles curve through both axes, they mark potential support and resistance that shifts as time passes, combining price and time in one shape.

How to draw it

  1. Pick Fib Circles from the left toolbar (Fibonacci group).
  2. Two points: click the center (swing start) and then the swing end to set the base radius; circles are drawn at fib multiples of it.

How traders use it

  • Watch price behavior as it approaches each arc from inside — arcs act like curved support/resistance that rises or falls with time.
  • A breakout through the 0.618 or 1.0 circle after a consolidation inside it often marks the resumption of trend.
  • Use the widening spacing of outer circles to model decelerating moves: each arc reached later suggests the move is maturing.
  • Look for arc intersections with horizontal fib levels or trend lines to identify price-time confluence points.

Settings reference

Double-click the drawing (or use its floating toolbar → gear) to open settings:

Setting Control Possible values Default Effect
Color color any color (theme color picker) #05B878 Main stroke color of the drawing — lines, outlines and (unless overridden) labels derive from it.
Line Width select 1px | 2px | 3px | 4px 2px Stroke thickness of the drawing’s lines and outlines.
Line Style select Solid | Dashed | Dotted Solid Dash pattern used for the drawing’s lines.
[Tab] Text — Text checkbox + textarea on/off, with a multiline text box for the label content off (on when the drawing already carries text) Enables an attached text label on the drawing; typing in the box auto-enables it and updates the label live.
[Tab] Text — Text Color color any color same as the drawing’s line color Color of the attached text label.
[Tab] Text — Font Size select 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 48, 64, 72 14 Point size of the attached label text.
[Tab] Text — Bold checkbox on/off (B toggle button) off Renders the label in bold.
[Tab] Text — Italic checkbox on/off (I toggle button) off Renders the label in italics.
[Tab] Text — Word Wrap checkbox on/off off Wraps long label text onto multiple lines instead of one long line.
[Tab] Text — Text alignment (vertical) select Top | Middle | Bottom Top Vertical placement of the label relative to the drawing.
[Tab] Text — Text alignment (horizontal) select Left | Center | Right Center Horizontal placement of the label relative to the drawing.
[Tab] Coordinates number + datetime one row per anchor point: price (number, step 0.05) and local date/time the drawing’s current anchor values Edits anchor geometry numerically — changing a point’s price or time moves the drawing live on the chart.
[Tab] Visibility checkbox + number range interval buckets: Ticks; Seconds 1–59; Minutes 1–59; Hours 1–24; Days 1–366; Weeks 1–52; Months 1–12; Ranges (each bucket has an on/off checkbox, most also a from–to range) visible on all intervals Per-timeframe visibility rules — untick a bucket to hide the drawing on those chart resolutions, or narrow the from–to range within a bucket.

Editing & managing

  • Move / adjust: drag the drawing or any anchor handle; magnet mode snaps points to OHLC values.
  • Clone / lock / hide / delete from the floating toolbar or right-click menu.
  • Templates: save the current style from the settings dialog and reapply it to new drawings.
  • Every action is undoable (⌘Z / Ctrl+Z).

Watch out for

  • Circle geometry depends entirely on the chart's price-to-time scaling — change the zoom and the arcs touch different bars, so keep scaling fixed while analyzing.