What it draws
The Note places a small marker on the chart that expands to show a longer text passage when opened. It keeps detailed commentary attached to a bar without covering the chart with a wall of text.
How to draw it
- Pick Note from the left toolbar (Text & Annotations group).
- Click on the chart where the note should be anchored, then type the note's content in the editor and confirm. The note collapses to a compact marker; click it to read or edit the full text.
How traders use it
- Write detailed trade post-mortems at the entry bar, including what you saw, what you did, and what you would change.
- Attach earnings or news summaries to the bars where the events occurred for future context.
- Record your emotional state during a trade to spot behavioral patterns across your journal.
Settings reference
Double-click the drawing (or use its floating toolbar → gear) to open settings:
| Setting | Control | Possible values | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | textarea | free multiline text | empty | The text content displayed by the tool. |
| Color | color | any color (theme color picker) | #05B878 | Text color of the note/label (also used for the pointer/outline where the tool draws one). |
| 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. |
| Font Size | number | 8–72 | 14 | Point size of the text. |
| Font Family | select | Sans-serif | Arial | Verdana | Times | Courier | Georgia | Sans-serif | Typeface used for the text. |
| Bold | checkbox | on/off | off | Renders the text in bold. |
| Italic | checkbox | on/off | off | Renders the text in italics. |
| Background | color | any color | transparent | Background fill behind the text block. |
| Border | color | any color | transparent | Border color around the text block. |
| [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
- Collapsed notes are easy to overlook during fast scrolling, so pair critical ones with a more visible marker like a flag or arrow.