What it draws
The Signpost plants a labeled marker on a stem at a specific bar, like a small sign staked into the chart. It is designed for naming events on the timeline so a chart's history reads like an annotated story.
How to draw it
- Pick Signpost from the left toolbar (Text & Annotations group).
- Click on the bar where the signpost should stand, then type its label text and confirm. The sign sits on a stem above or below the bar and can be dragged to reposition.
How traders use it
- Mark scheduled events such as earnings, dividends, or economic releases at the bars where they occurred.
- Plant signposts at regime changes, for example 'broke 200-period average', to segment the chart's narrative.
- Tag the start and end of a trade campaign so multi-week reviews are easy to navigate.
Settings reference
Double-click the drawing (or use its floating toolbar → gear) to open settings:
| Setting | Control | Possible values | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emoji | text | any single emoji/character (glyph input) | 🙂 | The emoji shown inside the signpost’s circular plate. |
| Show Plate | checkbox | on/off | on | Shows the circular plate behind the emoji; off leaves just the pole and label. |
| Circle Radius | number | 10–50 | 22 | Radius of the circular plate in pixels. |
| Pole Length | number | 10–150 (step 5) | 50 | Length of the pole from the anchor bar up to the plate. |
| Text | text | any short text | empty | Optional text label shown with the signpost. |
| Font Size | number | 8–36 | 12 | Point size of the signpost label text. |
| Bold | checkbox | on/off | off | Renders the signpost label in bold. |
| Color | color | any color (theme color picker) | #05B878 | Base drawing color; the plate/pole colors below override the visible parts. |
| 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. |
| Plate Color | color | any color | same as drawing color (#3d5a80 fallback) | Background color of the circular plate. |
| Pole Color | color | any color | #787b86 | Color of the signpost pole. |
| [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
- Several signposts on nearby bars will overlap into an unreadable cluster, so space them out or consolidate related events into one sign.