📐 TA Chart — the price and its indicators
The candles with the classic technical tools on them: moving averages, Bollinger bands, VWAP, support and resistance, Fibonacci, zigzag, automatic trend lines and channels, and CCI — with a plain-sentence summary under the chart.
💡 Two pages, one ticker
The Options Chart draws only the option book on the candles; the TA Chart draws only the technical tools. Each stays clean. Your ticker and every setting follow you from one to the other, and the readings under the chart use all of them.
The top of the page works as on every ticker page. The full reference is the ❓ Help button on the page itself (or here).
In 30 seconds
- Choose W (weekly) first to see the big picture, then D.
- Turn on a couple of averages (the defaults are HMA 21 and EMA 50) — is the price above or below them?
- Click ╱╲ Lines: the page finds the best resistance and support lines for you. Click again for the 2nd, 3rd… best.
- Read the grey sentence above the chart: "is 1.2 % from the rising support line 182.40".
- Open 📐 Technicals under the chart for the same thing as a few plain sentences, then cards.
Moving averages
The average price over the last N bars. SMA = simple (slowest), EMA = weights recent bars more, HMA = Hull (fastest, least lag). Kind and length are in ⚙ Settings → Averages.
| You see | Textbook meaning |
|---|---|
| price above the average | Uptrend on that time scale. |
| price below | Downtrend on that time scale. |
| a short average crosses above a long one | Trend turning up ("golden cross" for 50/200). |
| price far above the average | Stretched; often pauses or pulls back toward it. |
CCI — how stretched is the price?
| CCI (20) | Textbook meaning |
|---|---|
| above +200 | Extremely stretched upward. |
| +100 to +200 | Strong upward move / overbought zone. |
| −100 to +100 | Normal range. |
| −100 to −200 | Strong downward move / oversold zone. |
| below −200 | Extremely stretched downward. |
🎓 Pro tipIn a strong trend CCI can stay beyond ±100 for weeks, so "stretched" is not a reversal signal by itself. Look for divergence: price makes a new high but CCI makes a lower high.
Bollinger bands
A band two standard deviations above and below a 20-bar average. About 95 % of closes normally sit inside.
| You see | Textbook meaning |
|---|---|
| price touching the upper band | Stretched up (in a strong trend the price can "walk the band"). |
| price touching the lower band | Stretched down. |
| bands very narrow — a "squeeze" | Volatility is unusually low. A bigger move often follows; the direction is unknown. |
VWAP, POC, support/resistance, Fibonacci, zigzag, channel
| Tool | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Anchored VWAP | The average price paid, weighted by volume, since the anchor date. Above it = buyers since then are in profit on average. |
| POC | Point of Control: the price where the most volume traded. Often a magnet. |
| S/R | Levels where many swing highs and lows cluster. "×3" = 3 pivots at that price; more = stronger. |
| fib | Fibonacci levels (0, 23.6, 38.2, 50, 61.8, 78.6, 100 %) across the recent range. Pullbacks often pause at 38.2–61.8 %. |
| zigzag | Connects swings bigger than N × ATR. A higher multiplier = only big swings. The last leg is "still open" until it reverses. |
| channel | The best straight regression channel in the look-back; it needs 2 or more touches per side and the price inside, or none is drawn. |
Automatic trend lines and channels
| Button | What it finds |
|---|---|
| ╱╲ Lines | The best resistance line (through swing highs) and support line (through swing lows), ranked by touches, how well the price respected it, length, and closeness to today's price. |
| ▤ Channel | A parallel channel: thick = the two walls, gold dotted = inner lines, grey = the middle. |
| ◭ ABC | A channel built from three real pivots (A, B, C), ranked by how many closes stay inside. Marked ⟳ so you know it is automatic. |
| Line style / state | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solid | In play (near the price). |
| dashed | Far away. |
| dotted | The price has already closed through it. |
| AT · NEAR · FAR | Sitting on the line · close (the % is shown) · not in play yet. |
| BROKEN_UP / DOWN | The price closed through it. |
| Position in the channel | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 80 – 100 % | Near the top edge: resistance is close, room to run up is small. |
| 20 – 80 % | Mid-range: no edge nearby. |
| 0 – 20 % | Near the bottom edge: support is close. |
| above 100 % / below 0 % | The price has left the channel (a breakout or breakdown). |
Want one list for many tickers? Trend & Channel draws every ticker's lines on a page; TA Scanner filters them on indicators.
Drawing tools
| Tool | How to use it |
|---|---|
| ✛ cursor | Normal mode (or press Esc). |
| — line | One click: a horizontal line at that price. It snaps to the bar's open/high/low/close. |
| ╱ trend | Two clicks: a trend line through both points, extended to the right. |
| ◭ ABC draw | Three clicks: A, B, C. B–C is the main channel line, a parallel runs through A, with 25/50/75 % lines inside. |
| ⟷ measure | Two clicks: the change in $ and %, the number of bars, and the size in ATRs. |
| ✕ erase · ↶ undo · 🗑 clear | Remove one of your lines · undo (Ctrl+Z) · remove all (undo brings them back). |
🎓 Pro tipMeasure in ATRs. A move of "3.2 × ATR" means the same on a $20 stock and a $900 stock, so you can compare setups across names. A pullback of 1–2 ATR in an uptrend is normal; 4 + ATR is a real break.
The 📐 Technicals tab
Opens with a few plain sentences ("In short"), then cards, each with a bar showing where today's reading sits against this ticker's own previous sessions. Amber cards mark the places where something is unusual or the price has to decide.
⚠ Textbook meanings are not forecastsPhrases like "CCI above 100 is stretched" are written next to each reading so you can read the page, but on most tickers they do not predict the next move better than chance. Use them to find levels and structure.
A routine that works
- Weekly: trend and channel. Daily: where is the price in it?
- Averages: above or below the ones that matter on this ticker?
- Nearest support and resistance — how many ATRs away?
- CCI / Bollinger: is it stretched, or squeezed?
- Take the level you care about to the Options Chart and see whether a wall or the flip sits at the same price.