Building the chart
Candles and candle templates
Draw a candle by hand, or drop a ready-made Hammer, Doji or Engulfing at the click.
The candle tool does two jobs, chosen by the entry selected at the top of its panel.
Drawing one by hand
With Plain candle selected, drag on the grid. The drag sets the body; the four handles afterwards set open, high, low and close independently.
Everything snaps to the price step (see price scale and snapping). Hold Ctrl while dragging for a 10× finer step when the default increment is too coarse for the shape you want.
Placing a known signal
Any other entry places a ready-made 1–3 candle signal at your click:
| Template | Candles | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Hammer | 1 | Long lower wick, small body at the top |
| Doji | 1 | Open and close almost equal |
| Pin Bar | 1 | One long rejection wick |
| Engulfing | 2 | Second body swallows the first |
| Star | 3 | Small middle candle between two large ones |
| Inside Bar | 2 | Second candle's range inside the first's |
These are plain candles, not a group. There is nothing to regenerate and nothing to resize as a unit — they land editable, and from that moment they are indistinguishable from candles you drew yourself.
Templates vs Market Blocks
The split is size. A template is a 1–3 candle signal: the specific thing your sentence is about. A Market Block is a 4+ candle formation: the context around it. If you find yourself placing six templates in a row, you wanted a block.
Editing a candle afterwards
Click it with the Select tool. The panel shows its four prices as numbers, so a candle that needs to be exactly at a level can be typed rather than dragged.
Colour
Candle colours come from the project's palette (Settings → Appearance → Candles), not from the candle. That is what lets a brand kit recolour a whole chart in one action.
Two per-candle overrides exist:
- Accent on the volume bar only — see volume bars.
- Selecting a candle and changing its colour in the panel, for the one bar a lesson turns on.
Gaps and columns
Columns are positions, not a list. Deleting a candle from the middle leaves the ones after it where they were rather than sliding them left — which matters, because everything else in the project is anchored to a column number. Inserting works the same way: the tools that insert candles open a gap and move what needs moving, including any Market Block that straddles the point.