The same market can be drawn many ways. Each chart type trades some detail for a clearer view of something else — trend, structure or order flow. Switch type from the chart-type selector in the toolbar.
the chart-type selector open in the toolbar, listing the available types
Time-based types
One bar per time interval — the familiar way to read price.
- Candles — classic OHLC candles: a body between open and close, wicks to the high and low, coloured up or down. The default.
- Hollow Candles — up candles are hollow, down candles filled; direction reads at a glance.
- Heikin Ashi — averaged candles that smooth noise and make trends and pullbacks easier to see, at the cost of exact prices.
- OHLC Bars — open-high-low-close bars; the Western equivalent of candles, with less visual weight.
- Line — a single line through closing prices; the cleanest view of trend.
- Area — the line with a shaded area beneath it.
- Baseline — the area split above and below a reference price, coloured green above and red below.
- Delta Candles — candles tinted by buy-versus-sell delta, adding an order-flow read to price.
Heikin Ashi candles next to regular candles on the same market
Price-structure types
These redraw price by movement, not by the clock, so noise and quiet periods disappear.
- Renko — bricks that print only when price moves a set amount; a clean, noise-free trend view.
- Kagi — a line that flips direction and thickness when price reverses by a set size; built to show trend persistence.
- P&F (Point & Figure) — columns of Xs (up) and Os (down) that ignore time and small moves; pure supply and demand.
- Range — bars that close after a fixed price range, so every bar spans the same distance regardless of time.
Point & Figure chart
Most traders keep candles as home base and switch to Heikin Ashi or Renko when they want the trend without the noise.