acttrader-charts 1.3.0-beta.3 → 1.3.0-beta.30

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@@ -58,12 +58,15 @@ chart.on('durationChange', ({ duration, timeframe }) => {
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  ```ts
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  const chart = new ChartEngine({
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  container,
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- dataLoader: async ({ start, end, interval }) => {
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- const res = await fetch(`/api/bars?from=${start.getTime()}&to=${end.getTime()}&tf=${interval}`);
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+ dataLoader: async ({ start, end, interval, priceSource }) => {
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+ // `priceSource` ('bid' | 'ask' | 'ltp') is the candle source the chart is showing —
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+ // pass it to your history API so the bars match (dealing feeds: LTP vs BID candles).
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+ const res = await fetch(`/api/bars?from=${start.getTime()}&to=${end.getTime()}&tf=${interval}&source=${priceSource}`);
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  return res.json(); // OHLCVBar[]
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  },
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  });
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- // No manual loadData() needed — the engine calls dataLoader on start and on timeframe/duration changes.
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+ // No manual loadData() needed — the engine calls dataLoader on start, on timeframe/duration
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+ // changes, and (unless `reloadOnPriceSourceChange: false`) whenever the price source changes.
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  ```
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  If the first fetch returns fewer than `minInitialBars` (default `10`), the engine automatically widens the lookback window and calls `dataLoader` again — up to the `maxLookbackMs` ceiling (default 365 days). This keeps the chart useful on weekends, holidays, or for instruments that just listed. If retries still yield zero bars, the engine shows a **"No data available"** overlay (customise the text via `labels.chart.noData`).
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  container,
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  // "Show chart by" toggle: 'ltp' | 'ask' | 'bid' (candle close/high/low source)
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  tickClosePriceSource: 'ltp',
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+ // Header dropdown so the user can switch the source on the chart itself
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+ // (rendered next to the timeframe dropdown; omit to hide):
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+ priceSourceSelector: ['ltp', 'bid'],
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  // Chart line checkboxes — each price line is independent:
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  showAskLine: true, // Show AskLine
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  showBidLine: true, // Show BidLine
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  dealingChart.setShowAskLine(false); // hide the ask line
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  dealingChart.setShowBidLine(true); // show the bid line
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  dealingChart.setShowLtpPrice(true); // show the LTP line
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+ // Switch the candle source programmatically (e.g. from a trade-settings page);
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+ // the header dropdown label follows automatically:
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+ dealingChart.setTickClosePriceSource('bid');
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+ // A user pick from the dropdown emits `priceSourceChange` — persist it:
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+ dealingChart.on('priceSourceChange', ({ source }) => saveTradeSetting(source));
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  ```
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+ **History follows the source.** Switching the source (dropdown pick or `setTickClosePriceSource()`) does not just change how live ticks extend the last candle — the engine re-runs your `dataLoader` with `params.priceSource` set to the new value and replaces the loaded bars, keeping the visible time window. Forward `priceSource` to your charting API (e.g. as a query parameter) so it returns LTP-built or BID-built candles accordingly; without it the API keeps serving the old source and the chart cannot change. Set `reloadOnPriceSourceChange: false` to opt out of the re-fetch.
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  ### Compare symbols
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  Overlay one or more comparison instruments on the main chart, normalized to
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  ```
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+ **Trailing stop:** a trade with a trail always has a working stop, so keep passing its price as `stopLossPrice` and set `stopLossTrailing: true`. The line renders as usual but its pill reads **TSL** instead of SL, and it is read-only on the chart — no drag handle, no × — because the trail is a pip distance edited from the host's own panel. The level's TP stays fully editable.
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+ ```ts
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+ { label: 'POS-2', price: 1.0850, side: 'buy', lots: 1, stopLossPrice: 1.0800, stopLossTrailing: true }
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+ ```
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  **Bracket orders via `ToClose`** — link a separate SL/TP pending order to a parent level:
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  ```ts
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  ### Horizontal (time-axis) order-line dragging
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- Opt-in via `features.orderLineTimeDrag` (off by default; enable it per broker from the host app — e.g. only for Hankotrade users). When enabled, any level flagged `timeDraggable: true` can have its **info-box badge** dragged left/right to re-anchor the order to a different candle. The **price line stays locked** — only the time anchor moves. Grab the badge for horizontal drag (`grab` / `grabbing` cursor); the price line itself still drags vertically as before.
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+ Opt-in via `features.orderLineTimeDrag` (off by default; enable it per broker from the host app — e.g. only for Hankotrade users). When enabled, any level flagged `timeDraggable: true` — open positions **and pending orders** alike — can have its **info-box badge** dragged left/right to re-anchor the order to a different candle. During a horizontal drag the **price line stays locked** — only the time anchor moves. A fixed-price position's badge grabs horizontally at once (`grab` / `grabbing` cursor). A pending order (or entry-editable position) keeps its price drag: its badge shows a `move` cursor and the **first movement decides the axis** — sideways moves the time anchor, up/down moves the entry price exactly as before, and the full-width line still drags vertically.
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  ```ts
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  const chart = new ChartEngine({
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  features: { orderLineTimeDrag: true }, // host enables this only for the gated broker
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  orderLineDragSnap: true, // snap to nearest candle on release (default)
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+ orderLineAnchorPersistence: true, // remember dropped positions in localStorage (default)
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+ orderLineDefaultAnchor: 'center', // un-dragged badges start mid-chart (default: 'timestamp')
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  });
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  - **Bounds:** the badge is clamped to the visible viewport — it can't be dragged past the left/right edge.
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+ - **Pending orders:** flag them `timeDraggable: true` too. The pill follows the drag direction — a sideways pull re-anchors the order in time (price locked, `orderLineMoved` on release), a vertical pull moves the entry price and its SL/TP brackets as usual (`tradeLevelDrag` / `tradeLevelEdit`). The axis is fixed after about 6px of movement and does not change mid-drag. Touch follows the same rule, and a tap that never moves still opens the edit form.
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  - **Snap:** controlled by `orderLineDragSnap` (default `true`); set `false` to keep the exact released time.
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  - **Escape / touch-cancel:** reverts the badge to its starting candle without emitting `orderLineMoved`.
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  - **Stays put after release:** the chart holds the dropped position across `setLevels` refreshes until you echo the new `timestamp` back (auto-released on match).
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+ - **Survives reloads:** with `orderLineAnchorPersistence` (default `true`) the dropped candle time is saved in `localStorage` under `finchart.orderLineTimeAnchors`, keyed by the level's label. After a page reload the badge returns to that candle even if your `setLevels()` payload still carries the order's original `timestamp` — the persisted anchor wins until the badge is dragged again. Capped at the 500 most recently dragged labels; set `false` if you persist anchors server-side instead.
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+ - **New orders at the center:** with `orderLineDefaultAnchor: 'center'` a `timeDraggable` level that has never been dragged ignores its `timestamp` and renders mid-chart — so a freshly filled market order arrives in the middle of the chart rather than pinned to the latest candle at the right edge. Levels that are not `timeDraggable` still honor `timestamp`. Default `'timestamp'` keeps the previous behavior.
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  - A level **without** `timestamp` renders exactly as before (badge centered), so existing consumers are unaffected.
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  ---
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+ ### Trade action bar — `features.tradeActionBar`
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+ With the flag on, the floating trade button opens a segmented bar at the clicked
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+ price instead of the two-row Buy/Sell popup:
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+ ```
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+ Alert | Pending | SL | TP | TSL | ×
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+ ```
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+ - No price readout — the axis already shows the price at that point.
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+ - **Alert** calls `onAddAlert(price)`. The chip is only rendered when that callback is set. The same callback also backs the **Alert** entry of the advanced header's ⋯ menu (`headerOverflowMenu`), which passes the current market price (live ask, else bid, else last close) so the host opens the same form.
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+ - **Pending** opens a sub-menu just above the bar — an `Above · 1.17586` / `Below · …`
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+ header, then the two orders that make sense at that price (`Buy Limit` / `Sell Stop`
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+ below the market, `Sell Limit` / `Buy Stop` above), each with its `@ price`. Picking a
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+ row creates the draft order exactly as before and closes both.
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+ - **SL / TP / TSL** emit `bulkLevelsRequested` with `{ kind, price }` and close the
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+ bar — the host opens its Bulk Levels dialog pre-focused on that kind. The chart
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+ never calls a broker. The chips grey out, with a tooltip saying why, when the
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+ symbol has no open positions or has buys and sells open at once — one stop or
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+ target price cannot sit on the right side of the market for both directions.
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+ - **×**, a click elsewhere, Escape, TFC off and `dismissAllUI()` all close it.
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+ Chip labels and the × tooltip live under `labels.trade` (`actionAlert`, `actionPending`,
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+ `actionSl`, `actionTp`, `actionTsl`, `actionCloseTitle`).
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+ ### On-chart P/L pill — `features.pnlPill`
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+ A floating summary of the open positions on the chart, for the trader who wants
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+ the total without opening the positions panel:
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+ ```
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+ ⋮⋮ 3 POS +72.65 USD | ◎ ✕
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+ ```
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+ - **`3 POS`** — how many position levels are on the chart. Pending orders,
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+ position-style entry orders (`entryPriceEditable`) and an unconfirmed draft
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+ are not counted.
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+ - **`+72.65 USD`** — the sum of the numeric `pnl` those levels carry, i.e. the
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+ `pnlKey` column you pass to `setLevels`. The chart computes no money itself;
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+ while no position has a `pnl` yet the pill shows `—`. Profit is drawn in the
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+ buy colour, loss in the sell colour.
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+ - **Click the body** (the grip, the count or the amount) to fan every position
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+ badge out on the chart — clustered levels expand, and TFC is switched on if it
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+ was off — with an accent ring on the pill while they are shown. Click again to
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+ collapse.
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+ - **◎** (the same target glyph as the Bulk Levels dialog header) emits
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+ `bulkLevelsRequested` with `source: 'pill'` and a `null` price, so your Bulk Levels
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+ dialog opens pre-scoped to every open position on the symbol. Tooltip:
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+ "Set SL · TP · TSL on all N {symbol} positions". Greyed out while buys and sells are
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+ both open ("Bulk levels need all N {symbol} positions in one direction").
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+ - **✕** (amber) emits `pnlPillCloseAll` with every counted position. Your app
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+ confirms and closes them; the chart never calls a broker.
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+ The pill sits top-right of the plot, clear of the price axis. Drag it anywhere
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+ inside the plot; double-click puts it back. It hides itself while the chart has
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+ no positions and follows the chart theme. Every element sits on one shared row
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+ height, and the grip and both buttons have fixed widths, so a long or negative
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+ amount never shifts or squeezes them.
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+ With the feature on, the header (advanced toolbar and default top bar) also gets a
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+ **P/L** switch — wallet icon, `P/L`, the same 24px `rounded-sm` button tinted while the
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+ pill is shown. It hides or shows the pill on the user's say-so, wins over the position
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+ count, and emits `pnlPillToggle` so you can persist the choice; `pnlPill.visible` seeds
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+ it and `setPnlPillVisible()` drives it from code.
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+ ```ts
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+ features: { pnlPill: true },
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+ pnlPill: { currency: 'USD' }, // → "+72.65 USD"; or format: (pnl) => myMoney(pnl)
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+ chart.setLevels(positions, 'TradeID', 'Price', 'position', 'pnl', 'pnlText');
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+ chart.on('pnlPillCloseAll', async ({ count, pnl, data }) => {
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+ if (!(await confirmDialog(`Close all ${count} positions?`))) return;
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+ for (const row of data) closeTrade(row);
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+ ```
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+ Labels live under `labels.pnlPill`: `positionsAbbrev` (`'POS'`), `showPositionsTitle`,
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+ `hidePositionsTitle`, `bulkLevelsTitle`, `closeAllTitle` — titles may
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+ use `{symbol}` and `{count}`. The maths behind the pill is exported as
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+ `summarisePositionLevels(levels, draftLabel?)` and `formatPnlPillValue(pnl, currency?)`.
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  ## Default Configuration
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  ### `ChartConfig`
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  | `hideHeader` | | `false` | Hide only the chart header (TopBar / AdvancedToolbar / CompactToolbar, per `headerLayout`). Bottom bar, left drawing tools, and on-canvas overlays remain on their own flags. Drive the chart from your own UI via `setTimeframe(tf)`, `setSeries(type)`, `addIndicatorByName(name)`, `removeIndicator(name)` |
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  | `showDrawingTools` | | `true` | Show drawing toolbar and pencil button |
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  | `showFullscreenButton` | | `true` | Show the fullscreen toggle button in the top bar. Set to `false` to hide it entirely. Mobile wrappers (Android / iOS) default this to `false` |
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- | `timeframe` | | `"1D"` | Initial timeframe |
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+ | `timeframe` | | `"1D"` | Initial timeframe. Values: `1m` `3m` `4m` `5m` `10m` `15m` `30m` `1h` `2h` `4h` `8h` `1D` `1W` `1M`; `3m` / `4m` / `10m` / `30m` are requested from `dataLoader` as `3min` / `4min` / `10min` / `30min`. If your API lacks them, point `aggregateFrom` at a finer interval it does serve, e.g. `{ '3m': '1m', '4m': '1m', '10m': '5m', '30m': '15m' }` — the chart merges the candles |
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+ | `timeframes` | | classic set | Timeframes offered in the header, in order: the advanced row's pills, the classic dropdown, and the rest of the reference header's ⌄ menu after its six fixed pills. Omit to keep `1m 5m 15m 1h 4h 1D 1W` (row) / `… 30m 2h 8h 1M` (dropdown, ⌄), so the newer minute timeframes only appear for hosts that list them |
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  | `duration` | | — | Initial active duration button |
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  | `symbol` | | — | Symbol name shown in the top bar |
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+ | `features` | | `{}` | Opt-in feature gates. See [Feature flags](#feature-flags) |
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+ | `instrument` | | — | Contract specs for `symbol` — pip size, contract size, money conversion. See [`InstrumentSpec`](#instrumentspec) |
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+ | `account` | | — | Account equity and per-trade risk used to size the position tools. See [`AccountSpec`](#accountspec) |
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  | `isins` | | — | Symbol list for the picker modal |
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  | `onIsinSelect` | | — | Called when user picks a symbol from the picker modal |
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  | `padding` | | `{top:8,right:0,bottom:0,left:0}` | Canvas padding (px) |
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  | `momentumMaxVelocity` | | `6.0` | Max launch velocity (px/ms) — caps hard-flick speed |
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  | `targetCandleWidth` | | `10` | Target px width per candle for auto-calculating initial bar count |
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  | `durationTimeframeMap` | | *(see below)* | Override duration → timeframe pairings |
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- | `dataLoader` | | — | `(params) => Promise<OHLCVBar[]>` auto-called on load / change |
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+ | `dataLoader` | | — | `({ start, end, interval, priceSource }) => Promise<OHLCVBar[]>` auto-called on load, timeframe/duration change, and price-source change. `priceSource` is the candle source to fetch (`'bid'`, `'ask'` or `'ltp'`) |
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  | `compareDataLoader` | | — | `({ symbol, start, end, interval }) => Promise<OHLCVBar[]>` — fetches bars for a compare symbol. Set this to enable the library-owned Compare flow. |
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  | `initialCompares` | | — | Symbols to auto-add as compares once the initial primary range is loaded |
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  | `labels` | | `DEFAULT_LABELS` | Deep-partial string overrides for i18n/translation |
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  | `tickClosePriceSource` | | `"bid"` | Which price drives live tick close/high/low: `"bid"`, `"ask"`, or `"ltp"` (build candles from the last traded price — exchange/dealing feeds; ticks without a valid LTP fall back to the bid) |
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  | `showLtpPrice` | | unset | Show the LTP marker (dashed price line + axis tag). Unset: shown only in `"ltp"` mode. `true`: always shown when the feed supplies an LTP. `false`: hidden even in `"ltp"` mode (candles still build from the LTP). Toggle at runtime with `chart.setShowLtpPrice(show)` |
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+ | `priceSourceSelector` | | unset | Show a price-source dropdown in the chart header listing the given sources, e.g. `["ltp", "bid"]` (dealing feeds). A user pick switches the candle source, re-fetches history via `dataLoader` (see `reloadOnPriceSourceChange`) and emits `priceSourceChange`; sync it programmatically with `chart.setTickClosePriceSource(source)`. Hidden when unset/empty. Default header layout only |
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+ | `reloadOnPriceSourceChange` | | `true` | Re-run `dataLoader` with the new `params.priceSource` whenever the candle price source changes, so historical candles are rebuilt from the selected price (LTP vs BID) and not only the live one. The visible time window is preserved. Set `false` to keep only live ticks following the new source |
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  | `showPriceAxisCountdown` | | `false` | Show candle countdown timer on the right price axis, just below the live price tag. Honours `candleCountdownTimeframes`. Toggleable from the Settings dialog (Appearance tab). |
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  | `tradeDisplayFilter` | | `"all"` | Which TFC levels are visible: `"all"` · `"positions"` · `"orders"` · `"none"` |
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  | `hideLevelConfirmCancel` | | `false` | Hide on-canvas ✓/✗ confirm-cancel buttons for TFC level edits |
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+ | `revealNewBrackets` | | `false` | When a level gains a **new** SL/TP — placed from the host's order panel, so it arrives via `setLevels()`, `updateLevelBracket()` or `updateDraftOrderBracket()` — whose price sits outside the visible price range, widen (compress) the price axis so the new line comes into view together with the candles already on screen. Animated, and the trader can drag or reset the axis afterwards as usual. A bracket dragged on the chart is visible by construction and never triggers it. Inert in compare (percent) mode |
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  | `tradeLevelButtonScale` | | `1` | Multiplier for trade-level Confirm/Cancel/Edit/Close button radii and gaps. Scales visuals **and** hit/drag areas together — raise it on touch devices for larger tap targets. Clamped to `[1, 3]`. Also settable at runtime via `chart.setTradeLevelButtonScale(scale)` |
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+ | `tradeLevelBadgeScale` | | `1` | Shrinks the on-chart position / order tag — font, padding, grip, ✎ × buttons and their hit areas together. `0.6` is about half the default area. Clamped `[0.5, 1]` |
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+ | `tradeLevelBadgeAnchor` | | `"auto"` | `"left"` homes the tag at the plot's left edge like an axis label, whatever the open price or time anchor, so it never covers candles until the trader drags it. With `features.orderLineTimeDrag` the tag stays draggable along the time axis and the drop is remembered as before |
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  | `tfcEnabled` | | `true` | Enable the TFC toggle button in the top bar. When `false`, TFC is completely disabled — the toggle button is hidden and all trade levels, draft orders, and the floating trade button are suppressed |
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+ | `crosshairEnabled` | | `true` | Draw the mouse crosshair. `false` hides it **and** the floating "place order at this price" button that rides on its horizontal line, ignores mirrored `setCrosshair()` calls and keeps the mobile long-press crosshair from arming. Trade levels, drawings and TFC are unaffected. Runtime: `chart.setCrosshairEnabled(enabled)` |
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+ | `enableCrossHairHeader` | | `false` | Crosshair on/off switch in the header (advanced toolbar, default top bar, the compact per-pane strip and the mobile header): the reference `rounded-sm` button. The crosshair is on by default, so the icon starts tinted; a click hides the crosshair (and the trade button riding on it) and drops the icon to its plain state, the next click brings both back. Calls `setCrosshairEnabled()` and emits `crosshairToggle` so the host can persist the choice — see [Header crosshair switch](#header-crosshair-switch--enablecrosshairheader) |
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+ | `enableCrosshairToggle` | | `false` | **Deprecated** — alias of `enableCrossHairHeader`; either flag renders the switch |
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+ | `headerOverflowMenu` | | `false` | Advanced header only: the reference Hanko header. A 32px bar with six lowercase timeframe pills (`1m 5m 15m 1h 4h 1d`) and a ⌄ for the rest, then crosshair · P/L · Layout (grid icon) · ⋯ · fullscreen at 24px. Draw, Chart type, Indicators, Compare, Snapshot and Chart settings fold into the ⋯ menu; each keeps its behaviour. With `onAddAlert` set the menu also offers **Alert** (own group, before Snapshot) at the current market price |
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+ | `features.orderLineTimeDrag` | | `false` | Enable **horizontal (time-axis) order-line dragging**. A level with `timeDraggable: true` (position or pending order) can have its info-box badge dragged left/right to re-anchor the order to a different candle — **price stays locked** while dragging sideways. Pending orders keep their vertical price drag: the badge's first movement picks the axis. Emits `orderLineMoved` on release. Off by default; intended to be enabled per broker (e.g. Hankotrade) by the host app |
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+ | `orderLineAnchorPersistence` | | `true` | When horizontal dragging is enabled, remember where each badge was dropped in `localStorage` (key `finchart.orderLineTimeAnchors`, keyed by level label) so it comes back to the same candle after a reload. A persisted anchor overrides the level's `timestamp` until the badge is dragged again. Set `false` to persist anchors yourself |
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  | `levelClusteringEnabled` | | `true` | Enable trade-level fan-out clustering; overlapping levels group into expandable badges |
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  | `clusterThresholdDistance` | | `20` | Pixel proximity threshold for clustering (only when `levelClusteringEnabled` is `true`) |
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  | `hideSymbolAndTick` | | `false` | Hide the symbol name and tick-activity (streaming) dot in the top-left overlay. Does **not** affect the OHLC(V) strip — use `hideOHLCV` for that |
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  | `hideOHLCV` | | `false` | Hide the OHLC(V) data strip (`O: H: L: C: V:`) in the top-left overlay. Independent of `hideSymbolAndTick` — set both to `true` to hide the entire overlay |
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  | `showBottomBar` | | `false` | Show the bottom duration-selector bar |
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+ | `features.enableScaleControls` | | `false` | Bottom-bar **Go to date**, **timezone** and **%** / **log** / **auto** cluster, left of the duration buttons. Needs `showBottomBar: true`. Off by default — see [Bottom Bar & Price Scale](#bottom-bar--price-scale) |
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+ | `features.enableSidePanels` | | `false` | Right-hand docked **Data Window** / **Objects** panel (232px out of the plot). Off by default; toggle at runtime with `setSidePanelVisible()` — see [Side Panels](#side-panels) |
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  | `hideQtyButton` | | `false` | Hide the floating Qty input overlay on draft orders |
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  | `showQuantityField` | | `false` | Render an editable QTY pill at the left of the draft order info box. Clicking the pill opens a flyout input to edit the quantity before submitting |
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  | `quantityFieldConfig` | | — | Constraints for the draft order QTY field (only relevant when `showQuantityField` is `true`). Object: `{ minLots?: number, maxLots?: number }`. `minLots` also sets the initial quantity and the step value for the flyout input (default: `1`). `maxLots` caps the input (default: `100`) |
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  | `tradesThresholdForHorizontalLine` | | `2` | Level count above which render auto-switches to `"dot"` mode |
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  | `timezone` | | `"UTC"` | IANA timezone string for time-axis and crosshair labels. `"UTC"` (default), `"local"` (browser/device timezone), or any IANA string (`"America/New_York"`, `"Europe/London"`, etc.) |
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- | `canvasColors` | | — | Per-theme canvas background color overrides (persisted from Settings dialog) |
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+ | `canvasColors` | | — | Per-theme colour overrides for the **canvas only** (persisted from the Settings dialog; runtime: `chart.setCanvasColors()`). The surface picks — `background`, `grid`, `axisText`, `axisBorder`, `crosshair` — repaint the chart canvas and leave the chart chrome (top/bottom/left bars, dialogs, popovers) on the theme from `themeOverrides`. Series picks (`candleUp`/`candleDown`/`wickUp`/`wickDown`/`borderUp`/`borderDown`/`volumeUp`/`volumeDown`) apply everywhere, so legends and indicator pills keep tracking them |
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  | `aggregateFrom` | | — | Fetch finer-grained data and aggregate client-side per timeframe |
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  | `onOrderSubmit` | | — | Called when user submits a trade via the floating button |
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  | `onLevelEdit` | | — | Called when user confirms a TFC level edit |
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  | `onLotsChange` | | — | Called when user changes qty on a draft order |
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  | `onLevelDragEnd` | | — | *(deprecated — use `onLevelEdit`)* |
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566
 
567
+ ### `InstrumentSpec`
568
+
569
+ The chart reads prices, never contract specs — so a tool that reports a distance
570
+ in **pips**, or converts one to money, has to be told how. Pass `instrument` at
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+ construction and swap it with `setInstrument()` whenever the symbol changes.
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+
573
+ ```ts
574
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
575
+ container,
576
+ symbol: 'EURUSD',
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+ instrument: {
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+ pipSize: 0.0001, // 0.01 for JPY crosses
579
+ contractSize: 100_000, // units per lot
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+ valuePerPoint: 1, // account-currency value of one price unit per unit
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+ currencySymbol: '$',
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+ },
583
+ });
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+
585
+ chart.setSymbol('USDJPY').setInstrument({ pipSize: 0.01, contractSize: 100_000 });
586
+ ```
587
+
588
+ | Field | Default | Description |
589
+ |---|---|---|
590
+ | `pipSize` | inferred | Price distance counted as one pip |
591
+ | `contractSize` | `1` | Units per lot (`100` for XAUUSD, `100000` for most FX pairs) |
592
+ | `valuePerPoint` | `1` | Account-currency value of one price unit per contract unit |
593
+ | `currencySymbol` | `'$'` | Prefixed to money figures |
594
+
595
+ **Every field is optional and the whole block can be omitted** — tools fall back
596
+ to price-only readouts, so existing integrations keep working untouched.
597
+
598
+ When `pipSize` is absent it is inferred from how many decimals the feed quotes:
599
+ five-decimal (`1.08531`) and three-decimal (`151.234`) feeds carry fractional
600
+ pips, so the pip is the second-to-last digit; two- and four-decimal feeds quote
601
+ whole pips. **That convention is wrong for metals, indices and crypto** — pass
602
+ `pipSize` explicitly if pips matter.
603
+
604
+ The same fallbacks are exported for hosts that want to compute alongside the
605
+ chart:
606
+
607
+ ```ts
608
+ import { resolveInstrument, inferPipSize, toPips, toMoney } from 'acttrader-charts';
609
+ ```
610
+
611
+ > Per-position values still travel on the individual `TradeLevel`
612
+ > (`contractSize` / `valuePerPoint`). `InstrumentSpec` is the chart-wide default
613
+ > for tools that aren't attached to a position.
614
+
615
+ ### Feature flags
616
+
617
+ Newer tools ship behind `ChartConfig.features` so each host opts in. **Every flag
618
+ defaults to `false`** — a chart that sets none behaves exactly as it did before
619
+ the flag existed, including its toolbar contents.
620
+
621
+ ```ts
622
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
623
+ container,
624
+ features: { enableForecasting: true },
625
+ });
626
+ ```
627
+
628
+ | Flag | Default | What it changes |
629
+ |---|---|---|
630
+ | `enableForecasting` | `false` | The reworked drawing tools, as one switch — see below |
631
+ | `orderLineTimeDrag` | `false` | Horizontal (time-axis) order-line dragging for positions and pending orders — see [Horizontal order-line dragging](#horizontal-time-axis-order-line-dragging) |
632
+ | `pnlPill` | `false` | Floating on-chart P/L pill — count and summed P/L of the positions on the chart — see [On-chart P/L pill](#on-chart-pl-pill--featurespnlpill) |
633
+ | `tradeActionBar` | `false` | The trade button opens a segmented `Alert · Pending · SL · TP · TSL · ×` bar at the clicked price instead of the two-row Buy/Sell popup — see [Trade action bar](#trade-action-bar--featurestradeactionbar) |
634
+
635
+ `enableForecasting` turns on three things together:
636
+
637
+ - **Long Position** / **Short Position** in a new **Forecasting** group in the
638
+ drawing toolbar. With the flag off the group is not rendered at all.
639
+ - **Brush** and **Highlighter** draw freehand — press, drag, release. Off, they
640
+ keep the click-per-point gesture ended by a double-click.
641
+ - **Ruler** reports percent, pips, calendar duration and volume. Off, it reports
642
+ the bar count and raw price delta as before.
643
+
644
+ They share one flag because they ship and roll back together: a broker either has
645
+ the reworked drawing tools or it doesn't.
646
+
647
+ Related config, independent of the flag: the position tools show quantity and
648
+ money only when [`account`](#accountspec) is supplied, and pips on both the
649
+ position tools and the ruler come from [`instrument`](#instrumentspec) — without
650
+ it, pip size is inferred from the feed's decimal count.
651
+
652
+ ### `AccountSpec`
653
+
654
+ What the **Long / Short position** tools size themselves against.
655
+
656
+ TradingView asks the user to type these because it has no broker connection. We
657
+ do have one — so pass real equity and keep it current.
658
+
659
+ ```ts
660
+ chart.setAccount({ size: 10_000, riskPercent: 1 });
661
+ ```
662
+
663
+ | Field | Default | Description |
664
+ |---|---|---|
665
+ | `size` | — | Account equity in the account currency |
666
+ | `riskPercent` | `1` | Percent of the account risked per trade |
667
+
668
+ Omit the block and the position tools still draw — price, percent, pips and
669
+ risk/reward all render; only the quantity and money amounts are left out.
670
+
671
+ > A sketch drawn against a stale balance reports the wrong quantity rather than
672
+ > failing visibly, so push `setAccount()` whenever equity moves.
673
+
440
674
  ### `OHLCVBar`
441
675
 
442
676
  | Field | Required | Type | Description |
@@ -477,7 +711,7 @@ import { DEFAULT_UI_CONFIG } from 'acttrader-charts';
477
711
 
478
712
  | Component key | Configurable properties |
479
713
  |---|---|
480
- | `drawingToolbar` | `iconBtnSize`, `iconFontSize`, `iconFontFamily`, `flyoutLabelFontSize`, `flyoutLabelFontFamily`, `shortcutFontSize`, `soonBadgeFontSize`, `flyoutHeadingFontSize`, `flyoutHeadingLetterSpacing`, `scrollBtnHeight`, `scrollBtnFontSize`, `barPadding`, `btnGap` |
714
+ | `drawingToolbar` | `iconBtnSize`, `iconFontSize`, `iconFontFamily`, `flyoutLabelFontSize`, `flyoutLabelFontFamily`, `shortcutFontSize`, `soonBadgeFontSize`, `flyoutHeadingFontSize`, `flyoutHeadingLetterSpacing`, `scrollBtnHeight`, `scrollBtnFontSize`, `barPadding`, `btnGap`, `modernIcons`, `actionsButtonIcon` (`'default'` \| `'lock'` — lock glyph on the Actions button, for hosts that relabel Lock All as "Save Charts") |
481
715
  | `topBar` | `height`, `dropBtnFontSize`, `dropBtnFontFamily`, `drawBtnSize`, `drawBtnIconFontSize`, `iconBtnSize`, `mobileIconBtnSize`, `mobileDrawBtnIconSize`, `flyoutRowFontSize`, `flyoutRowFontFamily`, `flyoutCategoryFontSize`, `flyoutCategoryLetterSpacing`, `flyoutCheckFontSize`, `streamDotSize` |
482
716
  | `bottomBar` | `height`, `btnFontSize`, `btnFontFamily` |
483
717
  | `priceAxis` | `fontSize`, `fontFamily` |
@@ -555,6 +789,11 @@ new ChartEngine({
555
789
  | `topBar.series` | `area` | `'Area'` | |
556
790
  | `topBar` | `indicatorsBtn` | `'Indicators'` | Indicators button (no active) |
557
791
  | `topBar` | `indicatorsBtnActive` | `'Indicators ({count})'` | `{count}` replaced at runtime |
792
+ | `topBar` | `disableCrosshairTitle` | `'Disable crosshair'` | Header crosshair switch tooltip while on (`enableCrossHairHeader`) |
793
+ | `topBar` | `enableCrosshairTitle` | `'Enable crosshair'` | Header crosshair switch tooltip while off |
794
+ | `topBar` | `pnlPillBtn` | `'P/L'` | Header P/L pill switch label (`features.pnlPill`) |
795
+ | `topBar` | `hidePnlPillTitle` | `'Hide P/L pill for {symbol}'` | P/L switch tooltip while the pill is shown |
796
+ | `topBar` | `showPnlPillTitle` | `'Show P/L pill for {symbol}'` | P/L switch tooltip while the pill is hidden |
558
797
  | `topBar` | `toggleDrawingTitle` | `'Toggle Drawing Tools'` | Toolbar toggle tooltip |
559
798
  | `topBar` | `toggleFullscreenTitle` | `'Toggle Fullscreen'` | Fullscreen button tooltip |
560
799
  | `topBar` | `exitFullscreenTitle` | `'Exit Fullscreen'` | |
@@ -597,6 +836,16 @@ new ChartEngine({
597
836
  | `trade` | `market` | `'Market'` | |
598
837
  | `trade` | `qty` | `'Qty'` | Draft order qty input label |
599
838
  | `trade` | `placeOrderTitle` | `'Place order at this price'` | Trade button tooltip |
839
+ | `trade` | `actionAlert` … `actionTsl` | `'Alert'`, `'Pending'`, `'SL'`, `'TP'`, `'TSL'` | Trade action bar chips (`features.tradeActionBar`) |
840
+ | `trade` | `actionCloseTitle` | `'Close'` | Trade action bar × tooltip |
841
+ | `trade` | `directionAbove`, `directionBelow` | `'Above'`, `'Below'` | Pending sub-menu header — side of the market the clicked price is on |
842
+ | `trade` | `actionBulkNoPositionsTitle`, `actionBulkMixedTitle` | `'No open {symbol} positions'`, `'Bulk levels need all {symbol} positions in one direction'` | SL / TP / TSL chips greyed out — why |
843
+ | `pnlPill` | `positionsAbbrev` | `'POS'` | On-chart P/L pill — word after the count (`3 POS`), shown uppercase |
844
+ | `pnlPill` | `showPositionsTitle` | `'Show positions on chart · drag handle to move · double-click to reset'` | Pill tooltip while collapsed — a body click fans the positions out |
845
+ | `pnlPill` | `hidePositionsTitle` | `'Hide positions on chart · drag handle to move · double-click to reset'` | Pill tooltip while fanned out |
846
+ | `pnlPill` | `bulkLevelsTitle` | `'Set SL · TP · TSL on all {count} {symbol} positions'` | ◎ tooltip — opens the host's Bulk Levels dialog |
847
+ | `pnlPill` | `bulkLevelsMixedTitle` | `'Bulk levels need all {count} {symbol} positions in one direction'` | ◎ tooltip while greyed out for mixed sides |
848
+ | `pnlPill` | `closeAllTitle` | `'Close all {symbol} positions'` | Amber ✕ tooltip; `{symbol}` and `{count}` are filled in |
600
849
  | `dialogs.settings` | `title` | `'Chart Settings'` | Dialog title |
601
850
  | `dialogs.settings` | `tfcSection` | `'Trade from Charts'` | Section heading |
602
851
  | `dialogs.settings` | `showLabel` | `'Show'` | Radio group label |
@@ -637,8 +886,8 @@ chart.setTheme('light');
637
886
  |---|---|---|
638
887
  | `background` | `string` | Canvas background color |
639
888
  | `grid` | `string` | Grid line color |
640
- | `axisText` | `string` | Axis tick label color |
641
- | `axisBorder` | `string` | Axis border / separator color |
889
+ | `axisText` | `string` | Axis tick label color. Also the default label colour for the chart chrome (dialog text, toolbar labels) — set it via `themeOverrides` to restyle both, or via the Settings dialog to restyle the canvas axis alone |
890
+ | `axisBorder` | `string` | Axis border / separator color. Also the default border colour for the chart chrome (dialog frames, toolbar dividers) — same split as `axisText` |
642
891
  | `crosshair` | `string` | Crosshair line color |
643
892
  | `tooltip` | `{background, text, border}` | Floating label colors |
644
893
  | `candle` | `{up, down, wickUp, wickDown}` | Candlestick colors |
@@ -673,7 +922,7 @@ chart.resetData(): this
673
922
 
674
923
  **Symbol switch pattern:**
675
924
  ```ts
676
- chart.setSymbol('GBPUSD').resetData();
925
+ chart.setSymbol('GBPUSD').setInstrument({ pipSize: 0.0001 }).resetData();
677
926
  // … fetch new bars …
678
927
  chart.loadData(newBars);
679
928
  ```
@@ -682,9 +931,17 @@ chart.loadData(newBars);
682
931
 
683
932
  ```ts
684
933
  chart.setSeries(series: SeriesType): this
934
+ chart.setInstrument(spec: InstrumentSpec | undefined): this // contract specs for pips / money readouts
935
+ chart.getInstrument(): ResolvedInstrument // specs with fallbacks applied
936
+ chart.setAccount(account: AccountSpec | undefined): this // equity + risk for the position tools
937
+ chart.getAccount(): AccountSpec | undefined
685
938
  chart.setTheme('dark' | 'light'): this
686
939
  chart.setTimeframe(tf: Timeframe): this // change timeframe and reload data
687
- chart.setThemeOverrides(overrides: ThemeOverrides): this // update per-theme color overrides at runtime
940
+ chart.setDuration(d: Duration, timeframe?: Timeframe): this // select a duration; pairs the timeframe and reloads
941
+ chart.getDuration(): Duration | null // currently selected duration
942
+ chart.setBracketLabelMode(mode, currencySymbol?): this // SL/TP pills: 'price' (default) or 'amount'
943
+ chart.setThemeOverrides(overrides: ThemeOverrides): this // update per-theme color overrides at runtime — canvas AND chrome
944
+ chart.setCanvasColors(colors: ChartConfig['canvasColors'] | null): this // recolour the canvas only at runtime (same picks as the Settings dialog); null clears
688
945
  chart.setTimezone(tz: string): this // change display timezone at runtime
689
946
  chart.setVolume(show: boolean): this
690
947
  ```
@@ -722,6 +979,7 @@ chart.cancelCurrentEdit(): this // cancel the active draft order or any in-pro
722
979
  chart.addLevelBracket(label: string, bracketType: 'sl' | 'tp'): this // auto-place a SL or TP bracket at a default offset; emits tradeLevelBracketActivated with the computed price
723
980
  chart.setDraftBracketPnl(bracketType: 'sl' | 'tp', pnlText: string | null): this // set estimated P&L text on the active bracket host — the draft order while drafting, or the currently selected existing pending order / position while modifying; pass null to clear
724
981
  chart.setTfcActive(enabled: boolean): this // toggle TFC on/off at runtime; hides/shows all trade levels, draft orders, and floating trade button; fires tfcToggle event
982
+ chart.setPnlPillVisible(visible: boolean): this // show/hide the on-chart P/L pill (features.pnlPill) — what the header's P/L switch does; emits pnlPillToggle
725
983
  ```
726
984
 
727
985
  > **Staging semantics for `updateLevelMainPrice` / `updateLevelBracket`.** Calls to these methods register the change in the chart's pending-edit buffer (the same buffer chart-initiated drags use), so the edit stays visible even when the host app keeps pushing fresh server state via `setLevels` (e.g. per-tick PnL refreshes). When the server echoes back the new price in a later `setLevels` call, the staged edit is auto-released (mobile, i.e. `hideLevelConfirmCancel: true`). If a panel closes without submitting, call `cancelLevelEdit(label)` or `cancelCurrentEdit()` to drop the staged edit — otherwise it will keep overriding server state on the chart.
@@ -730,8 +988,39 @@ chart.setTfcActive(enabled: boolean): this // toggle TFC on/off at runtime; hi
730
988
 
731
989
  ```ts
732
990
  chart.setOrderLots(lots: number): void // update default qty at runtime
991
+ chart.setCrosshairEnabled(enabled: boolean): this // off hides the crosshair AND this button — it rides on the crosshair line, so it has no place once the line is gone
992
+ ```
993
+
994
+ The button follows the crosshair's horizontal line, so it is only ever shown while the
995
+ crosshair is (`crosshairEnabled`, default `true`). Hosts with a crosshair on/off control
996
+ should call `setCrosshairEnabled()` rather than painting the crosshair transparent — the
997
+ latter leaves the button riding an invisible line.
998
+
999
+ ### Header crosshair switch — `enableCrossHairHeader`
1000
+
1001
+ ```ts
1002
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
1003
+ container,
1004
+ enableCrossHairHeader: true, // crosshair icon in the header; the crosshair itself starts on
1005
+ });
1006
+ chart.on('crosshairToggle', ({ enabled }) => saveUserPref('crosshair', enabled));
733
1007
  ```
734
1008
 
1009
+ With the flag on, a crosshair icon sits in the header's right cluster (advanced toolbar and
1010
+ default top bar) or at the end of the compact per-pane strip (`headerLayout: 'compact'`). The chart crosshair is shown as usual on load and the icon is tinted. Clicking
1011
+ the icon hides the crosshair — and the floating trade button that rides on it — and the icon
1012
+ drops to its plain state; clicking again brings both back. Each click goes through
1013
+ `setCrosshairEnabled()` and emits `crosshairToggle`, so a host can persist the choice and seed
1014
+ it on the next load with `crosshairEnabled: false`. `enableCrosshairToggle` is the deprecated
1015
+ name of the same flag and still works. Native wrappers get the same switch via their
1016
+ `enableCrossHairHeader` init option, the `onCrosshairToggle` callback and `setCrosshairEnabled()`.
1017
+
1018
+ ### Native UI catalog (webview bridge only)
1019
+
1020
+ The webview bridge used by the Android and iOS wrappers posts a **`catalog`** event right after every `init` command, and again on the **`getCatalog`** command (which also works before `init`). It lists everything a native app needs to build its own header, drawing-tools sheet, indicators list and chart-settings screen: timeframes, chart types, cursors, drawing tool groups (with point counts and style fields), drawing-toolbar options, indicators (with pane and editable settings fields), the Chart Settings dialog (tabs → sections → items with types, options and defaults), canvas colour keys, price sources and limits. Every entry carries `available` (`true` = works in this version, `false` = planned). `catalogVersion` is the library version, stamped at build time.
1021
+
1022
+ Source: `src/core/mobileCatalog.ts`. `src/__tests__/mobileCatalog.test.ts` fails the build if an `available: true` id does not exist in the engine, or an engine tool / indicator is missing from the catalog — update the catalog together with any new chart type, tool or indicator. The web `ChartEngine` API is unchanged.
1023
+
735
1024
  ### Viewport
736
1025
 
737
1026
  ```ts
@@ -888,6 +1177,39 @@ Sub-pane heights are user-resizable by dragging the separator between panes.
888
1177
  | `flatChannel` | Flat Channel | 2 clicks |
889
1178
  | `disjointChannel` | Disjoint Channel | 3 clicks |
890
1179
 
1180
+ ### SL/TP bracket labels — price or amount
1181
+
1182
+ By default an SL/TP pill reads `SL @4159.00` — the currency sign is never shown on
1183
+ a price. With `bracketLabelMode: 'amount'` it reads `SL -$290.80` — the money the
1184
+ position gains or loses if that bracket is hit, currency symbol in front and a
1185
+ minus only on a loss. `'priceAndAmount'` shows `SL @4159.00` at rest and
1186
+ `SL @4159.00 -$290.80` while the bracket is dragged.
1187
+
1188
+ The chart has no access to contract specs or the account currency, so each level
1189
+ supplies what the maths needs:
1190
+
1191
+ ```ts
1192
+ new ChartEngine({ container, bracketLabelMode: 'amount', currencySymbol: '$' });
1193
+
1194
+ chart.setLevels([{
1195
+ label: 'POS-1', price: 4173.54, side: 'buy', lots: 0.20,
1196
+ stopLossPrice: 4159.00, takeProfitPrice: 4183.00,
1197
+ contractSize: 100, // units per lot (100 for XAUUSD, 100000 for most FX)
1198
+ valuePerPoint: 1, // account-currency value of one price unit
1199
+ currencySymbol: '$', // optional per-level override
1200
+ }], 'label', 'price', 'position');
1201
+ // pills render: SL -$290.80 TP $189.20
1202
+ ```
1203
+
1204
+ ```
1205
+ amount = (bracket − entry) × direction × lots × contractSize × valuePerPoint
1206
+ ```
1207
+
1208
+ `valuePerPoint` is where a quote → account currency conversion goes. A level
1209
+ missing `lots` or `contractSize` keeps showing its price, so a partial rollout
1210
+ degrades level by level rather than rendering `NaN`. Toggle at runtime with
1211
+ `chart.setBracketLabelMode('amount')`.
1212
+
891
1213
  ### Fibonacci & Gann
892
1214
 
893
1215
  `fibRetracement` · `fibExtension` · `fibChannel` · `fibTimezone` · `fibCircles` · `fibSpiral` · `fibFan` · `fibProjection` · `gannFan` · `gannSquare` · `gannBox`
@@ -920,10 +1242,78 @@ In a **per-drawing** style (`SerializedDrawing.style.levels`), a level may also
920
1242
 
921
1243
  `rectangle` · `rotatedRectangle` · `ellipse` · `triangle` · `circle` · `arc` · `polyline` · `path` · `brush` · `highlighter`
922
1244
 
1245
+ **`brush` and `highlighter` draw freehand** when `features.enableForecasting` is on
1246
+ (see [Feature flags](#feature-flags)): press, drag, release — the pointer
1247
+ path is sampled continuously and the finished stroke is thinned to the points
1248
+ that carry its shape. (`polyline` and `path` remain click-per-point, ended with a
1249
+ double-click.)
1250
+
923
1251
  ### Measurements & Annotations
924
1252
 
925
1253
  `priceRange` · `dateRange` · `datePriceRange` · `ruler` · `priceLabel` · `priceNote` · `priceProjection` · `projection` · `arrowUp` · `arrowDown` · `arrowMarker` · `text` · `callout` · `anchoredNote` · `flag` · `sineLine` · `regressionTrend` · `ghostFeed`
926
1254
 
1255
+ **`ruler`**, with `features.enableForecasting` on (see [Feature flags](#feature-flags)),
1256
+ draws a direction-tinted box over the span it measures and reports:
1257
+
1258
+ ```
1259
+ 0.00455 (0.80%) 45.5
1260
+ 43 bars, 9d 4h
1261
+ Vol 102.27K
1262
+ ```
1263
+
1264
+ Price delta, percent, and **pips**; bar count and calendar duration; volume
1265
+ traded across the span.
1266
+
1267
+ A pip figure is always shown — but it is only *correct* when the host supplies
1268
+ [`instrument.pipSize`](#instrumentspec). Without it the chart infers pip size
1269
+ from how many decimals the feed quotes, which follows the usual FX convention
1270
+ and is wrong for metals, indices and crypto.
1271
+
1272
+ Duration needs bar timestamps, and the volume line is omitted entirely when the
1273
+ bars carry no volume, rather than showing a `0` that would read as "no volume
1274
+ traded".
1275
+
1276
+ The box takes its colour from `candle.up` / `candle.down` so a measurement never
1277
+ disagrees with the candles underneath it; picking a colour in the style popover
1278
+ overrides that. All four corners resize.
1279
+
1280
+ With the flag off it reports the bar count and raw price delta, as it always has.
1281
+
1282
+ ### Forecasting
1283
+
1284
+ `longPosition` · `shortPosition`
1285
+
1286
+ > Requires `features.enableForecasting` — see [Feature flags](#feature-flags).
1287
+ > With the flag off the group is not rendered, on the desktop toolbar or in the
1288
+ > mobile tools sheet.
1289
+ >
1290
+ > `ghostFeed` and `projection` stay in **Advanced Tools** and are ungated — they
1291
+ > predate this group.
1292
+
1293
+ **`longPosition` / `shortPosition`** sketch a trade that hasn't been placed: a
1294
+ green profit zone from entry to target, a red risk zone from entry to stop, and
1295
+ live readouts.
1296
+
1297
+ ```
1298
+ Target: 0.00313 (0.549%) 31.3, Amount: 5622.13
1299
+ Open PnL: 0.00146, Qty: 11323
1300
+ Risk/reward ratio: 1.84
1301
+ Stop: 0.00170 (0.298%) 17.0, Amount: 2887.5
1302
+ ```
1303
+
1304
+ Two clicks place it — entry, then target — and the stop lands at a 2:1
1305
+ reward:risk for you to drag. All three prices have handles.
1306
+
1307
+ Quantity is sized so that hitting the stop costs exactly `riskPercent` of the
1308
+ account, which needs [`account`](#accountspec); the money amounts and pips also
1309
+ need [`instrument`](#instrumentspec). Without them the tool still draws and still
1310
+ reports price, percent and risk/reward.
1311
+
1312
+ > **This is a drawing, not an order.** Trade-From-Chart (`setLevels`) is what
1313
+ > puts real broker orders on the chart — see [Trade From Chart
1314
+ > (TFC)](#trade-from-chart-tfc--setlevels). Nothing on a position tool reaches
1315
+ > the broker.
1316
+
927
1317
  ### Volume Profile
928
1318
 
929
1319
  `volumeProfile` · `anchoredVP` · `fixedRangeVP`
@@ -932,6 +1322,10 @@ In a **per-drawing** style (`SerializedDrawing.style.levels`), a level may also
932
1322
 
933
1323
  `cyclicLines` · `timeCycles`
934
1324
 
1325
+ > `ghostFeed` and `projection` remain here and are ungated. TradingView files
1326
+ > them under Forecasting, but moving them would have reshuffled the toolbar for
1327
+ > hosts that never enabled the new group.
1328
+
935
1329
  ### Harmonic & Elliott Patterns
936
1330
 
937
1331
  `abcdPattern` · `headShoulders` · `trianglePattern` · `batPattern` · `butterflyPattern` · `crabPattern` · `gartleyPattern` · `cypherPattern` · `sharkPattern` · `threeDrives` · `elliottImpulse` · `elliottCorrective` · `elliottTriangle` · `elliottCombination` · `elliottWxy`
@@ -952,8 +1346,9 @@ chart.on('pan', ({ viewport }) => {});
952
1346
  chart.on('timeframeChange',({ timeframe }) => {});
953
1347
  chart.on('durationChange', ({ duration, timeframe }) => {});
954
1348
  chart.on('seriesChange', ({ series }) => {});
1349
+ chart.on('priceSourceChange', ({ source }) => {}); // header BID/ASK/LTP dropdown pick
955
1350
  chart.on('streamStatus', ({ status }) => {}); // 'connected' | 'reconnecting' | 'disconnected'
956
- chart.on('dataLoaded', ({ timeframe, interval, start, end }) => {});
1351
+ chart.on('dataLoaded', ({ timeframe, interval, start, end, priceSource }) => {});
957
1352
  chart.on('newBar', ({ completedBar, openingBar, intervalMs }) => {});
958
1353
  chart.on('indicatorAdded', ({ instanceId, shortName, params }) => {}); // a study instance was added — keep instanceId to remove it later
959
1354
  chart.on('indicatorRemoved', ({ instanceId, shortName }) => {});
@@ -976,6 +1371,10 @@ chart.on('tradeLevelEditCancelled', ({ label, type, isFullscreen }) => {}); // E
976
1371
  chart.on('draftInitiated', ({ side, price, orderType, isFullscreen }) => {}); // new draft order shown — open buy/sell form
977
1372
  chart.on('draftCancelled', ({ label, isFullscreen }) => {}); // draft order dismissed without confirming
978
1373
  chart.on('tfcToggle', ({ enabled }) => {}); // TFC toggled on or off via top bar button or setTfcActive()
1374
+ chart.on('crosshairToggle', ({ enabled }) => {}); // crosshair switched on or off — header switch (enableCrossHairHeader) or setCrosshairEnabled(); persist it here
1375
+ chart.on('pnlPillCloseAll', ({ count, pnl, labels, data, isFullscreen }) => {}); // the on-chart P/L pill's ✕ — close these positions (features.pnlPill)
1376
+ chart.on('pnlPillToggle', ({ visible }) => {}); // the header's P/L switch showed or hid the pill — persist it here (features.pnlPill)
1377
+ chart.on('bulkLevelsRequested', ({ kind, price, source, isFullscreen }) => {}); // action-bar chip (price) or the P/L pill's ◎ (price null) — open your Bulk Levels dialog for `kind`
979
1378
  chart.on('tradeLevelDragEnd', ({ label, type, newPrice, data }) => {}); // deprecated — use tradeLevelEdit
980
1379
  chart.on('tradeLevelBracketDrag', ({ label, bracketType, newPrice, data }) => {}); // deprecated
981
1380
 
@@ -984,8 +1383,8 @@ chart.on('tradeLevelBracketDrag', ({ label, bracketType, newPrice, data }) => {}
984
1383
  chart.on('orderLineMoveStart', ({ label, fromTimestamp, fromBarIndex, isFullscreen }) => {});
985
1384
  chart.on('orderLineMoving', ({ label, toTimestamp, toBarIndex, isFullscreen }) => {}); // fires on every move
986
1385
  chart.on('orderLineMoved', ({ label, fromTimestamp, toTimestamp, fromBarIndex, toBarIndex, data, isFullscreen }) => {
987
- // Persist the new time anchor for this order. Echo `timestamp: toTimestamp` back in your
988
- // next setLevels() payload so the badge stays put across refreshes.
1386
+ // The chart already remembers the drop in localStorage (orderLineAnchorPersistence, default on).
1387
+ // Hook here only if you also want to persist the new time anchor server-side.
989
1388
  });
990
1389
 
991
1390
  // Fires after addLevelBracket() auto-places a bracket, delivering the computed price back to the caller
@@ -1126,45 +1525,1505 @@ The composite excludes trade levels (positions, SL/TP) — same rule as `chart.t
1126
1525
 
1127
1526
  ---
1128
1527
 
1129
- ## Custom Indicator
1528
+ ## Icons & Drawing Toolbar Options
1130
1529
 
1131
- Implement `IIndicator` and pass it to `addIndicator()`:
1530
+ ### Icons, Emojis & Stickers — `'icon'`
1531
+
1532
+ A glyph placed at a bar and price, behind `features.enableIconTools`. **One tool,
1533
+ not three**: emojis, stickers and icons are the same drawing with a different
1534
+ character, so the picker chooses the glyph and the glyph lives in `text` like any
1535
+ other annotation's content. They serialise, re-anchor and re-style through
1536
+ machinery that already exists rather than needing three parallel implementations.
1132
1537
 
1133
1538
  ```ts
1134
- import type { IIndicator, OHLCVBar, IndicatorResult } from 'acttrader-charts';
1539
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
1540
+ container,
1541
+ features: { enableIconTools: true },
1542
+ });
1543
+ chart.setDrawingTool('icon'); // uses the last glyph picked
1544
+ ```
1135
1545
 
1136
- class MyIndicator implements IIndicator {
1137
- name = 'MyInd';
1138
- color = '#e91e63';
1139
- pane = 'sub' as const; // 'main' = overlay, 'sub' = dedicated pane
1140
- paneHeight = 80;
1546
+ #### The picker
1141
1547
 
1142
- compute(data: OHLCVBar[]): IndicatorResult[] {
1143
- return data.map((bar, i) => ({ index: i, value: bar.close }));
1144
- }
1548
+ Opening the **Icons & Emojis** group gives a panel, not a list of rows: a row per
1549
+ glyph is unusable past a couple of dozen, and this is the one category whose
1550
+ items *are* the icon rather than being labelled by one.
1145
1551
 
1146
- render(ctx, results, scale, viewport, chartHeight) {
1147
- // draw with ctx (Canvas 2D)
1148
- }
1149
- }
1552
+ ```
1553
+ ┌────────────────────────────────┐
1554
+ │ 😊 🐻 🍔 🏀 🚀 💡 ❤️ 🏳️ │ category tabs
1555
+ ├────────────────────────────────┤
1556
+ │ 😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 🤣 😂 │
1557
+ │ 🙂 🙃 😉 😊 😇 🥰 😍 🤩 │ scrolling grid
1558
+ ├────────────────────────────────┤
1559
+ │ Emojis Stickers Icons │ kind tabs
1560
+ └────────────────────────────────┘
1561
+ ```
1150
1562
 
1151
- chart.addIndicator(new MyIndicator());
1563
+ The three bottom tabs are not three copies of the same thing:
1564
+
1565
+ | Tab | Holds | Draws as |
1566
+ | --- | --- | --- |
1567
+ | **Emojis** | ~900 across the eight Unicode groups | System colour font, 22px |
1568
+ | **Stickers** | Trading-flavoured sets — bull & bear, reactions, money, warnings, awards | The same characters at 44px |
1569
+ | **Icons** | Monochrome arrows, shapes, marks, currency | Takes the drawing's colour |
1570
+
1571
+ That last row is why **Icons** is worth having at all. An emoji is a colour
1572
+ bitmap in the system font: it ignores `fillStyle`, so it can never be recoloured
1573
+ to match a palette or printed legibly in mono. Everything under Icons is a plain
1574
+ text character, and does tint.
1575
+
1576
+ The panel renders into the toolbar's existing flyout rather than adding a second
1577
+ floating layer, so it inherits that popover's positioning, outside-click
1578
+ dismissal and teardown. It remembers the tab and category per session — reopening
1579
+ a picker to find yourself back on the first page of smileys is the single most
1580
+ irritating thing a picker can do.
1581
+
1582
+ #### Resizing
1583
+
1584
+ A placed icon is selectable and **resizable by dragging any of its four corner
1585
+ handles**. Size is also in the style popover, which offers a colour swatch and a
1586
+ px picker rather than the default stroke/width/style — three controls that would
1587
+ do nothing to a glyph.
1588
+
1589
+ ```ts
1590
+ chart.getDrawings()
1591
+ .filter(d => d.type === 'icon')
1592
+ .forEach(d => { d.style = { ...d.style, fontSize: 64 }; });
1593
+ ```
1594
+
1595
+ **The size is in pixels, not price.** It does not rescale when the chart is
1596
+ zoomed. Deriving it from two data points would have fit the existing drag
1597
+ machinery with no new concepts, but a pin dropped on a bar would then become a
1598
+ billboard three zoom steps out and vanish three steps in — and the user would
1599
+ have to resize it again every time they changed the view. So `DrawingHandle`
1600
+ grew a `mode: 'size'`, and handles marked that way route to
1601
+ `IDrawing.resizeToPixel(px, py)` instead of the point writer.
1602
+
1603
+ `resizeToPixel` takes pixels because the size it sets is in pixels — converting
1604
+ through price and back would make the result depend on the zoom level it was
1605
+ dragged at. It measures against the anchor position cached during `render`,
1606
+ which is the only place a drawing is handed the scale.
1607
+
1608
+ The new size is the larger of the two axis distances, not the diagonal, so
1609
+ pulling straight out sideways grows the glyph as much as pulling corner to
1610
+ corner. A glyph is square; a user dragging one edge means "bigger", not "bigger
1611
+ by cos 45°". Clamped to 10–400px and rounded, since the value is shown in a px
1612
+ picker and round-trips through JSON.
1613
+
1614
+ Glyphs render through the system emoji font, so colour emoji stay colour on every
1615
+ platform that has them.
1616
+
1617
+ ### Drawing toolbar options
1618
+
1619
+ Five toggles in the toolbar's actions menu (⋯).
1620
+
1621
+ | Option | What it does |
1622
+ | --- | --- |
1623
+ | **Magnet Mode** | Drawing points snap to the nearest open/high/low/close of the bar under the cursor. |
1624
+ | **Keep Drawing Mode** | The tool stays armed after each drawing, so a series can be placed without returning to the toolbar. |
1625
+ | **Copy to All Charts** | New drawings are announced for replication across a layout. |
1626
+ | **Hide Drawings Toolbar** | Hides the toolbar at runtime; bring it back with `setDrawingToolbarVisible(true)`. |
1627
+ | **Zoom In** | In the Cursors group — drag a box and the chart zooms to it. |
1628
+
1629
+ ```ts
1630
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
1631
+ container,
1632
+ magnetMode: true,
1633
+ keepDrawingMode: true,
1634
+ copyDrawingsToAllCharts: true,
1635
+ });
1636
+
1637
+ chart.setMagnetMode(false);
1638
+ chart.on('magnetModeChange', ({ enabled }) => persist(enabled));
1639
+ ```
1640
+
1641
+ **Magnet snaps within a pixel threshold, not always.** A trend line deliberately
1642
+ drawn through the middle of a range should stay there. The threshold is in
1643
+ pixels rather than price so it feels identical at every zoom — a price-space
1644
+ tolerance would snap from far away on a zoomed-out chart and never trigger on a
1645
+ zoomed-in one.
1646
+
1647
+ **Keep-drawing mode routes through one place.** There are four separate
1648
+ completion paths in the drawing manager; a mode that held for only some of them
1649
+ would look broken in exactly the cases a user reached for it.
1650
+
1651
+ **Copy-to-all is announced, not performed.** The chart emits `drawingCreated`
1652
+ with `copyToAll`, because only the host knows which other panes exist:
1653
+
1654
+ ```ts
1655
+ chart.on('drawingCreated', ({ drawing, copyToAll }) => {
1656
+ if (copyToAll) group.broadcastDrawing(drawing, thisPaneId);
1657
+ });
1152
1658
  ```
1153
1659
 
1660
+ `ChartGroup.broadcastDrawing(drawing, fromPaneId?)` hands the payload to every
1661
+ other pane's `ChartEngine.addDrawing(drawing)`. Unlike `broadcastSymbol` there
1662
+ is no `LayoutSyncState` flag gating it — the toggle already lives on the chart
1663
+ the user drew on, and that is what `copyToAll` reports.
1664
+
1665
+ `addDrawing` **appends and is undoable**, where `setState` would replace the
1666
+ list and flatten the target pane's history. Each pane's copy also gets a fresh
1667
+ id, so dragging the mirrored drawing in one pane leaves the others alone.
1668
+
1669
+ **Zoom In is a drawing internally.** It reuses the two-point press-preview-release
1670
+ gesture rather than duplicating it as a bespoke drag mode, then applies the zoom
1671
+ and removes itself — so nothing is left on the chart and it never reaches
1672
+ `ChartState`. It sets *both* axes: zooming only time would leave the chosen
1673
+ prices no larger than before, which is not what dragging a box asks for.
1674
+
1675
+ ### Native wrapper parity
1676
+
1677
+ `'icon'` and `'zoomIn'` are `DrawingToolType` strings and need no wrapper change.
1678
+ The toolbar options are new bridge commands — see
1679
+ [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios).
1680
+
1154
1681
  ---
1155
1682
 
1156
- ## Build & Dev
1683
+ ## Notes & Text
1157
1684
 
1158
- ```bash
1159
- npm run dev # Vite dev server with demo chart
1160
- npm run build # ESM + CJS via tsup → dist/
1161
- npm run test # Vitest unit tests
1162
- npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit
1163
- npm run lint # ESLint
1685
+ Six annotation tools, all single-click: place, then type.
1686
+
1687
+ | Tool | `DrawingToolType` | Form |
1688
+ | --- | --- | --- |
1689
+ | **Anchored Text** | `'anchoredText'` | Free text with a dot on the bar and price it refers to. |
1690
+ | **Note** | `'note'` | A compact page marker with the text beside it. |
1691
+ | **Pin** | `'pin'` | A teardrop whose **tip** sits exactly on the price. |
1692
+ | **Table** | `'table'` | Rows of text in a bordered grid. |
1693
+ | **Comment** | `'comment'` | A rounded speech bubble with its tail on the anchor. |
1694
+ | **Signpost** | `'signpost'` | A plaque on a post, rising clear of the candles. |
1695
+
1696
+ ```ts
1697
+ chart.setDrawingTool('signpost');
1698
+ ```
1699
+
1700
+ All six anchor to a bar and price like every other drawing, so they re-anchor
1701
+ correctly after a data reload and serialise into `ChartState` unchanged.
1702
+
1703
+ ### Editing
1704
+
1705
+ | | |
1706
+ | --- | --- |
1707
+ | **Place** | Click — the editor opens focused |
1708
+ | **Re-edit** | Select, then double-click |
1709
+ | **New line** | `Enter` (multi-line tools) |
1710
+ | **Commit** | `Ctrl`/`⌘`+`Enter`, or click away |
1711
+ | **Discard** | `Escape` |
1712
+
1713
+ **Anchored Text, Note, Table, Comment and Signpost get a multi-line editor**;
1714
+ Text, Callout, Anchored Note and Pin keep the single-line field where `Enter`
1715
+ commits, exactly as before. A Table is unusable without this — its rows *are*
1716
+ newlines, so `Enter` has to insert one.
1717
+
1718
+ The box grows with its content as you type, so adding rows is visible rather
1719
+ than feeling like it has a row limit.
1720
+
1721
+ ### Why these are separate tools rather than one with options
1722
+
1723
+ The shape *is* the choice. Someone reaching for a Pin wants a precise marker at
1724
+ a level; someone reaching for a Signpost wants a dated flag that does not cover
1725
+ the candles; someone reaching for a Table wants several values at once.
1726
+ Collapsing them into "text with a style dropdown" would make each one harder to
1727
+ reach than the thing it replaced.
1728
+
1729
+ ### Details worth knowing
1730
+
1731
+ **Table syntax** — newlines are rows and `|` separates columns, so a table is
1732
+ typed into the same single text field as everything else rather than needing a
1733
+ bespoke editor. The first row is tinted as a header; short rows are padded so the
1734
+ grid stays rectangular, and empty cells are kept (clearing a value is editing the
1735
+ table, not asking for the column to vanish).
1736
+
1737
+ **A new table arrives already a grid** — four rows by two columns, with the
1738
+ syntax visible in the editor:
1739
+
1740
+ ```
1741
+ Level | Price
1742
+ Entry |
1743
+ Stop |
1744
+ Target |
1164
1745
  ```
1165
1746
 
1747
+ That is deliberate. An empty table rendered a single placeholder row and opened a
1748
+ blank editor, so nothing told you rows are newlines and columns are `|` — the
1749
+ tool looked as though it had no rows or columns at all. Overtyping a grid is also
1750
+ faster than building one from nothing.
1751
+
1752
+ **Pin anchors by its tip, not its centre.** A marker whose middle sits on the
1753
+ level is ambiguous about which price it means.
1754
+
1755
+ **Anchored Text vs Text** — plain `text` floats with no indication of what it
1756
+ refers to. Anchored Text draws its anchor, so a note about one specific candle
1757
+ still points at that candle after panning and zooming.
1758
+
1759
+ **Comment vs Callout** — `callout` is a square-cornered box with a straight
1760
+ pointer; `comment` is the softer rounded bubble. Both are kept because the
1761
+ difference is exactly what the user is choosing between.
1762
+
1763
+ Empty tools render a placeholder (`Text`, `Note`, `Event`…) rather than nothing,
1764
+ so a drawing placed but not yet typed into is still visible and selectable.
1765
+
1766
+ ### Native wrapper parity
1767
+
1768
+ All six are `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('pin')` works on
1769
+ [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios) with no
1770
+ wrapper change.
1771
+
1166
1772
  ---
1167
1773
 
1168
- ## License
1774
+ ## Indicator Library
1169
1775
 
1170
- MIT
1776
+ **78 studies added**, taking the library from 30 to 108.
1777
+
1778
+ ```ts
1779
+ chart.addIndicatorByName('TRIX');
1780
+ chart.addIndicatorByName('Vortex');
1781
+ ```
1782
+
1783
+ They appear in the Indicators flyout alongside the originals, grouped by the
1784
+ same categories, and each is configurable through the settings dialog.
1785
+
1786
+ ### How they are registered
1787
+
1788
+ The original thirty are registered by hand in three places — a preset list, a
1789
+ param-schema list, and `indicators.json`. Repeating that seventy-eight times
1790
+ would be seventy-eight chances to register an indicator in two places and not
1791
+ the third, which fails *silently*: the tool appears in the menu and does
1792
+ nothing, or computes and never appears.
1793
+
1794
+ So each new indicator is declared once in `indicators/registry.ts` and the three
1795
+ views are derived:
1796
+
1797
+ ```ts
1798
+ {
1799
+ shortName: 'TRIX', name: 'TRIX', type: 'Momentum',
1800
+ fields: [periodField(18), colorField('#00BFA5'), sourceField()],
1801
+ factory: (p) => new SimpleOscillator('TRIX', p.color, …),
1802
+ }
1803
+ ```
1804
+
1805
+ ### Shared foundations
1806
+
1807
+ | Module | What it holds |
1808
+ | --- | --- |
1809
+ | `indicators/math.ts` | `sma`, `ema`, `rma`, `wma`, `hma`, `vwma`, `alma`, `dema`, `tema`, `mcginley`, `lsma`, `stdev`, `standardError`, `correlation`, `atr`, … |
1810
+ | `indicators/base.ts` | `LineIndicatorBase`, `BandIndicatorBase`, `HistogramIndicatorBase` |
1811
+
1812
+ All exported, so a host can compute the same series off-chart.
1813
+
1814
+ Two conventions the maths holds to throughout:
1815
+
1816
+ - **`null` means undefined and propagates.** An EMA of an RSI is null wherever
1817
+ the RSI is. Returning `0` instead would draw a line through a period where the
1818
+ indicator does not exist, which reads as data and is not.
1819
+ - **`stdev` is the population form**, because Bollinger Bands and everything
1820
+ derived from them are defined that way; using `n−1` shifts every band visibly
1821
+ on short periods.
1822
+
1823
+ ### The comparative studies
1824
+
1825
+ **Correlation Coefficient**, **Correlation – Log**, **Ratio**, **Spread** and
1826
+ **Advance/Decline** are undefined against a single series — they need a second
1827
+ instrument. `IIndicator.compute` gained an optional second argument for this:
1828
+
1829
+ ```ts
1830
+ compute(data: OHLCVBar[], context?: IndicatorComputeContext): IndicatorResult[]
1831
+ ```
1832
+
1833
+ `context.compares` carries the bars for each symbol added through the Compare
1834
+ feature. The parameter is optional, so every existing indicator is unaffected.
1835
+
1836
+ **With no compare symbol added, these draw nothing.** Substituting a stand-in
1837
+ series — correlating price against its own average, say — would produce a
1838
+ confident-looking line answering a different question than the indicator's name
1839
+ promises.
1840
+
1841
+ ### Two things worth knowing
1842
+
1843
+ **Volume Profile Visible Range** distributes each bar's real volume across the
1844
+ price levels that bar actually traded through, and marks the Point of Control.
1845
+ The existing `anchoredVP` *drawing tool* is a different thing: its bar heights
1846
+ come from a hardcoded bell curve, not from the feed.
1847
+
1848
+ **`maxSubPanes` caps concurrent sub-pane indicators.** Most of these 78 live in
1849
+ their own pane, so adding many at once silently stops at the cap. Raise
1850
+ `maxSubPanes` if you need more on screen together.
1851
+
1852
+ ### Native wrapper parity
1853
+
1854
+ All 78 are reachable through the existing `addIndicator` bridge command by short
1855
+ name — no wrapper change:
1856
+
1857
+ ```kotlin
1858
+ chartView.addIndicatorByName("TRIX")
1859
+ ```
1860
+
1861
+ ### What was added
1862
+
1863
+ | Group | Studies |
1864
+ | --- | --- |
1865
+ | Moving averages (14) | ALMA, DEMA, TEMA, LSMA, McGinley, SMMA, VWMA, Hamming, Adaptive (KAMA), MA Channel, MA Double, MA Triple, MA Multiple, Guppy |
1866
+ | Momentum (23) | Accelerator, ASI, Balance of Power, CMO, Connors RSI, Coppock, DPO, Fisher, KST, Majority Rule, Momentum, Price Oscillator, Rank Correlation, Relative Vigor, SMI Ergodic, TRIX, TSI, Ultimate, Correlation, Correlation Log, + crosses |
1867
+ | Volatility (16) | %B, BB Width, Historical, Close-to-Close, Zero Trend, O-H-L-C, Volatility Index, StdDev, StdError, StdError Bands, Choppiness, Chop Zone, Chaikin Volatility, Mass Index, RVI, Envelopes |
1868
+ | Trend (12) | Aroon, DMI, Vortex, Trend Strength, LinReg Slope, Price Channel, Chande Kroll, 52W H/L, Alligator, Fractal, Zig Zag, MA/EMA crosses |
1869
+ | Volume (9) | Ease of Movement, Elder's Force, Klinger, Volume Oscillator, Net Volume, PVT, Chaikin Oscillator, Advance/Decline, VPVR |
1870
+ | Price transforms (4) | Average Price, Median Price, Typical Price, Ratio, Spread |
1871
+
1872
+ ---
1873
+
1874
+ ## Shapes & Arrows
1875
+
1876
+ ### Already shipped: the line arrow
1877
+
1878
+ **`'arrowMarker'`** is TradingView's Arrow — a line from tail to tip with a
1879
+ filled arrowhead. It was only ever *labelled* "Arrow Marker", which hid it. The
1880
+ label now reads **Arrow**.
1881
+
1882
+ The `DrawingToolType` string is unchanged, and labels are i18n-overridable
1883
+ through `labels.drawingToolbar.tools`, so nothing breaks — but it is a
1884
+ user-visible string change worth knowing about.
1885
+
1886
+ ### Arrow Mark Left / Right — `'arrowMarkLeft'`, `'arrowMarkRight'`
1887
+
1888
+ Single-click marks that point *at* a price level from the side — the horizontal
1889
+ siblings of `arrowUp` / `arrowDown`. Where those call out a move's direction,
1890
+ these call out a level: the arm runs along the price, so the mark reads as "this
1891
+ price, from the left" rather than "up from here".
1892
+
1893
+ Fixed pixel geometry, not price-space — a marker is chrome and should stay the
1894
+ same size whatever the axis is doing. The hit box covers the whole glyph, stem
1895
+ and head, so you grab what you can see.
1896
+
1897
+ ### Curve — `'curve'`
1898
+
1899
+ Two endpoints and a handle that bends the line between them: a **quadratic
1900
+ Bézier**, not a circular arc.
1901
+
1902
+ The existing `'arc'` tool fits a circle through three points, and a circle's
1903
+ curvature is constant — it cannot leave one endpoint steeply and arrive at the
1904
+ other gently. A Bézier can, which is what you want for sketching a rounding top
1905
+ or a decelerating trend.
1906
+
1907
+ One handle is exactly what a quadratic takes, so every position you can drag to
1908
+ maps to a curve, and every curve the tool can draw is reachable by dragging. A
1909
+ cubic would need a second handle to be fully controllable, or would hide half its
1910
+ shape. The handle and its guides are drawn only while selected.
1911
+
1912
+ ### Double Curve — `'doubleCurve'`
1913
+
1914
+ An S, from the same three clicks as a single Curve. The chord is split at its
1915
+ midpoint and each half gets its own quadratic, bent by equal and **opposite**
1916
+ offsets — so one handle controls both bends, and dragging across the chord
1917
+ inverts the S.
1918
+
1919
+ Deriving the second bend from the first, rather than asking for a fourth click,
1920
+ is the point: an S whose halves are set independently is just two curves. The
1921
+ shape only reads as one gesture if the halves stay symmetric, and making that
1922
+ automatic is cheaper for the user than making it their job.
1923
+
1924
+ ### Curve maths
1925
+
1926
+ Exported, so a host can reproduce the same geometry:
1927
+
1928
+ ```ts
1929
+ import { quadraticAt, controlFromOffset, offsetFromHandle } from 'acttrader-charts';
1930
+ ```
1931
+
1932
+ `controlFromOffset` and `offsetFromHandle` are **true inverses**, both speaking
1933
+ in *apex* distance — how far the curve itself lands from the chord, not how far
1934
+ the control point does. A quadratic's apex sits halfway between chord and
1935
+ control, so the conversion doubles in one direction and halves in the other.
1936
+
1937
+ ### Native wrapper parity
1938
+
1939
+ All four are `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('doubleCurve')` works
1940
+ on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios) with no
1941
+ wrapper change.
1942
+
1943
+ ---
1944
+
1945
+ ## Projection & Measurement
1946
+
1947
+ ### Already shipped: Long Position / Short Position
1948
+
1949
+ `'longPosition'` and `'shortPosition'` exist today and are complete risk/reward
1950
+ tools: three prices (entry, target, stop) drawn as a green profit zone and a red
1951
+ risk zone, with the money and quantity the account's risk budget implies. You
1952
+ place entry and target; the stop is materialised from the default reward:risk, so
1953
+ the common case is two clicks rather than three.
1954
+
1955
+ They are gated behind `features.enableForecasting` and need `account` for money
1956
+ and quantity, and `instrument` for pips:
1957
+
1958
+ ```ts
1959
+ new ChartEngine({
1960
+ container,
1961
+ features: { enableForecasting: true },
1962
+ account: { equity: 50_000, riskPercent: 1 },
1963
+ });
1964
+ ```
1965
+
1966
+ Deliberately **not** Trade-From-Chart — `setLevels` draws real broker orders and
1967
+ committing one sends it. These are drawings; nothing here reaches the broker.
1968
+
1969
+ ### Anchored VWAP — `'anchoredVwap'`
1970
+
1971
+ Volume-weighted average price accumulated from a bar you pick: the average price
1972
+ everyone who traded since the anchor actually paid, which is what turns a swing
1973
+ high or an earnings gap into support.
1974
+
1975
+ **This is not the existing `'anchoredVP'`.** That one is Anchored Volume
1976
+ *Profile* — a horizontal histogram of volume by price level, and its bar heights
1977
+ come from a hardcoded bell curve rather than from the feed. Anchored VWAP is a
1978
+ single line computed from real volume.
1979
+
1980
+ Placed with one click, re-accumulating as data streams in. The series is
1981
+ exported:
1982
+
1983
+ ```ts
1984
+ import { anchoredVwapSeries } from 'acttrader-charts';
1985
+
1986
+ const vwap = anchoredVwapSeries(bars, anchorIndex); // number[] | null
1987
+ ```
1988
+
1989
+ Two deliberate behaviours:
1990
+
1991
+ - It uses the **(H+L+C)/3 typical price**, the convention VWAP is defined on —
1992
+ not the close, which would make it a volume-weighted close.
1993
+ - It returns **`null` when the span carries no volume**, and the chart draws no
1994
+ line. A VWAP without volume silently degrades into a running mean of typical
1995
+ prices: it looks like a VWAP and is not one. A volume-less feed gets no line
1996
+ rather than a plausible wrong one. The anchor dot is still drawn, so the
1997
+ drawing stays selectable and deletable.
1998
+
1999
+ ### Forecast — `'forecast'`
2000
+
2001
+ Three points: p1→p2 is what happened, p2→p3 is what you expect next. The base is
2002
+ solid, the forecast dashed, and a shaded cone opens from zero at p2 to half the
2003
+ base move's size at p3 — because a projection is exact where it starts and vague
2004
+ where it ends, and a bare line implies a precision no forecast has. A readout
2005
+ gives the projected change in price, percent and bars.
2006
+
2007
+ That cone is what separates it from the existing `'projection'` tool, which
2008
+ extrapolates a trend line to the right edge with no second leg you control and no
2009
+ statement of confidence.
2010
+
2011
+ ### Bars Pattern — `'barsPattern'`
2012
+
2013
+ Three points: p1 and p2 bracket the bars to copy, p3 anchors the copy. It draws
2014
+ real candles from the source bars, re-based by price **offset** rather than ratio
2015
+ — the tool is for asking "the same move, from here", not "a proportional move".
2016
+
2017
+ The copy is drawn at reduced alpha inside a dashed bounding box. Without that it
2018
+ renders in the chart's own candle colours and becomes indistinguishable from real
2019
+ data, which is worse than useless.
2020
+
2021
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2022
+
2023
+ All three new tools are `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('forecast')`
2024
+ works on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios) with
2025
+ no wrapper change. Long/Short Position need `enableForecasting` in the native
2026
+ `init` payload, which both wrappers already expose.
2027
+
2028
+ ---
2029
+
2030
+ ## Patterns
2031
+
2032
+ ### XABCD Pattern — `'xabcdPattern'`
2033
+
2034
+ The free-form harmonic, and the only one that shows its working.
2035
+
2036
+ Every named harmonic in the library — Gartley, Bat, Butterfly, Crab, Shark,
2037
+ Cypher — draws the identical X→A→B→C→D zigzag and dashed XD line, differing only
2038
+ in colour. None of them measures or validates anything. XABCD assumes nothing
2039
+ instead: you place five pivots and it reports the ratios those pivots actually
2040
+ produce, so you can decide which harmonic the structure matches.
2041
+
2042
+ That measurement is the whole point. Without it this would be an existing tool
2043
+ under a new name.
2044
+
2045
+ | Ratio | Measured against | Why it matters |
2046
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2047
+ | `AB/XA` | the initial leg | the first retracement |
2048
+ | `BC/AB` | the AB leg | the counter-move |
2049
+ | `CD/BC` | the BC leg | the final leg's extension |
2050
+ | `AD/XA` | the whole XA move | what separates a Gartley (0.786) from a Butterfly (1.27) |
2051
+
2052
+ It also shades the XAB and BCD triangles, which is what makes the shape readable
2053
+ at a glance — the zigzag alone is just four lines.
2054
+
2055
+ The arithmetic is exported, so a host can auto-classify a pattern with the same
2056
+ numbers the chart draws:
2057
+
2058
+ ```ts
2059
+ import { xabcdRatios } from 'acttrader-charts';
2060
+
2061
+ const chips = xabcdRatios(drawing.points);
2062
+ // → [{ from: 1, to: 2, text: 'AB/XA 0.600' }, …]
2063
+ ```
2064
+
2065
+ A leg of zero length has no defined ratio against it, so that entry is **omitted**
2066
+ rather than printed as `Infinity` or `NaN`, and ratios for pivots you have not
2067
+ placed yet simply do not appear.
2068
+
2069
+ ### Elliott Triple Combo (WXYXZ) — `'elliottTripleCombo'`
2070
+
2071
+ The triple three: three corrective structures joined by two X waves, six points
2072
+ from an origin.
2073
+
2074
+ There are now three neighbouring tools and the distinction is exact:
2075
+
2076
+ | Tool | Points | Labels |
2077
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2078
+ | `'elliottWxy'` | 4 | the **double** three — W, X, Y |
2079
+ | `'elliottCombination'` | 7 | W, X, Y, X2, Z, X3, end |
2080
+ | `'elliottTripleCombo'` | 6 | 0, W, X, Y, X, Z |
2081
+
2082
+ You asked whether the existing Combination tool already covers this. It partly
2083
+ does — but it takes **seven** points where a triple three has six, and numbers its
2084
+ connectors `X2`/`X3` where Elliott notation leaves both as `X`. A trader counting
2085
+ a triple three places five waves after the origin, and a tool demanding six
2086
+ leaves them with a pivot to park somewhere meaningless. This tool matches the
2087
+ count and the notation; the Combination tool is unchanged.
2088
+
2089
+ Wave labels sit above a peak and below a trough, so they never land on the line
2090
+ that produced them.
2091
+
2092
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2093
+
2094
+ Both are new `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('xabcdPattern')` works
2095
+ on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios) with no
2096
+ wrapper change.
2097
+
2098
+ ---
2099
+
2100
+ ## Fibonacci & Gann
2101
+
2102
+ Five tools added for TradingView parity. Each exists because it answers a
2103
+ question an existing tool in the same group cannot.
2104
+
2105
+ | Tool | `DrawingToolType` | Points | vs. its neighbour |
2106
+ | --- | --- | --- | --- |
2107
+ | **Trend-Based Fib Time** | `'trendBasedFibTime'` | 3 | Fib Timezone measures from its own origin. This projects one leg's *duration* onto a different starting bar. |
2108
+ | **Fib Speed Resistance Arcs** | `'fibSpeedResistanceArcs'` | 2 | The Fan projects straight lines, so implied support stays proportional forever. Arcs curve, so it decays with distance. |
2109
+ | **Fib Wedge** | `'fibWedge'` | 3 | Fib Circles sweep a full turn from one centre. A wedge is bounded by two user-drawn rays. |
2110
+ | **Pitchfan** | `'pitchfan'` | 3 | A Pitchfork's tines run parallel — a fixed channel. A Pitchfan's radiate, so they spread with distance. |
2111
+ | **Gann Square Fixed** | `'gannSquareFixed'` | 2 | The plain Gann Square stretches to the drag box, so its diagonal is only 45° at one zoom. |
2112
+
2113
+ ```ts
2114
+ chart.setDrawingTool('fibWedge');
2115
+ ```
2116
+
2117
+ ### Details that matter
2118
+
2119
+ **Trend-Based Fib Time** — p1→p2 is the base leg and p3 is where projection
2120
+ starts, so the verticals answer *"if this leg took N bars, when do the Fibonacci
2121
+ multiples of N fall from here?"*. Lines outside the viewport are skipped rather
2122
+ than stroked and clipped. It stays inert until the third point lands and when the
2123
+ base leg has zero duration — there is nothing to project in either case.
2124
+
2125
+ **Fib Speed Resistance Arcs** — drawn as **ellipses**, not circles, with the x and
2126
+ y radii taken separately from the trend's run and rise. A pixel-space circle
2127
+ would change shape the moment the price axis was rescaled, which makes the tool
2128
+ meaningless on a chart the user has zoomed. Only the half facing the trend is
2129
+ drawn; the half behind the origin would imply resistance before the move began.
2130
+
2131
+ **Fib Wedge** — the sweep always takes the short way round, so a wedge never
2132
+ flips to the reflex angle when an edge crosses the ±π seam. Hit testing checks
2133
+ the angular span first, so a click at a matching radius but outside the wedge
2134
+ correctly misses.
2135
+
2136
+ **Pitchfan** — rays are extended *forward* past the base, since that is the only
2137
+ part anyone trades off. Handle and base are dashed: construction, not signal.
2138
+
2139
+ **Gann Square Fixed** — takes the **longer** side of the drag and uses it for
2140
+ both, so the 45° diagonal really is 45°. That is the premise of Gann's angles and
2141
+ worthless if the shape skews with the axes. The cost is that the box no longer
2142
+ matches the drag exactly — "fixed" means fixed *proportion*, not fixed size.
2143
+
2144
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2145
+
2146
+ All five are new `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('pitchfan')` works
2147
+ on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios) with no
2148
+ wrapper change.
2149
+
2150
+ ---
2151
+
2152
+ ## Cursors & Line Tools
2153
+
2154
+ ### Extending lines
2155
+
2156
+ Four tools that differ from a Trend Line only in where they stop being drawn —
2157
+ which is exactly why they exist as separate tools rather than a style option.
2158
+
2159
+ | Tool | `DrawingToolType` | What it does |
2160
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2161
+ | **Ray** | `'ray'` | Two anchors; continues past the second. |
2162
+ | **Extended Line** | `'extendedLine'` | Two anchors; continues past both. |
2163
+ | **Horizontal Ray** | `'horizontalRay'` | One click; a level that runs **forward only**. |
2164
+ | **Info Line** | `'infoLine'` | A trend line that permanently reports what it spans. |
2165
+
2166
+ ```ts
2167
+ chart.setDrawingTool('ray');
2168
+ ```
2169
+
2170
+ The extension is recomputed against the canvas every frame, so panning and
2171
+ zooming re-extend the line instead of dragging a stale endpoint around. Hit
2172
+ testing uses the *extended* segment, so the infinite part is clickable too — the
2173
+ user can grab what they can see. Anchor dots are drawn only at the anchors,
2174
+ never at the extended ends, because a dot at the canvas edge reads as a handle
2175
+ and there is nothing there to grab.
2176
+
2177
+ **Horizontal Ray vs Horizontal Line** is the one worth calling out: a level drawn
2178
+ from the swing high that formed it should not be painted back across the history
2179
+ that preceded it, because that implies support which did not yet exist.
2180
+
2181
+ **Info Line vs Ruler**: the Ruler is a transient measurement — drawn, read,
2182
+ discarded. An Info Line is a drawing you keep, so its readout travels with it and
2183
+ updates as either end is dragged. It reports price delta, percent, bar count,
2184
+ and — when `instrument` and bar timestamps are available — pips and calendar
2185
+ duration. Each is omitted rather than shown as a zero when it cannot be computed.
2186
+
2187
+ ### Cursors
2188
+
2189
+ Pointer behaviour over the plot, **independent of the drawing tool**: switching
2190
+ mode never cancels a drawing in progress, and arming a tool never changes the
2191
+ mode.
2192
+
2193
+ | `CursorMode` | Behaviour |
2194
+ | --- | --- |
2195
+ | `'cross'` | The default crosshair with its axis readouts. |
2196
+ | `'dot'` | A dot follows the pointer instead of two lines cutting across the candles. |
2197
+ | `'arrow'` | A plain pointer, no crosshair. |
2198
+ | `'demonstration'` | A laser trail that fades behind the pointer, for screen-sharing. Draws nothing permanent and creates no drawing. |
2199
+ | `'eraser'` | A click deletes the drawing under it. |
2200
+
2201
+ ```ts
2202
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2203
+ container,
2204
+ cursorMode: 'cross', // initial mode
2205
+ features: { enableCursorModes: true }, // adds the Cursors group to the toolbar
2206
+ });
2207
+
2208
+ chart.setCursorMode('eraser');
2209
+ chart.on('cursorModeChange', ({ mode }) => persist(mode));
2210
+ ```
2211
+
2212
+ `features.enableCursorModes` is a gate because it adds a **category** to a
2213
+ toolbar that hosts have laid out around its current contents. With it off the
2214
+ group is absent and the toolbar is exactly what it was — and the modes are still
2215
+ reachable from `setCursorMode()`, so a host can drive them from its own chrome
2216
+ without taking the group.
2217
+
2218
+ Two details worth knowing:
2219
+
2220
+ - **A drawing tool owns the cursor while armed.** It needs crosshair precision
2221
+ whatever the mode says; clearing the tool hands the cursor back to the mode.
2222
+ - **The eraser consumes every click**, hit or miss. A miss must not fall through
2223
+ to selecting or panning — that would be a surprising thing to do with an eraser
2224
+ in hand. It deletes via select-then-delete, so it shares the undo history with
2225
+ every other delete.
2226
+
2227
+ ### Value tooltip on long press
2228
+
2229
+ ```ts
2230
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({ container, valueTooltip: true });
2231
+ ```
2232
+
2233
+ A floating OHLCV readout beside a long press, on top of the crosshair that
2234
+ gesture already arms. The OHLC strip at the top of the chart carries the same
2235
+ numbers, but on a phone it is at the opposite end of the screen from the finger —
2236
+ the user has to look away from the thing they are pointing at.
2237
+
2238
+ It flips to the other side of the touch rather than running off an edge, never
2239
+ takes pointer events (the drag is still in progress), and omits volume rather
2240
+ than printing a zero when the feed carries none. Default `false`.
2241
+
2242
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2243
+
2244
+ The four line tools are new `DrawingToolType` strings, so `setDrawingTool('ray')`
2245
+ works on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios)
2246
+ unchanged.
2247
+
2248
+ | JS | Android | iOS |
2249
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2250
+ | `setCursorMode(m)` | `setCursorMode(m)` | `setCursorMode(_:)` |
2251
+ | `cursorModeChange` | `BridgeEvent.CursorModeChange` | `.cursorModeChange` |
2252
+ | `cursorMode` at init | `Init(cursorMode = "…")` | `cursorMode:` argument |
2253
+ | `valueTooltip` | `Init(valueTooltip = true)` | `valueTooltip:` argument |
2254
+ | `features.enableCursorModes` | `Init(enableCursorModes = true)` | `enableCursorModes:` argument |
2255
+
2256
+ ---
2257
+
2258
+ ## Chart Types
2259
+
2260
+ Thirteen time-based types plus five added for TradingView parity. The five split
2261
+ into two kinds, and the difference matters more than the list suggests.
2262
+
2263
+ ### HLC bars — `'hlc'`
2264
+
2265
+ An ordinary per-bar series: the high-low range with a close tick and no open
2266
+ stub. Halves the ink of an OHLC bar, which is the point — on a dense chart the
2267
+ closes stay legible where full bars smear. Colour still comes from open vs close.
2268
+
2269
+ ### Price-transform types — `'renko'`, `'linebreak'`, `'kagi'`, `'pointfigure'`
2270
+
2271
+ These are **not drawn per time bar.** A brick, block, kagi segment or P&F column
2272
+ forms when *price* moves far enough, which may take fifty bars or none at all.
2273
+ 365 daily candles might be 24 Renko bricks or 15 P&F columns.
2274
+
2275
+ So they are not renderers — the bar array itself is rebuilt. Each transform turns
2276
+ raw OHLCV into **synthetic** bars, one per visual element, which the rest of the
2277
+ chart then treats as ordinary bars. That is what keeps the feature small:
2278
+ viewport, zoom, price range, crosshair, the time axis, indicators and drawings
2279
+ all keep working unchanged. It also means **an indicator on a Renko chart is
2280
+ computed over the bricks**, not the underlying candles — same as TradingView.
2281
+
2282
+ Three consequences worth knowing:
2283
+
2284
+ - **The time axis is non-linear.** Labels show when each element *completed*.
2285
+ Several elements completing on one bar get timestamps one millisecond apart so
2286
+ drawing anchors and viewport restore keep working.
2287
+ - **Switching in or out refits the view**, because the old viewport indexes a
2288
+ different number of elements.
2289
+ - **Market price still comes off the raw feed.** Trade levels and P&L price
2290
+ against the real last close, never a brick top.
2291
+
2292
+ ### Parameters
2293
+
2294
+ ```ts
2295
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2296
+ container,
2297
+ series: 'renko',
2298
+ seriesOptions: {
2299
+ renko: { boxSize: { kind: 'atr', length: 14 } }, // the default
2300
+ lineBreak: { lines: 3 },
2301
+ kagi: { reversal: { kind: 'percent', percent: 2 } },
2302
+ pointFigure: { boxSize: { kind: 'fixed', size: 0.5 }, reversal: 3 },
2303
+ },
2304
+ });
2305
+
2306
+ chart.setSeriesOptions({ renko: { boxSize: { kind: 'fixed', size: 5 } } });
2307
+ ```
2308
+
2309
+ Every box/reversal size defaults to **ATR(14)**, not a fixed price, because a
2310
+ fixed box is meaningless until you know the instrument: ten points is noise on an
2311
+ index and a lifetime on a forex pair. `setSeriesOptions` merges, so retuning
2312
+ Renko leaves Kagi and P&F alone.
2313
+
2314
+ | `BoxSizeMode` | Meaning |
2315
+ | --- | --- |
2316
+ | `{ kind: 'atr', length }` | Wilder ATR over the last `length` bars. Default `14`. |
2317
+ | `{ kind: 'fixed', size }` | A fixed price distance. |
2318
+ | `{ kind: 'percent', percent }` | A percentage of the latest close. |
2319
+
2320
+ When a box cannot be sized — fewer than `length + 1` bars for the ATR, or a
2321
+ non-positive size — the transform returns **no elements** rather than guessing. A
2322
+ wrong box size does not look wrong; it looks like a different market.
2323
+
2324
+ ### The rules each type implements
2325
+
2326
+ | Type | Rule |
2327
+ | --- | --- |
2328
+ | **Renko** | A brick prints when price closes a full box past the last brick's edge. Reversals need **two** boxes, not one — that two-box rule is what filters the noise. `source: 'highlow'` lets a bar's extremes print bricks instead of its close. |
2329
+ | **Line Break** | A block prints when the close clears the extreme of the last `lines` blocks (default 3). No box size at all — the reversal distance is whatever recent blocks span, so it widens automatically in volatile stretches. |
2330
+ | **Kagi** | **Direction** flips on a retrace of the reversal amount. **Thickness** flips on a break of the prior shoulder or waist. These are independent: a line can reverse repeatedly without ever changing thickness. |
2331
+ | **Point & Figure** | Columns of X's and O's on a box grid, built from each bar's **high and low** — high first in an X column, low first in an O column, so a bar that both extended and reversed is read in the order it happened. A new column needs `reversal` boxes (default 3). |
2332
+
2333
+ ### Using the transforms off-chart
2334
+
2335
+ They are exported as pure functions, so a backtest or a server-side render gets
2336
+ byte-identical elements:
2337
+
2338
+ ```ts
2339
+ import { toRenko, toKagi, atrValue } from 'acttrader-charts';
2340
+
2341
+ const { bars, meta } = toRenko(ohlcv, { boxSize: { kind: 'fixed', size: 5 } });
2342
+ ```
2343
+
2344
+ Each returns `{ bars, meta }`. `meta[i]` carries what cannot be read off the
2345
+ synthetic bar: Kagi's `thick`, P&F's `boxSize`, and `sourceBars` / `startTime`
2346
+ for every type.
2347
+
2348
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2349
+
2350
+ The five types are new values of the same `series` string, so `setSeries('renko')`
2351
+ works on [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios)
2352
+ unchanged. Parameters travel as a JSON object:
2353
+
2354
+ | JS | Android | iOS |
2355
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2356
+ | `seriesOptions` at init | `Init(seriesOptionsJson = "…")` | `seriesOptionsJson:` init argument |
2357
+ | `setSeriesOptions(o)` | `setSeriesOptions(json)` | `setSeriesOptions(_:)` |
2358
+
2359
+ ---
2360
+
2361
+ ## Top-Toolbar Features
2362
+
2363
+ Four opt-in features that bring the header in line with TradingView's: **indicator
2364
+ templates**, **saved chart layouts**, **Quick Search**, and **chart-settings
2365
+ templates with "Apply to all charts"**. Compare and Snapshot already shipped — see
2366
+ [Multi-Pane Layouts](#multi-pane-layouts) and the Compare section.
2367
+
2368
+ Two rules apply to all of them:
2369
+
2370
+ - **Nothing moves.** Every gate defaults to `false`, and with them off the chart's
2371
+ DOM is unchanged. When enabled, each feature extends a flyout, popover or dialog
2372
+ that already exists — no feature adds a header button (Quick Search can, but only
2373
+ if you ask for one).
2374
+ - **The library persists nothing.** Saving emits an event carrying the complete
2375
+ object; your app stores it and seeds it back. This is the same contract
2376
+ `stateChange` follows, and it is what lets Android and iOS reuse the feature
2377
+ without reimplementing storage twice.
2378
+
2379
+ ### Indicator templates
2380
+
2381
+ Named, reusable indicator sets, listed in a **Templates** block at the foot of the
2382
+ indicators flyout.
2383
+
2384
+ ```ts
2385
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2386
+ container,
2387
+ enableIndicatorTemplates: true,
2388
+ indicatorTemplates: loadFromStorage(), // what you saved last session
2389
+ });
2390
+
2391
+ chart.on('indicatorTemplateSaved', ({ template }) => persist(template));
2392
+ chart.on('indicatorTemplateDeleted', ({ id }) => forget(id));
2393
+ ```
2394
+
2395
+ | API | Does |
2396
+ | --- | --- |
2397
+ | `captureIndicatorTemplate(name)` | Saves the active indicators; emits `indicatorTemplateSaved`. Returns the template or `null`. |
2398
+ | `applyIndicatorTemplate(idOrName)` | Replaces the active indicators with the template's. Returns `false` if nothing matched. |
2399
+ | `deleteIndicatorTemplate(idOrName)` | Removes it; emits `indicatorTemplateDeleted`. |
2400
+ | `setIndicatorTemplates(list)` | Replaces the list the flyout shows. |
2401
+ | `getIndicatorTemplates()` | Reads it back (copies). |
2402
+
2403
+ Saving twice under one name yields two templates — ids are de-duplicated
2404
+ (`my-set`, `my-set-2`), which is what users expect from "Save as".
2405
+
2406
+ Rendered by the default `TopBar` and by `AdvancedToolbar`. The compact per-pane
2407
+ strip and the mobile header have no full indicators flyout, so they skip it.
2408
+
2409
+ ### Saved chart layouts
2410
+
2411
+ A **saved layout** is a grid preset *plus* every pane's full `ChartState` — symbol,
2412
+ timeframe, series, indicators, drawings, viewport, compares. That is the difference
2413
+ from the preset grid already in the layout popover, which only picks a *shape*.
2414
+
2415
+ Requires `enableMultipleLayouts`, since the section renders inside that popover.
2416
+
2417
+ ```ts
2418
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2419
+ container,
2420
+ enableMultipleLayouts: true,
2421
+ enableSavedLayouts: true,
2422
+ savedLayouts: loadFromStorage(),
2423
+ });
2424
+
2425
+ chart.on('layoutSaved', ({ layout }) => persist(layout));
2426
+ chart.on('layoutApplied', ({ layout }) => mountPanes(layout)); // multi-pane hosts
2427
+ ```
2428
+
2429
+ | API | Does |
2430
+ | --- | --- |
2431
+ | `captureSavedLayout(name, paneId?)` | Saves the preset + this chart's state. Single-engine: one pane. |
2432
+ | `applySavedLayout(idOrName, paneId?)` | Applies the preset (emits `layoutChange`) then this pane's state. |
2433
+ | `deleteSavedLayout(idOrName)` | Removes it; emits `layoutDeleted`. |
2434
+ | `setSavedLayouts(list)` / `getSavedLayouts()` | Replace / read the list. |
2435
+
2436
+ For a real multi-pane grid use `ChartGroup`, which sees every pane:
2437
+
2438
+ ```ts
2439
+ const layout = group.captureLayout('My Desk', chart.getLayoutPreset());
2440
+ persist(layout);
2441
+ for (const [, engine] of group.entries()) engine.setSavedLayouts(allLayouts);
2442
+
2443
+ // restoring: mount the grid for layout.presetId yourself, then
2444
+ const { applied, missing } = group.applyLayout(layout);
2445
+ ```
2446
+
2447
+ `applyLayout` skips panes that aren't registered yet and returns them in `missing`,
2448
+ so a host that mounts lazily can create them and call again. Registered panes that
2449
+ the layout doesn't mention are left alone rather than cleared.
2450
+
2451
+ ### Quick Search
2452
+
2453
+ A command palette over everything the chart can do: series types, timeframes,
2454
+ durations, indicators, drawing tools, saved templates and layouts, and the header
2455
+ actions.
2456
+
2457
+ ```ts
2458
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({ container, enableQuickSearch: true });
2459
+ ```
2460
+
2461
+ Opened with **Ctrl/⌘+K**, with **`/`**, or by `chart.openQuickSearch()`. It is
2462
+ keyboard-first and **adds no header button** — pass
2463
+ `quickSearch: { showButton: true }` if you want one. A bare `/` is ignored while
2464
+ the user is typing in any input, textarea, select, or contenteditable.
2465
+
2466
+ Add your own commands beside the built-ins:
2467
+
2468
+ ```ts
2469
+ chart.registerCommand({
2470
+ id: 'myapp.openTicket',
2471
+ label: 'Open order ticket',
2472
+ group: 'My App',
2473
+ keywords: ['buy', 'sell', 'trade'],
2474
+ run: () => openTicket(),
2475
+ });
2476
+
2477
+ chart.on('quickSearchCommand', ({ id }) => track(id));
2478
+ ```
2479
+
2480
+ Namespace your ids so a future built-in can't collide. `matchCommands`,
2481
+ `scoreCommand` and `groupCommands` are exported if you want the same ranking in
2482
+ your own UI: exact label beats prefix beats word-start beats substring, with
2483
+ keyword and group hits last, and ties keep their original order so the list never
2484
+ reshuffles unpredictably as the user types.
2485
+
2486
+ ### Chart-settings templates + Apply to all charts
2487
+
2488
+ Named snapshots of everything the Chart Settings dialog edits, plus a switch to
2489
+ push the current settings to every other chart. Both render in the dialog's
2490
+ footer — no new button anywhere.
2491
+
2492
+ ```ts
2493
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2494
+ container,
2495
+ enableSettingsTemplates: true,
2496
+ settingsTemplates: loadFromStorage(),
2497
+ });
2498
+
2499
+ chart.on('settingsTemplateSaved', ({ template }) => persist(template));
2500
+
2501
+ chart.on('chartSettingsApplied', ({ settings, applyToAll }) => {
2502
+ // This chart already applied them. Only the fan-out is yours:
2503
+ if (applyToAll) group.applySettingsToAll(settings, thisPaneId);
2504
+ });
2505
+ ```
2506
+
2507
+ | API | Does |
2508
+ | --- | --- |
2509
+ | `getChartSettings()` / `applyChartSettings(s)` | Read / apply a settings snapshot. Every route — dialog, template, apply-to-all, bridge — goes through `applyChartSettings`. |
2510
+ | `captureSettingsTemplate(name)` | Saves the current settings; emits `settingsTemplateSaved`. |
2511
+ | `applySettingsTemplate(idOrName)` | Applies a saved one. |
2512
+ | `deleteSettingsTemplate(idOrName)` | Removes it. |
2513
+ | `setSettingsTemplates(list)` / `getSettingsTemplates()` | Replace / read the list. |
2514
+ | `ChartGroup.applySettingsToAll(settings, fromPaneId?)` | Applies to every other pane. Not gated on a `sync` toggle — it is an explicit one-shot action, not continuous mirroring. |
2515
+
2516
+ ### Native wrapper parity
2517
+
2518
+ All four features, plus snapshot capture, are exposed by
2519
+ [charts-android](../charts-android) and [charts-ios](../charts-ios). Templates and
2520
+ layouts cross the bridge as opaque JSON strings: the app stores what the chart
2521
+ handed it and sends the same string back, so neither Kotlin nor Swift has to mirror
2522
+ a `ChartState` that only the chart interprets.
2523
+
2524
+ | JS | Android | iOS |
2525
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2526
+ | `enableIndicatorTemplates` | `Init(enableIndicatorTemplates = true)` | `HeaderFeatures(enableIndicatorTemplates: true)` |
2527
+ | `captureIndicatorTemplate(name)` | `captureIndicatorTemplate(name)` | `captureIndicatorTemplate(_:)` |
2528
+ | `enableSavedLayouts` | `Init(enableSavedLayouts = true)` | `HeaderFeatures(enableSavedLayouts: true)` |
2529
+ | `enableQuickSearch` / `openQuickSearch()` | `openQuickSearch()` | `openQuickSearch()` |
2530
+ | `enableSettingsTemplates` | `Init(enableSettingsTemplates = true)` | `HeaderFeatures(enableSettingsTemplates: true)` |
2531
+ | `chartSettingsApplied` event | `BridgeEvent.ChartSettingsApplied` | `.chartSettingsApplied` |
2532
+ | `chart.toDataUrl()` | `requestSnapshot()` → `BridgeEvent.Snapshot` | `requestSnapshot()` → `.snapshot` |
2533
+
2534
+ On mobile there is no Ctrl/⌘+K, so Quick Search is opened with the
2535
+ `openQuickSearch` command from your own toolbar.
2536
+
2537
+ ---
2538
+
2539
+ ## Chart Settings
2540
+
2541
+ Six settings TradingView has and ActCharts did not, behind
2542
+ `features.enableChartSettings`. The gate adds three tabs — **Status Line**,
2543
+ **Scales**, **Canvas** — to the Chart Settings dialog and a bar-colouring choice
2544
+ to Appearance. Every one of them is also a `ChartConfig` option and a
2545
+ `ChartEngine` method, so a host can drive them from its own chrome and leave the
2546
+ dialog as it was.
2547
+
2548
+ ```ts
2549
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2550
+ container,
2551
+ features: { enableChartSettings: true },
2552
+ statusLine: { barChange: true },
2553
+ scales: { highLowLabels: true, pricePrecision: 4, timezone: 'Asia/Tokyo' },
2554
+ canvas: { gridVertical: false, watermarkVisible: true },
2555
+ barColorSource: 'previousClose',
2556
+ });
2557
+ ```
2558
+
2559
+ ### Status line
2560
+
2561
+ What the legend above the chart shows.
2562
+
2563
+ | Field | Default | Shows |
2564
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2565
+ | `symbol` | `true` | The instrument name and its stream dot |
2566
+ | `ohlc` | `true` | O / H / L / C of the hovered bar |
2567
+ | `barChange` | **`false`** | Absolute and percent change, e.g. `+1.68 (+0.96%)` |
2568
+ | `volume` | `true` | V, when the feed carries it |
2569
+
2570
+ `barChange` is the one default of `false`: it is a new readout, and turning it on
2571
+ by itself would change a legend hosts have laid out around. **Change is measured
2572
+ against the previous bar's close**, which is what "the change" means on every
2573
+ quote screen — against this bar's open it would only restate the candle's colour.
2574
+
2575
+ ### Scales and lines
2576
+
2577
+ ```ts
2578
+ chart.setScalesSettings({ lastPriceLabel: false, highLowLabels: true });
2579
+ ```
2580
+
2581
+ | Field | Default | Effect |
2582
+ | --- | --- | --- |
2583
+ | `lastPriceLabel` | `true` | The live price tag and its dashed line |
2584
+ | `bidLabel` / `askLabel` | follows config | The bid / ask tags |
2585
+ | `highLowLabels` | `false` | Tags at the extremes of the **visible** range |
2586
+ | `timeAxisCountdown` | follows `showCandleCountdown` | Countdown on the time axis |
2587
+ | `pricePrecision` | `null` | Decimal places; null infers from the feed |
2588
+ | `timezone` | `'UTC'` | IANA name for axis, crosshair and tooltips |
2589
+
2590
+ Bid and ask fall through to the `showBidLine` / `showAskLine` config they
2591
+ duplicate, so the dialog and the existing runtime setters stay **one switch**
2592
+ rather than two that can disagree.
2593
+
2594
+ High/low are measured over what is on screen, not the whole dataset: a tag for a
2595
+ high six months out of view marks a line the user cannot see and cannot scroll
2596
+ to without losing it.
2597
+
2598
+ ### Price precision
2599
+
2600
+ ```ts
2601
+ chart.setPricePrecision(4); // pin
2602
+ chart.setPricePrecision(null); // back to inferring from the feed
2603
+ ```
2604
+
2605
+ One accessor feeds all eleven places the chart writes a price — axis, legend,
2606
+ tooltips, crosshair, drawings, trade levels — so an override cannot apply to
2607
+ some and not others. A price axis reading `1.2345` beside a tooltip reading
2608
+ `1.23` is worse than either choice on its own.
2609
+
2610
+ **It deliberately does not move pip size.** A pip is a property of the contract;
2611
+ asking the axis for fewer decimals is a display choice, and the Ruler must keep
2612
+ saying what a move is actually worth. Pip size still comes from `InstrumentSpec`
2613
+ and, failing that, from the precision *inferred* from the data.
2614
+
2615
+ ### Timezone
2616
+
2617
+ `setTimezone(tz)` already existed; it is now in the dialog, carried in
2618
+ `ChartSettingsSnapshot`, and emits `timezoneChange`. `'local'` resolves to the
2619
+ device zone immediately, so `getTimezone()` always returns a real IANA name.
2620
+
2621
+ ### Canvas
2622
+
2623
+ ```ts
2624
+ chart.setCanvasOptions({ gridVertical: false, watermarkVisible: true, watermarkSize: 128 });
2625
+ ```
2626
+
2627
+ | Field | Default |
2628
+ | --- | --- |
2629
+ | `gridHorizontal` / `gridVertical` | `true` |
2630
+ | `watermarkVisible` | `false` |
2631
+ | `watermarkText` | `''` — empty uses the current symbol |
2632
+ | `watermarkSize` / `watermarkOpacity` | `72` / `0.06` |
2633
+ | `crosshairStyle` | `'dashed'` |
2634
+ | `crosshairWidth` | `1` |
2635
+
2636
+ Colours stay in `setCanvasColors`, which was already plumbed per theme;
2637
+ `gridVertical` and `watermark` are new entries in `CanvasColorSettings` and fall
2638
+ back to `grid` and `axisText`.
2639
+
2640
+ **The watermark draws above the grid and below everything else.** Painted after
2641
+ the series it would tint the candles, and the point of it is to sit behind them.
2642
+ Crosshair dash lengths scale with the width, or a 4px dash on a 4px line reads as
2643
+ a solid bar.
2644
+
2645
+ ### Colour bars based on previous close
2646
+
2647
+ ```ts
2648
+ chart.setBarColorSource('previousClose');
2649
+ ```
2650
+
2651
+ Whether a bar is "up" against its own open (the default) or against the previous
2652
+ bar's close. The two disagree constantly — a gap-up bar that sells off all
2653
+ session is up on one rule and down on the other — which is why it is a setting
2654
+ and not a fix.
2655
+
2656
+ Applies to candles, hollow candles, bars, HLC bars, columns **and the volume
2657
+ pane together**: they are one reading of the same market, and a volume pane
2658
+ disagreeing with the candles above it is a bug, not a setting. Heikin Ashi,
2659
+ Renko, Kagi and Point & Figure are unaffected — direction is intrinsic to what
2660
+ those transforms compute.
2661
+
2662
+ Eight series each carried their own `close >= open`; they now share
2663
+ `computeUpFlags()`, which the engine calls once per frame. It takes the bar
2664
+ *before* the visible slice, because the renderers only ever see what is on
2665
+ screen — without it the leftmost bar would have nothing to compare against and
2666
+ would flip colour as the user panned it into view. At the very start of the data,
2667
+ where no earlier bar exists, that one bar falls back to open-vs-close.
2668
+
2669
+ ### Persistence
2670
+
2671
+ All six ride in `ChartSettingsSnapshot`, so they are covered by settings
2672
+ templates and "Apply to all charts" for free. **Absent is meaningful**: a
2673
+ template saved before these fields existed applies as "change nothing", not as
2674
+ "reset everything to its default" — otherwise re-applying an old template would
2675
+ silently rearrange the chart.
2676
+
2677
+
2678
+ ## Bottom Bar & Price Scale
2679
+
2680
+ Five TradingView controls, behind `features.enableScaleControls`. The gate adds
2681
+ a cluster to the left of the duration buttons — **Go to date**, a **timezone**
2682
+ selector, and **%**, **log**, **auto** — and needs `showBottomBar: true`, since
2683
+ the duration bar is off by default. Each is also a `ChartEngine` method, so a
2684
+ host can drive them from its own chrome and leave the bar as it was.
2685
+
2686
+ ```
2687
+ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
2688
+ │ 📅 │ UTC ⌄ │ % log auto 1D 5D 1M 3M 6M 1Y 5Y All │
2689
+ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
2690
+ ```
2691
+
2692
+ All five are ordinary buttons styled like the duration buttons beside them, and
2693
+ the two that need input open a themed popover above the bar. **No native
2694
+ `<input type="date">` or `<select>`**: both take their colours from the
2695
+ operating system, so in a dark chart they rendered as pale boxes with a browser
2696
+ calendar glyph — the one part of the bar that could not be themed. The menus
2697
+ open *upward*, since the bar is the last row on screen.
2698
+
2699
+ ```ts
2700
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2701
+ container,
2702
+ showBottomBar: true,
2703
+ features: { enableScaleControls: true },
2704
+ priceScaleMode: 'log',
2705
+ autoScale: true,
2706
+ });
2707
+ ```
2708
+
2709
+ ### Go to a specific date
2710
+
2711
+ ```ts
2712
+ chart.goToDate('2024-03-01'); // ISO, a Date, or unix ms
2713
+ ```
2714
+
2715
+ The calendar button opens a date field and a **Go**; the method behind it
2716
+ centres the **nearest** bar and returns its index, or `null` when there is no
2717
+ data. Nearest rather than exact because the date a user types is rarely a bar —
2718
+ it falls on a weekend, a holiday, or between two intraday bars — and refusing to
2719
+ move is a worse answer than landing beside it. Binary search, so it costs
2720
+ nothing on a long history. Emits `goToDate` with the bar it settled on.
2721
+
2722
+ ### Timezone selector
2723
+
2724
+ The bottom-bar button shows the current zone's short name and opens a checked
2725
+ list. It writes through `setTimezone()`, the same path the Scales tab and the
2726
+ config option use, so all three stay in step. `'local'` resolves to
2727
+ the device zone immediately — `getTimezone()` always returns a real IANA name.
2728
+
2729
+ ### Price scale modes
2730
+
2731
+ ```ts
2732
+ chart.setPriceScaleMode('log'); // 'normal' | 'log' | 'percent'
2733
+ ```
2734
+
2735
+ **One choice, not three flags.** Log and percent are different answers to the
2736
+ same question, and a chart in both at once has no meaning. Clicking the active
2737
+ button returns to `'normal'`, so the pair works as a toggle rather than a trap.
2738
+
2739
+ #### Logarithmic
2740
+
2741
+ Equal ratios get equal height: a move from 10 to 20 occupies the same space as
2742
+ one from 100 to 200. On a series running 1 → 1000 the pixel gaps between the
2743
+ decade marks go from **49.8px and 497.3px** linear to **156.4px and 156.4px**
2744
+ log, and an exponential series renders as a straight line.
2745
+
2746
+ The mode is carried on the **`PriceRange`**, not on the `ScaleManager`:
2747
+
2748
+ ```ts
2749
+ interface PriceRange { min: number; max: number; log?: boolean }
2750
+ ```
2751
+
2752
+ One manager serves the price pane and every sub-pane, and an RSI drawn on a log
2753
+ axis would be nonsense. Every price→pixel call already passes a range, so putting
2754
+ the flag there made series, drawings, indicators, the crosshair and hit-testing
2755
+ all log-aware **without changing a single call site**.
2756
+
2757
+ **Log needs a positive range.** `isLogRange()` falls back to linear when `min <= 0`
2758
+ rather than refusing to draw, so an instrument that trades through zero quietly
2759
+ keeps working. A manual zoom-out that drags the displayed minimum below zero is
2760
+ clamped instead, because falling back there would make the chart snap between two
2761
+ mappings in the middle of a drag.
2762
+
2763
+ **Ticks are the 1/2/5 × 10ⁿ series per decade**, thinned by *pixel* distance
2764
+ rather than by value — a decade occupies the same height whether it runs 1→10 or
2765
+ 1000→10000. A range inside a single decade falls back to the linear generator,
2766
+ since over a span that narrow the two mappings are within a pixel of each other
2767
+ and linear ticks read better.
2768
+
2769
+ Label precision is computed **per tick** from its own neighbours. One precision
2770
+ taken from the first pair would render `500` as `500.0` and `0.2` as `0.2` in the
2771
+ same column.
2772
+
2773
+ #### Percent
2774
+
2775
+ Every price re-expressed as percent change from the first visible bar's close,
2776
+ with `+0.00%` emphasised on the axis. It reuses the transform compare mode
2777
+ already had, with no second series to combine against, so panning re-bases the
2778
+ way TradingView's percent scale does rather than pinning to the start of history.
2779
+
2780
+ ### Auto scale
2781
+
2782
+ ```ts
2783
+ chart.setAutoScale(false); // freeze the Y range
2784
+ ```
2785
+
2786
+ Switching it off freezes whatever is on screen *now*, so the chart does not jump
2787
+ at the moment the user asks it to stop moving. A manual axis drag still wins —
2788
+ turning auto off should not also take away the ability to move the axis by hand.
2789
+
2790
+ This is separate from the implicit manual mode a price-axis drag already
2791
+ produced: that one is entered by dragging and left by resetting, while this is a
2792
+ switch the user holds across pans and timeframe changes.
2793
+
2794
+
2795
+ ## Side Panels
2796
+
2797
+ A right-hand docked panel with two tabs, behind `features.enableSidePanels`.
2798
+
2799
+ ```
2800
+ ┌──────────────────────────┐
2801
+ │ Data Window │ Objects │✕ │
2802
+ ├──────────────────────────┤
2803
+ │ Date 12 Aug 2026│
2804
+ │ Open 149.73│
2805
+ │ Close 148.56│
2806
+ │ Change -1.17 (-0.78%) │
2807
+ │ MA(20) 150.56│
2808
+ │ MACD(12, 26, 9) │
2809
+ │ MACD 1.22│
2810
+ │ Signal 1.84│
2811
+ │ Histogram -0.62│
2812
+ └──────────────────────────┘
2813
+ ```
2814
+
2815
+ ```ts
2816
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({
2817
+ container,
2818
+ features: { enableSidePanels: true },
2819
+ });
2820
+
2821
+ chart.setSidePanelTab('objects');
2822
+ chart.setSidePanelVisible(false); // the ✕ does this too
2823
+ ```
2824
+
2825
+ The panel is **docked, not floating**: both tabs are read while looking at the
2826
+ chart, and a floating window would cover the candles the numbers describe.
2827
+
2828
+ **Closing it collapses it to an icon rail, it does not hide it.**
2829
+
2830
+ ```
2831
+ expanded (232px) collapsed (30px)
2832
+ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──┐
2833
+ │ Data │ Objects │✕│ │ ▦ │ ← Data Window
2834
+ ├──────────────────┤ │ ◈ │ ← Objects
2835
+ │ … │ │ │
2836
+ └──────────────────┘ └──┘
2837
+ ```
2838
+
2839
+ A panel that vanished completely would leave nothing to click to get it back,
2840
+ stranding the feature behind a command palette. The rail keeps 30px and gives
2841
+ the chart the other 202px; the `ResizeObserver` already watching `canvasWrap`
2842
+ resizes the canvases for free. Each rail icon opens straight onto *its* tab
2843
+ rather than reopening whatever was last showing, and the last-opened one stays
2844
+ marked so reopening is a single click on the icon already highlighted.
2845
+
2846
+ `setSidePanelVisible(false)` is the same operation as the ✕ — expanded versus
2847
+ rail. `features.enableSidePanels` is what removes the panel entirely.
2848
+
2849
+ ### Data Window
2850
+
2851
+ The bar under the cursor — or the last bar when the cursor is off the plot —
2852
+ followed by one block per visible indicator, refreshed from the render pass so
2853
+ it coalesces with the animation frame instead of firing on every pointer event.
2854
+
2855
+ Values come from the engine's existing per-instance result cache, which is a
2856
+ full-length array indexed by bar, so nothing is recomputed to fill the panel.
2857
+ Only indicators that are actually being recomputed are listed: a hidden or
2858
+ timeframe-locked instance holds a stale cache and showing it would present old
2859
+ numbers as current.
2860
+
2861
+ **Indicator fields are named by what they are.** `IndicatorResult` has five
2862
+ fixed slots — `value`, `upper`, `lower`, `signal`, `histogram` — and indicators
2863
+ do not agree on what they mean. MACD puts its signal line in `upper` and its
2864
+ histogram in `lower`, where Bollinger puts bands in both, so labelling the slots
2865
+ generically would print `Upper 1.84` for a MACD signal. A small table names the
2866
+ ones that differ; everything else falls back.
2867
+
2868
+ A single-line indicator renders as one `MA(20): 150.56` row rather than a
2869
+ heading with one orphan beneath it. One still warming up shows a dash, because
2870
+ omitting the block would read as the indicator having been removed.
2871
+
2872
+ Rows use tabular figures so the value column does not jitter as digits change
2873
+ under a moving crosshair, and the panel **reconciles rather than rebuilds** —
2874
+ it keys on the row labels and, when they are unchanged, writes only the text.
2875
+
2876
+ ### Object Tree
2877
+
2878
+ Everything on the chart, grouped, with per-row show/hide, lock and remove.
2879
+ Clicking a drawing row selects it; clicking an indicator row opens its settings.
2880
+ Empty groups are omitted rather than shown as a zero.
2881
+
2882
+ Drawing names come from `labels.drawingToolbar.tools` — the toolbar's own label
2883
+ map, so the tree is localised by the same override a host already supplies. A
2884
+ text tool shows its first line beside the type name, clipped, since a Table or
2885
+ Note carries several and the rest would push every other row off the panel.
2886
+
2887
+ Indicators get **no lock control**: there is nothing to lock. The panel reads an
2888
+ absent `locked` as exactly that rather than needing a flag.
2889
+
2890
+ ### New per-object primitives
2891
+
2892
+ The manager only had bulk operations, so these are new:
2893
+
2894
+ ```ts
2895
+ chart.setDrawingVisible(id, false);
2896
+ chart.setDrawingLocked(id, true);
2897
+ chart.deleteDrawing(id); // not "select it, then delete"
2898
+ chart.selectDrawing(id); // null clears
2899
+ chart.toggleIndicatorVisibility(instanceId);
2900
+ ```
2901
+
2902
+ `deleteDrawing` is separate from `deleteSelected()` on purpose: selecting fires
2903
+ `onSelectionChange`, which opens the style popover on a drawing that is about to
2904
+ disappear. Hiding or locking the selected drawing deselects it, the way the bulk
2905
+ operations already did — a selection box floating over nothing, with a popover
2906
+ attached, is worse than losing the selection. All three take an undo snapshot.
2907
+
2908
+ ### Reopening
2909
+
2910
+ Click either rail icon. Three Quick Search commands do the same from the
2911
+ keyboard: **Open Data Window**, **Open Object Tree**, **Toggle side panel**.
2912
+
2913
+ ### Rendering the data yourself
2914
+
2915
+ `buildDataWindow()` and `buildObjectTree()` are exported as pure functions, and
2916
+ `SidePanel` takes their output. A host can render the same rows in its own
2917
+ chrome, or feed the panel from somewhere other than the chart.
2918
+
2919
+
2920
+ ## Custom Indicator
2921
+
2922
+ Implement `IIndicator` and pass it to `addIndicator()`:
2923
+
2924
+ ```ts
2925
+ import type { IIndicator, OHLCVBar, IndicatorResult } from 'acttrader-charts';
2926
+
2927
+ class MyIndicator implements IIndicator {
2928
+ name = 'MyInd';
2929
+ color = '#e91e63';
2930
+ pane = 'sub' as const; // 'main' = overlay, 'sub' = dedicated pane
2931
+ paneHeight = 80;
2932
+
2933
+ compute(data: OHLCVBar[]): IndicatorResult[] {
2934
+ return data.map((bar, i) => ({ index: i, value: bar.close }));
2935
+ }
2936
+
2937
+ render(ctx, results, scale, viewport, chartHeight) {
2938
+ // draw with ctx (Canvas 2D)
2939
+ }
2940
+ }
2941
+
2942
+ chart.addIndicator(new MyIndicator());
2943
+ ```
2944
+
2945
+ ---
2946
+
2947
+ ## Build & Dev
2948
+
2949
+ ```bash
2950
+ npm run dev # Vite dev server with demo chart
2951
+ npm run build # ESM + CJS via tsup → dist/
2952
+ npm run test # Vitest unit tests
2953
+ npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit
2954
+ npm run lint # ESLint
2955
+ ```
2956
+
2957
+ ---
2958
+
2959
+ ## License
2960
+
2961
+ MIT
2962
+
2963
+ ## Bar Replay
2964
+
2965
+ Replay history bar by bar, as TradingView does. `enableReplay: true` adds a
2966
+ **Replay** button to the header (simple and advanced layouts); it opens a
2967
+ control strip under the chart:
2968
+
2969
+ ```
2970
+ ⇤ Select bar ▾ │ ▷ ▷| 1x 1D │ ▷▷| ✕
2971
+ ```
2972
+
2973
+ - **Select bar** — a cut line with a scissors badge follows the pointer; click
2974
+ a bar and everything from it onward is hidden. The ▾ menu also offers
2975
+ **Select date…**, **First available date** and **Random bar**.
2976
+ - **▷ / ▷|** — play at the chosen speed (`0.1x` – `10x` bars per second) or
2977
+ step one bar forward. Keyboard: `Shift+→` step, `Shift+↓` play/pause,
2978
+ `Esc` leaves select mode.
2979
+ - **▷▷|** — jump to real time: every hidden bar comes back, including live
2980
+ bars built while the replay ran. **✕** closes the strip.
2981
+
2982
+ Live ticks keep updating the hidden series during a replay, so nothing is
2983
+ lost; a `loadData()` during a replay (timeframe or symbol change) keeps the
2984
+ replay date. Default `false`; without it nothing changes.
2985
+
2986
+ ```ts
2987
+ const chart = new ChartEngine({ container, enableReplay: true });
2988
+
2989
+ // Drive it from code (works without the header button too):
2990
+ chart.openReplay(); // show the strip, arm "Select bar"
2991
+ chart.startReplay('2026-06-01'); // hide bars after this date (number | Date | string)
2992
+ chart.setReplaySpeed(3); // bars per second
2993
+ chart.playReplay(); chart.pauseReplay(); chart.replayStepForward();
2994
+ chart.exitReplay(); // back to real time, strip stays open
2995
+ chart.closeReplay(); // back to real time and close the strip
2996
+ chart.isReplayActive();
2997
+
2998
+ chart.on('replayStart', ({ time }) => { /* bars after `time` are hidden */ });
2999
+ chart.on('replayStep', ({ time }) => { /* one more bar revealed */ });
3000
+ chart.on('replayEnd', ({ time }) => { /* last hidden bar revealed */ });
3001
+ chart.on('replayExit', () => { /* live chart is back */ });
3002
+ ```
3003
+
3004
+ On Android and iOS the same controls are bridge commands — `openReplay`,
3005
+ `closeReplay`, `startReplay { time }`, `playReplay`, `pauseReplay`,
3006
+ `replayStepForward`, `setReplaySpeed { barsPerSecond }`, `exitReplay` — with
3007
+ `enableReplay` on `init`; the four events above arrive through the bridge and the
3008
+ mobile header gets its own Replay button. See the `charts-android` and
3009
+ `charts-ios` READMEs for the Kotlin / Swift calls.
3010
+
3011
+ ## Two-finger measure (mobile)
3012
+
3013
+ Hold two fingers on the chart and it shows what the TradingView app shows: a
3014
+ pill over the range with the **close and date under each finger** and, between
3015
+ them, the **change in price and percent**, coloured by direction; a vertical
3016
+ line and a dot on the close mark each finger and the range is tinted. Moving
3017
+ the fingers moves the measurement; lifting either finger ends it. Pinch still
3018
+ zooms — the measure only starts once both fingers have rested for ~0.3 s.
3019
+
3020
+ ```ts
3021
+ new ChartEngine({ container, enableTwoFingerMeasure: true });
3022
+
3023
+ chart.on('twoFingerMeasure', ({ phase, startTime, endTime, startClose, endClose, change, changePercent, bars }) => {
3024
+ // phase: 'start' | 'update' | 'end'
3025
+ });
3026
+ ```
3027
+
3028
+ Touch-only, so desktop is unaffected. Default `false`. On Android / iOS set
3029
+ `enableTwoFingerMeasure` on `init`; the event arrives through the bridge.