2. The Workspace Tour

The workspace is a single screen that combines the chart, its tools, and a set of side and bottom panels. This tour names each region so the rest of the docs can refer to them.

Opening the workspace

Open chart workspace on the landing page (and every other link to /chart) takes you back to the chart you had open last in this browser — same symbol, provider, and asset class — rather than to a fixed symbol. On a first visit it opens Binance BTCUSDT. Links that carry a launch intent such as ?panel=indicators keep it while still landing on your last chart. The memory is per browser and is cleared with site data.

The chart area

The center of the screen is the chart area. It shows one or more chart panes, each an independent candlestick chart with its own timeframe and indicators. Panes are arranged in a synchronized multi-pane layout (six panes by default).

• The active pane has an amber border and ring. Most actions — drawing, replay, screenshots, view resets — apply to the active pane. Click a pane or press Tab to change which pane is active.
• Each pane has a candle info line in the top-left corner that displays the open, high, low, close, change (Δ), and volume of the bar under your cursor (or the latest bar when you are not hovering).

See Multi-Pane Layouts for how to add, remove, expand, and resize panes.

The toolbar

Chart controls sit in the toolbar:

• Symbol input — type a ticker to switch the charted symbol. Press the quick-search shortcut to focus it instantly.
• Timeframe selector — switch the active pane between timeframes (1M through 1W). Less-common timeframes (3M, 10M, 30M, 1W) live in an overflow menu.
• Series type — choose how price is drawn: Candles, Bars, Hollow candles, Volume candles, Line, Line with markers, Step line, Area, HLC area, Baseline, Columns, High-low, or Heikin Ashi. See Chart Types & Volume.
• Drawing tools — trend lines, shapes, text, Fibonacci, position tools, and more. See Drawing Tools.
• Replay — step through history bar by bar. See Bar Replay.
• Settings — open the chart settings dialog. See Chart Settings.
• Theme & palette — switch light/dark/auto and pick a color palette. See Themes & Palettes.
• Alerts — the bell opens the Alerts sidebar. See Alerts Overview.
• Trading panel — the ⇄ button toggles the on-chart Buy/Sell strip for paper trading (⌥P); the wallet button beside it opens the paper-trading Account Manager. See Paper Trading Overview.

The panels

Several panels open alongside or below the chart. You can open the workspace directly into one of them with the panel query parameter:

• The Indicators panel is the indicator picker — Active, Popular, Favorites, Recent, and search. See Adding & Managing Indicators.
• The Backtesting panel is the Strategy Tester. See Backtesting Overview.
• The AI assistant panel is a chat drawer that can read and act on your chart. See AI Assistant Overview.
• The Account Manager shares the Strategy Tester's bottom-dock slot and chrome (resize, expand, float, close). See Account Manager.

Paper trading

The workspace includes a simulated broker: with the trading panel or the order ticket you can place market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders with take-profit and stop-loss brackets, and watch netted positions mark to market on the chart's own price feed. Order and position lines are drawn on the chart, a Trade group appears in the chart's right-click menu, and the Account Manager tracks the account. It is a practice tool — no real money or brokerage connection is involved — and everything is stored locally in your browser. Start with the Paper Trading Overview.

The watchlist sidebar

A watchlist sidebar keeps saved groups of symbols within reach so you can jump between markets without rebuilding the workspace. The sidebar on the right — watchlist, alerts, or the docked AI chat — opens and closes with Ctrl/⌘ + J, whatever it currently holds. See Watchlists Overview.

Next steps

With the layout in mind, learn how to change what you are looking at.

Next: Symbols & Timeframes