4. Multi-Pane Layouts

The workspace shows several chart panes side by side so you can read multiple timeframes — or compare context — at a glance. This page explains how the layout works.

The default layout

The workspace opens with six synchronized panes, each on its own timeframe:

Each pane is an independent chart: it has its own timeframe, series type, indicators, and drawings, but they all track the same symbol. Your per-pane timeframe choices are saved between sessions (see Workspace Preferences).

The active pane

Exactly one pane is active at a time, marked with an amber border and ring. The active pane is the target for drawing, replay, screenshots, indicator changes, and view resets. Click a pane or press Tab (and Shift+Tab) to change which pane is active.

Synchronization

Panes that share the same symbol synchronize their crosshair and time cursor, so hovering one pane highlights the same moment across the others. This makes it easy to line up a signal on a fast timeframe with structure on a slower one.

Expanding a pane

Within a single chart, the price area and a volume/indicator sub-pane can be expanded to fill the chart, temporarily hiding the others. Double-click the price pane or volume pane to expand it, and double-click again to restore. You can also use the expand/collapse shortcut (Ctrl+Enter or Alt+Enter) on the active pane. Oscillator sub-panes (such as RSI) are not individually expandable.

Resizing

Every multi-pane layout can be resized:

• Two-chart layouts have a divider between the panes. Drag it to change their relative sizes.
• Layouts with three or more charts have no divider, so no space is lost to one. Move the pointer onto the seam where two panes meet and it turns into a resize cursor (the seam highlights in amber); drag to move that seam. The panes share one grid, so dragging a seam resizes the whole column or row it belongs to, and the two tracks on either side trade space while the rest of the grid stays put. Seams that run under a pane spanning both sides — such as the tall chart in "Large left, two right" — are not draggable there.

Double-click a divider or seam to restore its default proportions. Clicking a seam also gives it keyboard focus, and the arrow keys then nudge it in small steps.

Pane sizing is remembered per layout and is part of your workspace layout, which you can save and restore — see Saved Workspace Layouts. On narrow screens the panes stack into a single scrollable column and cannot be resized.

Next steps

With your layout set, start marking up the chart.

Next: Drawing Tools