3. Navigating the Chart

This page covers how to move around price action: panning, zooming, the crosshair, and jumping to a specific time. Most actions apply to the active pane (the one with the amber border) — click a pane or press Tab to change it.

Pan and zoom

• Scroll over the chart to zoom the time scale in and out.
• Drag the chart body to pan left and right through history.
• Drag the time axis to stretch or compress the time scale; drag the price axis to rescale price.
• Scroll, drag, or use the keyboard far enough into history and the chart automatically loads older bars near the left edge. Initial layout and programmatic navigation do not start a history request.
• When older bars arrive, the visible window stays anchored on the candles you were viewing. Trackpad momentum, mouse dragging, and keyboard movement remain authoritative while data or visual settings refresh.

Keyboard movement

With a pane focused, the arrow keys move the view:

The full list is in the Keyboard Shortcuts reference.

The crosshair

Hovering shows a crosshair and updates the candle info line with the OHLC, change, and volume of the bar under the cursor. In a multi-pane layout the crosshair is synchronized across panes that share the same symbol, so you can read the same moment on several timeframes at once.

Go to a specific time

Open the Go to dialog (toolbar button or the go-to shortcut, G). Pick a date on the calendar and, on intraday timeframes, a time; press Go to to scroll the active pane to that moment. On 1D and 1W timeframes the time field is disabled and only the date is used.

Resetting the view

Press the reset shortcut (Alt+R) to snap the active pane back to its default view, refitting the most recent bars. This is handy after panning far into history or zooming too far in or out. Reset and Go to are explicit navigation actions, so they intentionally replace any preserved historical position.

Inverting the price scale

Right-click the chart and choose Invert scale (or press Alt+I) to flip the pane upside down, so rising prices are drawn downward and the price axis runs high to low. It is the quickest way to eyeball an inverse correlation, or to read a chart as its own reciprocal.

Inversion applies to the pane you right-clicked, not the whole layout: each pane keeps its own setting, and it survives symbol and timeframe changes. Only the price pane flips — the volume histogram and any oscillator panes (RSI, MACD, …) stay upright, while indicators plotted on price and comparison symbols invert along with the candles. The menu item shows a checkmark while that pane is inverted; choose it again to restore the normal orientation.

Candle colors keep their meaning: an up bar stays positive-colored even when it is drawn pointing downward.

Next steps

Now make the most of several charts at once.

Next: Multi-Pane Layouts