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3. Navigating the Chart

Created
Jun 5, 2026
Updated
Jun 5, 2026

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 back far enough and the chart automatically loads older bars.

Keyboard movement

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

ActionShortcut
Move one bar left / right /
Jump several bars left / rightCtrl/ + /
Move focus to the next / previous paneTab / Shift+Tab
Reset the active pane viewAlt+R
Download a snapshot of the active paneAlt+S
Expand / collapse the active paneCtrl+Enter (or Alt+Enter)

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.

Next steps

Now make the most of several charts at once.

Next: Multi-Pane Layouts