3. Configuring Indicator Settings

Every study can be tuned. Expand a study in the Active list of the picker to reveal its settings, grouped into inputs, style, and visibility.

Inputs

Inputs are the calculation parameters — lengths, sources, smoothing, and so on. Common input types include:

• Numeric fields such as a moving-average length or an ATR period, with sensible defaults and min/max bounds.
• Price source selectors — open, high, low, close, hl2, hlc3, ohlc4, and (where supported) a weighted close. Some studies can even take another indicator's output as their source.
• Select fields for discrete options.

Changing an input recomputes the study immediately on the chart.

Style

Style controls how each plotted output looks: line colors and widths, histogram colors, fills, and guide lines. Because a study can have multiple visuals, each gets its own style controls (for example an oscillator's main line, its overbought/oversold guides, and any band fill are styled independently).

Visibility

Visibility controls whether a study (or one of its plots) is shown. Visibility can also be limited by timeframe — you can keep a study visible only within a window expressed in minutes, hours, days, or weeks, which is handy for studies that only make sense intraday or on higher timeframes.

Resetting

Each study can be reset to its default inputs and styling. Use the reset control in the study's settings to discard your changes and return to the shipped defaults.

Where settings are stored

Indicator settings are saved per study so they persist between sessions, as part of your Workspace Preferences. The same settings model is shared by built-in and custom indicators, so authored studies expose inputs, style, and visibility the same way — see Writing Custom Indicators.

Next steps

Browse the full catalog of built-in studies.

Next: Built-in Indicator Library