Chart layouts

One chart is enough to trade. Two or more let you watch an instrument on two timeframes, or four instruments at once, without switching back and forth. The web terminal shows up to four charts on one screen, and any chart can move out into a window of its own for a second monitor. The phone apps show one chart at a time.

Pick a layout

In the web terminal, open More at the right of the chart toolbar and choose Chart Layout. A small menu opens with five choices:

When a layout adds charts, the new ones open on instruments from your Market Watch that are not already on screen, at the timeframe and chart type you were using. Change any of them afterwards.

The focused chart

With more than one chart on screen, one of them is focused. Click a chart to focus it. The chart toolbar always works on the focused chart: the instrument picker, the timeframe, the chart type, Indicators, Drawing Tools, the price alert and pending order buttons, and Market depth. Pick an instrument and only the focused chart changes; the others carry on as they were.

That is how you build a layout by hand. Focus the top-left chart and set it to, say, EURUSD on H4. Focus the next and set EURUSD on M15. Focus the third and choose a tick chart. Each chart keeps its own settings.

The market depth panel docks to the focused chart. Click another chart and it moves there and shows that chart's instrument.

What each chart keeps

Every chart in a layout has its own:

• Instrument and timeframe.
• Chart type, from candlesticks to area.
• Indicators and their settings.
• Drawings.
• Zoom and scroll position.

Your positions, pending orders and price alerts are different. They belong to the account, so a stop loss on gold is drawn on every chart showing gold, and dragging it on one moves it on all of them.

The charts are numbered in the order they appear. If you drop from Four to Two, charts three and four leave the screen but keep their indicators and drawings. Go back to Four and they return as they were. The first chart is always the one the single chart layout shows.

Open a chart in its own window

In the More menu, under Chart Layout, is New Window. In the browser, the focused chart opens in a new tab, with its instrument, timeframe, chart type, indicators and drawings. Drag that tab out of the browser to make it a window and put it on a second screen. The chart leaves the layout in the main tab, and the layout closes up to one size smaller.

The tab's title shows the chart's price, symbol and timeframe, such as 4168.78 XAUUSD M1 | eTrader Web, so you can tell tabs apart.

A chart in its own tab is only a chart: it has no layout, no new window and no market depth button of its own. Orders, stops and alerts still drag on it and are the same as in the main window.

Layouts are remembered

The web terminal remembers your layout, which chart was focused, and what each chart showed, and opens the same way next time in that browser. Nothing needs saving by hand.

The phone apps have one chart, full screen when you turn the phone sideways. What you set on a big-screen layout does not change the phone's chart.

Ways to set it up

• One instrument, several timeframes. The same instrument on D1, H1 and M5, with a tick chart in the fourth slot.
• Several instruments, one timeframe. Four instruments on H1, each with the same indicator, to compare them side by side.
• A chart for each screen. The terminal with its Market Watch and positions on one monitor, and two charts in their own windows on the other.
• A clean trading chart. One chart with only your orders and levels on it, and the indicator-heavy charts beside it.

The chart itself, the indicator list and the drawing tools are covered in the charts, indicators and drawings guide. Chart types and zoom are in chart types and timeframes.