Chart Settings Guide
This article will teach you how to customize your TradingView-powered price charts to suit your analysis style and workflow. Use these settings to tailor your workspace, streamline your analysis, and make data-driven trading decisions with confidence.
Basic Settings
These controls help you navigate the timeframe, appearance, and snapshots of your chart.
Time Intervals: Choose the size of each bar/candle—from 1 min up through 1 week—to zoom in or out on price action. The interval length reflects your trading time horizon, with day traders typically using minutes and swing or position traders using hours and days/weeks respectively.
Chart Range: Set how much history you see at once (e.g. 1 day, 1 month, up to 5 years).
Chart Settings: There are four different menus found by clicking the hexagonal icon 
in the top right corner of the chart. For more details, visit TradingViews article here.
Symbol: This menu automatically adjusts based on the chart type you've selected. Adjust the price source, chart colours, precision and timezone further as desired.
Status line: The status line is always displayed at the top of your chart. Here you can toggle on-screen elements like symbol name, current timeframe and OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close) values.
Scales & lines: Adjust the labels and values that will be displayed on the price and time scales.
Canvas: Change the style of your chart by configuring things like text size, margins and background colours.
Screenshot: Click the camera icon in the top right corner of the chart to capture, download, or share your current view with one click
Advanced Settings
Chart type: Select your preferred chart type (e.g. candles, bars, area) in the top left corner of the chart. Please refer to TradingView's help center on various chart types for more detailed information.
Indicators: A chart indicator is a math-based tool that draws extra lines or bars on your price chart to highlight patterns or trends you can’t easily see from the raw candles alone. This setting allows users to overlay functions and customize their inputs & styles. Please refer to TradingView's Indicator How-To's for more information.
Autoscale: Click auto in the bottom right corner of the chart to automatically adjust vertical scale to fit all data—toggle on/off for manual zoom control.
Log Scale: Click log in the bottom right corner to switch between linear and logarithmic price axes for proportional percentage moves
Percentage Scale: Click % in the bottom right corner to measure price changes in % rather than absolute values.
Save Layout: Save your favourite customized chart layouts by clicking Save (or ^ then Save layout) for repeated future use. See TradingView's Layout Guide for more information.
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