Reading a chart screen

The anatomy of an app chart screen: filters, the ticker selector, sector colours, and the built-in guide.

Reading a chart screen

Every chart screen in the app is built the same way — learn one and you know them all.

What's on the screen

Colour and shape mean sector

On equity charts, colour and marker shape encode the sector, not the series order — Technology looks the same on every chart, Healthcare looks the same on every chart. Once your eye learns the palette, every screen reads faster.

Getting a closer look

Charts support a focus mode for studying a single instrument — on many charts it overlays the closing price on a second axis, so you can read the indicator against price directly. Tooltips follow the pointer and report the nearest point of the line you're actually on.

Where charts live

Chart screens sit at the bottom of the dashboard hierarchy — section, group, chart (From dashboards to charts).

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