Dashboard Chart Guide

The dashboard is seven stacked panels plus one floating window, all following the same ticker and time range at once. Each panel below covers what's actually drawn, what the colors mean, and — more usefully — what story it's telling you.

Price

candles + SMA-20 / Bollinger Bands + pivots

• Green candle — closed above where it opened.
• Red candle — closed below where it opened.
• SMA-20 — the 20-bar moving average.
• Bollinger Bands — a volatility envelope around the SMA.
• VWAP — volume-weighted average price, resets every trading day.
• Pivot / R1 / R2 / S1 / S2 — classical support/resistance levels calculated off the previous day's High/Low/Close (grey Pivot line, red R1/R2 above it, green S1/S2 below it).
• MACD+ / MACD- markers — stamped exactly where the MACD panel below flagged a bullish/bearish crossover.
• BB+ / BB- markers — stamped where price broke outside the Bollinger Band.

This is the primary narrative: where price actually sits relative to its recent average, its volatility envelope, and the levels other traders are watching. The markers borrowed from the other panels let you see what price was doing at the exact moment MACD crossed or a band got broken, without needing to look anywhere else first.

Drawing your own trendlines

The two buttons above the Price panel — Draw Trendline and Clear Trendlines — let you mark up the chart yourself. Click Draw Trendline, then click two points on the chart: the line connecting them is drawn immediately, labeled with the price at each end. Your lines are saved per ticker, so they're still there next time you come back to it — Clear Trendlines removes every line on the ticker you're currently viewing at once. There's no drag-to-edit yet: if a line needs adjusting, clear it and redraw it.

Volume

• Green bar — that bar's candle closed up.
• Red bar — that bar's candle closed down.

Volume is the "how much conviction" behind a move. A tall green bar under a green candle says real buying showed up; a big price swing on thin volume is a move with little behind it — worth being skeptical of until volume confirms it.

MACD

• MACD line — the 12/26-period EMA spread.
• Signal line — a 9-period EMA of the MACD line.
• / Histogram — the gap between the two, colored by sign.

Momentum. A growing histogram says momentum is building in that direction; the two lines crossing is the classic "the trend just turned" signal — that's exactly what the price panel's MACD+/MACD- markers are pointing out.

Strategy Load

• Institutional buy bias.
• Institutional sell bias.
• Neutral.
• Load line — volume relative to its 20-bar average, scaled 0-100.

A proxy for "is size driving this move." It combines volume relative to its recent average with whether a candle closed above or below VWAP in the direction it moved. Green clusters look like real accumulation; red clusters look like distribution.

Relative Strength vs SPY

• RS line — this ticker's price divided by SPY's.
• RS SMA — a 20-bar average of the RS line.

Is this ticker actually outperforming the market, or just going up because everything is? A rising RS line means it's gaining ground on SPY; a falling one means it's lagging the broader market even while its own price climbs.

RSI

• RSI (9-period), 0-100 scale.

How stretched the recent move is. Above 70 says the run-up has gotten extended and is due a pause; below 30 says the same for a selloff. It's a "how tired is this move" gauge, not a timing signal by itself.

ADX

ADX-14 / +DI-14 / -DI-14

• ADX-14 — trend strength, direction-agnostic.
• +DI-14 — bullish directional movement.
• -DI-14 — bearish directional movement.

Is there an actual trend here worth trading, or is price just chopping sideways? ADX rising above ~20-25 says a real trend is developing — trend-following signals elsewhere on the page are more trustworthy. ADX low or falling says stay cautious, the market's directionless right now. +DI above -DI leans bullish; -DI above +DI leans bearish.

Indicator Telemetry Matrix

The floating window (draggable — move it out of the way if it's covering a panel title) is a single readout combining most of the panels above into one BUY/SELL/HOLD call per indicator, plus one composite signal at the top. The composite only calls BUY or SELL when the votes actually have a real majority (more than a 1-vote edge) — otherwise it holds, on purpose, rather than flip-flopping on a coin-toss margin.

1. Bollinger — BUY near the lower band, SELL near the upper band, HOLD in between.
2. SMA Cross — BUY if price is above the 20-SMA, SELL if below.
3. MACD — BUY if the MACD line is above its Signal line, SELL if below.
4. RSI (9) — BUY under 30 (oversold), SELL over 70 (overbought), HOLD between.
5. VWAP — BUY if price is above VWAP, SELL if below.
6. ADX Engine — BUY/SELL only once ADX confirms a real trend (≥20) in that direction, otherwise HOLD.
7. Vol Spike — BUY/SELL only when volume is spiking (3x its 20-bar average) alongside a matching up/down candle.
8. Daily Pivot — BUY if price is above the day's classical pivot point, SELL if below.
9. Vol Breakout (informational, not counted in the composite) — flags UPPER/LOWER when price has broken outside the Bollinger Band.
10. Candle App (informational, not counted in the composite) — a candlestick-pattern scan (Hammer, Engulfing, Shooting Star, or None) over the last few bars.
11. Profit Lock (your own position, not a market signal) — whether this ticker's trailing-stop profit lock is currently active, and at what floor.

Think of the composite signal as a quick gut-check, not a command — it's 8 fairly simple rules voting, no different in kind from reading the 7 panels above yourself, just faster. The three informational-only lines (Vol Breakout, Candle App, Profit Lock) exist because they're useful context, not because they're confident enough to vote.