View settings

The View Chart settings allow users to customize various aspects of how charts are displayed and interact with different features in the platform.

General View of Chart Settings

Custom Title

You can rename your chart panel to any name you like.

Custom title on panel's header

Use custom tick size

This setting is useful for highly volatile instruments like Bitcoin (BTC) or Nasdaq (NQ) futures. It combines multiple tick levels into a single level, often for a more compact display of Level2 data, Volume Profile, or Cluster charts. For example, you can see a Bitcoin chart compressed into $10 intervals, providing a clearer look at the Level 2 indicator.

Time Zone

These settings control the time zone for the chart.

Mouse Wheel Action

This setting defines what happens when you rotate the mouse wheel.

• Mouse Wheel + CTRL Action

• Mouse wheel + SHIFT action For all mouse wheel actions, you have four options: Scroll, Zoom of the Chart Area, Zoom to Cursor, and Price scale Zoom.

Various mouse wheel actions for the chart panel

Drawings Default Availability

If you choose 'All Charts with the Same Symbol,' all drawings will be applied to other charts with the same asset (ticker). This also allows you to change the color of the drawings across all related charts at once.

Plates Alignment Mode

This option controls how indicator names are displayed on the chart in Quantower. There are two modes: Vertical and Horizontal.

Window colors

Settings for the background color on the chart.

Top, Bottom, Right Margins

Determine the distance of the current bar from the edge of the chart accordingly.

Margin settings for the chart space

Abbreviation Rules

This option allows you to simplify the display of trading size values for easier readability. There are three modes:

• Default: Values are displayed as is, without abbreviation or rounding.

• Round to: Values are rounded to a specified number of decimal places.

• Abbreviate: Values are shortened, using "K" for thousands, "M" for millions, etc.

Crosshair

This setting controls the visibility and appearance of the crosshair cursor on charts with the same or different symbols (assets). You can choose to display the crosshair only on the current chart, on all charts with the same symbol, or across charts with different symbols. A scrolling option is also available.

Note: If you want the crosshair to be synchronized across different charts, you must configure the crosshair separately on each chart.

Crosshair synchronization in a chart settings

Grid

Settings for horizontal and vertical grid lines on the chart.

Time to next bar

These settings display the time remaining until the next bar and allow you to change its font and color.

Additional

This section lets you enable or disable toolbars and other miscellaneous data on the chart.