Indicators: adding, adjusting and the Pro set

Indicators turn price and volume into lines, bands and zones that are easier to read. AlertaChart comes with a standard set for everyone, a larger Pro set, and your own AlertaScript indicators.

Adding an indicator

Press the Indicators button at the top of the chart. Search by name or browse the categories: Favourites, SMC and advanced, Standard, Premium, Moving averages and My scripts. Click a name to add it; star it to find it faster next time.

The standard set (every plan)

RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Stochastic, Parabolic SAR, ATR, CCI, VWAP with deviation bands, SuperTrend, Donchian and Keltner channels, Chaikin money flow, Hull MA, enhanced Stochastic RSI, standard pivot points and exponential and simple moving averages (50, 100 and 200) — and, in alphabetical order beside them, about a hundred classic technicals you may know from other platforms: ALMA, Ichimoku, Williams Alligator, Aroon, ADX, On Balance Volume, Money Flow Index, Zig Zag, Auto Fib Retracement, Technical Ratings and many more. Each click adds another copy, so a WMA 20 and a WMA 50 can sit side by side; every copy counts toward your plan's limit. The gear opens its inputs, with colours and levels at the end, and the code button makes a copy you can edit in AlertaScript.

Adjusting an indicator

Every indicator, script and order-flow tool has a row at the top left of the chart (or of its pane): its name, then its values in the colours of its lines. Point at the row to see its buttons; on a touch screen they are always shown:

• The eye hides and shows it without removing it.
• The gear opens its settings in a window like a drawing's, with Inputs and Style tabs: periods and sources, colours, line widths and styles. "Reset to Default" returns it to the defaults. On a phone the window opens full screen.
• The cross removes it.

Values in the row follow your cursor, so you can read any past bar, and the latest values stay when the cursor leaves the chart.

Panels

Oscillators such as RSI, MACD and Stochastic open in their own pane under the price chart, joined to it: the grid runs straight through and the pane's name and values sit over its plot. Point at the edge between two panes and drag the blue band to resize them. The arrows in a pane's header move it one place up or down, and on a computer, with the panes stacked, the price chart moves the same way with the arrows at its top right, so MACD can sit above it and RSI below; the same commands are in the right-click menu. The order is kept on this device, and the time axis stays under the bottom pane. Each pane has its own scale and you can draw on it.

Indicators on indicators (Pro)

Press + next to the name of an indicator panel such as RSI, MACD, CVD or open interest. The Indicators window opens for that line: the indicators that can use it as their source are marked with an arrow (moving averages, Bollinger Bands, RSI, CCI and MACD), and the ones that need candles are greyed out. The new line is drawn in the same panel. Click its label to change its type, length, colour or width, or to remove it.

Indicator templates and scales

Press Templates at the top of the Indicators window to save the indicators on a chart, with their settings, under a name, and to apply them to any other chart in one click. Applying a template replaces the chart's indicators. The ⋯ menu on a line indicator's row pins it to the right scale, the left scale or no scale, so an indicator far from the price no longer squeezes the candles.

How many at once

The number of indicators per chart depends on your plan: 2 on Free, 5 on Starter, 10 on Trader, 25 on Pro and 50 on Elite.

The Pro set

Pro and Elite unlock AlertaChart's own indicators, including:

• Smart Money Concepts: order blocks, breaks of structure and fair value gaps
• Supply and demand zones, premium/discount zones, sessions and liquidity levels, ICT killzones
• Confluence heatmap, trend strength heatmap, trend ribbons, volatility pulse, Bollinger squeeze
• Liquidity vacuum, institutional traps, SFP wick traps, VWAP deviations, Wyckoff method
• Higher-timeframe candles, RSI divergences, opening range breakout, Cipher B and TDI

Auto Analysis (Pro)

Auto Analysis reads the candles on your screen and draws support and resistance zones, Fibonacci levels and a volume profile for you — a quick second opinion before you draw your own.

Automatic chart patterns (Pro)

This indicator spots classic formations such as triangles, wedges and head and shoulders as they form.

Your own indicators

With AlertaScript (every plan) you can write your own indicators or install ones shared by the community. They appear under My scripts.