The trading instrument’s price fluctuations are displayed in the symbol chart in real-time. To take full advantage of the charts, select a symbol and proceed to the Symbol Details, scroll to the symbol chart, and open it by tapping the full-screen button to the upper left.
Alternatively, double-tap on the chart to open it in the full-screen mode.
The standard chart contains the Price Axis (vertical), the Time Axis (horizontal), the Ask Price Line (green), and the Bid Price Line (red). All the Open Positions, Pending Orders, Stop Loss and Take Profit securities (if you have set any) are displayed on the chart. You can close or modify them directly from the chart.
*Note that due to mobile version performance limitations, you can only see up to 20 positions and pending orders in one chart. In case if you reach this limit you will see the respective message.
You can modify the Pending Orders and Open Positions directly from the chart.
Tap on the desired position and drag the Stop Loss and Take Profit tiles to the desired level to modify them. Tap the cross to close the position or cancel a protection.
Tap on a pending order tile and drag it over the price axis up and down to modify it.
Target - the trading signal from our partner Trading Central is accessible directly in the chart as well.
Tap on the Target tile to view the details.
The additional Chart Options are available to the bottom of the chart.
The Time Period selector allows setting a certain period of time for the charts, setting the chart in Ticks, Renko or Range. Tap to open the time frame selector. The Standard Time Frame allows selecting the desired time period from 1 minute to 1 month to apply for the chart. In the Ticks Time Frame, you can select the number of ticks from 1 to 1000.
In the Range bar, all price bars are of equal length. So for example, if you set a 10 pip range bar, then all bars are of 10 pips range (high to low, or low to high). In range bars, the close of a bar is always equal to the open of the next bar. The range is measured as a high and low and not close.
In the Renko bars, every bar is of the same length (including reversals, but the price must travel two times the Renko bar in the opposite direction).
The Charts Rendering Type options allow setting the chart style. At the moment cTrader mobile app supports the following styles:
cTrader Indicators section allows adding and editing Indicators on the chart. Tap the Indicators icon to proceed to the Edit Indicators section.
Tap plus “+” to the upper right to add the desired indicators. All the existing Indicators are grouped by functionality in the respective lists - Trend, Oscillators, Volatility, Volume, and Other Indicators. Tap on the desired group to expand the list of indicators. All the Indicators that were recently used, are listed in the Recently used list to the top of the list. Alternatively, use the search box to the top to find the desired Indicator by its name.
Click on an Indicator to open its settings (shift, color, etc.)
When done, click Back - the Indicators will appear in the chart immediately.
To remove an indicator, tap on the bin icon next to it directly in the list.
Use the New Order button directly from the chart to fill the market orders or create any other types of orders. Tap the New Order icon to open the New Order menu. Tap Lots selector to set the desired amount of lots to trade, and tap the Sell or Buy button to place a Sell or Buy Market Order respectively.
Tap Advanced to open the Create Order menu to create the desired type of order.
cTrader mobile app offers a comprehensive set of line studies and chart objects for advanced technical analysis. Tap the Drawings icon to proceed to the Line Studies menu.
Tap plus (+) to proceed to the drawings selector.
The following lines and chart objects are available here:
Managing Lines
To edit a line or a ray, expand its details from the Drawings list. You can set Line Dash and Line Width, and Colour.
For the Trend Lines, Rays, and Equidistant Channel, you can also set the extending to infinity and displaying the angle.
For the Fibonacci Retracement, you can also hide or show prices, and set the levels in percents.
For the rectangle shape, you can also set the filling of the shape and its opacity.
The changes will apply immediately. Just exit the Drawings section to view the changes on the chart.
The Crosshair cursor makes it easier to see the exact price at the exact time on the chart. Tap to enable the Crosshair cursor on the chart.
Move the cursor to any point on the chart to see the price and time differences between the points.
Tap the triangle to the bottom of the screen to place the second crosshair to check the difference between two points on the chart.
Tap the cog icon to proceed to the chart viewing settings menu. The following settings are available in cTrader mobile app:
Tap the Back arrow to the upper left to exit the full-screen chart mode.