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TradingView Supercharts: draw the level before price gets there

Yesterday’s high looks obvious after a reversal. Could you have picked the same spot with the right half of the chart covered? That’s where Supercharts earns its place on our desk. You can put your idea directly on the candle that inspired it, carry that mark into a closer view, then come back and see exactly what you called. Try it with one symbol and one session.

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Build a map with a ray, a rectangle and a note

Open a candlestick chart and check the symbol, feed and session hours. Find the highest wick in the previous completed session. Select Horizontal Ray from the drawing toolbar and anchor it at that high. The ray begins on the candle that established the level and extends into the session you want to study. Strong Magnet can snap the anchor to a candle’s open, high, low or close. Zoom in if two neighboring candles look like they share the high.

Now draw a rectangle from the top of that candle’s body to the tip of its wick. Give the fill enough transparency to see a close inside the zone. Add a short text note: “First return: did a candle close above the ray?” A ray records a price, a rectangle records a range, and the note records your question. If you open this layout next Friday, all three pieces of the original idea will still make sense.

Give each overlay a question to answer

A drawing stays where you place it. A moving average recalculates as candles arrive. Put an exponential moving average on the price pane and watch what happens as price approaches your rectangle. Does price reach yesterday’s high while the average is still rising? Does it close below the average on the return? Pick one observation to record. If you add three more averages, you should be able to say what each one helps you see.

Look at the EURUSD screenshot above. Our TGIM overlay adds markers and a dashboard to the candles. Try this with your own busiest chart: hide the overlay, describe the last three candles out loud, then show it again. Which part of your description changed? That little exercise tells you more about the value of an indicator than a screen full of matching colors.

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Keep the same level when you change timeframes

Mark the level on an hourly chart, then examine the first return on five-minute candles. One hourly wick can contain a push above the level, a close back inside the rectangle and a second attempt. If your plan includes multiple charts per layout, put the two intervals side by side. Use the same symbol and turn on drawing synchronization within the layout. If you use a single pane, switch its interval after placing the ray.

Can you reproduce the markup tomorrow?

Give the layout a name you can find again and save it. Use the Object Tree to locate the ray or hide a drawing while you inspect the candles beneath it. Keep a screenshot from before the return. Tomorrow, replay the approach and compare the first completed candle at the level with your original note. A wick above the ray and a close above it produce two different answers. Your markup lets you settle which one actually happened.

Supercharts questions traders are asking

Why did my drawings disappear when I switched timeframes?

Open the drawing’s settings and check Visibility for the new interval. If the drawing is in the Object Tree and that interval is enabled, return to its original date and price. A five-minute view can open on a much shorter slice of history than a four-hour view. These checks narrow down the cause before you redraw the level.

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How do I get the same lines on both charts in a split layout?

First select the same symbol on both charts. Open the drawing’s context menu and choose Sync in layout for that object. Use global sync if you want that symbol’s drawing in other saved layouts too. Switching a panel to another ticker is a quick way to check which annotations belong to which instrument.

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How do I move my indicator back onto the candlesticks?

Find the indicator name in its current pane, open the three-dot menu, choose Move to and select the pane containing price. You can also drag the indicator into that pane. For a moving average, check that the line sits near the prices it averages. With an oscillator, a separate pane often makes its scale easier to read.

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