Chart

Professional-grade candlestick charting with custom indicators, drawing tools, and multi-timeframe analysis built into DCT Alpha.

What is Chart?

Chart is DCT Alpha’s built-in professional charting tool, offering TradingView-style functionality directly within the platform. It provides full candlestick charting across all standard timeframes, custom indicator overlays, and a complete set of drawing tools for technical analysis — all without needing to switch to an external charting application.

The charting engine renders real-time price data with smooth, responsive updates. You get access to all the standard timeframes from 1-minute to monthly, allowing you to analyze market structure at every scale. Custom indicators can be overlaid on the chart to add technical analysis layers such as moving averages, Bollinger Bands, and other standard tools.

Drawing tools let you annotate your charts with trend lines, channels, Fibonacci retracements, horizontal levels, and other visual aids. These annotations persist between sessions, so your analysis is always where you left it. The integrated experience means you can analyze a chart and immediately switch to DCT Alpha’s unique tools like Flow Chart or Volume Profile for deeper context on the same symbol.

Key Concepts

• Candlestick Chart: The standard price visualization showing open, high, low, and close for each time period
• Custom Indicators: Technical analysis overlays that can be added to the chart for additional analytical layers
• Drawing Tools: Annotation tools including trend lines, channels, Fibonacci levels, and horizontal support/resistance lines
• Multi-Timeframe Analysis: Examining the same asset across different time scales to build a comprehensive view of market structure

How to Use Chart

1. Open Chart from the sidebar under Chart Tools
2. Select the symbol and exchange you want to chart
3. Choose your timeframe from the toolbar (1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 1D, 1W, 1M)
4. Add indicators from the indicator menu and drawing tools from the toolbar
5. Switch between timeframes to analyze structure at different scales — start from higher timeframes and work down

What to Look For

• Bullish signals: Higher highs and higher lows forming on the chart structure. Price holding above key moving averages. Breakouts from descending channels or consolidation patterns with volume.
• Bearish signals: Lower highs and lower lows. Price rejecting at moving averages from below. Breakdowns from rising wedges or ascending channels.
• Key patterns: Confluence zones where multiple technical elements align (trend line support, Fibonacci level, and horizontal support at the same price) are the highest-probability levels. Multi-timeframe agreement strengthens any signal.
• Combine with: Volume Profile for volume-based support/resistance, Flow Chart for real-time trade flow at key chart levels, Liquidation Heatmap for liquidity context around chart patterns

Supported Exchanges

Tips

• Always start your analysis on higher timeframes and work down — a 4-hour support level is more significant than a 15-minute one
• Save your chart layouts with key levels marked so you can quickly reference them when markets move
• Use Chart for structure analysis, then switch to DCT Alpha’s unique tools for the data-driven context that standard charts cannot provide