3.9.7.2Types of drawing

The types of drawing which you can create are as follows. Many types of drawing accept accompanying text and text styling - for example, describe the drawing.

Type

Points

Description

barMarker

1

Marker against a time and price, consisting of an icon and optional text.

text

1

Text label. (Note: you can also display text using a rectangle drawing)

horizontalLine

1

Horizontal line (date component of point is ignored and not required)

verticalLine

1

Vertical line (value component of point is ignored and not required)

rectangle

2

Rectangle. Note: allowed to have text and text-styling properties.

circle

2

Circle (the two co-ordinates are the centre and any point on the circumference)

ellipse

2

Ellipse (the two co-ordinates are the centre and any point on the circumference)

triangle

3

Triangle

lineSegment

2

Line from one time/price to another time/price. Note: allowed to have text and text-styling properties.

ray

2

Like lineSegment, but extends the line from the second price to the end of the chart. Note: allowed to have text and text-styling properties.

diagonal

2

Like lineSegment, but extends the line to both chart edges Note: allowed to have text and text-styling properties.

channel

3

Filled channel extending to the edge of the chart

freehandChannel

4

In effect, a filled quadrilateral with four price/time co-ordinates

priceRange

2

Filled range covering the whole of the chart horizontally between two prices (date component of points is ignored and not required)

dateRange

2

Filled range covering the whole of the chart vertically between two dates (price component of points is ignored and not required)