# ChartRider

> ChartRider is a web app for live crypto charts with orderflow data, paper trading with play money, free trading competitions and strategy backtesting. Strategies are built with the Trade Setup (no code) or written in WickScript, ChartRider's own scripting language for indicators and strategies.

These docs are generated from the ChartRider source code on every release, so settings, defaults, indicator outputs and the WickScript reference always match the app. Every page is available as HTML and as Markdown (the links below point to the Markdown versions). All pages in one file: https://chartrider.com/llms-full.txt

Paper trading uses play money only; nothing here is investment advice. Users' strategies, scripts and backtest results are private and not part of these docs.

## Start

- [ChartRider documentation](https://chartrider.com/docs/index.html.md): Live crypto charts, paper trading with play money, competitions and strategy backtesting – how every part of ChartRider works.
- [Getting started](https://chartrider.com/docs/getting-started/index.html.md): Your first minutes in ChartRider – the five-step tour, signing in with Google or as a guest, the dock with its function keys, and where to go next.

## Charts

- [Charts](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/index.html.md): How the ChartRider chart is laid out and how you switch timeframes, zoom, pan, share the chart and export its data.
- [Symbols and watchlist](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/symbols-and-watchlist/index.html.md): Find a market in the symbol table (F2), filter it by name, category or average daily volume, and star markets for the watchlist of your active strategy.
- [Chart menu](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/chart-menu/index.html.md): Right-click the chart for a radial menu with trading, drawing, view and indicator actions at the price and time under the cursor.
- [Drawing tools](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/drawing-tools/index.html.md): Place risk/reward boxes, measure moves and write text on the chart from the Draw group of the chart menu, and learn where your drawings are saved.
- [Go to a date and time](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/go-to/index.html.md): Jump the chart to any date and time with Go to (Alt + G), with minute, hour or day precision depending on the timeframe, and back to the latest candle.
- [Replay](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/replay/index.html.md): Replay a chart from any point in its history – the candles rebuild tick by tick in time-lapse, with pace and zoom that follow the action.
- [Seconds chart](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/seconds-chart/index.html.md): A live chart of 1-second candles from the last three minutes, built from the trade feed and shown in the bottom-left corner of the chart.
- [Legend, Key Metrics and HUDs](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/huds/index.html.md): The information on top of the chart – the legend at the top left, Key Metrics of a backtest at the top right, the HUD stack at the bottom left and the crosshair labels.
- [Time zone](https://chartrider.com/docs/charts/time-zone/index.html.md): ChartRider shows all times in the time zone of your browser unless you choose another one in Settings → Display.

## Indicators

- [Indicators](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/index.html.md): All indicators in the ChartRider library – what they show, their settings and the outputs you can use in strategies and WickScript.
- [Double EMA (DEMA)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/dema/index.html.md): Double exponential moving average: an EMA with most of its lag removed, plotted on the price chart.
- [Double EMA Peak](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/dema-peak/index.html.md): Draws a double exponential moving average (DEMA) of the close and marks a sequence of higher-high, trough and exit peaks on that line.
- [Exponential Moving Average (EMA)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/ema/index.html.md): Moving average of the close that weights recent candles more heavily, so it reacts faster than a simple moving average.
- [FlowZones](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/flowzones/index.html.md): Three shaded bands between pairs of fast and slow EMAs, colored bullish while the fast EMA is above the slow one and bearish otherwise.
- [Peak Momentum (PM)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/peak-momentum/index.html.md): Draws a double exponential moving average (DEMA) of the close and marks every local peak and trough of that line.
- [Polynomial Regression Bands](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/polynomial-regression-bands/index.html.md): Rolling second-degree (or linear) regression of the close with bands at a multiple of the residual standard deviation, plus slope and bend values.
- [Simple Moving Average (SMA)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/sma/index.html.md): Plots the plain average of the last N closing prices as a line on the price chart.
- [MACD](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/macd/index.html.md): Moving Average Convergence Divergence: the difference of a fast and a slow EMA, its signal line and the histogram between them, with automatic divergence lines.
- [Relative Strength Index (RSI)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/rsi/index.html.md): Momentum oscillator from 0 to 100 that compares the average gains and losses of the close, with automatic divergence lines.
- [Stochastic](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/stochastic/index.html.md): Stochastic oscillator with %K, smoothed %K and %D lines: where the close sits within the high-low range of the last candles, from 0 to 100.
- [Stochastic %D](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/stochastic-d/index.html.md): The %D line of the stochastic oscillator on its own: a moving average of where the close sits within the recent high-low range, from 0 to 100.
- [Stochastic Momentum (SMI)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/stochastic-momentum-index/index.html.md): Shows where the close sits relative to the midpoint of the previous candles' high-low range, in percent of that range, with automatic divergence lines.
- [Trend Break Oscillator (TBO)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/trend-break-oscillator/index.html.md): Oscillator in its own pane that shows how decisively a candle closes above the recent high or below the recent low, and stays at zero otherwise.
- [Average True Range (ATR)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/atr/index.html.md): Average True Range: a Wilder-smoothed average of each candle's true range, measuring volatility in price units.
- [Average True Range Moving (ATRM)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/atr-moving/index.html.md): ATR in percent of the close, rescaled to 0 to 1 over a rolling window: 1 is the highest relative volatility of the window, 0 the lowest.
- [Choppiness Index](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/choppiness-index/index.html.md): Choppiness Index from 0 to 100: high values mean a sideways, choppy market, low values a directional trend.
- [Money Flow Index (MFI)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/money-flow-index/index.html.md): Money Flow Index: a volume-weighted oscillator from 0 to 100 that compares the money flow of rising and falling candles, with automatic divergence lines.
- [On-Balance Volume (OBV)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/obv/index.html.md): Running total of volume that adds a candle's volume when the close rises and subtracts it when the close falls, with automatic divergence lines.
- [Session Volume Profile (Ticks)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/session-volume-profile/index.html.md): Volume profile for each trading session, and optionally for the day, week or month, built from individual trades, with point of control, value area and session high and low.
- [Volume Bars](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/volume/index.html.md): Bars showing the traded volume of each candle in a separate pane.
- [VWAP](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/vwap/index.html.md): Volume-weighted average price since the start of the current anchor period: minute, hour, day, week, month or trading session.
- [ICT Fair Value Gaps (FVG)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/fair-value-gaps/index.html.md): Marks ICT fair value gaps – three-candle price imbalances – as boxes that run until price returns to them, and shows when they are completely filled.
- [Liquidity Pools](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/liquidity-pools/index.html.md): Marks equal highs and equal lows – clusters of swing points at nearly the same price where stop orders tend to rest – as labelled boxes.
- [REH / REL](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/reh-rel/index.html.md): Finds relative equal highs (REH) and relative equal lows (REL) – liquidity resting above and below the market – and tracks touches and kills candle by candle, with outputs for strategies.
- [Smart Money Orderblocks](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/order-blocks/index.html.md): Marks bullish and bearish order blocks – the extreme candle before a break of a swing – and turns them into breakers when price later moves through them.
- [Supply & Demand Zones](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/supply-demand-zones/index.html.md): Marks supply and demand zones at indecision candles followed by a strong candle and keeps each zone until price has traded through its whole range.
- [Support & Resistance Zones](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/support-resistance-zones/index.html.md): Finds price areas where several swing highs or swing lows cluster and draws them as support and resistance zones from the moment they are confirmed.
- [Swing High/Low (SHL)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/swing-high-low/index.html.md): Numbers the swing highs above and the swing lows below the selected candle, stepping outward to ever higher highs and lower lows.
- [Trend Lines](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/trend-lines/index.html.md): Draws automatic trend lines from the turning points of the smoothed price and follows each one until price breaks away from it.
- [Double Pattern Qualifier (DPQ)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/double-pattern-qualifier/index.html.md): Flags candles that retest an earlier high or low and reject it, as double-top (+1) and double-bottom (−1) candidates in a separate pane.
- [Efficient Breakout Consolidation](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/breakout-consolidation/index.html.md): Highlights short consolidations of indecision candles on rising volume that end in a strong, high-volume breakout candle.
- [ICT Silver Bullet](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/silver-bullet/index.html.md): Detects ICT Silver Bullet setups – a liquidity sweep, a market structure shift and a fair value gap in the Silver Bullet hours – and draws entry, stop, target and a cleanliness score for each.
- [LSOB Pattern](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/lsob-pattern/index.html.md): Marks candles that run beyond the most recent swing high or low, reject with a long wick and are followed by a candle closing back the other way.
- [Swing Level Pattern (SLP)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/swing-level-pattern/index.html.md): Marks candles that take out the most recent swing high or low, reject with a long wick and reverse on the next candle, labelled "Level".
- [Swing Pattern](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/swing-pattern/index.html.md): Marks simple three-candle swing highs and swing lows with small ticks above and below the candles.
- [Session Initial Balance](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/session-initial-balance/index.html.md): Marks the high and low of the first minutes of each Asia, London and New York session, the initial balance, for the rest of the session.
- [Session Times](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/session-times/index.html.md): Shades the Asia, London and New York sessions and marks session highs and lows, the New York midnight open, lunch and PM ranges, the London raid range, a 15:15 to 15:45 ET macro window and the opening range gap.
- [Aggressive Orders (Bubbles)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/aggressive-orders/index.html.md): Shows aggressive market orders as bubbles at their time and price, green for buys and red for sells, sized by volume.
- [Tick Trail](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/tick-trail/index.html.md): Draws a thin line through the price of every trade, in time order, over the candles.
- [Fibonacci Circles](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/fibonacci-circles/index.html.md): Draws Fibonacci circles between swing points or across daily time windows, with rings at Fibonacci ratios of the distance between them.
- [Fractal Circles](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/fractal-circles/index.html.md): Draws nested golden-ratio circles over a time range you pick, centred on the open price of its first candle.
- [Gravity Heatmap](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/gravity-heatmap/index.html.md): Colours the chart by how close each point lies to the rings of the Fibonacci Circles on the chart, brightest where rings of several circles meet.
- [Mandelbrot Set](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/mandelbrot/index.html.md): Draws the Mandelbrot set as a coloured image inside a time and price box that you place on the chart.
- [Price → Time Scale (PTS)](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/price-time-scale/index.html.md): Adds a second scale inside the right edge of the chart that reads each price level as a number of minutes.
- [WickScript indicator](https://chartrider.com/docs/indicators/wickscript/index.html.md): Runs your own WickScript code as an indicator and draws its lines, marks, levels and HUD lines on the chart.

## Paper trading

- [Paper trading](https://chartrider.com/docs/trading/index.html.md): Trade perpetual futures with 10,000 USDT of play money on live prices – how fills, fees, margin, leverage, liquidation and funding are simulated, and what the panels show.
- [Orders](https://chartrider.com/docs/trading/orders/index.html.md): Limit, market, stop market, stop limit and trailing stop orders in paper trading, time in force, post-only and reduce-only, take profit and stop loss, dragging order lines and trading from the chart menu.
- [Competitions and leaderboards](https://chartrider.com/docs/trading/competitions/index.html.md): Free play-money competitions – daily and weekly sprints and private leagues – plus the global leaderboards, trader profiles, XP, levels, streaks and badges.

## Strategies

- [Strategies](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/index.html.md): What a strategy is in ChartRider – indicators, a Trade Setup or WickScript strategy, a watchlist and test ranges – how Backtest (F5) and Run strategy (F6) differ, where results appear, and who can see them.
- [Trade Setup](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/trade-setup/index.html.md): Build a strategy without code – triggers, filters and exits from indicator lines, market or limit entries, stop and target from price lines, cooldown and minimum R – and turn it into a WickScript strategy.
- [Run strategy](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/run-strategy/index.html.md): Test the active strategy on every market of its watchlist – Range, date windows and blind tests, Step 1 and Step 2 parameter sweeps, progress and ETA, and results in the Strategy Lab.
- [Strategy Lab](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/strategy-lab/index.html.md): The Strategy Lab over the chart – the step-test heatmap with blind-test comparison, MAE / MFE statistics grouped by market, session, trigger or exit, the Trade Setup editor and the WickScript Scripts tab.
- [Backtest engine](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/backtest-engine/index.html.md): How ChartRider simulates Trade Setup and WickScript trades – signals at candle close, market, limit and stop fills, stop before target, exits, position size, leverage, liquidation, fees and no lookahead.
- [Metrics](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/metrics/index.html.md): Exact definitions of every backtest metric – final capital, win rate, capital factor, max. drawdown, the heatmap and blind-test values, and the R statistics: expectancy, profit factor, Sharpe, edge score, MAE and MFE.
- [Strategy templates](https://chartrider.com/docs/strategies/templates/index.html.md): The built-in WickScript examples – an EMA cross indicator, an EMA cross strategy and a breakout strategy with partial exit and trailing stop – with their full source and how to start from them.

## WickScript

- [WickScript](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/index.html.md): WickScript is ChartRider's scripting language for writing your own indicators and backtestable trading strategies in short, sentence-like lines.
- [WickScript language guide](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/language/index.html.md): The complete WickScript syntax – head line, names, numbers and units, operators, conditions, if and when blocks, functions, loops, inputs and output statements.
- [Writing indicators in WickScript](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/indicators/index.html.md): How WickScript indicators draw in the price chart or their own panel, how outputs become Trade Setup lines, how inputs become settings and Step 1 / Step 2 parameters, and how to reuse built-in indicators.
- [Writing strategies in WickScript](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/strategies/index.html.md): How to write WickScript strategies you can backtest – entries, stops and targets in R, exits, partial exits, breakeven, trailing stops, tags, metrics and the Trade Setup conversion.
- [Market data in WickScript](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/data/index.html.md): How WickScript reads other timeframes and markets without look-ahead, sessions, killzones and time in UTC, orderflow from ticks, the footprint, every single trade with on tick, and the order book.
- [WickScript reference](https://chartrider.com/docs/wickscript/reference/index.html.md): Every built-in WickScript value, function and keyword with its parameters, units and a short description.

## Account

- [Account, plans and invites](https://chartrider.com/docs/account/index.html.md): Signing in with Google, what works without an account, how features are unlocked, how invites unlock WickScript for good, who can see your strategies and trades, the settings (F10), and how to have your data deleted.

## Optional

- [Keyboard shortcuts and gestures](https://chartrider.com/docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts/index.html.md): Every keyboard shortcut, mouse action and touch gesture of the ChartRider chart – the same list as in the in-app help (F1).
- [Changelog](https://chartrider.com/docs/changelog/index.html.md): Which docs pages changed recently – every change to a feature, indicator or WickScript function shows up here with the release that shipped it.