---
title: Your first chart in 5 minutes
description: >-
  Go from a fresh login to a chart worth staring at: pick your market, set your
  timeframe, add one indicator, and save it so it looks the same tomorrow.
---

This page takes you from a fresh login to a chart worth staring at: your market, your timeframe, one indicator, saved so it looks the same tomorrow.

![A OpenMarket chart with the Volume Footprint indicator and the orderbook panel](/learn/getting-started/footprint-hero--hero.png)

## 1. Pick your market

Click the symbol button in the top-left of the chart (or just start typing a ticker anywhere on the chart). Search covers spot and perpetual pairs across the major exchanges, plus Polymarket, equities, and macro series. Pick the exchange flavor you actually trade; the same coin on different venues prints different order flow.

## 2. Pick your timeframe

The interval chips sit next to the symbol. Click one, or press a digit key for an instant switch. Your last-used intervals stay one click away in the dropdown.

## 3. Add an indicator

Click **Indicators** in the top bar and browse: the library is organized by category (Trending, Volume & Footprints, Exchange Metrics, Technical and more), with community scripts one tab over. Click any indicator once to add it. Every indicator has a settings dialog behind the gear icon on its legend row; the docs cover the deep ones like [footprint](/learn/order-flow/footprint/settings-reference) and [TPO](/learn/order-flow/tpo/settings-reference) option by option.

Faster: press `Ctrl/Cmd+J` and type the indicator's name into super search.

## 4. Save your workspace

Your layout, indicators, and settings live in a workspace, and changes save automatically while you work. Use the workspace controls in the footer to name it, spin up alternatives, or keep one workspace per strategy. Multi-chart grids, widgets like the tape, and shared layouts all hang off the same workspace system.

## Where to next

- [Reading the interface](/learn/getting-started/reading-the-interface): a labeled tour of every control you just used.
- [Order flow: which tool, when?](/learn/order-flow/): the map of the platform's flagship tools.
- Press `Ctrl/Cmd+J` any time you cannot find something; super search finds indicators, tools, settings, and commands by name.