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Symbol search\n\nThe top-left block shows your current exchange, ticker, and market type. Click it (or just start typing on the chart) to search everything the platform serves: crypto spot and perps across exchanges, Polymarket prediction markets, equities, and macro series. Hovering the block opens quick search with your recent symbols.\n\n## 2. Interval and chart type\n\nThe chips switch timeframes with one click; the dropdown holds the full list and remembers your favorites. Digit keys switch intervals from the keyboard. Next to intervals sits the chart type selector: 15 types from classic candles to hollow candles, Heikin Ashi, baseline, and the order flow native types, footprint and TPO.\n\n## 3. Indicators and top-bar tools\n\n**Indicators** opens the library (official indicators by category, community scripts, suites, and your favorites). Beside it sit the heatmap toggle and the panel controls for widgets and multi-chart layouts. The counter next to Indicators shows your plan's per-chart allowance.\n\n## 4. The legend\n\nEvery series on the chart gets a legend row: the symbol itself plus each indicator. The row is the indicator's cockpit: hover for live values, click the gear for settings, the eye to hide, the cross to remove. Deep-dive settings for the flagship indicators are documented in [Order Flow](/learn/order-flow/).\n\n## 5. Drawing tools\n\nThe left toolbar holds 99 drawing tools in 9 groups: lines, arrows, Gann and Fibonacci, patterns, forecasting, annotations, shapes, freehand, and emoji. Long-press a group to fan it out, star tools into your favorites strip, and use the magnet for precise anchoring. Every tool has per-tool settings and your drawings persist per symbol.\n\n## 6. The footer\n\nWorkspaces and layouts live bottom-left: name, duplicate, and switch workspaces, or browse community layouts. Bottom-right holds the chat, clock, and connection health. 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