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Technical Indicators & Analysis

PtView Workstation includes 40+ built-in technical indicators computed in real time with smooth incremental updates on every candle tick.

Quick Indicator Search and Navigator

1. Two Ways to Add Indicators​

  1. Quick Indicator Search (Ctrl + I): Press Ctrl + I or click Indicators on the main toolbar, type e.g. EMA, RSI, MACD, SuperTrend, and press Enter.
  2. Navigator Panel (Ctrl + Shift + N): Browse indicators grouped by category (Trend, Oscillators, Volatility, Volume, Bill Williams, and Custom SDK Plugins). Double-click any indicator to attach it.
Community vs. Pro Indicator Quota
  • Community Edition: Up to 3 active indicators per chart (a subtle X/3 quota badge appears in the chart header).
  • Pro Edition / 28-Day Trial: Unlimited active indicators per chart and full support for external PTView.SDK C# plugins.

2. Managing, Reordering & Customizing Indicators​

Open the Indicator Manager from the chart overlay badge or Chart → Indicators:

  • Drag-and-Drop Reordering: Drag sub-pane indicators (like RSI or MACD) up or down to rearrange sub-pane order cleanly.
  • Edit Parameters & Colors: Double-click any indicator plot line (or click the gear icon) to customize periods, multipliers, price source (Close, Open, High, Low, HL2, HLC3), line width, stroke style, colors, and cloud/band fill opacity.
  • Child / Composite Indicators: Apply an indicator (such as an EMA or SMA) directly onto another indicator's output series (e.g. a smoothed moving average over RSI).
  • Show / Hide / Remove: Toggle visibility with the eye icon without deleting your custom parameters, or click the trash icon to remove it.

3. Built-In Indicator Categories​

CategoryPopular Included Indicators
TrendSimple Moving Average (SMA), Exponential Moving Average (EMA), DEMA, TEMA, Hull Moving Average (HMA), VWMA, SuperTrend, Parabolic SAR, Ichimoku Cloud, Alligator
OscillatorsRSI, MACD, Stochastic, Stochastic RSI, CCI, Awesome Oscillator (AO), Accelerator Oscillator (AC), DeMarker, Momentum, Williams %R
VolatilityBollinger Bands, Bollinger BandWidth, Donchian Channels, Keltner Channels, Average True Range (ATR), Moving Average Envelopes
VolumeOn-Balance Volume (OBV), Volume Profile / Spike, Money Flow Index (MFI), Accumulation/Distribution, VWAP
Bill WilliamsFractals, Gator Oscillator, Market Facilitation Index
Ask AI Copilot to Configure Indicators

With AI Copilot (Ctrl + T), you can simply type: "Add EMA 20 in blue, EMA 50 in gold, and RSI(14) below the chart" and PTView attaches and styles them automatically.