WaveCharts™
FreeWaveCharts™ puts 1,000+ markets, 22 timeframes and more than 70 drawing tools in one workspace, with the economic calendar and trading sessions on the chart. Add Pro and your own trades and price alerts sit right on the candles.
Try it: change the timeframe and turn layers on and off. Sample data.
Markets
ProShares from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, ETFs, forex majors, crosses and exotics, global indices, crypto, commodities, metals and bond futures. Search the full list to check yours is there.
1,021 markets, popular first
Connect an account to chart the exact markets and prices your broker offers.
Timeframes and drawing tools
Go from one minute to monthly, including in-between timeframes such as 2 minutes, 45 minutes, 3 hours and 8 hours. Then mark up the chart with Fibonacci, Gann, pitchforks, harmonic patterns and Elliott Waves.
Snap points to a candle’s open, high, low or close in weak or strong mode, or turn it off.
Keep a level from moving, hide drawings while you read the candles, or remove them all at once.
Step back through changes without redrawing anything.
Hold Ctrl or Cmd and drag a drawing to copy it. Delete or Backspace removes the one you’ve selected.
Indicators include moving averages, RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands. Coming soon More indicators, and custom indicators you build yourself.
Layouts
Watch the higher timeframe while you time the entry on the lower one, or keep an eye on gold, the dollar and the Nasdaq at once. Pick a layout, click a chart and change its market below.
Layout
Market, chart 1
Timeframe
Sync
One chart, two stacked, two side by side, three charts or a grid of four.
Change the market or timeframe on one chart and the others follow. Turn it off to watch different markets.
Your layout, markets and drawings come back where you left them, on any device you sign in on.
Your trades
ProConnect your account and WaveCharts™ marks your trades on the candles. It’s the quickest way to see whether you entered too early, exited too soon or chased the move.
Context
A candle on its own doesn’t tell you much. See the scheduled news and the session behind it without leaving the chart.
Economic calendar
Economic events appear on the chart at the time they’re released. Open one for the actual, forecast and previous figures, and filter by high, medium or low impact.
Trading sessions
Shade the Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions on the chart to see where the volume and the moves tend to come from.
Want a heads-up before the release? Set economic event alerts
Price alerts
ProMark the level you care about and step away from the screen. When price gets there, you’ll know.
Good to know
Keep the markets you follow in lists with sections and live prices. Free includes one list of five markets; Pro gives you as many lists as you need, with up to 30 markets each.
Download the chart as an image or copy it to paste straight into a note, a message or your journal.
Candles update as price moves, with the open, high, low and close, optional volume and a countdown to the candle close.
Backtesting runs on WaveCharts™ too, so your tools work the same way when you replay the past.
Price alerts you set on the chart sit alongside your news, session and account alerts in one place.
The chart follows your TraderWaves theme, and every drawing and indicator can be restyled.
WaveCharts™ is for analysis and review, so you place trades with your broker as usual. Practise on past markets with Backtesting
WaveCharts™ is included on the Free plan. Upgrade when you want your own trades, your broker’s prices and price alerts on the chart.
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Not a trial. No credit card needed.
Chart 1,000+ markets and journal your trades.
$19.99/month
Billed annually at $239.88 · Or $29.99 billed monthly
Your trades and alerts on the chart, and everything in Free.
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FAQs
Need more detail? Visit the charts help centre.
WaveCharts™ is the charting workspace inside TraderWaves. You can chart more than 1,000 markets on 22 timeframes with over 70 drawing tools, see economic events and trading sessions on the chart, and, with Pro, see your own trades and set price alerts from the chart.
Yes. WaveCharts™ is included on the Free plan, with 1,000+ markets, every timeframe and drawing tool, multi-chart layouts, economic events and sessions. Pro adds your trades and open positions on the chart, your broker’s own markets and prices, price alerts and more watchlists.
Yes, most of the ones traders ask about. There are more than 1,000 markets: stocks, ETFs, forex pairs, indices, crypto, commodities, metals and bond futures. You can search the full list on this page. With Pro and a connected account, you can also chart the exact markets your broker offers.
Yes, 22 of them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and 45 minutes; 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 hours; and daily, weekly and monthly.
Yes, with Pro. Connect your account and your closed trades appear as entry and exit markers on the chart, with open positions showing their stop loss and take profit. Click a marker to open the trade in your journal.
Yes, with Pro. Place an alert on a price level, choose whether it triggers above, below or on a cross, and pick how you hear about it: in TraderWaves, by push on the mobile and desktop apps, by email or on Telegram.
Yes. Choose from five layouts with up to four charts, and sync the market and timeframe across them or keep each chart independent.
Yes. Drawings are saved for each market, and your layout and chosen markets are saved to your account, so they’re there when you come back on any device.
No, not yet. WaveCharts™ includes indicators such as moving averages, RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands today. More indicators, and custom indicators you build yourself, are coming soon.
No. WaveCharts™ is for analysis and review. You trade with your broker as usual, and your trades appear on the chart once your account syncs.
Start free with WaveCharts™, the journal and analytics. Add Pro whenever you want your trades and alerts on the chart.
