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Charts & drawing

These settings live in the Home tab of the main window, under the Charts section. They are global: every chart in every tool — Knives, Alerts, Analyzer, Monitor — uses them.

The Charts settings section in the Home tab
Home → Charts

Candle colors

SettingWhat it doesDefault
Bullish candleColor of candles that closed up#9D9D9D
Bearish candleColor of candles that closed down#4A4A4A

Both open a color picker. The change applies to every chart in the app at once, so a candle scheme you pick here follows you from a Knives thumbnail to a fullscreen Analyzer panel.

The defaults are deliberately neutral greys rather than green/red — the intent is that color in the interface means "something crossed a threshold" rather than "price went up". If you'd rather have conventional green/red candles, set them here.

Drawing color

SettingWhat it doesDefault
Drawing colorColor used by all five drawing toolsFalls back to your accent color

One color covers every drawing tool. If you have never changed it, it follows the accent color you picked in the Home tab; once you set it explicitly it stops tracking the accent and stays where you put it.

Drawing tools

Charts in the Analyzer and in fullscreen chart views support five drawing tools. Each is bound to a single key, and each binding is editable here.

ToolWhat it drawsDefault key
Horizontal ray keyA horizontal ray at a chosen priceH
Trend line keyA two-point trend lineT
Rectangle keyA rectangle / box regionB
Pencil keyFreehand drawingP
Dissolving pencil keyFreehand drawing that fades away on its ownF

To rebind one, click the key button next to it — it switches to Press a key… — then press the key you want. Press Esc to cancel without changing it.

A few rules the capture enforces:

  • Only letters and digits are accepted for the five drawing tools.
  • Modifier combinations are rejected — pressing Ctrl+H does nothing, the binding must be a bare key.
  • Bindings must be unique. If you pick a key that is already assigned to another tool, the capture is dismissed and nothing changes.

Bindings are stored as physical key positions rather than characters, so they keep working if you switch keyboard layout or type in another language.

Drawings are saved per symbol and per exchange, so switching a chart from Bybit to Binance for the same ticker shows a different set of drawings.

Magnet

Magnet snaps the point you are drawing to the nearest candle high or low, so rays and trend lines land exactly on a wick instead of near it.

SettingWhat it doesDefault
Magnet modeHold or ToggleHold
Magnet keyKey that activates itCtrl (left)

The two modes:

  • Hold — magnet is active only while the key is held down. Momentary.
  • Toggle — pressing the key switches magnet on, pressing it again switches it off. The on/off state persists across restarts.

Unlike the drawing tools, the magnet key may be a bare modifier — Ctrl, Shift, Alt or Meta — as well as a letter or digit. The default is left Ctrl. The same no-duplicates rule applies against the five drawing keys.

What is not here

Colors that indicate a metric crossing a threshold are configured per tool, not globally, because the thresholds themselves are per tool:

Warden is a monitoring tool. Nothing here is financial advice.