The BEST Chart Colours For Trading With!
I often used to struggle with how to find the best chart colours to trade with but I never could quite pick between clear white or clear black. It's an often overlooked topic but when clarity, contrast, sharpness all depend on how well you see patterns, candles or your preferred techniques, it's one of the most crucial. So here's what I found out:
White is a no-go for various reasons. Firstly, it's a very bright and sharp colour that will be the focus of your eye. Secondly, depending on your laptop/PC it can be very bright, leading you to turn down brightness further reducing your vision. It's not great at night either to check the charts for an hour before bed and your screen is blinding.
Black is also a no-go as it's the exact opposite of my last point. It blends in to easily to the background leaving you feeling as if there's not enough brightness when your candles are often a darker colour also. If your laptop/PC monitor is a mid-lower end, it won't have the brightness to really pop out and if it's not an OLED panel you will also find the black isn't true black, but more of a dark grey. Not a good idea...
So this brings me to the holy grail which is: GREYSCALE!
A lot of people don't realise this but 1 in 8 men and 1 in 200 women, a total 5% of the population are colour deficient which means you have a difficulty with certain colours, differentiating certain colours and similar conditions. By setting your background to greyscale, it's a natural base colour everybody can see, it's easy on the eyes and most importantly it provides a certain contrast between the candles and the background that I never quite got with other charts.
By setting your candles to simple black borders/outlines and green/red fill, you get a really nice looking chart! Then you want your indicators and chart objects to be a sharp colour, so it really stands out, like yellow or white.
This is how you get a great looking chart so you can really see what's going on!
White is a no-go for various reasons. Firstly, it's a very bright and sharp colour that will be the focus of your eye. Secondly, depending on your laptop/PC it can be very bright, leading you to turn down brightness further reducing your vision. It's not great at night either to check the charts for an hour before bed and your screen is blinding.
Black is also a no-go as it's the exact opposite of my last point. It blends in to easily to the background leaving you feeling as if there's not enough brightness when your candles are often a darker colour also. If your laptop/PC monitor is a mid-lower end, it won't have the brightness to really pop out and if it's not an OLED panel you will also find the black isn't true black, but more of a dark grey. Not a good idea...
So this brings me to the holy grail which is: GREYSCALE!
A lot of people don't realise this but 1 in 8 men and 1 in 200 women, a total 5% of the population are colour deficient which means you have a difficulty with certain colours, differentiating certain colours and similar conditions. By setting your background to greyscale, it's a natural base colour everybody can see, it's easy on the eyes and most importantly it provides a certain contrast between the candles and the background that I never quite got with other charts.
By setting your candles to simple black borders/outlines and green/red fill, you get a really nice looking chart! Then you want your indicators and chart objects to be a sharp colour, so it really stands out, like yellow or white.
This is how you get a great looking chart so you can really see what's going on!
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Hey, go to the where the idea is posted and click the share button on the bottom right under the chart. You will see an option "make it mine" and it will bring up all settings and colours.
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I guess this post was designed to show you an idea of what your colours should be in terms of not having things to blinding and having a good contrast, there's a few schemes to go with but people have requested the specific chart settings so here they are below! :
I'm using #cccccc as the background colour for the chart, candles are set to 80% opacity on wicks and borders only so they're thinner.
The colours for the bulls are 4th row in, 3rd from the bottom and red is 3rd from the bottom on the first row.
The chart scale lines are set to 30% opacity and black scales text.
If you want to add the vert/horz lines they are 3% opacity in black.
Chart objects are just standard, white, yellow etc...
Feel free to mess around with the settings, maybe you like the background a tad bit brighter, maybe you want the candles a bit brighter or maybe a blue/white candle combo or white/black but that's up to you!
I'm using #cccccc as the background colour for the chart, candles are set to 80% opacity on wicks and borders only so they're thinner.
The colours for the bulls are 4th row in, 3rd from the bottom and red is 3rd from the bottom on the first row.
The chart scale lines are set to 30% opacity and black scales text.
If you want to add the vert/horz lines they are 3% opacity in black.
Chart objects are just standard, white, yellow etc...
Feel free to mess around with the settings, maybe you like the background a tad bit brighter, maybe you want the candles a bit brighter or maybe a blue/white candle combo or white/black but that's up to you!