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About Alpha Charts

Alpha Charts are MarketAlpha’s default charting view — designed to give you everything you need for structural trade analysis in a single screen. They include AI-generated overlays, key technical zones, and full toolbar controls for personalization.

Each chart loads automatically with your saved settings and shows real-time chart behavior, along with intelligent overlays such as support/resistance zones, AVWAPs, Fibonacci levels, and more.

How to Open Alpha Charts​

You can open Alpha Charts from anywhere on the platform:

  • Ticker Screener: Left click or press Enter on any result
  • Watchlist Sidebar: Left click on any ticker or right click → “Open in Chart”
  • Group Viewer: Click any company listed in the top panel
  • Multi-Charts: Click on any chart in the grid to open full view
  • Group Screener: Open Multi-Charts for one or more groups, then drill into a symbol

Charts open instantly and always reflect your current saved settings.

What's Included in Alpha Charts​

Each chart includes:

  • AI Strategy: Shows AI selected Long/Short bias, stop, target, and risk/reward ratio
  • Trendlines: Auto-detected trendlines selected for structural relevance
  • Fibonacci Levels: Automatically anchored to recent swing highs and lows
  • Gap Levels: Last five unfilled opening gaps including current day's if applicable
  • Moving Averages: Major moving averages tracked by most market participants
  • AVWAPs: Auto AVWAPs based on significant pivot highs, lows, year open, and IPO dates
  • RSI Divergences: Bullish, bearish, hidden positive and negative divergence with confirmation flags

To learn more about our charting engine, indicators, and auto strategies, visit Automated Charting

How to Read Risk/Reward​

Each Alpha Chart includes a special AI strategy overlay that visualizes stop, entry, and target zones using a colored risk/reward candle. This structure allows you to instantly assess whether a trade setup has strong upside relative to downside — and where the critical levels are.

These candles include:

  • A red zone below the entry = calculated stop-loss level (your risk)
  • A green zone above the entry = two-tier target area (your reward potential)

If the green section is large compared to the red, the setup offers a strong reward-to-risk ratio. Tight red zones with tall green projections signal efficient entry timing with clearly defined exits.

All targets and stops are calculated using cluster detection logic — not arbitrary points. This means the AI identifies real zones of support and resistance based on the intersection of multiple chart overlays (AVWAPs, pivots, trendlines, etc.).

Risk/reward is updated in real time and reflect the AI’s Auto, Long, or Short strategy bias depending on what’s enabled in your chart settings.

For full breakdowns and how this logic is calculated, see AI Strategies

Chart Toolbar Buttons​

The Alpha Charts toolbar is shared across full charts, sidebar charts, and multi-charts. It includes:

  • Reset Chart Settings → Reverts to MarketAlpha’s default layout and indicators
  • Save Chart Settings → Saves all visual preferences including overlays, styles, and strategies across all charts
  • Customize Views:
    • Toggle price bar style (candlesticks or price bars)
    • Show/hide moving averages and AVWAP
    • Enable/disable active indicators
    • Show/hide AI strategy overlays
  • Toggle Text Labels → Turns text on/off near the price axis; especially useful in Multi-Charts
  • Download or Copy Image → Share your current chart as a PNG or clipboard image
  • Open News Sidebar → View information and latest news for the current symbol

These settings apply to all charts — including sidebar charts and Multi-Charts — and are saved globally.

Watchlist Integration​

If the Watchlist Sidebar is open while using Main Charts or Ticker Viewer:

  • Use arrow keys to quickly scroll through tickers
  • The chart updates instantly with each new symbol

This workflow allows rapid scanning and chart review across your personalized watchlists.

Ticker Viewer Integration​

Any symbol can be analyzed further in Ticker Viewer by clicking on:

  • Open in Ticker Viewer → Takes you directly to the full symbol breakdown for deeper analysis

This makes it easy to start with chart review and then transition into a full metric-level deep dive.

Summary​

Alpha Charts are the heart of MarketAlpha’s visual analysis — combining intelligent automation with chart flexibility. You get the structure, tools, and overlays needed to analyze any ticker quickly and clearly, with no setup or drawing required.