The complete platform manual.

Getting started

Installation

EliteXCharts runs natively on Windows (.exe) and macOS (.dmg) — same code, same features. During the closed beta the installer arrives by e-mail together with thewaitlist invite. Requirements: Windows 10/11 or macOS 13+, 8 GB of RAM and a stable connection; no dedicated GPU required — the SkiaSharp renderer runs light on ordinary hardware.

Connecting to Rithmic

Open Menu → Connections, pick your broker/prop server (Apex, Topstep, Lucid and other desks that use Rithmic), enter user and password and connect. The connection isdirect R|Protocol — no bridge, no middleman. Important: Rithmic drops duplicate logins; close other platforms using the same user before connecting.

• Password vault (opt-in) — check "remember password" and it's stored encrypted locally (DPAPI on Windows); the next connection is 1 click. The 🔑 button changes or deletes the saved password.
• Automatic history — on connect, the platform downloads the missing ticks and keeps everything in a local binary cache: reopening the chart is instant and even works offline.
• Front contract — the continuous symbol (e.g. NQ) resolves by itself to the current contract by expiration.

Languages

The interface is 100% translated in English and Portuguese (~2,800 keys) — switch live in Menu → Language, no restart.

Workspaces & widgets

The platform opens in workspaces — independent work areas, each with up to4 panels side by side. Everything persists: layout, symbols, indicators, zoom, theme. Connections are global (Menu), so every panel shares the same feed.

• Chart — the main widget (one per panel), with chart trading built in.
• DOM — price ladder with real depth (Level 2).
• Times & Sales — the aggressor tape in real time.
• Accounts — every account's card with balance and day P&L.
• Trading Journal — full diary with calendar, playbook and clips.
• Recording History — the generated clips, with a built-in player.
• Economic Calendar — the day's US indicators with importance.
• News — real-time feed (FinancialJuice) with an alarm on red headlines.
• Crypto — BTC/ETH via Deribit with candles and Renko.

Indicator sub-panels (MACD, ATR…) can be detached into their own window via the header icon.

The chart

Chart types

• Time candles — from M1 up, built tick by tick.
• Renko with wicks (ShadowRenko) — the house's signature chart: bricks with the real intra-brick wick, adjustable anchor. Made for trading failed breakouts.

Navigation and zoom

• Mouse wheel — proportional zoom (horizontal + vertical together), anchored at the cursor.
• Continuous zoom — when column width hits the cap, the wheel keeps stretching the price axis by itself, down to the tick limit. Only then does the zoom run out.
• Drag the axes — drag the price axis to scale vertically; double-click returns to auto-fit.
• History on demand — reached the first candle? The Load +N days button appears and completes the history in the background, without reloading or losing the framing.
• Sessions — RTH/full filter per chart (⚙ → General).

Customization

The chart's ⚙ controls everything by tabs: background/axis/candle colors, grid, footprint, quote line, orders — with named theme templates, a global default theme and factory restore. The economic calendar and the indicator legend anchor at the top-left corner and reposition themselves.

Footprint

The EliteXCharts footprint is a professional-grade cluster: bid × ask per price level inside each candle, with delta and volume columns, POC, value area and imbalances. It turns on by itself when the zoom gives the numbers room — and loads instantly: the footprint history opens in seconds thanks to pre-processed minute bars.

Cluster anatomy

• Middle column (bid × ask) — volume hit on the bid and lifted on the ask, side by side, with the POC cell highlighted.
• Delta column — green/violet bar with the level's delta (number inside). Can sit on the left or the right — sides are mirrorable.
• Volume column — bar + number of the level's total volume, opposite the delta.
• Embedded candle — the candle drawn with the cluster: None · Left · After delta · Center (channel inside the bid×ask) · Before volume, from 0.6× to 6× wide.
• Collapsible blocks — turn a column off and the others close ranks; no dead space.

Automatic readings

• POC — a box outlining the candle's highest-volume level, labeled "POC" at the edge.
• VAH/VAL — the 70% value area computed per candle, with a subtle band and labeled lines.
• Diagonal imbalance — outline on the dominant half when the diagonal ask/bid ratio passes the configured factor; stacked imbalances (minimum run) get a thick border. Ratio, minimum run, minimum volume and colors are configurable.
• Candle Delta Sum — Σ of the delta in bold (configurable size, default 2×): above the cluster when negative, below when positive, with the bid and ask sums over their columns.
• Price × delta divergence — marks candles that close against their own delta.
• Heat filter — delta bars on an intensity ramp (weak→strong) instead of fixed green/red.

Aggregation and space

• Aggregate ticks — merge N price levels into a single cell (default 1). Aggregated, the footprint shows up with far less zoom.
• Delta / volume space — each block has its own scale (0.6× to 6×). Growing one pushes the neighboring columns: the chart widens every column proportionally, squeezing nothing.
• Fill gaps — levels with no trades inside the range show as 0×0 (market standard).

Where to configure

Three paths, same block of options: the floating panel on the chart's left edge (appears when the footprint is visible; auto-collapses in ~10 s), the chart ⚙ → Footprint tab and right-click on the footprint icon. Colors (delta +/−, volume, heat) apply to every chart. You can save as the global default,restore factory settings and keep named templates — each widget can use a different one.

Indicators

A lean, sharp catalog — each one exists because it's used at a real desk.

• Big Trades — marks the large aggressions right on the candle, with a per-symbol size trigger. The big players' fingerprint.
• Volume Profile — session/range profile with POC and value area; also as a drag-anywhere tool.
• Delta — cumulative delta and a per-range delta tool.
• VWAP — per session and anchored on any candle, with deviation bands.
• Moving averages — configurable SMA/EMA, short and long, plus a trend EMA.
• Greek Levels — options gamma levels (Max+, Max−, zero) plotted on the future and updated through the day.
• Market temperature — Renko exclusive: paints each brick by formation speed (fast = hot, slow = cold), in 10 calibrated levels.
• Swings — automatic highs and lows with zigzag.
• MTF candles — higher-timeframe candles drawn over the current chart.
• Session levels — open, day high/low, overnight and previous day.
• Sequences & reversal count — brick/candle streak readings.
• Linear regression, RSI levels, open trigger, clock, range exceeded — quick-read utilities.
• Economic calendar and news on the chart — the day's US events and headlines (FinancialJuice) anchored at the chart corner.
• MACD and ATR — in collapsible, detachable sub-panels.

The corner legend lists active indicators with 👁 (show/hide), ✎ (configure) and 🗑 (remove) — and collapses by itself to stay out of the way.

DOM & Times · Sales

The DOM is a price ladder with real depth (Rithmic Level 2): bid/ask stacked by price, aggregated volume and big-queue highlighting. Times & Sales is the aggressor tape: every trade with side, size and speed, with minimum-size filters. Both share the symbol picker with the panel's chart.

Chart Trading

Orders right on the chart

• Shift + click — places a limit order at the clicked price; Alt + click — a stop order. Holding Shift/Alt, the wheel changes the quantity of the preview before you drop the order.
• Draggable TP and SL — target and stop lines on the chart; drag it, and it changes at the broker. Native OCO: one fills, the other cancels.
• TP/SL partials on the order — split the target or the stop into partial exits right on the order line, on the chart, no menu.
• OCO on pending orders — the pending order is born with TP and SL attached, and you drag and adjust both BEFORE it fills.
• Visible position — average price, quantity and live P&L on the chart; ✕ to flatten/cancel; ▲▼ to adjust a pending order's contracts.
• Breakeven & partials — stop to breakeven in one click; half out with ½.
• Execution dock — side panel with BUY/SELL, quantity, day P&L, flatten and reverse. Slides open and closed.
• Cross-trade mini → micro — analyze on NQ and execute on MNQ with sizes matched automatically.
• Order sounds — configurable audio feedback per event (pending, fill, stop, target).

Orders, positions and OCOs are scoped per account — with several accounts connected, nothing leaks from one to another.

Risk manager (RiskGuard)

RiskGuard is not a warning — it's a lock. With a rule armed, the order that would break the limit is held before it leaves. Rules per account:

• Max daily loss and daily goal — each with optional auto-flatten.
• Contract cap — for the whole account, summing every symbol and what's resting.
• Trading hours — allowed windows in 30-min blocks (ET); the chart badge shows "open from X to X", already accounting for the market close.
• Consecutive stops — a cap on stops in a row.
• Max averaging — percentage limit over the initial entry.
• Simultaneous accounts and group — locks by number of accounts trading and stopped-out accounts in the group.

The "Risk rule armed" badge sits discreetly in Chart Trading and expands on click. An armed rule is immutable until 6:00 PM ET — on purpose: the rule exists for the moments you'll want to break it. The kill-switch flattens everything and disarms in one click.

Accounts & simulator

• Rithmic multi-account — eval, funded and live connected at the same time, with full isolation per account.
• Live P&L from the server — on live accounts, balance and day result come straight from the server, including what was closed outside the platform.
• Manual starting balance — Rithmic doesn't expose starting balance or withdrawals; enter the starting value on the account card's ✎ and the Journal computes withdrawals by itself.
• Named simulator accounts — as many as you want, persistent, with per-fill history and realistic commission costs.
• Accounts widget — every card on one screen: balance, day P&L, controls and the history of accounts that ever passed through the platform (even deactivated ones).

Trading Journal

The diary that fills itself — every fill becomes a stat instantly, sim or live.

• Summary — win rate, profit factor, averages, streaks, costs, by period.
• Trades — the full table: entry/exit, duration, gross/net result, playbook, note and the Clips column with ▶ to watch the trade's clip (16:9 and 9:16) without leaving the table.
• Charts — equity curve, distribution by hour/day/duration.
• P&L calendar — the whole month day by day; click a day and the panel opens with its trades.
• Playbook — label each trade's strategy and compare performance per setup. Where you find out where your edge really is.
• Manual trade (Ⓜ) — log trades made outside the platform.
• Full account history — pulls ALL the Rithmic account's fills, not just what went through the platform, with settled days cached.
• Cloud sync — the journal follows you between machines.

Clips & recording (Trade Recorder)

The house's unique feature: the platform records the session in the background and, at the end, automatically generates a clip of every trade — entry, management and exit — in high resolution. The clip's chart is re-rendered from ticks, clean — it's not a screen recording.

• Two formats per trade — 16:9 (YouTube) and 9:16 (TikTok/Instagram/Shorts).
• Selectable layouts — with a trade data panel, compact or chart-first, with a real preview in the dialog.
• Trader camera — round or rectangular, aspect, zoom, pan, mirror and draggable position, with live preview.
• Microphone — device picker with a live level (VU) meter, Windows and macOS.
• Social @s — Instagram, TikTok and YouTube as chips burned into the video.
• Discreet EliteXCharts watermark.
• Recording History — a widget with every clip and a built-in player; in the Journal, every trade with a clip gets the ▶.

Flow: Menu → Trade Recorder → set camera/mic/@s → trade normally → on stop, the clips appear in the History and the Journal.

Replay

Relive any market day tick by tick: pick the start point right on the chart (cut tool), control speed and pause, and trade with simulated execution inside the replay — entry training as if it were live. Up to 2 synchronized symbols on a single clock. History covers the listed contract's whole life — without the ~90-day limit common on other platforms.

Copy Trading

Replicate a master account's execution to the other connected accounts: trade once, the replicas follow — with per-account quantity scaling and the Copy Statuswidget showing what each account copied, what's in position and any divergence. Prop-firm multi-account without the mouse juggling.

Multi-symbol backtesting beta

The house's quantitative study module: test objective rules over the tick-by-tick history, on several symbols at once, with modeled costs and slippage and a metrics report (result, drawdown, distribution by hour). In closed beta — availability and scope announced inside the platform.

Backtesting is a study tool. Simulated results have inherent limitations and do not guarantee future results.

Crypto (BTC/ETH)

A dedicated widget with BTC and ETH via Deribit (WebSocket): multi-timeframe candles and Renko with wicks built from the trade feed — to track risk-on/risk-off without leaving the platform.

Shortcuts & gestures

• Wheel — zoom (continuous: width maxed out, it stretches price).
• Shift + click — limit order at the price · Alt + click — stop order.
• Shift/Alt + wheel — changes the order preview quantity.
• Drag TP/SL/line — modifies the order at the broker.
• Double-click the price axis — back to vertical auto-fit.
• Right-click — rich context menu (orders, indicators, drawings, the tool under the cursor).
• Right-click the footprint icon — the full footprint settings.
• Left toolbar — drawings (lines, fibs, ruler, manual Elliott, pen), collapsible.

FAQ