Chart trading on Polymarket: candles, indicators and a trade ticket

Chart types and timeframes

Pick the view that suits how you read a market. Desk draws five chart types over the same price data:

• Line — a clean single track of price, best for seeing the shape of a move.
• Candles — open, high, low and close per bar; the standard trading view.
• Hollow — candles that fill or hollow by direction, so runs stand out.
• Heikin-Ashi — smoothed candles that filter noise and make trend easier to hold.
• Baseline — price shaded above and below a reference level.

Timeframes run from 1-minute up to 1-day, so the same chart serves a five-minute scalp and a market that resolves next month.

Indicators

Open the ƒ panel to layer indicators over price. Each is configurable and colour-coded, and every one ships with sensible defaults so a new chart opens ready to read — you don't have to set anything up first.

Overlays on price

• Moving averages — MA and EMA, for trend and dynamic support.
• Bollinger Bands — volatility envelopes around a moving average.
• VWAP — the volume-weighted average price, a fair-value anchor.

Oscillators

• RSI — momentum and overbought / oversold reads.
• MACD — trend and momentum shifts via the moving-average spread.
• EWO — the Elliott Wave Oscillator, for the swing of a move.

The trade ticket

The chart carries its own order ticket, so reading and trading happen in one place:

• Back / Lay buttons show the live best price and trade at your chart stake — one click to open or add to a position.
• Turn on Keys for keyboard trading: the number keys fire your saved stakes, so you can trade at speed without reaching for the mouse.
• Open the order book / depth panel alongside the chart to see resting liquidity as you decide where to trade.

Reading and framing a market

A few tools help you plan the trade before you place it:

• Trend lines — click two points to draw one; use it to mark a level or a channel you're trading around.
• What-if — hover a price and Desk shows the P&L you'd bank by trading out there, so you can see the reward before committing.
• Auto-centre — keeps the last price vertically centred as the market moves, without touching your zoom.

Automation from the chart

The chart carries the same automation toolkit as the ladder — Get me out, Exits, Entry, Tick offset, Chaser, Drip feed, Scale and Alerts. The only difference is how you set a level: click the chart where it should fire instead of clicking a rung. Everything downstream behaves exactly as it does on the ladder.