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Visualizing Historical Trades on a Trading Chart

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Summary

The document describes a chart overlay for reviewing a symbol’s past trades. It explains the visual legend: blue zones mark take-profit areas, red zones mark stop-loss areas, blue and red arrows indicate buys and sells, and blue ticks or red crosses show winning or losing trades.

To view the objects, open the relevant chart. A magic-number filter can restrict the display to trades associated with a chosen identifier; setting it to zero includes all historical trades for that symbol. The document gives no performance evidence or details about how trade outcomes are calculated, and it does not explain installation, supported platforms, or how the chart handles overlapping trades.

Key ideas

  • The chart uses colored zones and symbols to distinguish trade levels, directions, and outcomes.
  • Open the symbol’s chart to display its historical trade objects.
  • A magic-number filter narrows the displayed history to selected trades.
  • Setting the magic number to zero displays all historical trades for the chosen symbol.

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