Atlas/Documentation/Drawing tools

Drawing tools overview

All 91 Atlas drawing tools, grouped the way the in-app Drawing tools panel groups them, with how to open them, place them and style them.

Atlas has 91 drawing tools: 11 everyday essentials plus 80 more, from channels and Fibonacci tools to Elliott counts, ICT zones and futures session tools. This page lists every one in the same groups and order as the in-app Drawing tools panel. Each group has its own page where every tool gets a picture, how to place it, what it's good for, a worked example and its settings.

Finding a tool

The Drawing tools panel. Click Drawing tools in the chart header (the ruler icon). It lists Favorites, All and each group below, has a search box, and a Shortcuts page. Click a tool to arm it. Star it as a Favorite to keep it on Switchblade and the drawing bar (favorites are saved on this device).
Switchblade. The round dock on the chart. Hold it and slide to pick one of your favorites. Out of the box the favorites are Trend line, Horizontal line, Horizontal ray, Rectangle, Fib retracement, Long position, Short position and Text.
Shortcuts. The essentials have default keys: Alt+T trend line, Alt+H horizontal line, Alt+J horizontal ray, Alt+V vertical line, Alt+Shift+R rectangle, Alt+A arrow, Alt+B brush, Alt+F Fib retracement, Alt+L long position, Alt+S short position, Alt+X text, Alt+P pointer and Alt+M magnet. Any tool can get its own key on the panel's Shortcuts page.

Placing and editing

Placing. Click each point the tool asks for. A hint at the top of the chart says which point comes next ("Wave 2 · 3 of 6"). On a phone, drag to aim and tap to place. Tools with no fixed number of points (Path, Ghost feed and the open-ended pattern and Elliott tools) finish when you press Enter, double-click, or tap the last point again.
Magnet. With the magnet on (Alt+M), points snap to a candle's open, high, low or close. Some tools snap on their own, for example Elliott pivots to the true wick extreme and the bar markers to the bar's high or low. Each page says when a tool does.
The style bar. Select a drawing and its style bar appears: colour, line width, line style (solid, dashed, dotted), opacity, the tool's own settings (everything in the Settings tables on these pages), then lock, clone and delete. Tools that check rules or measure things also get an Analysis panel there.
The drawing bar. Undo, redo and lock all drawings sit on the drawing bar, and its menu can delete every drawing at once. With no tool armed, hold Ctrl (⌘ on Mac) and drag over empty chart space to select several drawings at once.
Presets. Save a Fibonacci or line style under a name and reuse it on any device. See Drawing presets.

About the pictures

Every picture on these pages is a real Atlas chart: NQ on 5 minute candles, the Oct 15, 2026 session, with each tool drawn on that day's actual swings (the 9:55 low, the 11:15 high, the 12:25 pullback, the 15:45 high and so on). Each picture comes in a dark and a light version and follows your docs theme. The examples under each picture walk through exactly what was clicked.

Every tool, by group

Essentials

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Essentials.

Tool	What it's for
Trend line	A straight line between two points, with optional extensions and a stats readout.
Horizontal line	A level across the whole chart at one price.
Horizontal ray	A level that starts at the bar you click and runs to the right.
Vertical line	A line through one moment in time, top to bottom.
Rectangle	A box between two corners, for ranges and zones.
Arrow	A line with an arrowhead, for pointing at something.
Fib retracement	Fibonacci levels between a swing's start and end.
Long position	A trade plan box: entry, target and stop, with the reward to risk.
Short position	The same trade plan box for a short: target below entry, stop above.
Brush	A freehand stroke, like a marker on the chart.
Text	A free-text note placed anywhere on the chart.

Lines & Channels

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Lines & Channels.

Tool	What it's for
Ray	A line from a start point through a second point, running on to the edge of the chart.
Extended line	A line through two points that runs to both edges of the chart.
Path	A line through as many points as you want.
Curve	A curved line between two points that bends through a third.
Parallel channel	Two parallel rails around a trend, with an optional midline.
Pitchfork	A median line from a pivot through the middle of two reactions, with a tine on each side.
Pitchfan	A fan of rays from a pivot, spread around the median of two reactions.
Flat top/bottom	A channel with one sloped side and one flat side.
Disjoint channel	Two separate lines that don't have to be parallel, with the space between them shaded.
Trend angle	A trend line that reads out its angle and slope.
Cross line	A horizontal and a vertical line crossing at one point.
Info line	A line between two points with a card that measures the move.

Fibonacci

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Fibonacci.

Tool	What it's for
Trend-based Fib extension	Extension levels projected from a pullback, sized by the move before it.
Fib channel	A sloped channel with Fibonacci lines parallel to the trend.
Fib time zones	Vertical lines at Fibonacci counts of a time unit you set: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on.
Trend-based Fib time	Time ratios of a swing's length, projected forward from a point you pick.
Fib speed resistance fan	Rays from a swing's start through Fibonacci fractions of its price and time.
Fib speed resistance arcs	Arcs around a swing's end at Fibonacci fractions of its length.
Fib circles	Concentric circles around a center, scaled by Fibonacci ratios of a radius you set.
Fib spiral	A golden spiral from a center point, growing by 1.618 every quarter turn.
Fib wedge	A wedge from an apex, with Fibonacci arcs between its two edges.

Gann

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Gann.

Tool	What it's for
Gann box	A box split into price and time fractions, with optional angle lines.
Gann square	A square grid with Gann angles and arcs from its origin corner.
Gann square (fixed)	A Gann square that keeps a set price per bar, so only its size in bars is up to you.
Gann fan	Gann angles fanning out from a pivot, scaled by a 1x1 you set.

Cycles & Regression

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Cycles & Regression.

Tool	What it's for
Regression trend	A best-fit line through the bars you pick, with deviation bands around it.
Cyclic lines	Vertical lines repeated at the spacing between two points.
Time cycles	Repeating arcs, one per cycle, along a baseline.
Sine line	A sine wave fitted to one crest and the trough after it.

Patterns & Harmonics

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Patterns & Harmonics.

Tool	What it's for
XABCD pattern	A five-point harmonic pattern (Gartley, Bat, Butterfly, Crab and more) with its reversal zone.
ABCD pattern	The AB=CD pattern: two equal legs with a pullback between them.
Head & shoulders	Head and shoulders (or the inverse), with the neckline and measured-move target.
Triangle pattern	A converging triangle (symmetrical, ascending or descending) with its breakout window and target.
Three drives	Three pushes in one direction, each extending the last correction, with a zone for where the third should end.
Double / triple top & bottom	Two or three tests of the same level, with the confirmation line and target.
Rising / falling wedge	Two converging boundaries sloping the same way, with the target.
Flag / pennant	A sharp pole followed by a tight pause, with the target the pole's length away.
5-0 pattern	A six-point harmonic that completes at 50% of the BC leg.

Elliott Wave

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Elliott Wave.

Tool	What it's for
Elliott impulse (1-2-3-4-5)	A five-wave impulse count, or a leading or ending diagonal.
Elliott correction (A-B-C)	A three-wave correction: a zigzag or a flat.
Elliott triangle (A-B-C-D-E)	A five-wave contracting triangle, with A to C and B to D boundaries.
Elliott combination (W-X-Y)	A double three (W-X-Y) or triple three (W-X-Y-X-Z) correction.

Shapes

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Shapes.

Tool	What it's for
Ellipse	An oval you fit inside a box, for circling a cluster of bars.
Triangle	A three-point shape, for framing a wedge or a turn by hand.

Measure

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Measure.

Tool	What it's for
Price range	A vertical ruler between two prices that reads the move in points and percent.
Date range	A horizontal ruler between two times that reads bars, duration and volume.
Date & price range	One box that reads the price move and the time it took together.

Smart Money and ICT

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Smart Money and ICT.

Tool	What it's for
Order block	A zone marking the last opposite-close candle before a move that broke structure.
Fair value gap	The three-candle imbalances in a range: gaps between the first candle's wick and the third's.
Liquidity level	A line at a swing high or low where stops are likely resting, marked when it gets swept or run.
Break of structure / CHoCH	A line from a swing to the candle that broke it, labelled BOS, CHoCH or MSS.
Premium / discount (OTE)	A dealing range split into premium and discount halves, with the optimal trade entry band.
Session / killzone	A shaded time band for a session or killzone, with that window's high and low boxed.
Inversion fair value gap	Fair value gaps that price later closed through, which flip from support to resistance or the other way.
Balanced price range	The overlap of a fair value gap and a later opposite gap.
Breaker block	An order block that failed after liquidity was taken, now acting from the other side.
Mitigation block	Like a breaker, but the failed block formed without taking liquidity first.
Rejection block	The long wick of a swing high or low, from the body edge to the wick's tip.
Volume imbalance	A gap between two candles' bodies where their wicks still overlap.
Opening gap (NWOG / NDOG)	The gap between one session's last close and the next session's first open.
Equal highs / lows	Two or more swing highs (or lows) at nearly the same price, where stops tend to pile up.
SMT divergence	Swings where this chart and a correlated market disagree: one makes a new high or low and the other doesn't.

Order Flow

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Order Flow.

Tool	What it's for
Anchored VWAP	A volume-weighted average price that starts at the bar you click and runs to the latest bar.
Fixed range volume profile	A volume-by-price histogram over just the bars you select, with POC and value area.

Futures & Sessions

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Futures & Sessions.

Tool	What it's for
Opening range	The high, low and midpoint of the first minutes after the open, with optional extensions.
Initial balance	The high and low of the first hour of regular trading, with extensions.
Session levels	Prior day high, low and close, the overnight high and low, and the RTH open, for the day you click.
Tick ruler	A ruler that reads a move in points, ticks and dollars for the contract you trade.
Session VWAP	A VWAP for one session, from its open to its last bar, with up to three bands.

Projection

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Projection.

Tool	What it's for
Forecast	An arrow from a bar to a target price and time, marked as a hit or a miss once price gets there.
Bars pattern	A copy of a run of real bars, pasted somewhere else on the chart.
Ghost feed	Hand-drawn candles: click a path and the tool fills it with made-up bars.
Sector	A pie slice from a centre point, for marking an angle or a fan of possible paths.

Annotate

The full page, with a picture and an example for each tool: Annotate.

Tool	What it's for
Callout	A text box with a leader line pointing at the spot it's about.
Price label	A slim tag that points at one price and shows it.
Note	A pinned card for longer notes, with a stem down to the spot it's pinned to.
Signpost	A bold label on a post, standing on a bar's high or low.
Flag mark	A small flag on a pole, planted on a bar's high or low.
Arrow marker	A short arrow pointing at a bar's high or low.
Price note	A labelled price with a leader, set off to the side where it's easy to read.

Last updated Oct 16, 2026

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