Projection

Projection tools are for planning. You draw what you think could happen, then let the chart tell you whether it did. None of them predict anything on their own. They show your idea clearly, and the forecast also grades it. Every tool, grouped: Drawing tools overview.

Forecast

An arrow from a bar to a target price and time, marked as a hit or a miss once price gets there.

NQ 5m, Oct 15, 2026 · Atlas

How to place: two clicks. Click the source bar (by default the anchor snaps to that bar's nearest open, high, low or close), then click the target: the price you expect and the time you expect it by. Open Analysis from the drawing's toolbar to see the direction, the projected change, the horizon in bars and time, the best price reached so far or the hit, and the largest move against you.

Good for: writing your call down before the move, so you can grade yourself honestly afterwards instead of remembering it kindly.

Example: On NQ 5m (Oct 15, 2026), click the 12:25 low, then a target 23 bars later, around 14:20, about 30,123. The label reads +213.64 (+0.71%), 23 bars · 1h 55m, then turns red: "Missed · best 30102.25". The best price before the target time was the 13:40 high, about 21 points short, and the fact that price got there later in the afternoon doesn't count, which is the honest grading this tool is for.

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Bars pattern

A copy of a run of real bars, pasted somewhere else on the chart.

NQ 5m, Oct 15, 2026 · Atlas

How to place: two or three clicks. Click the first bar of the pattern, then the last bar. Then click where the copy should start (its first open sits there), or press Enter to place it right after the range.

Good for: asking "what if today does what Tuesday did?" Paste last week's opening drive onto today's open and see whether the levels line up.

Example: On NQ 5m (Oct 15, 2026), click the 11:15 bar, then the 12:25 bar, then the 15:45 high to place the copy. The source is shaded and labelled 16 bars · -82.75 (-0.28%), and the same 16 bars appear as faded ghost candles starting at the top. It's a way to ask "what if the afternoon pulls back like the midday did?" and see where that would land, without pretending it will.

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Ghost feed

Hand-drawn candles: click a path and the tool fills it with made-up bars.

NQ 5m, Oct 15, 2026 · Atlas

How to place: two to 20 clicks. Click where the path starts, then each turning point. To finish, press Enter, double-click or tap the last point again. The tool draws candles along the path, one per chart bar between your points by default.

Good for: sketching a scenario so it looks like a chart, for a trade plan or a teaching example. The candles are invented, not data, and the faint opacity keeps them from passing for real bars.

Example: On NQ 5m (Oct 15, 2026), click the evening high, then a dip, a bounce and a lower low, and press Enter. The faint ghost candles walk that four-point path down with wicks and some wobble, and the label reads -122.25 (-0.41%) · 30 bars. They're invented bars for a plan you're sketching, so change Variation if you want a different shuffle of the same path.

The candles are seeded, so the same drawing paints the same bars every time and on every device.

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Sector

A pie slice from a centre point, for marking an angle or a fan of possible paths.

NQ 5m, Oct 15, 2026 · Atlas

How to place: three clicks. Click the centre, then the first radius (this sets the size), then the second radius. The slice fills the angle between them.

Good for: framing the range of slopes you'd accept for a move, for example "anything between a slow grind and a straight shot".

Example: On NQ 5m (Oct 15, 2026), click the 9:55 low as the centre, then the 11:15 high for the first radius, then aim the second at the 12:25 pullback. The slice opens 29.0° between the steep run to the high and the gentler line through the pullback, so it frames the range of slopes the morning traded in. The angle is measured on screen, and Radius moves adds the price change and bars to each edge.

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