Comment

The Comment tool is for remarks addressed to someone. That is what separates it from a note: a note is a caption the author writes for themselves, whereas a comment is directed outward and has a lifecycle — it starts open and is eventually resolved. The status is a first-class property rather than something encoded in the wording, so a chart can be scanned for unresolved items without reading any of them.

A comment is stored as two points: the bar it is about, and the card's own position. Keeping the card as a real chart coordinate rather than a pixel offset means it can be dragged well clear of the price action while the anchor stays exactly on the bar under discussion, and both survive panning and zooming. A dashed connector joins them, attached at the card's edge so it never runs across the text.

The status stripe down the card's leading edge, the avatar tint and the status tag all take the same colour, so the state of a comment registers before a word of it is read: blue open, amber question, red blocked, green resolved. In the popup, the status button advances the lifecycle in a single click, because moving a comment from open to resolved is by far the most frequent thing anyone does to one and burying it in a submenu would be the wrong trade.

1. 1
   Select the Comment tool

   Click the Comment icon in the annotation group.
2. 2
   Click the bar

   One click anchors the comment to that price and time and places the card above and to the right.
3. 3
   Write the comment

   The body opens for typing immediately. Shift+Enter for a new line, Enter to finish.
4. 4
   Set the category

   Choose Idea, Risk, Action or Decision if the remark is one of those, and turn on the category tag.
5. 5
   Move the card clear

   Drag the card handle to put it in empty space. The anchor stays on the bar.
6. 6
   Resolve it

   Click the status button in the popup to advance from Open through to Resolved.

• Review feedback — a question on the specific bar that prompted it, so the recipient does not have to guess which part of the chart is being asked about.
• Risk flag — a Risk-category comment on the level that concerns you, left Open until it has been addressed.
• Recorded decision — a Decision comment marked Resolved, capturing what was agreed and by whom at the point on the chart it applies to.
• Action assignment — an Action comment naming what needs doing, with the assignee as the author role.
• Blocking objection — a Blocked comment on an idea that cannot proceed, which is visible on the chart rather than buried in a message thread.
• Async hand-off — comments left on a chart for a colleague in another timezone, each carrying who wrote it and when.

The reply field holds a count, not the replies. That is a deliberate boundary. Rendering a nested conversation on a candle chart would be unreadable at any realistic size, and a chart is a poor archive for discussion in any case — it has no notifications, no ordering guarantees and no search. What the chart is good at is showing where a conversation is happening and how much of one there is.

So the intended workflow is: the comment on the chart states the point and its status; the discussion lives wherever your team already discusses things; the count tells a reader there are eight replies waiting for them elsewhere. Keeping the count current is manual, which is honest about the fact that the chart is not the source of truth for the thread.

On a chart under review, the useful discipline is that every comment is either Open, Question, Blocked or Resolved, and none is left ambiguous. Open means the point stands and needs addressing. Question means the author wants information before forming a view — a distinction worth keeping, because a question answered is resolved whereas an objection answered may not be. Blocked means the idea cannot proceed while this stands, which is the strongest signal available and should be rare enough to mean something. Resolved closes it.

Resolved comments are worth keeping rather than deleting, at least until the chart is retired. A chart showing four resolved comments and one open one tells a reviewer where the discussion has already been, which stops the same objection being raised twice. Delete them when the chart is archived, not as they are answered.

• 1.Collaborative analysis workflows — Industry practice
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