Flag Mark

Flag marks are triangular markers that you place on the chart to highlight significant levels — support and resistance, breakout points, earnings dates, news events, or any moment worth noting. Each flag has a colored fill and an optional text label, making them ideal for categorizing and organizing chart annotations at a glance.

Each flag consists of a triangular pennant on a vertical pole. The pennant points to the right by default and sits atop the pole. The bottom of the pole is anchored to the chart at the price and time coordinate where you clicked. When selected, the anchor point is shown as a small dot at the pole base.

The flag supports an optional text label displayed to the right of the pennant. The label can contain up to 30 characters and is editable after placement. Label styling (font, size, color) can be configured independently of the flag color, allowing you to use text color for additional categorization.

Flags can be configured to point up, down, left, or right. Up-pointing and down-pointing flags are commonly used to indicate bullish and bearish bias at a level. Left-pointing flags mark past events, while right-pointing flags mark future expectations. The direction is set during placement or adjusted later from the properties panel.

1. 1
   Select the flag tool

   Choose the flag from the icon markers section of the toolbar.
2. 2
   Place the flag

   Click on the chart at the target price level. A flag appears at that coordinate.
3. 3
   Add a label

   Double-click the flag to edit its label text (e.g., "Earnings", "Resistance").
4. 4
   Change color

   Right-click and select a new color from the palette to categorize the flag.
5. 5
   Change direction

   Right-click or use the properties panel to rotate the flag direction.

Flag marks are particularly effective for building pre-market analysis. Before the trading day, place flags at key levels you are watching: previous day high/low, pre-market range boundaries, news event times, and earnings announcements. During the session, these flags serve as visual cues for your trading plan without cluttering the chart with multiple drawing tools.

Flags appear in the object tree panel alongside all other drawings. You can filter the object tree by drawing type to see only flags, making bulk operations (select, lock, delete, export) efficient. Flags are also included in chart template exports, so your marked levels carry over when you apply the same template to other instruments.

When multiple flags are placed at similar price levels, they may overlap. The chart handles this by offsetting subsequent flags slightly in the time dimension to create a staggered appearance. You can adjust the offset distance in the flag settings. If you prefer exact alignment (all flags at exactly the same time coordinate), disable the auto-offset feature and manually position each flag using drag.

In team environments, establishing a shared color convention for flags improves communication. A common convention uses red for resistance levels, green for support levels, yellow for news events, blue for earnings dates, purple for economic data releases, and orange for gap fills. The label text can supplement the color with additional context. Team conventions can be saved as a color palette preset and shared across the team.

Flag marks are included in chart template exports and layout saves. When you save a chart layout, all flags with their positions, colors, labels, and directions are preserved. Importing a layout on another instrument places flags at the same relative positions — useful when you have a standardized analysis template with pre-marked levels that you apply across multiple instruments.

Flags can be configured with optional animation effects. With animation enabled, the flag pennant waves gently when the chart is idle, drawing attention to the marked level. The animation is subtle and can be disabled in settings if you prefer static markers. The animation has no impact on chart performance and does not affect the flag's click target or selection behavior.

• 1.Icon markers overview — Chart tools documentation
• 2.Stickers & emoji reference — Icon tools
• 3.Signpost reference — Icon tools
• 4.Object tree panel guide — User guide
• 5.Team collaboration guide — Team features