Trader Desk

What is on the chart?

Bitcoin’s price as candles: each one shows where the price opened, its highest and lowest point, and where it closed for that stretch of time. Orange candles closed higher than they opened, blue ones lower. The newest candle moves with the live price every few seconds until it closes.

What do the layouts do?

Each layout picks a candle length and a set of layers for one kind of trading: Scalper for minutes, Day trader for the same day, Swing trader for days to weeks, Leverage trader for futures, Cycle investor for months to years and Chain watcher for on-chain signals. A first visit opens on Swing trader. Change anything you like; the Desk remembers your view in this browser.

What are the lines and small charts?

The averages are the mean closing price of the last 20, 50 or 200 candles, and the fast average leans more on recent candles. VWAP is the average price paid, weighted by how much traded, starting again each day, week or month. Under the price you can show up to three small charts: volume, RSI (the size of recent rises against recent falls), MACD (a fast average minus a slow one) and Stochastic (where the close sits inside the recent high and low). They are worked out with the same maths as Maketo’s technical indicator pages.

What are the key levels?

Prices that traders watch, from every source Maketo publishes: old highs and lows, what owners paid for their coins, the busiest trading prices, big waiting orders, long averages, round numbers and more. Tick the sources you want with Sources. Where levels from different sources fall within half a percent of each other, the Desk draws one band and names them all, so you can see why a price keeps coming up. The list beside the chart puts the nearest first.

Does a level stop the price?

Not reliably. Maketo counts how often the price turned back at each kind of level since 2014, beside spots at the same distance that mark nothing, and nearly every kind turned it back about as often as those spots did. Old highs and lows let the price through more often. Open a row in the list to see the count for each of its sources. A level is a place to watch, not a promise about what the price does next.

What is the shaded wedge on the right?

The predicted range: how far the price usually moves over the next stretch of time, either way, from Maketo’s live move-size prediction. It is never a direction. The note under the chart says how often the price has ended inside it so far.

How do I share a view?

Press Share and the Desk copies a link. Anyone who opens it sees the same candle length, the same layers and the same level sources.

What comes next?

Funding, open interest, exchange flows, event flags and live gauges beside the chart. They arrive as layers in this same menu.