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Narrow Sideways Channel Tool

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Illustrate a Narrow Sideways channel in a chart by selecting the Narrow Sideways Channel tool from your Charting toolbar. Position the mouse pointer where you would like to place the to top-left point of the channel and click. Continue to hold down the mouse and drag it to the bottom-right point of your channel. Release the mouse button to place.

Resizing the Narrow Sideways Channel

Select the Narrow Sideways channel by clicking on it. You will know the channel is selected when boxes appear on the corners. Click on a box and drag it to your desired location. Release the mouse button to place.

Moving the Narrow Sideways Channel

Select the Narrow Sideways channel by clicking on it. Drag to the new location and release the mouse button to place.

Deleting the Narrow Sideways Channel

Select the Narrow Sideways channel by clicking on it. Press the Del (Delete) key on your keyboard. You can also right-click the channel and select "Delete" from the dropdown menu.

Preferences

Select the Narrow Sideways channel by clicking on it. The properties will appear in the preferences section of your control panel.

Restore Settings: TNT Default will change your settings back to the original software settings. My Default will change current settings to your personalized default settings. Apply To All Charts will apply your selected settings on all open charts. Save As My Default will save your current personal settings.


Channel Tool: You can choose the color, line style, and line thickness of your lines, as well as the background color. (To make the background transparent, deselect Fill Background at the bottom of your preferences.)

Font: Select the font, size, and color of the text. Select Show Text to hide or show your text on the chart.

Select Snap to have your lines snap to price bars when moved.