Terminal Layouts#

A terminal layout is your arrangement of widgets on a grid. Add the panels you want, size them how you like, and your layout saves as you go. With a free account it also syncs across your devices.

The default layout and presets#

You start on a layout called Default: a Chart showing BTC on MEXC at the 1h timeframe, next to a Watchlist. It is one of four built-in presets you can start from:

• Default. A chart and a watchlist, a clean starting point.
• Scalping. A 1-minute chart, a DOM, a flow tape, and a whale tracker.
• Swing. A watchlist, a 4-hour chart, and leverage intel.
• Analysis. A chart, a watchlist, leverage intel, and a flow tape.

To load one, open the layout menu at the top left, choose Manage Terminal Layouts, and pick from the Presets tab. Loading a preset creates a fresh copy, so you can change it freely without touching the original.

Arranging the grid#

• Add a widget. Click the Add Widget (+) button in the top bar, or right-click an empty spot on the grid. The picker groups widgets by category (Charts and Data Feeds, Analysis and Trading, Context and Research) and has a search box and a recently-used row. See Widgets for the full catalog.
• Move. Drag a widget by its header.
• Resize. Drag any edge or corner.
• Snap. Hold Shift while dragging to snap a widget to a half, a quarter, or the full screen.
• Overlap. Widgets can sit on top of each other. Click one to bring it to the front.
• Remove. Click the close button on a widget, or select it and press Delete.

A few more controls live in the top bar and the grid's right-click menu:

• Lock. Lock the layout to freeze it. While locked you cannot move, resize, or remove widgets, which stops you nudging things by accident.
• Density. Right-click the grid and choose Comfortable (the default) or Compact to pack more in vertically.
• Undo and redo. Press Ctrl+Z (or Cmd+Z) to undo a layout change, and Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y to redo. The top bar has buttons for both.

Tab groups#

To fit more into one spot, stack widgets as tabs. Click the + add tab button on a widget's header and pick another widget. The two now share the same cell, and you switch between them by clicking the tabs. Drag the tabs to reorder them. To pull a widget back out on its own, right-click its tab and choose Pop out to standalone.

Sync groups#

Sync groups link widgets so they follow the same market together. Each group has a color. There are six of them (blue, red, green, yellow, purple, and orange) plus Independent.

Widgets in the same color group share one symbol, exchange, and timeframe. Change the symbol on your chart and every other widget in that group follows along. New widgets join the blue group by default.

To change a widget's group, right-click its tab and pick a color, or Independent to unlink it. A small colored dot on the tab shows which group a widget belongs to.

Saving and managing layouts#

Your layout saves to your browser as you work, so it is there when you come back.

• Save a copy. Open the layout menu and click Save Copy to duplicate the current layout under a new name. It flashes "Saved!" when it is done.
• Manage them. Manage Terminal Layouts opens a window whose Saved tab lists everything you have. From there you can load a layout, rename it, or delete it. Names can be up to 100 characters, and each one is unique to your account.

Sharing a layout#

• Publish to Community. Share a layout to the community gallery for others to install, and browse and install other people's layouts from the same Manage Terminal Layouts window. See Community Layouts and Indicators.
• Screenshot. Capture your layout as an image with a small Tracer Terminal watermark, straight from the layout menu.

On mobile#

Layouts adapt to a phone. In landscape you get a coarser grid built for touch. In portrait, your widgets stack into a bento layout that you can drag to reorder and resize between a few tile sizes.