The Pionex web trading page has a full charting workspace built on TradingView. This guide walks through reading a candle, finding each control, and drawing your first trend line.
Reading a candlestick
Every candle on the chart summarises one time interval. On a 1H chart each candle is one hour; on a 15m chart, fifteen minutes.
Four prices define each candle, and they are always written in the same order — O H L C:
Open — the price at the start of the interval
High — the highest price reached during it
Low — the lowest price reached during it
Close — the price at the end of the interval
The thick part is the body, spanning open to close. The thin line above and below is the wick, showing how far price travelled in each direction before coming back.
Green means the close was above the open, so price rose over that interval. Red means the close was below the open, so price fell.
The legend: live OHLC values
The row at the top left of the chart shows the same four values for whichever candle your cursor is over. With the cursor off the chart, it shows the most recent candle.
Reading the example above: the pair is BTC/USDT, the interval is 1h, and the candle opened at 77000.01, reached a high of 77000.01, dipped to a low of 76900.00, and closed at 76902.14. The figure on the end is the change over that candle, in price and percent.
Move your cursor across the chart and these numbers update candle by candle. It is the quickest way to read exact prices without drawing anything.
Choosing a timeframe
The controls above the chart, left to right:
Interval buttons — the quick-access timeframes, with a dropdown arrow for the rest. Shorter intervals show more detail over less time; longer intervals show the bigger trend.
Indicators — adds technical indicators
Candles — switches the chart style
Classic / Trading View — switches chart engine. Trading View is the one with the full drawing and indicator toolset, so use it for anything in this guide.
Below the chart a second row — 1D, 1W, 1M, 1Y, All — sets how much history is in view. These are zoom levels, not a profit report: they change what you can see, not what you earned.
Adding an indicator
Click Indicators to open the library, then search or scroll. Clicking a name adds it to the chart.
Common starting points are a moving average (MA or EMA), RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands.
Managing what you have added
Each indicator gets a row in the legend under the pair name. Hovering a row reveals its controls:
Show / hide — takes it off the chart without deleting it
Settings — change its inputs, periods and colours
Delete — remove it
More — further options
Indicators drawn in their own pane below price have pane buttons too — maximize, minimize, collapse, move up, move down and close — so you can give price more room or reorder panes.
The drawing toolbar
The toolbar runs down the left edge of the chart. If you only see a narrow strip, click the arrow at its bottom to expand it.
From top to bottom, each icon opens a group of related tools:
Cursors — Cross, Dot, Arrow, Demonstration, Eraser
Trend line tools — Trend Line, Ray, Info Line, Extended Line, Trend Angle, Horizontal Line, Horizontal Ray, Vertical Line, Cross Line, Parallel Channel, Regression Trend, Flat Top/Bottom, Disjoint Channel and the Pitchfork family
Gann and Fibonacci — Fib Retracement, Trend-Based Fib Extension, Fib Channel, Fib Time Zone, Fib Speed Resistance Fan and the Gann set
Patterns — XABCD and other pattern tools
Forecasting and measurement — Long Position, Short Position, forecast and measure tools
Geometric shapes — brush, rectangles and other shapes
Annotation — text and callouts
Icons — sticker-style markers
Below those sit Measure, Zoom, Magnet Mode, Drawing mode, Lock all drawings, Hide all drawings, Remove drawings and the Object tree.
Draw your first trend line
A trend line connects two points to show direction. Connecting rising lows shows an uptrend; connecting falling highs shows a downtrend.
Click the Trend line tools icon in the toolbar.
Click once on the chart where the line should start — typically a clear swing low.
Click again where it should end. The line is drawn between the two points.
Press Esc to finish, or click the line to select it and adjust its colour and thickness.
Turn on Magnet Mode before you start and each click snaps to the nearest open, high, low or close, so the line lands exactly on the candle instead of near it.
Fibonacci retracement
A Fibonacci retracement marks levels where a pullback often pauses. Drag from a swing low to a swing high and the tool draws the levels between them.
The percentages — 0.236, 0.382, 0.5, 0.618, 0.786 — each carry the actual price at that level, so you can read potential support directly off the chart.
Position tools
Long Position and Short Position sketch a trade before you take it. Drag to set the entry, and the tool shows the target and stop zones with the risk-to-reward ratio.
These are planning overlays drawn on the chart. They do not place an order or affect any position you hold.
Saving and clearing your work
Drawings are saved per chart, so they are still there when you return to that pair.
Lock all drawings — stops you moving them by accident
Hide all drawings — clears the view without deleting anything
Remove drawings — deletes them
Object tree — lists everything you have drawn, so you can select or delete one item
If saved drawings disappear, the usual cause is several Pionex tabs open at once, or moving quickly between many pairs. Keep a single trading tab open if you rely on your markup.
Position and order lines
The chart can also overlay your Position Line, Order Line and Historical Trade Marks, so open positions, working orders and past fills appear against price.
Average cost is not drawn on the chart. It lives in the Fund Statement, which shows average cost per coin and your PnL%, and can be edited by hand on buy records only.
FAQ
Q: What do O, H, L and C mean in the top left of the chart?
A: Open, High, Low and Close for the candle under your cursor — the price at the start, the highest and lowest reached, and the price at the end.
Q: Why are some candles green and others red?
A: Green means the candle closed above its open, so price rose over that interval. Red means it closed below its open.
Q: Can I mark higher highs and higher lows automatically?
A: No. There is no automatic HH / HL labelling tool. Draw the structure with the trend line tools and label it with Text or Icons. Magnet Mode makes each label land exactly on the candle high or low.
Q: Can I open the chart in a floating picture-in-picture window?
A: No. Pionex web has no picture-in-picture or pop-out chart. Use your browser's window management, or maximise the chart panel.
Q: Why did my saved drawings disappear?
A: Drawings are stored per chart, and several Pionex tabs open at once can overwrite that state. Keep one trading tab open if you depend on saved markup.
Q: Can I show my average cost as a line on the chart?
A: No. The chart shows Position Line, Order Line and Historical Trade Marks. Average cost is in the Fund Statement instead.
Q: Do the 1D / 1W / 1M / 1Y buttons show my return over that period?
A: No. Those set how much price history is visible on the chart. They are not a profit or return-rate report.
Q: The drawing toolbar is missing.
A: Check you are in Trading View mode rather than Classic, and click the arrow at the bottom of the left edge to expand the toolbar. If the whole chart panel is missing, see Trading Chart / Bot Panel / Order Entry Panel Missing on Web.