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Browser charting platform: trading charts with no install, any device

A browser charting platform for desktop and phone: no download, layouts saved to your account, and alerts that keep running after you close the tab.

SuperCharting is a browser charting platform: the whole workstation (charts, indicators, scripts, the Strategy Tester, replay and alerts) opens in a browser tab, on a desktop or a phone, with nothing to download. Your charts, indicators, drawings and layouts are saved to your account, so the same setup is there on the next device you sign in from.

Why chart in the browser

A charting program you install has to be updated, kept on one machine and set up again on the next one. A browser platform avoids that:

• No install. Open the site, sign in, and the desk loads. Updates arrive the next time you load the page.
• One account, every device. The state of your desk (charts, intervals, chart types, indicators and their settings, drawings, the watchlist and named layouts) is stored with your account, not in the browser. Sign in on a laptop at the office and the NSE:NIFTY layout you built at home is there.
• Alerts that do not need the tab. Alerts are checked by SuperCharting itself. Close the browser and a price alert on XAUUSD still fires and still reaches your webhook or Telegram.
• Room to grow. Every account can open up to 200 chart pages at once and up to 16 charts in one layout, each with up to 50 indicators and up to 40,000 bars of history.

What you get on a desktop browser

On a laptop or desktop the screen is laid out like a full trading terminal:

• The top toolbar: Symbol Search, the interval button and your favourite intervals, Compare, chart type, Indicators, indicator templates, Alert, Replay, Undo and Redo, Layout setup, the layout name with its Manage layouts menu, Quick search, Settings, Fullscreen and Take a snapshot.
• The left toolbar with every drawing family, magnet mode, lock and hide options and Remove objects.
• The right panel bar with the Watchlist, Alerts, Object tree and data window, Screeners, the Script Editor, Calendars, Community, Notifications and Help.
• The bottom bar with the date ranges 1D, 5D, 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, 5Y and All, plus Go to a date.

The mouse works as you would expect: the wheel zooms around the cursor, dragging pans, dragging the price scale stretches it and dragging the time scale zooms in or out. Double-click a scale to reset it.

Keyboard shortcuts worth learning

The full list is under Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + /) in the main menu.

What changes on a phone

On a screen narrower than 760 pixels the desk keeps the chart as large as possible:

• The left drawing toolbar and the right panel bar are hidden. A round Draw button at the bottom-left of the chart opens Trend line, Ray, Horizontal line, Vertical line, Rectangle, Brush, Text, Fib retracement, Long position, Stop drawing and Remove all drawings.
• The top toolbar keeps the symbol, the interval menu (which lists every interval, including your favourites), Indicators, Alert, Layout setup and Settings.
• The bottom bar shows 1D, 5D, 1M, 3M, 1Y, All and Go to.
• Dialogs such as Indicators fill the screen, and the Strategy Tester takes at most 45% of the screen height so the chart stays visible above it. Its toolbar row can be swiped sideways to reach Optimise.

Drag with a finger to scroll back in time, and drag the price or time scale to zoom. Drawing tools explains drawing with taps.

How layouts are saved to your account

Every change you make (a new indicator, a moved trend line, a different interval) is saved to your account a moment later. On top of that you can keep several named layouts:

1. Open Manage layouts, the small arrow next to the layout name in the top toolbar.
2. Choose Create new layout…, type a name such as "Gold 4h" and press Create.
3. Build the charts you want, then press Save layout or Ctrl + S.
4. With Autosave switched on (the default), the layout keeps itself up to date as you work.
5. To switch, open Manage layouts again and pick one under Recently used, or choose Open layout… to search all of them by name.

Make a copy… duplicates the current layout under a new name and Rename… changes its name. Multi-chart layouts covers grids of up to 16 charts.

How to start charting in the browser in SuperCharting

1. Go to /signup on any current browser and create a free account with your user name and the 6-digit email code.
2. Sign in. The desk opens with your last layout, or a single chart for a new account.
3. Press Ctrl + K (or click the symbol name), type RELIANCE and pick NSE:RELIANCE.
4. Open the interval button and choose 1 hour.
5. Sign in on your phone with the same account: NSE:RELIANCE on 1 hour is already there, with the same indicators and drawings.

Example: a desk you take with you

At your desk, build a two-chart layout: EURUSD on 4 hours on the left, EURUSD on 15 minutes on the right, with an EMA on both and a horizontal line at 1.0850. Save it as "EURUSD swing". On the train, open the site on your phone and choose that layout: both charts and the line are there. If price crosses 1.0850 while the phone is locked, the alert you set still fires.

Frequently asked questions

Which browsers does it work in?

SuperCharting runs in current versions of the common desktop and phone browsers. It needs JavaScript switched on.

Is there anything to download?

No. Charts can be saved as images with Take a snapshot, and bars can be saved as a CSV file with chart data export, but the platform itself needs no download.

Will my layout look the same on my phone?

It holds the same charts, indicators and drawings, and the toolbars are trimmed as described above. A grid keeps its arrangement, so on a phone a layout of one or two charts is the easiest to read.

What happens if I open too many tabs?

Each account can keep 200 chart pages open at once. Past that, the newest page shows a message saying the limit is reached; close another SuperCharting tab and it can connect.