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Share a chart picture or link free: snapshots and shared layouts

Share a chart picture or link free from SuperCharting: download or copy a snapshot, send it to WhatsApp or Telegram, or share a whole layout by link.

To share a chart for free in SuperCharting, click Share in the chart header. The Chart snapshot menu lets you download the chart as a picture, copy it to the clipboard, copy a link to it, or send it to X, WhatsApp or Telegram. To share the live chart rather than a picture, turn on Share layout in the layouts menu and send the link: anyone with it can open your charts, drawings and indicators in view-only mode, even without an account. Both work on every plan, including Essential, the free plan.

Two ways to share a chart

• A snapshot is a picture of one chart at one moment: the candles, indicators and drawings as they are on your screen. It suits a quick message to a group, a trade journal or a post, and it never changes.
• A shared layout is a link to the chart layout itself. The person who opens it sees your symbols, intervals, indicators and drawings on live data, and can scroll, zoom and change the interval.

Chart snapshots: download, copy, link, share

The Share button in the header (a camera icon with the word Share) opens the Chart snapshot menu:

• Download image (Ctrl + Alt + S) saves a PNG file named after the symbol and interval.
• Copy image (Ctrl + Shift + S) puts the picture on the clipboard, ready to paste into WhatsApp Web or a document.
• Copy link (Alt + S) uploads the picture and copies a short link of the form supercharting.com/x/ followed by a 10-character code.
• Open in new tab shows the picture in a browser tab.
• Tweet image, Share on WhatsApp and Share on Telegram upload the picture and open that app's share screen with the symbol and the link filled in.
• Share… appears on phones whose browser has a share sheet. It sends the picture itself, with the link, to any app on the phone.

Every snapshot carries a thin strip along the bottom with supercharting.com on the left and the symbol, interval and date on the right, in the chart's own light or dark colours.

The snapshot is of the active chart only, the one with the highlighted border. In a four-chart layout, click the chart you want first.

What a snapshot link shows

A snapshot link opens a public page with the picture, the symbol, interval, time, and your user name. Anyone can open it; no account is needed. The page has an Open chart button that opens that symbol and interval live on SuperCharting, plus Download, Post, WhatsApp and Telegram buttons for passing it on.

Copy link, the share buttons and Share… need you to be signed in, because the picture is stored under your account. Each account keeps its newest 300 snapshot links, and a link is removed after 90 days. If you need the picture longer, use Download image and keep the file.

How to share a chart in SuperCharting

1. Open the chart you want to share, for example NSE:BANKNIFTY on the 15-minute interval, and add your drawings or indicators.
2. In a layout with several charts, click that chart so it is the active one.
3. Click Share in the header (on a phone, open the More menu and choose Take a snapshot).
4. Choose Copy image to paste the picture somewhere, Download image to keep a file, or Share on WhatsApp or Share on Telegram to send it with a link.
5. To share the live layout instead, click the arrow next to the layout name in the header (Manage layouts) and switch Share layout on. The layout is saved first if it is new.
6. Choose Copy link… from the same menu and send the link. It looks like supercharting.com/chart/ followed by the layout's code.
7. To stop sharing, switch Share layout off. The link stops working at once.

Practical example: sharing a NIFTY setup with a trading group

Say you have marked a range on NSE:NIFTY, 5-minute interval, with a rectangle from 24,180 to 24,260 and the VWAP indicator on the chart, and you want your WhatsApp group to see it before the open.

• For a quick look, press Ctrl + Shift + S and paste the picture into WhatsApp Web; NIFTY, 5m and the date are in the strip at the bottom.
• To post it from your phone, open the More menu, tap Take a snapshot, then Share…, and pick the group. The picture goes as an image, with the snapshot link in the text.
• For a friend who wants to look closer, turn on Share layout and send the Copy link… link. They open the same NIFTY 5-minute chart with your rectangle and VWAP, can scroll back through the morning, and if they have an account can click Make a copy… to keep it in their own layouts.

For the drawing side of this, see drawing tools; for more than one chart in a layout, see multi-chart layouts.

Shared layout links and the guest view

What the viewer gets depends on whether they are signed in.

A signed-in viewer sees the layout in view-only mode. The header's Save button reads View only, and the layouts menu shows Make a copy…, Download chart data… and Back to my chart layout. They can scroll, zoom and change the interval, but nothing they change is saved to your layout. Make a copy… saves it as one of their own layouts.

A visitor without an account gets a guest view: the same charts in view-only mode, with built-in indicators and your own scripts running. Community scripts on the layout do not run for a guest. The layouts menu offers Sign in to make a copy… and Create a free account; after signing in, the layout opens in their account. A guest page lasts up to four hours, after which the link has to be opened again.

What a shared layout does not hand over:

• Your script code. Scripts you wrote yourself run on the viewer's chart, but their code is not sent. When someone makes a copy, your own scripts are left out of their copy, and they are told how many.
• Alerts and paper trading. Neither travels with the layout, and a guest cannot create alerts, run community scripts or use the optimiser.
• Your later edits are live. The link always opens the layout as it is saved now, not as it was when you shared it. For a fixed record of one moment, use a snapshot.

What sharing does not do

• A snapshot is one chart, not the whole multi-chart layout.
• There is no way to annotate the picture after it is taken; draw on the chart first, then take the snapshot.
• There is no list of your snapshot links and no button to delete one; a link stays public until it ages out after 90 days or is pushed out by newer ones. Use Copy image instead of a link for anything private.
• Snapshots are not sent by e-mail, and neither are alerts. Alerts with chart pictures go to Telegram on the Plus plan and up, as described in Telegram alerts.

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Frequently asked questions

Is sharing a chart free?

Yes. Snapshots and shared layout links are on every plan, including Essential, the free plan. A snapshot link needs a signed-in account; downloading or copying the picture works the same way on every plan.

Can people change my layout through the link?

No. Viewers see it in view-only mode, and nothing they change is saved to your layout. They can save their own copy with Make a copy….

How long does a snapshot link last?

Up to 90 days, and each account keeps its newest 300. Download the picture if you need it for longer.

Can I share from my phone?

Yes. Open the More menu and choose Take a snapshot; on most phones Share… sends the picture straight to WhatsApp, Telegram or any other app. See mobile charting.