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Five steps to confidence. Skip any time with ESC.

1. STEP 01 / 05

   Load a security as your workspace context

   Type `load AAPL` into the command bar (or any ticker — ES, NVDA, BTC-PERP). Every unpinned panel in the workspace will reference that security until you load a different one. The chart retargets immediately.

   Paletteload AAPL
2. STEP 02 / 05

   Switch the timeframe inline

   Bare timeframe codes are always recognised in the command bar — type `5m` for 5-minute candles, `1h` for hourly, `1d` for daily. The chart re-aggregates immediately. Try a few; look for the regime change as resolution drops.

   Palette5m
3. STEP 03 / 05

   Pan + zoom + jump-to-latest

   Scroll wheel = zoom (price + time axes track together). Shift-scroll = horizontal pan. Double-click = snap back to the latest bar and re-engage auto-scroll. R resets the view to defaults.

4. STEP 04 / 05

   Add a depth ladder beside the chart

   Type `DOM` to dock a depth-of-market ladder. Eleven columns: bid + ask depth, stacked imbalance, structure labels (VWAP / IBH / IBL / POC), pulled-liquidity strips, recent aggressor delta. Click a price to sim-submit an order.

   PaletteDOM
5. STEP 05 / 05

   Save your layout for next session

   Once the workspace looks the way you want it, type `save my-desk` to persist the layout. Reload it any time later with `layout my-desk`. Type `help workflows` for guided sequences answering specific trader questions.

   Palettesave my-desk

Price over time, opinionated. The chart ships with one carefully-tuned visual register — Heikin-Ashi candles, climax tinting on exhaustion bars, real-tick footprint cluster dots, and persistent horizontal lines for the levels that move the market. No 200 indicator toggles. The intent is that you open a chart and immediately see what matters.

The chart renders on a native, GPU-accelerated engine — no browser, no per-frame server round-trip. It stays smooth under 10k+ bars and new ticks reach the screen within a millisecond of data arrival.

• Palette: add chart. The bare symbol ES retargets whichever chart is focused.
• Symbol + function: NQ CHART.
• First-load workspaces already include a chart in the top-left of the default layout.

Default candle style is Heikin-Ashi — averaged OHLC that smooths intraday noise and surfaces the directional bias of a run more readably than raw candles. The neutral palette is dark slate-purple; trending bars stay grey by default.

Bars that meet the climax classifier's criteria pick up one of six tinted body colors. The classifier reads RSI(30) Wilders on cumulative delta plus aggressor intensity per bar. Six tiers across two sides:

• Buy-side exhaustion — three shades of blue/pink getting progressively brighter as the climax read strengthens. Marks a likely top.
• Sell-side exhaustion — three shades of red similarly graded. Marks a likely bottom.

Climax tinting is part of the candle render itself, not an overlay. There is no toggle — this is what a candle looks like in Sharpnel.

Futures symbols (ES, NQ, MES, MNQ, YM, RTY, CL, GC, etc.) render as N-contract volume bars by default — each bar covers exactly N contracts of cumulative size regardless of wall-clock duration. ES uses N = 1500, NQ uses N = 500, others use 500 as a sensible default.

Volume bars produce uniform-energy bars: a swing top with heavy volume yields 5-8 consecutive bars in quick succession, which makes the climax classifier's output cluster visually at the swing instead of appearing as isolated marks. Equity symbols still render as time bars (5-minute default).

Small filled circles overlaid on individual bars where the per-tick footprint shows a real volume concentration at a specific price level inside the bar. Cyan for buy-aggressor-dominated clusters; pink for seller-aggressor-dominated.

Source data: the per-(bar, price-level) aggressor split is computed server-side from the raw trades stream, then attached to each bar in the chart payload. Cluster dots fire on real volume — not a synthetic distribution across the bar's high-low range.

Lines drawn across the full chart width that persist as you pan and zoom. Each line carries a small label at its right edge.

• Session VWAP — anchored to the latest session boundary marker. The most-watched intraday reference.
• Session POC — the highest-volume price bucket in the current session.
• Gamma walls — Call Wall, Put Wall, Gamma Flip, Max Pain, Vol Trigger. Pulled from the dealer-positioning gamma exposure feed for symbols that have it (ES, NQ, SPY, QQQ, plus on-demand for tracked tickers). These are the levels that absorb or accelerate price.
• Live price tag — yellow tag at the current price on the right axis, floats with every tick.

For futures, the chart defaults to per-symbol volume bars. For equities, time bars at 5-minute resolution. Resolution can be changed via the panel's prompt strip; the chart refetches and rebuilds.

• Wheel scroll — zoom in / out, anchored on the cursor's bar.
• Drag — pan left / right.
• Double-click — reset to the latest bar and re-enable follow-mode.

Hover anywhere on the chart — the crosshair reads price, time, and OHLCV at that bar. Climax tier for the bar appears in the upper-left chrome strip when the cursor sits on a tinted bar.

• New ticks reach the screen in under a millisecond of arriving — the live aggregator builds the open bar in-engine, no JS-side roundtrip.
• Historical loads are cached server-side (30-second TTL on futures volume bars) so repeated symbol switches and multi-panel preset loads stay snappy.
• Symbol switching is a single fetch — the chart boots directly to the requested symbol from a URL parameter instead of loading a default first and then swapping.

• DOM V2 — the order book paired with the chart. VWAP, Session POC, and gamma walls drawn here are echoed as horizontal overlays on the DOM ladder.
• Footprint — full per-bar bid/ask flow grid. Cluster dots on the main chart give a four-bar preview of this view.
• GEX — gamma exposure. The chart's horizontal wall lines come from this dataset.
• TPO Profile — time spent at each price.