You can now zoom any chart by holding Ctrl and rolling your mouse wheel. No range menu needed.

Also new: two chart styles, Heikin Ashi and Hollow Candles, plus a Measure tool that shows price, percent, time and bars between two points.

TradingBlock users: Stop and Stop Limit orders show the right prices on the chart, and option chain Volume fills in during market hours. Plus a few chart fixes (full list below).

Ctrl + Scroll Zoom on Charts

Hold Ctrl and roll your mouse wheel over a chart to zoom in or out. You no longer have to switch ranges or drag the navigator to get a closer look at recent price action.

How to use it

1. Open a chart (Research → Chart).
2. Move your mouse over the price chart.
3. Hold Ctrl and roll the wheel to zoom in or out.
4. Let go of Ctrl to scroll the page as usual.
5. Click Reset Zoom in the chart toolbar to go back to the full range.

Why Ctrl?

The chart only zooms while Ctrl is held down, so you won't zoom it by accident while scrolling past it.

Heikin Ashi and Hollow Candles

Two new chart styles are in the chart type menu, next to Candlestick, OHLC and Line.

Heikin Ashi averages each candle with the one before it. This smooths out the noise, so trends and reversals stand out.

Hollow Candles add a second signal. A hollow candle closed above its open, and a filled candle closed below it. The color shows whether the close was up or down from the day before.

Measure Tool

The new Measure tool shows the distance between any two points on a chart: the price change in dollars and percent, plus the time and number of bars between them. Find it in the annotation tools menu in the chart toolbar.

Trades shows "--" when there's no count

When no trade count is available, the quote panel now shows -- for Trades instead of 0. This happens for all stocks on Schwab and for some futures.

Change Log

• NewCharts — Hold Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel to zoom the chart in and out
• NewCharts — Heikin Ashi chart style
• NewCharts — Hollow Candles chart style
• NewDrawing tools — Measure tool: shows the price change ($ and %), the time and the number of bars between two points
• ImprovedOption chain — Volume now shows for active strikes during market hours (for example SPY), alongside Open Interest
• ImprovedQuotes — Trades shows "--" instead of 0 when no trade count is available (for example Schwab stocks and some futures)
• ImprovedCharts — Live charts update more efficiently when a new candle starts
• FixedTradingBlock — Stop and Stop Limit orders now show their correct prices on the chart (both previously showed the Stop price)
• FixedCharts — The last candle on intraday timeframes no longer appears twice