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Everything in this article lives in one dialog: Main Settings, opened from the settings menu in the top toolbar. It has five tabs, and between them they control how clusters are built, how the chart is drawn, and how value area, imbalances, candles and liquidations are displayed.

Cluster Mode

The Cluster mode tab of the Main Settings dialog

Cluster mode picks what the data inside each candle is turned into: a volume profile, a delta profile, a bid-ask ladder, and so on. This is the single setting that changes the chart most, so it is worth trying each mode on a chart you know well before settling on one.

Bar width calculation and Bar width sensitivity decide how wide each row inside the cluster is drawn. On Adaptive, the width responds to the data rather than staying fixed, and the sensitivity value controls how strongly it reacts. Lower values keep the rows closer to a uniform width; higher values exaggerate the difference between busy and quiet price levels.

Chart

The Chart tab of the Main Settings dialog

Min. cluster height to show text sets the point at which numbers inside clusters are hidden. When you zoom out, rows get too short to hold readable text, and drawing it anyway turns the chart into noise. Raise this value if the text looks cramped, lower it if you want numbers at tighter zoom levels.

Short numbers abbreviates large figures, so 1,250,000 is drawn as 1.25M. With it off, the full number is printed, which is more precise but takes far more room inside a cluster.

Volume height sets the height of the volume bars below the chart.

Grid type changes how gridlines are drawn.

Auto-center locked price keeps the current price centred vertically when the price scale is locked, instead of letting it drift towards the top or bottom of the window as the market moves.

Mouse zoom sensitivity controls how far one scroll step zooms. The default is 35. Lower it if the chart jumps too far per notch, raise it if zooming feels slow.

GMT Offset shifts the time axis, from -12 to 12. Set it to your own timezone, or to the timezone of the session you trade, so session boundaries land where you expect them.

Scale price by lower bound changes how the price scale is calculated, which affects how much of the range is visible at a given zoom.

VA, POC and Imbalance

The VA, POC, Imbalance tab of the Main Settings dialog

VA % sets how much of the traded volume counts as the value area. The convention is 68%, one standard deviation, and that is the default. Changing it changes where VAH and VAL sit on every profile, so it is worth leaving alone unless you have a reason.

Outside VA opacity fades everything trading outside the value area. Lower values push the value area forward visually and let the tails recede.

POC border width sets the thickness of the line drawn around the point of control.

Bid-Ask Imbalance calculation % is the threshold that makes a price level count as imbalanced. At 250, one side has to be two and a half times the diagonally opposite side before the level is marked. Raise it to see only the strongest imbalances, lower it to see more.

Draw box behind Imbalances draws a filled box behind an imbalanced level instead of marking the text alone, which makes stacked imbalances much easier to pick out.

Imbalance ignore zeros decides whether a level with no volume on one side counts as an imbalance. With it on, those levels are skipped, which stops thin areas of the chart from filling with imbalance marks that carry no information.

DC and Candle

The DC, Candle tab of the Main Settings dialog

Direction candle thick draws the candle outline heavier, which helps at small chart sizes where the default border is hard to see.

Direction candle clustered (OC, HL, OHLC) controls how the candle is drawn alongside the cluster rather than over it.

No. of candles to calculate back sets how many candles the platform computes cluster data for. Higher values give you more history to scroll through and cost more to load, so this is the setting to lower first if charts are slow to build.

Always show last candle H/L/Range keeps the current candle's high, low and range on screen as it forms.

REKT

The Rekt tab of the Main Settings dialog

REKT Max contracts sets the size that maps to the largest bubble. Liquidations at or above this size all draw at maximum radius, and everything smaller is scaled against it. The right value depends on the instrument: a threshold that works on BTC will make every liquidation on a smaller pair look tiny.

REKT Max circle radius sets that maximum bubble size in pixels. Lower it if liquidation bubbles are covering the price action.

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