ProBors advanced chart drawing tools live on the full-page chart at /chart/{TICKER}—a workspace separate from the compact Market panel. You can drag a Measure tool for percent change and bar count, drop horizontal and trend lines, sketch Fibonacci retracements, and keep congressional and insider markers visible while you annotate. Drawings save per ticker in your browser, so a Monday morning pass on NVDA or AAPL does not reset when you return later in the week. This is a product workflow guide for disclosure researchers, not investment advice.
Quick answer
Open Full chart from the Market workspace Price & disclosures panel, or navigate directly to a ticker chart after signing in. Use the left rail for drawing tools (crosshair, measure, horizontal line, trend line, Fibonacci) and the right rail for congress markers, insider markers, and moving averages. Press Chart settings for chart type (including Heikin Ashi), color themes, and log scale. Click any disclosure marker to open the context window and verify filing dates against your annotations.
When to use the full chart vs the Market panel
| Surface | Best for |
|---|---|
Market workspace (/market/{TICKER}) | Quick price window, preset ranges (1M, 3M, 6M), first-pass marker scan |
Full advanced chart (/chart/{TICKER}) | Longer history, keyboard shortcuts, drawing annotations, undo stack |
Start in Market when you are triaging a fresh ticker from a trade row or watchlist alert. Jump to Full chart when you need to bracket a disclosure window with trend lines or measure how far price moved between a transaction date and a filing date. For marker legend basics, see the ProBors market chart congress markers guide.
Step 1: Open the chart and set your interval
From Market → Workspace, load a ticker and click Full chart in the Price & disclosures strip. The top bar shows the symbol, bar count, and interval chips under Interval (one candle).
Pick a daily or weekly interval that covers both the transaction date and filing date you care about. Congressional markers plot on transaction date; filing lag can mean the public learned weeks later. If you are comparing those two moments, load enough history to see price action across the full gap—how to compare filing date vs transaction date walks through that timing question in prose.
Step 2: Toggle disclosure markers and moving averages
On the right rail (Disclosure markers and averages):
- Congress markers — triangular overlays for STOCK Act rows (shortcut C)
- Insider markers — diamond overlays for whale and Form 4-style lines (shortcut I)
- MA20 and MA50 — simple trend context on the close (shortcuts 4 and 5)
Enable congress markers when you arrived from a PTR row; add insider markers when you want to see whether executive sales clustered near the same window. Hide either layer if the chart is too busy on liquid mega-caps.
Step 3: Measure price change between two points
Select Measure on the left rail (shortcut M). Click and drag across the chart to lock a ruler showing:
- Absolute price change
- Percent change
- Bar count between the two points
Use this when a headline cites a politician trade and you want to see how much the stock moved from transaction date to filing date—or from filing date to today. Press Escape to clear the ruler. Measure mode is read-only annotation; it does not change your watchlist or alerts.
Step 4: Add horizontal lines, trend lines, and Fibonacci levels
The left Chart drawing tools rail supports three persistent annotations:
| Tool | What it does | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Horizontal line | Flat support/resistance at one price | H or 1 |
| Trend line | Line between two price-time points | T or 2 |
| Fibonacci retracement | Drag from swing low to swing high (or reverse) | F or 3 |
Click Crosshair (V or backtick) when you only need to inspect prices and markers without placing a new drawing.
After placing a line, the floating Drawing style bar lets you change Color and Width, or Delete drawing. Select an existing drawing to edit it. Undo and Redo on the left rail (or ⌘/Ctrl+Z) cover the last 80 steps per session. Drawings persist locally per symbol—switching from NVDA to MSFT loads that ticker's saved set.
A practical disclosure workflow: drop a horizontal line at the closing price on a congress marker's transaction date, then a trend line from that date to the filing date to visualize the drift before the public filing landed.
Step 5: Tune chart appearance and verify filings
Press Chart settings (S) to open the Chart & tools modal:
- Chart type — Candlestick, Line, Area, or Heikin Ashi for smoother trend reads
- Color themes — Muted steel, Classic, or Bright
- Show grid, Logarithmic price scale, and MA toggles
- Fit all bars in view when you have zoomed into a tight window
Log scale (L on the left rail) helps on wide-range names where a linear axis compresses early history.
When a marker deserves a closer look, click it. If several filings share one dot, ProBors dims the chart and asks you to pick the row—same behavior as the Market panel. The disclosure context window opens with transaction date, filing date, amount bracket, signal score, and a focused price strip. Cross-check those dates against your drawings before you cite the trade in notes or a draft article.
Pair high-signal rows with ProBors trade signal scores so you annotate markers worth verifying, not every dot on a crowded chart.
Keyboard shortcuts worth memorizing
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| C / I | Toggle congress / insider markers |
| M | Measure tool |
| H or 1 | Horizontal line |
| T or 2 | Trend line |
| F or 3 | Fibonacci retracement |
| G | Toggle grid |
| L | Logarithmic scale |
| S | Chart settings modal |
| 0 or ⌘0 | Fit all bars |
| ] / [ | Zoom in / out |
| Esc | Clear measure ruler or close picker |
What chart drawings do not prove
- Not causal proof — A trend line from a buy marker to a rally does not mean the politician caused the move.
- Not real-time — Markers reflect STOCK Act and Form 4 publication timing, not live brokerage feeds.
- Not exact dollars — Amount fields remain statutory brackets from the original filing.
- Not portable across browsers — Drawings save locally; clearing site data removes them.
Official congressional filings remain authoritative: House Clerk financial disclosures and Senate eFD search. SEC insider filings: EDGAR search.
FAQ
Do drawings sync across devices?
No. Annotations save in your browser per ticker. Export notes separately if you need a permanent research record.
Can I use drawing tools without disclosure markers?
Yes. Toggle congress and insider markers off on the right rail. The measure and line tools still work on price alone.
Does the full chart show the same disclosures as the Trades tab?
Yes. Markers pull from the same congressional and whale tables that power trade search, signal scores, and watchlist alerts. Check data status if markers fail to load.
Will Heikin Ashi change my marker dates?
No. Heikin Ashi transforms candle bodies for display; disclosure markers still anchor to their original transaction or filing dates.
Are more drawing tools coming?
The left rail notes that channels, text labels, and additional shapes are planned. Horizontal lines, trend lines, Fibonacci, and measure cover most disclosure-timing workflows today.
Annotate disclosure timing on a full chart
Open a ticker chart on ProBors, enable congress markers, and use measure and trend tools to bracket transaction and filing dates.
Get startedRelated reading
- ProBors market chart congress markers guide
- ProBors market workspace guide
- ProBors disclosure context window guide
- How to compare filing date vs transaction date
- ProBors trade signal scores
Sources
- House Clerk financial disclosures — official House PTR source
- Senate eFD search — official Senate periodic transaction reports
- SEC EDGAR search — insider Form 4 filings
- ProBors data status — ingestion health for chart and disclosure feeds
- Rows were checked in ProBors and should be verified against the original filing.
Sources & methodology
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ProBors uses public disclosure records, SEC filings, House and Senate financial disclosure portals, market data, and in-product workflow checks. Articles are written as research education, not investment advice.