Chart Settings
Learn more about the options in the chart settings menu — you can customize themes, choose a language, and much more.
Cryptowatch lets you enhance your trading experience with a variety of chart settings. Read the tables below for a run-down of the settings options.
Open the settings panel by clicking the
icon in the top-right of the page.


Option | Description |
Theme | Opens a list of available themes, including any custom themes you have saved. Change the name of the theme with pencil icon to the right of the menu. |
#Edit | Changes the method for color selection to a text edit window with hexadecimal values. |
Colors | Changes the method of color selection to a list of the editable elements with a color preview. Click the color preview square to open a color wheel. |
Save Theme | Save your custom theme. |
Fiat Prices | Lets you change the display prices in a market to any currency listed in the panel, regardless of the base or quote currency of the trading pair. |
Language | Opens the language selection menu. |
Use SI prefixes for quotes | Description |
m milli(10−3)(10^-3)(10−3) | Shortens the quote prices by 3 decimal points. |
µ micro(10−6)(10^-6)(10−6) | Shortens the quote prices by 6 decimal points. |
Emphasis | Description |
Hide leading zeroes | Darkens all zeroes in quote prices up until the first digit above zero in the Trade History and Depth Chart panels. |
Hide redundant digits | Darkens all redundant digits from line to line in the Trade History and Depth Chart panels. |
Alerts | Description |
Snap to round numbers | Determines if prices / volumes snap to round numbers when setting alerts or adjusting the price of an order via the chart. |
Performance | Description |
Throttle order book refresh | Determines how quickly order book data is updated. Data will refresh more quickly with a lower set value, however this will consume more CPU resources. |
My Activity | Description |
My Trades | All previous trades appear on the chart when selected (enabled by default). |
My Orders | All open orders appear on the y-axis when selected (enabled by default). |
Show Order Line | When creating an order, this option places a dotted line on the chart at its price level. |
Navigation | Description |
History Scrollbar | Toggles the history scrollbar on the chart. |
Event Timeline | Toggles the event timeline on the chart. Major events are displayed as yellow diamonds, and minor events are smaller grey diamonds. |
Scroll Zoom Sensitivity | Determines how sensitive scroll zooming is. The higher the value, the more sensitive. |