--- title: "5. Chart types, Candles + Daily, themes and templates" slug: "chart-types-and-appearance" kind: "HELP_ARTICLE" category: "charts" locale: "en" canonical: "https://help.forecastcity.com/charts/chart-types-and-appearance" published: "2026-11-14T18:58:07.146Z" updated: "2026-11-14T18:58:07.146Z" description: "Pick from 8 chart types in 4CM-AI Charts including Candles + Daily overlays, switch Light and Dark themes, customize candle colors, and save chart templates." --- # 5. Chart types, Candles + Daily, themes and templates Intraday traders often flip to the daily chart just to check today's open, high, and low. **4CM-AI Charts** removes that extra step with **Candles + Daily**. It draws each day's full candle right behind your 15m, 30m, 1h, or 4h candles, and lets you save color templates across every chart. ## Choose from eight chart types Click the **Chart Type** icon in the top toolbar to change how price draws on the active chart. ![GBPUSD 1h chart running Candles + Daily with the Chart Type menu open, listing all eight chart styles.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/1d/1ddb2337016f09743b55d3d360d7e3f2efeae90f3f3756fd6ea6412772bd71ec.png) Pick Candles + Daily on 4h and below to frame each day's full range behind your intraday candles. 1. **Chart Type button:** shows the icon of your active style in the top toolbar. 2. **Candles** and **Candles + Daily:** classic candlesticks, either alone or framed inside each day's daily candle on 4h and below. 3. **Bars** and **Bars + Daily:** OHLC price sticks (a bar is one candle), plus hollow candles that highlight open-to-close momentum. 4. **Line** and **Heikin Ashi:** closing-price lines and shaded area charts for clean structure, or smoothed candles for strong trends. ## How does Candles + Daily work on intraday charts? Pick **Candles + Daily** (or tick **Show daily candles** in Settings) on any 1m through 4h chart. Each trading day's open, high, low, and close appears as a subtle outer box around your intraday candles. You see right away whether a 1h move extends a strong daily body or rejects from a daily wick. ![The Symbol tab in Chart Settings showing candle color pickers, Show daily candles controls, Template presets, and Apply to all.](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/dc/dc784b4f47d8c4e83eaf202a24c28e94e1543c87a0d89ae52d28885114eb7090.png) Customize candle colors, daily candle overlays, and saved templates inside Settings. 1. **Candle colors:** customize up and down colors for candle bodies, borders, and wicks. 2. **Show daily candles:** switch the daily overlay between a candle box and an OHLC stick, and adjust its line style. 3. **Template presets:** click **Template** to pick built-in ForecastCity, TradingView, or Binance styles, or save your own preset. 4. **Apply to all:** copies the active chart's colors and settings to every panel in a multi-chart layout. ## How do themes, watermarks and right margins work? - **Workspace themes:** open your top-right **Profile Menu** to switch between light, dark, and system themes. A prompt asks whether to match your chart colors or keep your custom preset. - **Canvas background and watermark:** on the Canvas tab in Settings, pick a solid or gradient background, adjust grid lines, or turn on **Watermark**. - **Space for forecast arrows:** in the Canvas tab, **Right bars** defaults to `35` candles of open space on the right. That gives 4CastMachine AI arrows and zone labels clear room ahead of live price. **Intraday clarity walkthrough:** open GBPUSD on 1h and pick **Candles + Daily**. Each day's outer box shows whether London price is breaking yesterday's low toward `1.32010` or pulling back inside today's range. Open Settings and save a template to reuse that view anytime. ## Related guides - [4\. Read and customize 4CastMachine AI on the chart]() - [6\. Price scales, timezones, session breaks and chart lines]()