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Auto Trend and Market Context

How a screenshot gets its candle, trend and last swing from your imported MT5 candles.


When you've imported MT5 candles for a pair, every screenshot of that pair gets a Market Context card in its Details tab.

What it shows

  • The candle at the chart's time — open, high, low and close.
  • Trend chips for the screenshot's timeframe and the next two higher ones — for example H1 Up, H4 Up, D1 Sideways. The trend comes from swing highs and lows: higher highs and higher lows = up, lower highs and lower lows = down, overlapping = sideways.
  • Last swing — higher high, lower high, higher low or lower low.

A timeframe needs at least 30 candles before its chip appears. The footer shows the screenshot's own trend as H1 Uptrend Ā· auto.

When there's no context

The card tells you why and what to import:

  • No candles for this pair and timeframe yet.
  • The chart time is before your first candle or after your last one.
  • The chart time falls in a gap in your data — export that range again from MT5.
  • Your data stops a little before the chart time — the card then reads from the last candle you have.

See Link screenshots to candles and Import candles.

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