Kagi, free and live.

What you get

• Kagi lines built from live crypto candles, with a configurable reversal amount
• Thick yang and thin yin segments, switching where the previous shoulder or waist is broken
• Reversal set in percent or in price, so it can be tuned per instrument rather than per chart
• Works on spot and perpetual futures across the supported venues
• Indicators and drawings sit on the Kagi chart like any other chart type

Why this is usually paid for

Kagi is one of the chart types that tends to sit behind a paid tier, not because it is expensive to compute but because it is a long-tail feature that separates a basic plan from a full one.

It costs nothing to draw once the candles are already in the browser, which is why every chart type here is available to everyone.

How to use it

1. 1

   Open the chart on Kagi

   The button below switches the terminal to the Kagi renderer. It builds from the same candles as everything else, so switching back and forth compares like with like.

2. 2

   Set the reversal to the instrument

   The reversal decides how much the market must retrace before the line turns. Too small and it becomes a noisy zig-zag; too large and a whole swing disappears. A volatile altcoin needs a wider reversal than BTC for the same readability.

3. 3

   Read the thickness, not just the direction

   The line thickens when price takes out the previous high and thins when it breaks the previous low. The transitions are the signal — a long thin stretch turning thick is the market reclaiming ground it had lost.

4. 4

   Use it for structure, then go back for timing

   Kagi discards time entirely, which is what makes the structure legible and what makes it useless for timing. Find the level on Kagi, then switch to candles or footprint to see when and how price arrived there.

Questions

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