How to Change Candle Colors on Tradovate, Adjust Candlestick Style in Web App 2026 Easily

Everything in this guide happens from inside an open chart panel. This example shows an ESU5 5-minute candlestick chart sitting alongside a second instrument chart and a live order book. Tradovate's layout keeps multiple charts, an order ticket, and your positions all visible at once, and the toolbar running along the top of each individual chart panel is where its display settings live, separate from the account-wide controls at the very top of the window.

Click the gear icon in the chart's toolbar to open Configure Chart Elements. This panel lists everything currently layered onto the chart, in this case Bollinger Bands, an SMA, and an RSI, each with an eye icon to toggle visibility and a trash icon to remove it entirely.

It isn't the color editor itself; it's the doorway to it. The chart's own name appears at the top of this list, and clicking it opens the Chart Editor, a dedicated dialog for chart type, time frame, and, the reason you're here, candle styling. Chart Type is set to Candlestick and Time Frame to whatever interval the chart is currently showing, both adjustable from dropdowns at the top of the dialog.

The Style section of the Chart Editor breaks candle color into nine separate swatches: Body Up, Body Down, and Body Neutral for the fill, Wick Up, Wick Down, and Wick Neutral for the thin lines above and below each candle, and matching outline colors for all three. Clicking any swatch opens a full color picker with a gradient field, a hue slider, and hex plus RGB input boxes, so you can drag to a shade or type an exact hex code if you're matching a color from another platform.

Bright green for up candles and deep red for down is the default most traders start from, but set the wick and outline colors independently too. A wick close to the background color disappears at a glance, which defeats the point of customizing in the first place.

Below the color grid, Show Fills and Trade Lines are simple checkboxes. Show Fills controls whether candle bodies are solid or hollow outlines, and Trade Lines overlays your own executed orders directly on the price action, useful for reviewing how a trade played out relative to the candles around it.

Body Neutral and Wick Neutral cover candles that close exactly where they opened; leaving that at the default gray is usually clearer than forcing it into either the up or down color. Two more color options sit apart from the candle styling: Sell Fills and Loss Trades, which color your own order markers on the chart, not the price candles. Setting Loss Trades to something visually loud, the default is a strong red, makes losing trades easier to spot in your history without opening a separate reports tab.

Once every color looks right, use Apply to preview the change on the live chart without closing the dialog, then Save. Tradovate stores color and style choices as part of a Chart Template instead of locking them to the single panel you edited.

Save the template, and you can apply the same look to any other chart, including new ones you open later, instead of rebuilding it swatch by swatch each time. Tradovate also supports separate color schemes for Light Mode and Dark Mode, switching automatically with your platform theme. If you run both, set up a scheme for each so a wick that reads clearly in dark mode doesn't wash out the moment you flip to light.