Using PSX charts in the app

Open a chart the useful way

From Charts explorer or a stock profile, pick a symbol and timeframe. Candlesticks and volume are a compact language for price history; they do not know your risk tolerance.

Start with liquid names while you learn the controls so gaps and thin prints confuse you less.

Indicators and drawings

Moving averages, RSI, Bollinger bands and drawing tools may be available depending on plan limits. They frame history; they do not guarantee future returns.

If an indicator conflicts with the financial story of the company, believe the need for more research — not the need for more indicators.

Portfolio context on the chart

When you hold a name, the app can surface open or realized context so research stays tied to lots you actually own.

Always sanity-check marks against broker or exchange figures if something looks off.

Delays, gaps and refresh

Quotes and bars can be delayed or incomplete. Refresh when a chart looks stale, and treat missing sessions as data issues rather than mysterious signals.

Charts complement — they do not replace — filings, position sizing and a written plan.

This guide is educational and describes how PSX Tracker works. It is not investment, tax or legal advice. Confirm rules and figures with your broker, FBR guidance and professional advisors.

What the chart is allowed to claim

A candlestick is a picture of prices the app was able to fetch: open, high, low, and close for a period, or a shorter series when that is all that exists. It is not the exchange’s official tape, and it can be delayed, missing, or revised. Before you place an order, the price that matters is the one on your broker’s order ticket.

Indicators are arithmetic on that history. A moving average, RSI, or Bollinger band does not know the company’s news, the dividend that goes ex tomorrow, or the halt you have not heard about. They describe the path the price already took.

The chart can also show your own position: what you paid and what you have realized. That overlay is only as good as the trades you entered. A wrong quantity in the ledger becomes a wrong line on the chart. Fix the ledger first if the picture looks impossible.

Choose a question before you choose an indicator

“Is this name in a longer downtrend?” is a different picture from “what did it do this week?” A one-day view that is a single live point will not answer the first question. A five-year view will hide the level you care about for tomorrow’s order. Pick the range that matches the decision, then stop adding indicators until you can say what a cross or a band would change in that decision.

Comparing your chart to a friend’s screenshot is a good way to argue about nothing. Their range, their adjustment for a split, and their data vendor can all differ. Compare both of you to the company’s own filing and to the broker’s chart if the level is important.

Drawings and saved layouts are personal notes. They do not travel as investment advice, and they do not update when you are wrong. If a trend line you drew last year is still on the chart, ask whether it still marks a decision or whether it is decoration.

Portfolio context without mixing up the P&L

Seeing cost on the chart helps you remember that “the price is up today” and “I am ahead on this lot” are different. Today’s move uses the previous close, or the trade price if you bought today. Your profit uses the cost of the shares you still hold. The app keeps those calculations apart on purpose.

A chart of the index next to a chart of one stock is context, not a verdict. A stock can fall on a day the KSE-100 rises because of one announcement. Your holdings’ day can differ from both because of what you bought this morning. The performance guide and the dashboard are the place for that comparison. The chart is the place for the price path.

Funds do not belong on a share candlestick. Mark a fund with its NAV series if you have one, and do not paste a fund into a stock chart because the symbol field was empty.

Corporate actions and bad candles

A split or a bonus can look like a crash if the history is not adjusted and you do not know the notice. Before you conclude that a company lost half its value overnight, read the announcements for that date. The filings panel exists for that check.

A single absurd high or low is often a bad print. One candle that is ten times the neighbors should make you suspicious of the data, not excited about a signal. Cross-check the broker or the exchange disclosure before you trade the spike.

Missing days are usually holidays or a symbol that did not trade. Filling them with a copy of the previous close and then running an indicator will invent smoothness the market did not have. Leave the gap visible.

A research routine that stays honest

Open the company, read what it does, look at the latest results, then look at the chart. The reverse order, chart first and story later, is how people buy a shape. Write down the level at which you would be wrong, in rupees and in reasons, before you size the trade.

Use alerts if you want the app to tell you that a price you chose has been touched. An alert is not an order. You still go to the broker, and you still check that the symbol and the side are the ones you meant.

Nothing on the chart is a recommendation from PSX Tracker. The tool draws the series it can fetch and the trades you stored. The decision, and the mistake, stay with you.

Common questions

Are the charts live broker prices?

They are research charts built from the market data the app can fetch. Prices can be delayed or missing. Confirm a trade on your broker.

Can I open a chart from a holding?

Yes. Open a ticker from research or from a holding to see its history, then return to the portfolio for cost and quantity.

Do charts tell me what to buy?

No. Indicators describe past prices. They are not a recommendation.

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