How to add technical analysis indicators to Kraken Desktop charts

On Kraken Desktop, you can add as many indicators as you’d like to the Chart module. You can also add technical overlays, such as moving averages or Bollinger Bands, to other indicators on the chart.

Adding a technical analysis indicator to the chart

Adding a technical overlay to an indicator

1.
Open a new board, or add a Chart module to an existing board.
2.
In the top right corner of the Chart module, click the “Technical analysis” button to open the settings.
3.
You will now see the current indicators that are on the chart, in each row there is a + icon that you may click in order to add an overlay to your existing indicator.
See step 4 for a full list of overlays.

4.

The overlay (and indicator) can be edited by clicking the arrow next to its name.

Note: Clicking the + icon in another indicator/overlay’s row under will add a new overlay to the indicator or overlay itself.

Overlays available on Kraken Desktop
Estimated Moving Average (EMA)
Simple Moving Average (SMA)
Bollinger Bands
Alligator
Arnaud Legoux Moving Average
Chandelier Exit
Donchian Channels
Exponential Moving Average
Hull Moving Average
Ichimoku Cloud
Kaufman's Adaptive Moving Average
Keltner Channels
Linear Regression
Least Squares Moving Average
Parabolic SAR
Smoothed Moving Average
Triple Exponential Moving Average
Triple Exponential Average
Volume Weighted Average Profile (VWAP)

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Adding a technical analysis indicator to the chart

Adding a technical overlay to an indicator

Overlays available on Kraken Desktop

Example: Adding a Simple Moving Average to the Volume indicator