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Advanced Drawing Tools (ADT) is a drawing and annotation add-on for Bookmap. Pick from 26 drawing tools and arrange the palette the way you work, with layers to keep a busy chart readable.
It also keeps a per-day journal, and a Live Room lets other people watch you mark up your chart from a browser.
draw it · keep it · show it · look back at it
The palette is a window you move where you want it, and it remembers where you put it. Which layout you use is your call, and you can switch at any time.
Every tool in a wide strip with its caption showing, so nothing has to be recognised from an icon alone.
The same strip reduced to the icons, for when you already know the tools by shape.
A tall column with the tools grouped by kind, and the style controls at the foot.
One frameless strip of icons, for when you want the chart back.
The palette is a tool, not furniture.
Drag tools into the order you want and hide the ones you never use. The text-size buttons scale it to your screen, and a badge on the header counts what is on the chart, so 247 objects is never a surprise.
Show the 26 drawing tools you actually use, hide the rest, and drag them into the order that suits you. These are all 26, named as they read on the buttons.
Horizontal and vertical lines, rays, and Buyers and Sellers zones land at the price you click. Consolidation brackets open to the right with a movable HVN line.
Trend lines, channels, arrows and Fibonacci are drawn across the swing. Hold Shift to constrain. Polyline takes up to 64 anchors.
Long and Short place a whole position template at the entry, direction-correct. Measured moves project a leg. Range reads out a price span.
Text, notes, numbered callouts and comments with a leader line back to the anchor, so a chart still means something a week later.
Every line can be solid, dashed or dotted. Fibonacci ships with the standard levels and you can edit them. Angled tools can raise an alarm when price crosses them.
Two clicks box a time and price range. Every trade executed inside the box is counted, and the volume at each price draws as a bar growing from the box's left edge. The longest bar is the most-traded price.
The mPOC marks the box's most-traded price. Show it as a straight line, or as a migration path that steps through where acceptance moved as the profile developed.
Each gets its own color, thickness and style, can extend to the right, and can carry a label.
Auto-extend keeps the right edge on the live price line. An R.V.P. cannot be placed past that line.
Double-click a box to open R.V.P. Appearance. Every change previews live before you commit it, and Cancel or Esc rolls back to what you started with. The counts use the market's executed trades, never your own fills.
Once you have drawn enough for it to be useful, the problem stops being drawing and starts being finding.
Every drawing is a row you can find, edit, delete or mark to persist, tagged with the layer it belongs to.
Group drawings, then show, hide or lock a whole layer at once. Drag layers into the order you want. A locked layer refuses, quietly and on purpose.
Filter by day, and carry a level forward from a previous session instead of drawing it again.
This is the part that makes ADT more than an annotation tool. It keeps one page per trading day, and the notes you take are tied to the chart you took them on.
A feed of timestamped entries, each stamped with the price at the moment you saved it, and carrying a bias chip: Long, Neutral or Short.
A free-form area for the day, saved when the window loses focus, when it closes, and when you change day.
Drop a marker the moment something happens and give it a note. Markers collect in time order, and clicking one jumps to it on the chart.
A marker with a note also appears as a linked journal entry. Editing the note updates the entry, and deleting either side cleans up after itself.
A day navigator moves between Prev day, Today and Next day, and past days are read-only history. A pencil button on the palette, or a hotkey, takes a note without leaving the chart.
A Live Room puts your marked-up chart in front of other people while you work on it. One person holds the pen at a time, so a room stays readable instead of turning into everyone drawing at once.
Watchers join read-only from a web page. They do not need Bookmap and they do not need ADT, so you can show your chart to someone who does not own the software.
Participants ask for the pen and wait in a first-come line. The host, or a moderator the host appoints, passes it over and can take it back.
Host, moderator, participant and web watcher. Moderators help run the room and manage the pen. Only the host appoints them.
What arrives from a room lands in a read-only Shared Room layer beside your own work rather than mixed into it. Clearing the room wipes the room; your own drawings are untouched. A room holds up to 100 people.
Participants and watchers are anonymous to one another; only the host and appointed moderators see the roster. Everything travels through the relay, so there is no direct connection between one participant and another.
A chart with everything on it at once is hard to explain and hard to learn from. Storyboard groups your drawings into steps and reveals them in order, so the chart tells the day the way it happened.
Build steps from the drawings you have selected, name them, and reorder them.
Choose which layers take part, so an unrelated layer does not wander into the story.
Back, Next, Show All and Exit, in their own small controller window.
Save a story shape as a template and use it again on the next session.
Levels and session boundaries you redraw every morning can be set once and left alone. Scheduled lines are drawn automatically at a set time each trading day, in the timezone you choose, and they are DST-correct.
A full-height line at the scheduled time. Give it an end time and it draws a translucent band instead.
A full-width level. Either capture the traded price as the scheduled time passes, or type a fixed price.
That price drawn from the scheduled time rightward to the live edge.
Each entry has its own time, its own look and its own name, and can break from the defaults where you need it to. Schedules share separately from drawings, and one someone sends you stays read-only until you adopt it.
A tray of up to ten presets for the marks you make over and over. Each keeps its own look and its own slot, and the slot is a stable hotkey, so the preset in slot 3 is always the one slot 3 arms.
Two deliberate steps, so a stamp never lands by accident. The preset disarms itself once placed.
A stamp keeps the look it had when you placed it, so editing a preset later never rewrites marks already on the chart.
The tray switches between a row and a column, and between showing the wording and glyph-only.
Quick Annotations is part of Advanced mode.
ADT has two interface modes. Both carry the same tools and the same settings. What changes is how much of the organizing machinery is on screen.
Drawing tools and the core object list. The objects window carries Objects and Review. Nothing is lost by starting here.
Adds Layers and Storyboard to the objects window, and turns on Quick Annotations. The switch is in Settings, under General.
You can ignore all of it and just draw, or go in and set the defaults every new drawing starts from.
The starting point for every tool, and how drawings behave at the live edge.
Defaults for new fibs, and the level set.
Zone and bracket sizing, with separate heights for Buyers and Sellers.
Lines placed to a schedule, and how their captions sit.
Opens the share panel, and holds the cloud opt-in.
Layout, tool order, and which tools show.
How the add-on behaves overall, from interface mode through to backup and restore.
Bind the actions you use. Nothing is bound until you bind it.
Logging controls, and the license and disclaimer.
Timestamps follow whichever timezone you work in. Undo goes back 50 steps, and the trading day rolls at 18:00.
There is no configuration to get through before you can draw something.
Add ADT to Bookmap's add-ons and enable it on the chart you want it on.
The palette opens. Pick a tool, click the chart. That is the whole loop.
Drawings save per instrument, per session date, in ADT's own folder. Nothing is written into Bookmap's files.
Both documents are free to read and cover the shipping build. Start with the quick start; the user guide is the reference you come back to.
Quick Start — 4 pages, 74 KB · User Guide — 31 pages, 474 KB
No. It draws and annotates. It has no order-routing path.
No. Watchers join read-only in a browser. Hosting a room needs Advanced Drawing Tools; watching one does not.
No, and that is deliberate. One person holds the pen. Participants ask for it and wait in line, and the host or a moderator passes it over.
No. Room drawings arrive in their own read-only Shared Room layer. Clearing the room does not touch your own work.
In ADT's own folder on your machine, one file per instrument per session date, alongside its settings, journal pages and log. It does not write into Bookmap's own files.
Drawings save per session date. A drawing you want to keep across days is marked to persist, and a level from a previous session can be brought forward from the objects window.
Remove takes a drawing out of a story step and leaves it on your chart. Delete erases the drawing, and always asks first.
Yes. All 26 drawing tools can be shown or hidden in Settings under Tool Palette, and reordered by dragging. Select and Delete are core controls and always stay.
No. Essential mode gives you the tools and the object list and leaves the rest off. You can switch modes whenever you like.
Yes. Quick Notes and Session Notes save on their own. Past days become read-only history.
Yes. Backup and restore is in Settings under General.