# Ruler

Enabled on the **Drawing toolbar** with the **Ruler**button.![](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/euc-cdn.freshdesk.com/data/helpdesk/attachments/production/80034711105/original/q5R2peCWdDMROO065Sk0WAYgFIVvWonDvg.png?1630681898)

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### Ruler settings

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#### Parameters

| Name   | Description                                                                                                                     |
| ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Bars   | This option enables / disables information about closed bars over the distance measured on the chart.                           |
| Time   | This option enables / disables information about the elapsed time over the distance measured on the chart.                      |
| Price  | This option enables / disables information about price changes in the invoice currency over the distance measured on the chart. |
| Ticks  | This option enables / disables information about ticks traversed by the price over the distance measured on the chart.          |
| Change | This option enables / disables information about price percentage changes over the distance measured on the chart.              |
| Volume | This option enables / disables information about the volume passed over the distance measured on the chart.                     |
| Trades | This option enables / disables information about the number of completed transactions over the distance measured on the chart.  |
| Delta  | This option enables / disables information about the delta change over the distance measured on the chart.                      |
| Bid    | This option enables / disables information about the number of purchases made over the distance measured on the chart.          |
| Ask    | This option enables / disables information on the number of sales made over the distance measured on the chart.                 |

#### Text

| Name       | Description                                   |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Text Color | Sets the text color of the information block. |

#### Line

| Name       | Description                                                                     |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Line Color | Sets the color of the ruler lines.                                              |
| Line Width | Sets the width of the ruler lines.                                              |
| Line Style | Sets the line display style: solid, dashes, point, dash-point, dash-two points. |

#### Object

| Name       | Description                                              |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| Visibility | Sets the parameter on which the ruler will be displayed. |
| Position   | Display of a ruler above or below the chart.             |

#### Control Points

| Name        | Description                                                                     |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Time, Price | Ability to manually set the coordinates of points on the time and price scales. |
| Lock        | The option enables a position on the chart to be locked.                        |


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