The /charts workspace is the visual layer of the platform — candlestick price action plus an indicator catalog spanning moving averages, bands, momentum, volatility, volume, and trend studies that quantify what the candles are telling you. Charts show structure; indicators measure it. Reading both together is technical analysis as a discipline rather than as guesswork.

The chart is the candlestick chart representation of price over time. Each candle encodes four pieces of information per period: open, high, low, close. The body shows where price spent most of the period; the wicks show where it stretched but didn't stay.

Color indicates direction (green/up, red/down) at a glance. On top of candles, you can overlay moving averages, Bollinger Bands, support/resistance lines, and trend lines. The chart's job is to make structure visible — trends, support, resistance, momentum shifts.

Without indicators, charts are still useful but qualitative; with indicators, they become quantitative.