We added 14 new indicators to HappyCharts — from Ichimoku Cloud and Order Blocks to our own custom strategies. Plus the shop now lets you preview everything before buying and purchase HappyPoints without leaving the page.
When we launched HappyCharts, the indicator selection was... modest. You had RSI, MACD, Stochastic RSI, SMA, and EMA. Enough to get started. Not enough to actually build a proper analysis workflow.
That changes today. We just added 14 new indicators to the platform, including some custom ones we built ourselves. And while we were at it, we completely overhauled the shop experience so you can actually see what you're buying before you spend your HappyPoints.
Let's start with the indicators that every technical trader has heard of. These are the workhorses — the tools you'll find on any serious charting platform.
Bollinger Bands are probably the most requested indicator we've had since launch. Upper band, lower band, middle SMA — the classic volatility envelope. When the bands squeeze tight, something's about to happen. When price touches the upper band, you start paying attention. You know the drill.
ATR (Average True Range) measures how much a market moves per candle. This is the indicator that tells you whether a 2% move is actually significant for this particular asset or just Tuesday. Incredibly useful for setting stop-losses that aren't just arbitrary numbers.
Volume — yeah, we didn't have volume as a separate panel before. Now we do. Because price without volume is like reading a book with half the pages torn out. You can see the actual participation behind each candle.
ADX (Average Directional Index) answers the question every trader asks: "Is this actually trending, or is it just chopping around?" ADX above 25? You've got a trend. Below 20? Save your entries for another day.
Ichimoku Cloud is the full package — Tenkan-sen, Kijun-sen, Senkou Span A and B, and Chikou Span. If you know how to read it, the Ichimoku Cloud gives you support, resistance, trend direction, and momentum all in one overlay. If you don't know how to read it, it looks like someone spilled paint on your chart. Either way, it's here now.
Squeeze Momentum detects when Bollinger Bands contract inside the Keltner Channel — the "squeeze." It's basically a volatility coil indicator. When the squeeze fires, momentum is about to rip in one direction. The question is which one.
VRVP (Volume Profile) shows you where the volume actually happened across price levels. Instead of volume per candle, you see volume per price. The fat bars are where most of the trading happened — those are your support and resistance zones that actually mean something because they're backed by real participation.
Order Blocks highlights institutional order zones at swing points. These are the price levels where big money likely placed orders, creating areas of high-volume concentration. When price returns to an order block, it tends to react. Smart money concept traders have been asking for this one.
Here's where it gets interesting. We didn't just add well-known indicators — we built our own.
HappyEMA is our take on the Exponential Moving Average. It uses a reduced smoothing factor compared to the standard EMA, which makes it slightly more responsive to recent price changes without turning into a noise machine. If you've ever felt like the regular EMA lags just a little too much, give this one a shot.
Happy Bands is an ATR-based dynamic channel. It plots an EMA with bands at 2x ATR above and below. Think of it as Bollinger Bands' cooler cousin — instead of using standard deviation (which assumes normal distribution), it uses ATR (which doesn't). The bands expand and contract based on actual market volatility, not statistical assumptions.
Then there are the three HappyCharts strategy indicators. These aren't just lines on a chart — they generate actual buy and sell signals:
Are these strategies going to make you rich? No. Nothing will. But they'll show you how systematic trading logic works, and you can watch them play out in real time during tournaments. That's worth more than any YouTube guru charging you $500 for a "proprietary signal service."
On the tools side, we added Fibonacci Retracement. Draw it between a swing high and low, and you get the classic 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%, and 78.6% levels. Whether you think Fibonacci levels work because of math, psychology, or self-fulfilling prophecy doesn't matter — enough traders use them that they become relevant. Now you can draw them on HappyCharts too.
Adding indicators is great. But we realized the shop experience was still awful. You'd see an indicator name, a price, and... that's it. No preview. No idea what it looks like on a chart. Just a name and a "trust me bro."
Now every indicator in the shop has a live chart preview. A miniature candlestick chart with the indicator applied, right there in the grid. Bollinger Bands wrapping around candles, MACD histogram bouncing below the chart, Ichimoku Cloud doing its colorful thing. You see it before you buy it.
Same for themes. The purchase modal shows a full chart preview with the theme applied. No more buying "Black Egg" and wondering if your candles are going to look like burnt toast.
The preview charts in the shop grid are static — no animations chewing through your browser resources while you're scrolling. But open the modal for a closer look? Full animation. Because at that point you actually care about seeing how the indicator moves with price action.
This one was overdue. When you didn't have enough HappyPoints to buy an indicator, clicking "Buy HappyPoints" used to send you to a completely different page. By the time you bought points and navigated back, you'd forgotten what you were even trying to buy.
Now it all happens inside the same modal. You see the packages, you pick one, you pay, done. You're right back at the indicator you wanted. The packages also show discount percentages now — the bigger bundles save you more per point, and we do the math for you with a little green badge.
Two more things that didn't need their own headline but matter if you use the chart daily:
One-click indicator removal — every oscillator panel now has a close button in the top-right corner. Click it, panel gone. No menus, no hunting through settings. Just a clean X that matches your theme's bearish candle color.
Edge-of-chart interaction — you can now place drawing tools and trend lines all the way to the right edge of the chart. The padding area past the last candle used to be a dead zone. It's not anymore.
For reference, here's everything now available on HappyCharts:
Free: SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, Stochastic RSI, Buy & Hold Strategy, Z-Score Strategy, Swing StochRSI Strategy
Tier B (400 HP): Bollinger Bands, ATR, Volume, HappyEMA, Fibonacci Retracement
Tier A (800 HP): Ichimoku Cloud, Happy Bands
Tier S (1500 HP): ADX, Squeeze Momentum, VRVP, Order Blocks
That's 19 indicators and tools total. More than enough to build a proper analysis setup for your paper trading sessions.
Open a tournament. Stack some indicators. See if the Squeeze Momentum catches a breakout before you do. Watch the Order Blocks light up where price reverses. Draw a Fibonacci from the swing low to the high and see if the 61.8% holds.
The whole point of HappyCharts is to practice making decisions with real tools. Now you've got a lot more tools to practice with.
