Lineshotkey VOne click — the marker lands on that bar

A dashed vertical line marking a date — an earnings print, an expiry, the day a thesis started. Time's version of a price level.

A full-height dashed line on the bar you click, labelled with its date at the axis. Levels mark prices that matter; verticals mark dates that matter — and options selling is a business run entirely on dates.

Arm it (V), click the bar. For future dates inside the chart's projection space, the earnings markers and Expected Move cone already annotate the calendar — the vertical is for dates the chart does not already know about.

Universal mechanics: every tool is single-shot (it disarms after each drawing — the pin beside ✏ Draw re-arms it in one click), Esc cancels mid-drawing, clicking a finished drawing selects it for the ✕ Remove chip, and drawings persist per symbol, anchored to their candles.

Verticals earn their keep in pairs and comparisons: the day the position opened versus today, the last three earnings prints lined up against what price did after each, the start of a repair versus its progress since.

The two dates a wheel seller marks most are the expiry being considered and the next earnings print — the whole earnings-buffer entry rule is the requirement that the second land after the first. Marking both makes a violation impossible to miss.

On a Recovery Mode position, a vertical at the day the bag started keeps the repair honest: everything right of the line is the recovery's actual track record.

Like everything in this guide, these are descriptions of conditions and reference levels — context for your own decisions, not instructions to trade.