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day range
Day-range blue line on Kite charts
The day-range blue line on Zerodha Kite intraday charts marks the previous trading session’s closing price. It serves as a visual reference for current-session price action: above the blue line = up day so far; below = down day so far.
Purpose
On intraday charts (1-min, 5-min, etc.), the blue line provides instant context for whether the stock is above or below previous close. Useful for:
- Quick gap-up / gap-down assessment.
- Day-bias decisions (buy on dips above close vs sell on bounces below close).
- Stop-loss placement (just below previous close, etc.).
What it represents
- For equity: previous session’s closing price.
- For futures: previous session’s closing price of the same contract.
The line is fixed horizontally at this price for the entire current session.
Visual style
Typically thin, light-blue, semi-transparent. Less prominent than the trader’s drawn lines.
Customisation
Most Kite engines allow toggling the day-range line visibility and styling via chart settings.
What this is NOT
- Not a moving average.
- Not a support / resistance level (other than the implicit reference).
- Not VWAP (which is a separate, time-weighted line).
See also
- Scales and axis on Kite charts
- How to add indicators on Kite charts
- How to use VWAP on Kite
- How to use Supertrend on Kite
- CPR pivot derivation on Kite
- Historical-candle values change after refresh
- Pivot points discrepancy on Kite
- OHLC differs daily vs hourly
- OHLC differs on intraday charts
- 12 AM to 12:15 AM previous candle missing
- Day-range
- Previous close
- VWAP
- Kite chart types explained
- Kite TradingView vs ChartIQ engine
- Kite (Zerodha)
- Zerodha
External references
References
- Zerodha support documentation on Kite intraday charts.