diff --git a/docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md b/docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
index 0421fd6..63305dc 100644
--- a/docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
+++ b/docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
@@ -1499,3 +1499,30 @@ snap on shows the note and no dropdown, snap off shows the dropdown.
 
 `created_at` (epoch seconds) is already stored on every drawing and returned by
 `GET /api/drawings`, so filtering by age needs UI only, not a migration.
+
+**Trendline placement, third pass — and a regression I shipped.** Making a
+pending anchor always win (previous entry) fixed the twitch case and broke the
+opposite one: a genuine press-drag begun after an abandoned click was hijacked
+by that stale anchor, so the line started far from the drag. That reached
+production. The rule is now a single threshold — 12px of travel between press
+and release makes it a drag, which is wide enough to survive a twitch on a
+deliberate click and unambiguous for a real drag. A drag clears any half-placed
+anchor rather than silently adopting it.
+
+**The crosshair was lying about the anchor.** Lightweight Charts defaults to
+`CrosshairMode.Magnet`, which snaps the crosshair to the bar's *close*. Hovering
+by a bar's low therefore drew the crosshair mid-bar, and a correctly-snapped
+anchor looked wrong — measured: aiming 4px above a bar low placed the anchor at
+the low (7773) and not the close (7773.25), while the crosshair sat at the
+close. Arming a tool now switches the crosshair to `Normal`, and a snap dot
+marks the exact point the anchor will use, coloured by the side it implies.
+
+Four gesture paths are verified in a browser: two clicks with a twitch on the
+second, an abandoned click followed by a real drag, a plain press-drag, and
+hovering. All start where they should and land on a bar extreme.
+
+Worth recording for diagnosis: a reported "line ended up high off the bar"
+turned out to render exactly on its bar — zero pixels off at 1h, 30m and 15m —
+because the anchor had snapped to the *drawn* timeframe extreme (the 09:00 1h
+low, 7744.25) while being checked against 1m bars, where it matches neither
+extreme. Always compare an anchor against the timeframe it was drawn on.
diff --git a/static/chart.js b/static/chart.js
index 4963b23..e7fdc49 100644
--- a/static/chart.js
+++ b/static/chart.js
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
     this.toolMoveListener = null;
     this.toolUpListener = null;
     this.pendingView = null;
+    this.snapDot = null;
     this.comments = [];
     this.commentNodes = new Map();
     this.commentLayer = null;
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
 
   static TICK = 0.25;
 
+  // Pixels of travel between press and release that make a gesture a drag
+  // rather than a click. Wide enough to survive a twitch on a deliberate click.
+  static DRAG_THRESHOLD = 12;
+
   static snapToTick(price) {
     return Math.round(price / ConfluenceChart.TICK) * ConfluenceChart.TICK;
   }
@@ -166,6 +171,10 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
     this.priceTag.className = 'chart-price-tag';
     this.priceTag.hidden = true;
     el.appendChild(this.priceTag);
+    this.snapDot = document.createElement('div');
+    this.snapDot.className = 'chart-snap-dot';
+    this.snapDot.hidden = true;
+    el.appendChild(this.snapDot);
     this.commentLayer = document.createElement('div');
     this.commentLayer.className = 'chart-comments';
     el.appendChild(this.commentLayer);
@@ -527,7 +536,18 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
    */
   armTool(tool) {
     this.armedTool = tool;
-    this.chart.applyOptions({ handleScroll: !tool, handleScale: !tool });
+    // Magnet snaps the crosshair to the bar's close, so hovering by a bar's low
+    // drew it mid-bar and made a correctly-placed anchor look wrong. While a
+    // tool is armed the crosshair tracks the cursor and the snap dot shows
+    // where the anchor will actually land.
+    this.chart.applyOptions({
+      handleScroll: !tool,
+      handleScale: !tool,
+      crosshair: {
+        mode: tool ? LightweightCharts.CrosshairMode.Normal : LightweightCharts.CrosshairMode.Magnet,
+      },
+    });
+    this.hideSnapDot();
     this.chartEl.classList.toggle('armed', Boolean(tool));
     this.pendingAnchor = null;
     this.clearGesture();
@@ -558,6 +578,7 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
     if (!this.armedTool) return;
     const point = this.eventPoint(event);
     if (!point) return;
+    if (this.armedTool !== 'level') this.showSnapDot(this.snapPoint(point));
     if (this.gesture) {
       this.gesture.end = point;
       this.renderGesture();
@@ -567,6 +588,22 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
     if (this.pendingAnchor) this.renderPending(this.pendingAnchor, this.snapPoint(point));
   }
 
+  showSnapDot(snapped) {
+    if (snapped.t == null) return this.hideSnapDot();
+    const x = this.chart.timeScale().timeToCoordinate(snapped.t);
+    const y = this.candles.priceToCoordinate(snapped.p);
+    if (x == null || y == null) return this.hideSnapDot();
+    this.snapDot.hidden = false;
+    this.snapDot.style.left = `${Math.round(x)}px`;
+    this.snapDot.style.top = `${Math.round(y)}px`;
+    // Says which it is before you commit, since the extreme decides the side.
+    this.snapDot.dataset.side = snapped.snappedSide || '';
+  }
+
+  hideSnapDot() {
+    if (this.snapDot) this.snapDot.hidden = true;
+  }
+
   renderPending(a, b) {
     if (a.t != null && b.t != null) this.setLinePreview(a, b, '#65b7cf', 2);
   }
@@ -605,21 +642,23 @@ class ConfluenceChart {
     // it. Rejecting short gestures outright left the tool armed and silent, so
     // the next click began a whole new line — which read as the line suddenly
     // continuing at a different slope.
-    // A placed anchor wins over this click's own drag. Recomputing `dragged`
-    // here meant a few pixels of movement while pressing the second click was
-    // read as a fresh press-drag-release, which threw the anchor away and
-    // started the line at the second click instead — the preview had been
-    // rubber-banding from the real anchor all along, so the finished line
-    // jumped away from where it had just been drawn.
-    const dragged = !this.pendingAnchor
-      && Math.hypot(end.x - start.x, end.y - start.y) >= 5;
-    const a = this.pendingAnchor ?? this.snapPoint(dragged ? start : end);
+    // Deliberate drag or click? At 5px a twitch while pressing the second click
+    // counted as a drag, which threw away the anchor placed by the first click
+    // and restarted the line under the cursor. Making a pending anchor always
+    // win fixed that and broke the other direction: a real press-drag begun
+    // after an abandoned click was hijacked by that stale anchor, starting the
+    // line far from where the drag did. So the threshold decides, and it is
+    // wide enough that only a deliberate drag clears the anchor.
+    const dragged = Math.hypot(end.x - start.x, end.y - start.y) >= ConfluenceChart.DRAG_THRESHOLD;
     const b = this.snapPoint(end);
     if (!dragged && !this.pendingAnchor) {
       this.pendingAnchor = b;
       this.renderPending(b, b);
       return;
     }
+    // A drag says everything it needs to on its own; anything half-placed
+    // before it is abandoned rather than silently adopted.
+    const a = dragged ? this.snapPoint(start) : this.pendingAnchor;
     this.pendingAnchor = null;
     this.clearLinePreview();
     if (a.t == null || b.t == null || a.t === b.t) return;
diff --git a/static/style.css b/static/style.css
index e25902e..85755ea 100644
--- a/static/style.css
+++ b/static/style.css
@@ -77,3 +77,4 @@ aside { padding:16px; }h2 { margin:0 0 12px; color:var(--muted); font-size:11px;
 .tool-body textarea { width:100%; min-width:0; font:inherit; font-size:11px; padding:4px 6px; resize:vertical;
   border:1px solid var(--line); border-radius:5px; background:transparent; color:var(--fg); }
 .side-auto { align-self:end; padding-bottom:6px; font-size:10px; color:var(--muted); }.side-auto b { color:var(--fg); font-weight:600; }
+.chart-snap-dot { position:absolute; width:9px; height:9px; margin:-5px 0 0 -5px; border-radius:50%; border:2px solid var(--accent); background:var(--chart-bg); pointer-events:none; z-index:5; }.chart-snap-dot[data-side=resistance] { border-color:#bd4545; }.chart-snap-dot[data-side=support] { border-color:#27825c; }