Since I can't see what you're looking at, I have no idea what you mean by:
What do you mean by the "sides" and what is "leaving just the price action exposed" mean? By price action are you referring to patterns that the price bars produce as they print on your chart?
To me, price action is described by drawing trend lines and/or by marking Higher-Highs and Higher-lows... Link to a picture example of P/A
I don't know what kind of charts you use - are they standard OHLC charts, candlestick charts, line charts, heat map charts, ratio charts, area charts or some other specialized charts?
Perhaps IF you posted a few screen shots of some of your charts or posted some PrintScreen pictures of your monitor set up[s] THEN I might be able to get an idea of what you are asking me... A picture is worth a thousand words...
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