diff --git a/static/dashboard.js b/static/dashboard.js
index ad71280..e4d6ff3 100644
--- a/static/dashboard.js
+++ b/static/dashboard.js
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ const IND_NAME = {
   adx: "ADX", roc: "Rate of change", keltner: "Keltner channel",
   divergence: "Divergence", candlestick: "Candlestick pattern"
 };
+// Divergence and candlestick only exist on a scan that found a pattern
+// (engine.py); for them an absent entry means "no pattern", not a failure.
+const PATTERN_IND = new Set(["divergence", "candlestick"]);
+const absentWord = name => PATTERN_IND.has(name) ? "no pattern" : "no reading";
 const VOTE = { STRONG_BUY: 2, BUY: 1, NEUTRAL: 0, SELL: -1, STRONG_SELL: -2 };
 const SIG_ICON = {
   STRONG_BUY: "fa-angles-up", BUY: "fa-arrow-trend-up", NEUTRAL: "fa-arrows-left-right",
@@ -275,11 +279,41 @@ function indChart(tf) {
         barThickness: 7
       }]
     },
+    // A neutral vote and a missing reading both have no bar; this marks
+    // them on the zero line (grey dot = neutral, faint tag = nothing found).
+    plugins: [{
+      id: "indMarkers",
+      afterDatasetsDraw(chart) {
+        const cells = lastCells[tf];
+        if (!cells) return;
+        const { ctx, scales } = chart;
+        const x0 = scales.x.getPixelForValue(0);
+        ctx.save();
+        cells.forEach((cell, i) => {
+          const y = scales.y.getPixelForValue(i);
+          if (cell.present && cell.v === 0) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = C.flat;
+            ctx.beginPath();
+            ctx.arc(x0, y, 3, 0, Math.PI * 2);
+            ctx.fill();
+          } else if (!cell.present) {
+            ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(255,255,255,.32)";
+            ctx.font = '9px "IBM Plex Mono", monospace';
+            ctx.textAlign = "left";
+            ctx.textBaseline = "middle";
+            ctx.fillText(absentWord(IND_ORDER[i]), x0 + 6, y);
+          }
+        });
+        ctx.restore();
+      }
+    }],
     options: {
       indexAxis: "y",
       responsive: true,
       maintainAspectRatio: false,
       layout: { padding: { right: 4 } },
+      // Hover the whole row: a zero-length bar cannot be intersected.
+      interaction: { mode: "index", axis: "y", intersect: false },
       scales: {
         x: {
           min: -2, max: 2,
@@ -291,8 +325,8 @@ function indChart(tf) {
           grid: { display: false },
           border: { display: false },
           ticks: {
-            // An indicator with no reading is not a neutral vote: both draw
-            // no bar, so the dimmed label is what tells them apart.
+            // An indicator with no reading is not a neutral vote: the label
+            // dims and the indMarkers plugin tags the row instead of a dot.
             color: ctx => (lastCells[tf] && lastCells[tf][ctx.index] && !lastCells[tf][ctx.index].present)
               ? "rgba(255,255,255,.32)" : C.axis,
             font: { family: '"IBM Plex Mono", monospace', size: 10 },
@@ -307,7 +341,10 @@ function indChart(tf) {
             title: items => IND_NAME[IND_ORDER[items[0].dataIndex]],
             label: item => {
               const cell = (lastCells[tf] || indCells(currentReport(tf)))[item.dataIndex];
-              if (!cell || !cell.present) return "No reading on this scan";
+              if (!cell || !cell.present) {
+                const w = absentWord(IND_ORDER[item.dataIndex]);
+                return `${w[0].toUpperCase()}${w.slice(1)} on this scan`;
+              }
               return `${sigWord(cell.sig)}, confidence ${Math.round(cell.conf)}%`;
             }
           }
@@ -687,9 +724,12 @@ function indTable(src) {
     const i = src && src[name];
     const k = `<td class="ind-k">${IND_SHORT[name]}</td>`;
     if (!i) {
-      return `<tr>${k}<td class="flat">no reading</td><td class="num text-end">—</td>
+      const why = PATTERN_IND.has(name)
+        ? "no pattern was found on this scan"
+        : "this indicator had nothing to say on this scan";
+      return `<tr>${k}<td class="flat">${absentWord(name)}</td><td class="num text-end">—</td>
         <td class="num text-end">—</td><td class="num text-end">—</td>
-        <td class="flat">this indicator had nothing to say on this scan</td></tr>`;
+        <td class="flat">${why}</td></tr>`;
     }
     const w = i.weight == null ? null : +i.weight;
     return `<tr>${k}
diff --git a/test_all.py b/test_all.py
index 99b2c53..da871a7 100644
--- a/test_all.py
+++ b/test_all.py
@@ -5537,6 +5537,19 @@ def _():
     assert "scheduleBoundaryRefresh" in js and "localStorage" in js
 
 
+@test("dashboard: indicator chart marks neutral votes and no-pattern rows")
+def _():
+    # A NEUTRAL vote (value 0) and an absent divergence/candlestick entry
+    # both draw no bar; the chart must mark them so they don't read as
+    # missing data.
+    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static", "dashboard.js"),
+              encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        js = fh.read()
+    assert 'id: "indMarkers"' in js and "afterDatasetsDraw" in js
+    assert 'PATTERN_IND = new Set(["divergence", "candlestick"])' in js
+    assert '"no pattern"' in js and 'intersect: false' in js
+
+
 @test("dashboard: publish is atomic and leaves no temp file")
 def _():
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp: