TradingView
Charting platform and social network for traders and investors
About TradingView
TradingView is a browser-based charting and market analysis platform covering stocks, forex, crypto, futures, and bonds across millions of instruments. It combines advanced charts, 400+ built-in indicators, the Pine Script language for custom indicators and strategies, screeners, alerts, and a community where traders publish ideas and scripts. It runs on web, desktop, and mobile, and connects to supported brokers for trading directly from the chart.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Widely regarded as the strongest charting platform for retail traders, with deep indicator and drawing-tool libraries
- Covers stocks, forex, crypto, futures, and bonds in one interface with millions of instruments
- Pine Script lets traders build and backtest custom indicators and strategies without a separate platform
- Large community publishes free scripts and trade ideas you can reuse
- Same layouts and alerts sync across web, desktop, and mobile apps
- Usable free plan with no credit card required
Cons
- Free Basic plan shows ads and limits you to 1 chart and 2 indicators
- Real-time data for many exchanges costs extra on top of the subscription
- Pine Script has a learning curve for traders without coding experience
- Screener is less capable than dedicated screening tools such as Finviz
- Top tiers are expensive, and professional users must buy the Ultimate plan
Key Features
Advanced charting
17 to 21 chart types including Renko, Kagi, Line Break, and Point & Figure, with multi-chart layouts of up to 16 charts per tab.
Technical indicators
400+ pre-built indicators plus 100K+ community-built indicators, with indicator-on-indicator support on paid plans.
Pine Script
Proprietary scripting language for writing custom indicators, strategies, and backtests, and for publishing scripts to the community.
Drawing tools
110+ drawing tools, auto Fibonacci retracement, candlestick pattern recognition, and auto chart patterns.
Alerts
Price, technical, multi-condition, and watchlist alerts delivered across web, desktop, and mobile, with non-expiring alerts on paid plans.
Screeners
Stock, ETF, forex, and crypto screeners for filtering instruments by fundamentals and technicals.
Bar Replay
Replay historical price action bar by bar to practice and test strategies, including trading in replay mode.
Volume analysis
Volume Profile, volume footprint, volume candles, and Time Price Opportunity charts on higher tiers.
Broker integration
Connect supported brokers to place and manage trades directly from TradingView charts, plus a paper-trading account.
Community ideas
A social network where traders share chart analysis, trade ideas, and open-source scripts.
Pricing
- 1 chart per tab
- 2 indicators per chart
- 1 saved chart layout
- 400+ built-in indicators
- Ad-supported
- Billed annually ($14.95 billed monthly)
- 2 charts per tab
- 5 indicators per chart
- 10K historical bars
- 20 price alerts and 20 technical alerts
- No ads
- Volume profile and Bar Replay
- Billed annually ($34.95 billed monthly)
- 4 charts per tab
- 10 indicators per chart
- 100 price alerts and 100 technical alerts
- 20 parallel chart connections
- Billed annually ($69.95 billed monthly)
- 8 charts per tab
- 25 indicators per chart
- 20K historical bars
- 400 price and technical alerts
- 2 watchlist alerts
- Second-based intervals
- Billed annually ($239.95 billed monthly)
- 16 charts per tab
- 50 indicators per chart
- 40K historical bars
- 1,000 price and technical alerts
- 15 watchlist alerts
- Tick-based intervals
- Only plan available to professional users
Best For
Technical analysis for active traders
Day and swing traders use multi-chart layouts, indicators, and drawing tools to time entries and exits across markets.
Strategy development and backtesting
Quantitative traders write strategies in Pine Script and test them on historical data with the strategy tester and Bar Replay.
Market monitoring with alerts
Investors set price, indicator, and watchlist alerts to get notified of moves without watching charts all day.
Trading from the chart
Traders connect a supported broker and place orders directly from TradingView charts, or practice with paper trading.
Sharing and learning trade ideas
New traders follow published ideas and open-source scripts from the community to learn analysis methods.
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