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What is TradingView
TradingView is a web and mobile charting and market analysis platform used to analyze financial instruments such as equities, forex, crypto, and derivatives. It targets retail traders, investors, and analysts who need interactive charts, technical indicators, alerts, and community-shared ideas. The product differentiates through its browser-first experience, a large library of indicators and drawing tools, and a scripting language (Pine Script) for building and sharing custom studies and strategies. TradingView can connect to supported brokers for trade execution, but its core purpose is analysis and charting rather than being a full-service brokerage platform.
Strong charting and indicators
TradingView provides advanced interactive charts with a broad set of built-in technical indicators, drawing tools, and multi-timeframe analysis. It supports many asset classes and exchanges/data sources, which helps users consolidate analysis in one interface. Compared with broker-native web platforms, it is often used as a dedicated analysis layer even when execution happens elsewhere.
Pine Script customization
Pine Script enables users to create custom indicators, alerts, and backtestable strategies within the platform. This supports repeatable workflows and sharing of studies across teams or communities without external tooling. It also lowers the barrier to prototyping compared with standalone algorithmic trading environments that require full programming stacks.
Cross-platform with sharing
TradingView runs in the browser and has mobile/desktop apps, enabling consistent access across devices. Users can publish charts and trade ideas, follow other analysts, and reuse public scripts, which supports collaborative research. This community layer is a differentiator versus many execution-focused platforms that emphasize order entry over idea sharing.
Not a full brokerage
TradingView is not itself a broker-dealer and does not provide universal account services such as custody, funding, tax reporting, or all order types across all markets. Trade execution depends on integrations with supported brokers, which vary by region and instrument. Users may still need a separate broker platform for account administration and certain advanced execution workflows.
Automation depends on integrations
While users can script strategies and generate alerts, fully automated trading typically requires external connectors, broker APIs, or third-party automation services. This adds operational complexity (latency, reliability, monitoring) compared with platforms designed primarily for algorithmic execution. As a result, it is better suited to discretionary trading and signal generation than end-to-end bot deployment out of the box.
Data coverage and entitlements vary
Real-time data availability and depth can depend on the exchange, subscription level, and required market data entitlements. Some professional-grade feeds, historical depth, or specialized datasets may require additional fees or may not be available for all instruments. Users should validate data timeliness and coverage for their specific markets before relying on it for execution decisions.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 forever | Single chart per tab; limited indicators and watchlists; ads removed? (site indicates $0 forever sign-up). |
| Essential | $12.95 per mo (billed annually) | 2 charts per tab; 5 indicators per chart; 10K historical bars; 10 parallel chart connections; 20 price alerts; No ads; Ability to buy professional market data; Try free for 30 days. |
| Plus | $28.29 per mo (billed annually) | 4 charts per tab; 10 indicators per chart; 10K historical bars; 20 parallel chart connections; 100 price alerts; No ads; Try free for 30 days. |
| Premium | $56.49 per mo (billed annually) | 8 charts per tab; 25 indicators per chart; 20K historical bars; 50 parallel chart connections; 400 price alerts; No ads; Try free for 30 days. |
| Ultimate | $199.95 per mo (billed annually) | 16 charts per tab; 50 indicators per chart; 40K historical bars; 200 parallel chart connections; 1,000 price alerts; No ads; Try free for 14 days. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Contact sales for multi-seat/business plans. |
Seller details
TradingView, Inc.
Westerville, Ohio, USA
2011
Private
https://www.tradingview.com/
https://x.com/tradingview
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tradingview/
