What is TradingView?
TradingView is a web-based charting and analysis platform for traders and investors. The platform is popular among traders and investors for its user-friendly interface and social features, which allow users to share ideas, charts, and analysis with other traders in the community. We at PATAlgo have built our indicators that works on top of the TradingView platform providing custom trading strategies and signals which makes the life of both experienced and novice traders be profitable on their journey. TradingView users can connect most brokers to trade directly on the platform and leap into opportunities as they are presented in real time from their charts.
Tradingview can be accessed using this url www.tradingview.com
OUR PATAlgo Indicator works on FREE VERSION of TRADINGVIEW and NO LICENSE required
How To Create A TradingView Account?
In order to create a TradingView account, you need to go to the TradingView homepage. Click on "Sign in" at the top right of the homepage, then click on "Sign up" at the bottom of the current window. You can sign up using your social media profiles or an email address.
How to access the Charts and Symbols?
Tradingview is composed of many features like SuperCharts, Screeners, Heatmap, Economic Calendar etc. These are very good ready to go features from TV, and a trader can use these feature to his/her effective usage while taking the traders. Timebeing to start your journey lets concentrate on the Supercharts which is where you will need our indicators to be added.
Now we are on the charts and we need to add our symbol/instrument or asset what so ever we call , so how to do that? we need to click on the top right name section to add or directly start typing your symbol name and it will open a editor.
Simply start typing your favorite instrument name and it will open the below screen where you can search the different symbols which you want to load on the charts.
Tradingview has different settings and features, some of the immediate one which you need to know are highlighted below.
You can follow us in TradingView using the below link, where we post regular market updates and useful charts.
Tradingview Shortcut / Hot Keys
General chart shortcuts
| Effect | Key combination |
|---|---|
Open the script window | / |
Load a chart layout | . (dot) |
Save the current chart layout | Ctrl + S |
Change the chart’s symbol symbol | Start typing, which brings up a symbol search window |
Change interval | Press , (comma) or start typing the first digit for minute charts or first letter of the word for longer resolutions. Examples are 1, 5, 30, 60, 1440, H, 4H, 6H, D, 5D, W, 3M |
Create Alert on the current instrument | Alt + A |
Add a text note for current instrument | Alt + N |
Take a snapshot image of the chart | Alt + S |
Reset the chart’s zoom | Alt + R |
Invert the price scale of the chart’s instrument | Alt + I |
Add the chart’s current instrument to the watchlist | Alt + W |
Open the ‘Publish Idea’ window | Alt + P |
Undo the most recent chart action | Ctrl + Z |
Redo the most recent chart action | Ctrl + Y |
Cancel operation, undo a selection, close window | Esc |
Zooming hotkeys
| Effect | Key combination |
|---|---|
Zoom in on the chart | Scrollwheel up or click on the price axis and drag the mouse to the left |
Zoom out on the chart | Scrollwheel down or click on the price axis and drag the mouse to the right |
Reset the spacing between bars | Double-click on the time axis |
Compress price scale | Click (and hold) on the price axis and drag the mouse down |
Extend price scale | Click (and hold) on the price axis and move the mouse up |
Reset price scale | Double-click on the price axis |
Chart movements keys
| Effect | Key combination |
|---|---|
Move chart 1 bar to the left | ← |
Move chart 1 bar to the right | → |
Move further to the left | Ctrl + ← |
Move further to the right | Ctrl + → |
Go to a specific date | Alt + G |
Scroll through the chart | Click with left mouse button on the chart and drag mouse |
Drawing hotkeys
| Effect | Key combination |
|---|---|
Measure tool | Hold Shift and click on the chart |
Copy selected drawing | Ctrl + C |
Paste copied drawing | Ctrl + V |
Clone a drawing | Hold Ctrl and drag the mouse |
Select multiple drawings | Hold Ctrl and click to select each individual drawing |
Move a drawing horizontally or vertically | Drag with mouse + Shift |
Cancel making a drawing, undo selecting a drawing | Esc |
Make a horizontal line | Alt + H |
Make a vertical line | Alt + V |
Make a cross line (combination of horizontal and vertical line) | Alt + C |
Make a square | Select the Rectangle from the drawing toolbar and hold Shift when making the drawing on the chart |
Make a circle | Select the Ellipse from the drawing toolbar and hold Shift when making the drawing on the chart |
Draw a horizontal line, vertical line, or a line at 45 degrees | Hold Shift while making a trend line or channel drawing |
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