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How to Use TradingView: charts, tools and practice (education only)

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What you'll be able to do
  • Explain what TradingView is, what the free Basic plan includes, and how to sign up safely with a strong password and 2-step verification.
  • Find your way around the chart screen: symbol search, watchlist, timeframes and chart types (candles, line, bars).
  • Draw trend lines, horizontal lines and text notes, and save your work in a chart layout.
  • Explain how volume, moving averages (SMA and EMA), the RSI and the MACD are calculated, read each one on a real historical chart, and say where each one fails.
  • Create, edit and stop price alerts.
  • Practise with no real money using Paper Trading and Bar Replay, including how a buy or sell order, a stop-loss and a take-profit work, and how to close a position.
  • Treat community "Ideas" and scripts as opinions, spot signal-group and copy-trading scams, and check a firm or adviser with your regulator.

This course is education only. It teaches how a charting tool works. It gives no buy or sell signals, no trade ideas, no predictions and no promises of income, and nothing here says that any indicator or chart pattern "works". Past prices do not predict future prices. Trading is risky and you can lose money quickly. TradingView is one popular charting platform; many other charting tools exist, and many brokers and finance websites have their own charts. This course has no link with TradingView and contains no affiliate or referral links. Menus and plan details change: where this course names a button or a limit, it comes from TradingView's own help pages or pricing page as read on 14 November 2026, and names can differ by version. For any decision with real money, consult a licensed professional registered with your country's securities regulator.

Before this course: Reading Price Charts: candlesticks, trends, support and resistance (course 5.10), which builds on Trading Basics (course 5.5). You should already know what a candle is, what a timeframe is, and what support and resistance mean. This course shows you how to do those things on a real charting tool. Calm in Uncertain Markets (course 5.17) is a good companion for the safety habits in Lesson 7.

After this course: Technical Analysis in Depth: indicators and their limits (course 5.10.2), then Testing Chart Ideas (course 5.10.3). For costs and risk, see Trading Strategies and Risk (course 5.12). For scams, see Spotting Money Scams (course 5.7).

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What TradingView is, the plans, and a safe sign-up

In simple words

TradingView is like a big drawing board for prices. You can look at a price's diary, draw on it and make notes. Before you use it, you lock the door: a strong password and a second lock on your phone.

Key facts
  • What it is. TradingView's help centre describes Supercharts as its charting tool, where you can track price changes, read indicators, use drawing tools and view other products such as screeners and news. It is one popular charting platform among many. Your broker's app and many finance websites also have charts.
  • Plans (TradingView pricing page, read 14 November 2026). The plans are Basic (free, shown as costing nothing "forever"), Essential, Plus, Premium and Ultimate. The page showed prices in local currency (Canadian dollars when viewed from Canada) with monthly and yearly options. Prices change, so this course does not list them: see the current pricing page.
What the Basic (free) plan includes (pricing page, 14 Nov 2026)Basic
Charts per tab1
Indicators per chart2
Watchlists1, with up to 30 symbols
Active price alerts3
Historical bars5K
  • Paid plans raise these limits (for example, more indicators per chart and more alerts). Ads, Bar Replay and some other features differ by plan: check the current plan page before you decide anything. You do not need a paid plan to learn this course.
  • Paper Trading (practice with pretend money) is described on TradingView's help pages as available to all TradingView users (Lesson 6).
  • Age. TradingView's Terms of Service say registered users represent that they are of legal age to form a binding contract. If you are a teen, use it with a parent or guardian.
  • Passwords (TradingView, "How to protect your account"). Use a unique password of at least 12 characters, do not use common sequences, and you can use a password manager. Change your password at once if you know your account, email or password has been breached.
  • 2-step verification (2FA). TradingView says that with 2FA, even if your password is stolen, an attacker cannot get into your account. You set it up under Account Settings, in the Privacy and Security tab: click Enable in the authenticator app field, scan the QR code with an authenticator app and type the code it shows.
  • Backup codes. TradingView recommends writing the backup codes down by hand, keeping them somewhere safe, and not storing them on your devices. It says authenticator apps are more secure and reliable than text messages.
  • Never share your login. No real helper needs your password or a 2FA code. TradingView says it never pressures you into anything and tells users to trust only its official resources.
Step by step
  1. Open tradingview.com by typing the address yourself (not from a link in a message or ad).
  2. Create an account with your own email and a new password of at least 12 characters that you use nowhere else.
  3. Go to your profile, then Account Settings, then the Privacy and Security tab (names can differ by version).
  4. Click Enable in the authenticator app field, scan the QR code with an authenticator app on your phone, and type the 6-digit code.
  5. Write the backup codes on paper and store them in a safe place at home.
  6. Read the pricing page and write down three limits of the plan you are on.
  7. Check: log out and log back in. If the site asks for a code from your authenticator app, 2FA is working.
Watch on YouTube
Protect your TradingView account with two-factor authenticationTradingView · YouTube · youtube.com

Videos by other creators on YouTube, for reference. They are not made by or affiliated with The Future Market.

LESSON 01What TradingView is, the plans, and a safe sign-up
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
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[Host] "TradingView is one popular charting platform. Many brokers and finance sites have charts too. The skills in this course work on any of them."
[Text on screen: Basic (free): 1 chart per tab, 2 indicators, 3 price alerts. Pricing page, 14 Nov 2026] "The free Basic plan is enough to learn: one chart per tab, two indicators per chart and three price alerts, as listed on the pricing page in November 2026."
[Screen: a sign-up form with a 12-character password meter] "Use a unique password of at least twelve characters. A password manager helps."
[Screen: an authenticator app showing a 6-digit code next to a login box] "Then turn on two-step verification with an authenticator app, and write your backup codes on paper."
[Host] "Never share your password or a code. Not with a friend, not with a 'support agent' in your messages. Nobody real needs them."
Try it now

Set up 2FA on your account, store your backup codes on paper, and write a one-line note: "My plan is ____; it allows ____ indicators per chart and ____ price alerts." Check the numbers on the pricing page yourself.

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I'm learning "How to Use TradingView: charts, tools and practice (education only)" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What TradingView is, the plans, and a safe sign-up".

What the lesson teaches:
- What it is. TradingView's help centre describes Supercharts as its charting tool, where you can track price changes, read indicators, use drawing tools and view other products such as screeners and news. It is one popular charting platform among many. Your broker's app and many finance websites also have charts.
- Plans (TradingView pricing page, read 14 November 2026). The plans are Basic (free, shown as costing nothing "forever"), Essential, Plus, Premium and Ultimate. The page showed prices in local currency (Canadian dollars when viewed from Canada) with monthly and yearly options. Prices change, so this course does not list them: see the current pricing page.
- What the Basic (free) plan includes (pricing page, 14 Nov 2026) - Basic
- Charts per tab - 1
- Indicators per chart - 2
- Watchlists - 1, with up to 30 symbols
- Active price alerts - 3

The exercise I'm working on:
Set up 2FA on your account, store your backup codes on paper, and write a one-line note: "My plan is ____; it allows ____ indicators per chart and ____ price alerts." Check the numbers on the pricing page yourself.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
4. This is for learning only. Remind me to check with a licensed professional before I make a real decision about my own money, health or legal situation.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "What TradingView is, the plans, and a safe sign-up" from the course "How to Use TradingView: charts, tools and practice (education only)".

Here's what the lesson says:
TradingView is like a big drawing board for prices. You can look at a price's diary, draw on it and make notes. Before you use it, you lock the door: a strong password and a second lock on your phone.

The activity:
Set up 2FA on your account, store your backup codes on paper, and write a one-line note: "My plan is ____; it allows ____ indicators per chart and ____ price alerts." Check the numbers on the pricing page yourself.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
Keep it general and educational. This is not advice for a real situation.
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My notes
02

A tour of the chart screen

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03

Drawing tools and saving your layout

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04

Indicators: volume, moving averages, RSI and MACD, and their limits

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05

Alerts: let the chart tap you on the shoulder

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06

Practice without real money: Paper Trading and Bar Replay

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07

Using it safely: Ideas, scripts, signal groups and checking who you trust

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. Name the free TradingView plan and two of its limits.

  2. How long should your password be, according to TradingView's account protection page?

  3. Which kind of 2FA does TradingView say is more secure than text messages?

  4. Where do you find the drawing tools on Supercharts?

  5. What does a chart layout save?

  6. What is the difference between an SMA and an EMA?

  7. On the 2023 oil chart, the RSI peaked on 18 September. Did the price fall straight away?

  8. What three parts make up the MACD?

  9. How long can a standard TradingView alert last?

  10. How do you turn on Paper Trading?

  11. A position has both a take profit and a stop loss. What happens when one of them fills?

  12. What do TradingView's terms say about Ideas published by users?

EX

Final exam

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CE

Certificate

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