What is TradingView and how is it used for crypto?

TradingView is an online charting and market analysis platform. Crypto traders use it to view price charts for coins and trading pairs, apply technical indicators and share chart ideas with other users. Its pricing page describes it as used by 100 million traders, and many crypto exchanges and news sites embed its charts on their own pages.

What is TradingView used for?

The core feature is Supercharts, the main chart window. Users pick a symbol, a timeframe and a chart type, then add indicators and drawings. Indicators such as RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands are built in, and alerts can fire when the price crosses a level.

TradingView also has a social side, where users publish chart ideas and scripts. These are opinions from other users, not verified analysis. If candlesticks and timeframes are new to you, how to read a crypto chart covers the basics first.

How do TradingView crypto charts work?

Crypto prices on TradingView come from specific exchanges, so the same coin can have several symbols, such as bitcoin against the dollar on one exchange and against USDT on another. Prices can differ slightly between them, which is why the exchange name appears beside each symbol.

For scanning many markets, TradingView offers crypto screeners. Its CEX Screener compares one pair across centralized exchanges and filters by exchange, market data and indicators, sorting by 24-hour volume by default. Separate screeners cover individual coins and pairs on decentralized exchanges, similar in purpose to the standalone DEX Screener site.

Users who want their own indicators can write them in Pine Script, TradingView's lightweight programming language. Scripts can draw on a chart, trigger alerts or run backtests that simulate trades on past data.

What is the TradingView app, and can you trade on it?

TradingView runs in a browser and as desktop and mobile apps, with watchlists and alerts synced across devices. To place real orders, you connect a supported broker or crypto exchange and use the Trade button. TradingView's help center says it does not process trades and acts as an interface only, with your account and funds staying at the broker or exchange.

There is also paper trading, which simulates orders with no real money. TradingView recommends it for testing a strategy before trading for real.

Is TradingView free?

Yes, there is a free plan called Basic, but it has limits. As of November 2026, TradingView's pricing page lists Basic with two indicators per chart, one chart per tab, three active price alerts that expire after a month, and 5,000 historical bars. Paid plans, named Essential, Plus, Premium and Ultimate, raise these limits and remove ads. Some exchange data also needs a paid plan.

Charts and indicators describe past prices. They do not predict what a market will do next.