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How to Draw on a TradingView Chart

Drawing on a TradingView chart is picking a tool from the left toolbar and clicking once or twice on the chart, which puts a mark of yours on bars that stay exactly as they were. This paper shows you the steps in five lines; the idea as a drawing board with a T-square over a printed sheet; a horizontal line and a trend line placed on the euro's real one-hour bars of 24 and 25 August 2026 at real prices; the settings box of a drawing, where it is two prices at two times; and the six tools of the left toolbar on your platform, including the magnet.

Difficulty
Beginner
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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Drawing on the chart, in five lines

A drawing is a mark put on the chart by hand: a line, a box, a word. The left toolbar holds the tools; a horizontal line takes one click and a trend line two, one at each end. An end point can be dragged, and a double-click opens colour, width and whether the line extends past its ends. Drawings are saved with the chart and shown on every timeframe of that symbol. Clicking one and pressing Delete removes it, and the bin at the bottom of the toolbar clears them all. The bars underneath do not care where the marks are.

A drawing board

Picture a drawing board with a sheet pinned to it, a T-square laid across, and a pencil. The sheet is already printed: those are the bars, and they are not yours to change. The square and the pencil are the drawing tools, and a line ruled with them is yours: it can be moved, recoloured or rubbed out, and the print under it stays exactly as it was. That is what drawing on a chart is. The marks are yours; the print is the market's.

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