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What Is TradingView

TradingView is a charting website from 2011 that runs in the browser and as an app, showing charts of most markets from many feeds, and it is not a broker: a trade placed on it goes through a broker you connect. This paper shows you TradingView in five lines; the idea as an observation deck above a city; the five parts of the window; the symbol search returning the same euro from several sources a pip or so apart, with this library's 10:00 price of 25 August 2026 beside them; and the browser, desktop and phone on your platform.

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Beginner
Reading time
5 min
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8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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TradingView, in five lines

TradingView is a charting website from 2011 that runs in the browser and as an app on the desktop and the phone. It shows charts of most markets, fed by exchanges and by brokers, and it is not a broker itself: a trade placed on it goes through a broker you have connected, or is a paper trade. There is a free plan with limits and adverts, and paid plans that lift the limits. Under every chart are ideas and scripts published by other users. MetaTrader is a program your broker gives you; TradingView is a website anyone opens, with a broker plugged in or not.

An observation deck

Picture an observation deck above a city. Anyone may come up, and the telescope points anywhere: the city is the markets, and the deck is the website, open to all with one view of many feeds. A deck is for looking. Buying a building means going down to the street, to a broker, and that is the relation between TradingView and the trade: the chart is the telescope, and the broker, connected or not, is down on the street.

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