Practical TradingView walkthroughs for stock investors. Start with the basics, then choose a guide for the task you want to do.
Completely new to investing? Begin with our free four-part beginner course, then return here to explore the tools.
Get comfortable with TradingView
Set up a workspace you can find again, then build a small, repeatable review routine.
First steps
How do I set up my first chart?
Find the right stock listing, organize a watchlist, and save your chart layout.
Weekly routine
What should I check each week?
Connect a simple chart review with your business research, valuation assumptions, and next reporting event.
Set alerts you understand
Choose what should trigger a notification and what you will investigate when it arrives.
Notifications
How do I set and check an alert?
Choose the condition, understand bar-close timing, and check what happens after an alert fires.
Research company financials
Find tools for comparing businesses and organizing a research shortlist.
Company research
How do I research a company’s financials?
Read financial statements and cash-flow trends, match reporting periods, and build a small Stock Screener comparison.
Choose a tool
Which financial-data tool should I open?
Choose between company profiles, financial statements, Fundamental Graphs, and Stock Screener for your research question.
Explore market heatmaps
A place to learn how to read a broad market view before investigating individual companies.
Market overview
What do a heatmap’s sizes and colors mean?
Read tile area, color periods, and sector grouping, then compare market-cap and equal-area views before investigating a company.
Choose a chart question
Technical tools describe price, momentum, volatility, or trading activity. Start with one question rather than adding every indicator at once.
Trend
Which way is the trend?
Understand how simple and exponential moving averages summarize prices over time.
Momentum
What does an RSI reading mean?
Learn the RSI scale, basic settings, and limits of “overbought” and “oversold” labels.
Momentum
What are the MACD lines showing?
Read the MACD line, signal line, and histogram without treating a crossover as a complete investment decision.
Market comparison
Is this stock keeping up with the market?
Compare a stock and a benchmark over the same dates.
Volatility
How large are the usual price moves?
Use ATR% to put recent price movement in context.
Volatility
What do Bollinger Bands show?
Set up the built-in indicator, read relative price position and changing band width, and understand why touches and squeezes need context.
Price and volume
How has price behaved since earnings?
Explore an event-anchored, volume-weighted average and what its starting point changes.
Price and volume
Where did trading volume concentrate?
Read a volume profile over a selected range and understand the limits of those levels.
Choose one guide at a time. Charts can help you decide what to investigate next; they do not establish a company’s fair value or predict returns. Use them alongside company filings and your valuation assumptions.