TradingView: Track All Markets

Review by eFreeware

TradingView is a market charting and trading app from TradingView Inc. The Android release has been available since November 2018 and has passed 50 million installs on Google Play, where it holds a 4.6 average across more than 950,000 ratings. It is free to download, carries advertising, and offers in-app purchases.

What makes it worth considering is the combination of research and execution in one place. The app offers a full charting environment rather than a viewer, with multi-asset coverage, a deep indicator library, alerts, paper trading and the option to route real orders through a connected broker. For someone who follows several markets and wants to act on what they see without switching between apps, that is a coherent package.

It is also a serious commitment. The toolset is wide and the vocabulary is that of technical analysis. I would treat this as software you grow into rather than something you open once a week.

Charts that go well past the basics

The charting engine is the core of the app, and the developer is explicit that the mobile version is not a stripped-down companion. Charting covers over 20 styles, including lines, candlesticks, Heikin Ashi, Renko and Kagi. On top of that sit over 400 built-in indicators and strategies, including moving averages, RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands, plus a library of more than 100,000 scripts contributed by the community.

Drawing tools cover trend lines, Fibonacci levels and Elliott Waves, and you can compare symbols against each other on a single chart. Bar Replay is the feature I find most interesting for anyone learning: it lets you step back through past price action and practice reading a market without risking anything. That is a rare thing to find built into a mobile chart.

Market data is drawn from more than 3,500,000 instruments across over 100 global exchanges, supplied by professional data providers. In practice that means the same app can hold a US tech stock, a currency pair, an index fund and a token, which is unusual for a single Android download.

Trading from the chart, with a practice mode

Trading from the chart is possible once you link a supported broker. The app handles stocks, ETFs, forex, futures and crypto, with market and limit orders, stop loss and take profit levels, and position management. For anyone who day trades or manages a longer-term portfolio, having the order ticket attached to the analysis is the point of the whole design.

If you are not ready to commit real money, paper trading lets you run a strategy with virtual funds first. I would expect that to be the more useful half of the feature for a newcomer, since it lets you see how a plan behaves before any capital is exposed. The two modes sit side by side, so moving from practice to live trading does not mean learning a different interface.

The broker list is worth checking before you count on this as your main execution tool.

Watchlists, alerts and the wider market picture

Watchlists hold the instruments you track, sorted into groups. You can set alerts on prices, indicators or drawings, and get a push notification when they fire. That is the feature most likely to keep the app on your phone rather than in a folder.

Around the charts sit the context tools. An economic calendar and a news feed help you plan around rate decisions, inflation figures and earnings, which matters if you trade instruments that react sharply to scheduled data. Commodity and futures coverage extends to gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, plus index and currency futures, so the app is not limited to equities and crypto.

There is a social layer as well. You can browse trading ideas and Minds posted by investors around the world, follow authors whose analysis you find useful, and publish your own market view. Treat that material as one input among several; the value is in seeing how other people frame a setup, not in copying it.

The developer's most recent update adds a Notifications screen, reachable from the menu, that gathers important updates and personalized offers in one place.

What it asks of you

The app is free to download and use, and it carries advertising. There are in-app purchases, and the paid tier is said to raise the limits on indicators, alerts and charts per layout. Those are the three ceilings to keep in mind if your analysis depends on stacking many indicators or running a large alert book.

Broker trading requires a supported, verified brokerage account, and the list is what it is. Paper trading needs no real funds, which makes it the natural entry point if you want to use the execution side without committing capital.

One account carries your charts, watchlists and alerts across the app, the web and the desktop, syncing automatically. That continuity is a genuine argument for choosing this over a phone-only charting tool, because the work you do on a larger screen is waiting for you on the phone.

The other requirement is knowledge. This is built for people who already understand or want to learn technical analysis, and the sheer number of chart types, indicators and drawing tools assumes some familiarity. A beginner can start with paper trading and simple charts, but the app does not hide its depth.

How I would approach it

Start with a small watchlist of instruments you actually follow, and set alerts on levels you care about rather than trying to monitor everything. The alert system is the part that matters most on a phone, because it turns a charting tool into something that tells you when to look.

If you are new to trading, run paper trades alongside your research for a while and use Bar Replay to rehearse entries and exits on historical price action. That combination gives you repetition without cost, and it uses features the app already includes rather than anything extra.

Once charts and alerts feel natural, connecting a broker is the logical next step, and the economic calendar and news feed are worth checking before entering anything sensitive to scheduled data. If you find yourself hitting the limits on indicators or alerts, there is a paid option.

A charting desk for people who follow several markets

TradingView is one of the more complete market apps available on Android, and the 4.6 average across a very large number of ratings suggests that breadth is appreciated. The charting depth, the alert system, the multi-asset coverage and the option to trade through a broker from the same screen make a strong case for anyone who takes markets seriously.

The trade-offs are honest ones. There is advertising, broker trading depends on your brokerage being on the supported list, and the toolset assumes you are willing to learn it.

I would recommend it to investors and traders who follow more than one market and want research, alerts and execution in a single app, and to newcomers who are prepared to start with paper trading and build up. If you want a simple price checker with no learning curve, this is more machinery than you need.

What's new

Our new version introduces a Notifications screen, making it easier to stay up to date with important updates and personalized offers — all in one place and always at hand, so you never miss a thing. You can access it anytime from the Menu.