TradingView review: "Screw 'em!"

[tommcginnis]

IMHO, TV is the best to beginners starting Futures trading. It's very intuitive and elegant.....

I continue to 'notice' TradingView around in various places -- it seems to be a go-to graphics choice right there with StockCharts.com. And setting up a chart truly was easy. But when it came to backtesting, or to working Pine to modify existing code, ......

It took me two days to set up a rudimentary indicator+backtest template in a spreadsheet -- something I'd spent 10x that in TradingView, without satisfaction. And now, having built a backtest/trade_eval. engine, I've already broadened it to another indicator. (I only use two, for EOD entry/exit data.) So now it's just polishing to do. ("Sweet!")

But TradingView -- and these other products -- Stockcharts, Trend Spyder, Prodigio, even Metacharts etc. -- they're products I've not had to learn, as an options trader. Now that I am pushing into more standard long+short market holdings, scenario testing is a *grand* idea, and my homework is obvious.

 

[GloriaBrown]

OMG. The TIME I have wasted.
The VALUABLE time I have wasted.
Tradingview is just SO not ready for Prime-time.
Dirt for balanced operators, crap for documentation, poor-ass in execution-without-quirks.

I went there because I thought I could easily access historical data not available from IB/TWS (except via the dive into the itself-quirky API), and that it would be easier than hunting up data online, and then putting together the analytics in a spreadsheet for {thereafter} easy modification, manipulation, etc.

I have ended up investing *much* more time in this losing proposition than would've been put into a spreadsheet. The (EOD) data I've found on the glorious Investing.Com. The analytics (standard MACD/ADX/"T/A" sorts of things) will be doable in no time. Trade signals? Elementary. Accruing PnL? Pffff. WTF was I thinking?

Screw it! (You know, it really takes me a bit to throw in the towel. Well, it be thrown.)
I'll be crafting my own.

So is it good?

 

[SteveH]

Real-time trading software doesn't belong in a browser.

 

[IAlwaysWin]

Don't hate the platform, hate your strategy. Nothing unique about it brother.

I continue to 'notice' TradingView around in various places -- it seems to be a go-to graphics choice right there with StockCharts.com. And setting up a chart truly was easy. But when it came to backtesting, or to working Pine to modify existing code, ......

It took me two days to set up a rudimentary indicator+backtest template in a spreadsheet -- something I'd spent 10x that in TradingView, without satisfaction. And now, having built a backtest/trade_eval. engine, I've already broadened it to another indicator. (I only use two, for EOD entry/exit data.) So now it's just polishing to do. ("Sweet!")

But TradingView -- and these other products -- Stockcharts, Trend Spyder, Prodigio, even Metacharts etc. -- they're products I've not had to learn, as an options trader. Now that I am pushing into more standard long+short market holdings, scenario testing is a *grand* idea, and my homework is obvious.

 

[ionone]

Real-time trading software doesn't belong in a browser.

well i could very well be the future, like Stadia
-no updates,
-instantaneous 10 years tick backtests
-access to your charts anywhere
etc

But as it is right now it's not good

 

[tommcginnis]

Since this thread has 're-freshed' after skipping 2019 entirely, I'll state flatly that I remain happily ensconced in a spreadsheet environment, with data/import ease, plainly algebraic coding of any algos/tweaks I care to think up, and fair-to-poor graphics. I continue to think great things are possible with TradingView, but have had ZERO ability to check on any progress with its issues since 2018. (And for that matter, that other half-dozen of trade-notion_to_graphed_performance platforms also look positively *fun* -- just no time/little need on my part*.)

Hope all is well with your (collective) trading.



* trend-following; EOD data; EOD trades; modest profit, below-market risk