TradingView

What I use it for

• Screening the universe. The 711 instruments behind this site get looked at somewhere, and that somewhere is a TradingView chart. The site does the structure - bubbles, correlations, Fib levels - and the chart is where I check whether the structure survives contact with the tape.
• The watchlists this site hands you are built for it. The "copy tickers" button on the screener pages emits a comma-separated list in exactly the shape TradingView's Watchlist -> Import expects. That was true before this page existed; it is why this page exists.
• Discretionary notes. The playbook says trade notes live in TradingView for now. That is still true, and it is a gap, not a recommendation: a proper structured journal is on the roadmap.

Why it is here and not somewhere else

I would rather list the tool I actually open than the tool with the best affiliate terms. TradingView has been in the workflow since before there was anything to monetise, which is the only reason it qualifies for this page at all.

The free tier is genuinely usable. Most of what this site asks you to do - paste a watchlist, look at a level, compare two names - needs no subscription. Pay when the ad removal or the extra charts per layout start costing you time, not before.

Honest tradeoffs

• This referral pays me in account credit, not cash. $15 to you off your next subscription, $15 credited to my TradingView balance. That is a smaller and more honest incentive than a revenue share, and you should read it as exactly what it is: I already use this, and the link costs you nothing over the plain URL.
• It is a charting tool, not a broker. Nothing here executes. Orders go to Interactive Brokers, OKX or Hyperliquid; TradingView is where the decision gets looked at, not where it gets placed.
• Data on the cheaper tiers is delayed for most exchanges unless you add a real-time data subscription. Fine for structure and levels, not fine for execution timing. If you are sizing a trade off a delayed chart, that is a mistake the tool will not warn you about.
• The social feed is not research. The ideas stream is entertainment with a chart attached. This site exists partly because that stream is what most people mistake for analysis.

Who this is not for

If you only read the thesis pages and never open a chart, you do not need this. If you want backtesting in a real language rather than Pine Script, the bots in /bots/public are written in Python against broker APIs, and that is the honest path for anything systematic.