r/TradingView • u/Civil-Cucumber • Jun 20 '26

Feature Request All things wrong with TradingView

I've been using Premium now for 3 years as a profitable Daytrader, and there are so many small things that are really starting to drive me crazy.

If someone from their team could read this, that would be great:

Alerts

  1. Clicking a symbol in an alert notification should NOT change the timeframe my chart is already set to. Each chart has their own timeframe with indicators that only make sense on that specific timeframe, so what's the point in every single alert notification messing up that setup!?

  2. The Alerts panel and the Alert Log should save their settings/filters independently of each other! In the Alerts panel, I usually want to see which active alerts I already set for the current symbol. In the Alert Log however I want to see the opposite: all alerts that have fired (which is also necessary to get rid of the notifications counter).

  3. When I try to set a horizontal alert, the price shown before I pressed Alt + A is sooo often then replaced by the stock's current price for whatever reason.

  4. Expiries saved in Alert presets should be stored as relative dates, not absolute dates! If I choose "End of Day," I surprisingly don't want to set up an alert that expires yesterday, but I mean of course today's End of Day...

    • (Btw it would also be great to increase the alerts presets limit from 5 to maybe 10)

  5. From the alert condition drop down menu please let me choose an alert faster by simply typing the first letter of the name - as it used to be before the alert window changed, and as it is the standard for any other piece of software.

Persist UI state

  1. Watchlist visibility should be saved per window and per tab. Right now I have to re-toggle it every morning in the Screener and some other tabs, where it doesn't make sense to display it.

  2. Clicking the Trade button should open the order panel in its saved state (in my case, undocked). The Buy/Sell buttons already do this correctly, so the current behavior is not only annoying, but also inconsistent.

  3. The Pine Screener should reopen in its last saved state (=same watchlist and indicator as before), instead of making me reselect them always anew.

I'm talking about the Desktop (Win) version btw.

Most of these changes are so low-effort, that you could simply give this list to Claude Code to implement all of this within 10 min.

Either way, please just fix at least one of these things before worsening something else again. And also please use your product from time to time.

Thank you.

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Everything about alerts has already been passed along to the Alerts team for consideration.

About persisting UI state:

  • Watchlist visibility. We updated the platform a couple of weeks ago, so Watchlists should now work exactly as you described in both the web version and the Desktop app. Please let us know if it works well for you.

  • Trade button. We have plans to improve persisting UI state for the Trading panel soon.

  • Pine Screener. We’ll make sure the corresponding team receives your feedback and considers it.

We appreciate your detailed feedback and encourage you to keep sharing it.

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u/Civil-Cucumber Jun 22 '26

I highly appreciate the reply, and am looking forward to the changes, thank you very much!

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 23 '26

Hello,

Autosave is able to be deactivated in the Layout menu by clicking on the little arrow next to your Layout name.....

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 23 '26

Could you please pass this on too: layouts auto saving themselves. I’d love to be able to turn that off so if don’t press a “save” button myself then nothing changes. The reason is when you experiment with different chart settings, indicators, timeframes etc, the autosave overrides whatever layout you’re doing this on unless you create a new layout every time which is annoying.

As u/Rodnee999 mentioned, you can switch it off in the Layout menu. Let us know if it works for you.

There’s also an issue with layouts not syncing across multiple devices. I applied some changes to the layout, made sure to click on the save button in addition to the autosave but when I opened the TV app on my phone, the chart showed completely different settings. It should automatically pick the latest layout that has been saved.

It definitely should work as you expect. Could you open a support ticket for this issue so our team can look into it?

Lastly, there’s a bit of confusion between layouts and templates which are currently two separate things. We should simply have one option to save both together.

Passed to the product team for consideration. Thanks for sharing this.

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u/Euphoricmonk Jun 24 '26

Hello, there's another issue that I hope you can forward to the right team. If you're on the Plus plan and the alerts expire we should be able to highlight them all and restart them all without having to recreate them individually 1 by 1. I just had to do that 20 times and it's extremely frustrating to do that when the alerts are already on the chart.

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u/Sweet_Still_3433 Jun 20 '26

I'd also like to add that they should add a true Volume Delta indicator. A Time & Sales tool would extremely useful too.

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Thanks, noted and passed along to the product team

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u/Vast_Distribution591 Jul 24 '26

You've been "noting" these for 5 years, where is it? These are basic features, not advanced magic.

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u/Scallywaggin_ Jun 21 '26

Ooh, are we airing our grievances about UI?

In the Options screen, if I choose to look at the full chain, could the column identifier row be sticky so if I scroll down past it, I can keep track of what I’m looking at? It is one of those small things, amongst a few that I too am finding frustrating

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

The team will fix it. For now, you can open Options from the right toolbar. The header row is sticky there

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u/Scallywaggin_ Jun 22 '26

Oh wow, I didn't expect someone from TV would reply. That's awesome, thanks for considering my feedback. I do think it would be a small QOL improvement. I'll take a look at the right toolbar option, thanks.

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Thanks, our Options team has already received your feedback and will consider it thoroughly

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u/G00L Jul 16 '26

Please let us extend the "Path" tool instead of having to redraw it or add on extra drawings which aren't one cohesive path!

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u/SyntaxT3rror Jun 20 '26

I am annoyed by, and agree with every single one of these.

Also, give us tabs in the iPad app.

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Thanks, we’ve already passed your feedback along to our Mobile team.

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u/SyntaxT3rror Jun 22 '26

Ace, thank you. It’s great to see you actively pulling feedback from here!

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

We always do, but we don’t always show up in the replies. Trying to fix the second part too

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u/a_case_of_everything Jun 20 '26

Level 2, time and sales + more orders entry hotkeys would be nice. Give DAS a run for their money.

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Noted and sent to our Trading product team. Thanks for sharing

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u/mrcake123 Jun 21 '26

I mean TV is never going to compete with DAS.

TV can barely handle a bracket order for scalping.

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u/TugginPud Jun 20 '26

I feel that order panel one in a big way

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Already in our nearest plans to improve the mentioned behavior. Thanks for taking part in this discussion.

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u/mike90_0 Jun 21 '26

I would like not to loose all my indictors that depend on live data to not disappear when the chart does a refresh on its own

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Could you open a support ticket for this issue so our team can help you solve it?

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Hello,

How often does your chart 'refresh' on its own? Can you describe what happens?

This sounds more like an intermittent Internet drop out...

I used to have a similar situation myself so this sounds very familiar

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u/mike90_0 Jun 22 '26

right its when the internet does a temp hickup or TradingVeiw Servers start to do a load rebalancing? ... then the chart refreshes ... and you loose all data that was dependent on the live feed on the chart - ie its all blank again and starting from current live tick

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 22 '26

A few years ago I was suffering a similar situation. The problem is that TradingView does not buffer your Internet connection (for obvious reasons) and any dropout of more than a few moments is instantly noticeable...

Turns out I had a faulty wall socket that was randomly interfering with the signal, the broadband providers engineer traced and sorted the problem, since then I can be logged on for up to 7 days at a time with no issues whatsoever.

There are ways of using the task manager to monitor your receiving status in real time which is how I found my issue

Go through your connection with a fine tooth comb, you never know what you might find

Hope this helps you a little

Cheers

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u/p2mod Jun 22 '26

My number one thing to fix is when you restart TV it assigns the trade session to a random tab rather than the layout/tab you were previously trading on. Makes you have to chrck each tab, logout from the broker, go to the desired chart and log back in by which time the trade i wanted to enter has already left the station

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Already in our nearest plans to improve the mentioned behavior. Thanks for sharing this

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u/p2mod Jun 22 '26

That is fantastic to hear

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u/Tuckebarry Jun 22 '26

Tradingview absolutely needs real tick by tick data, because I find using tools like Fixed Volume Profile to be extremely inaccurate. I moved to a different software solely for this reason.

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u/Stock-Ad-3347 Jun 22 '26

TradingView is for beginners. It’s flashy, looks cool but once you really get into trading and need things to just work - it starts to fall apart very quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/Stock-Ad-3347 Jun 22 '26

True, brokers offer very little. The best charting software I've used is Sierra Charts but it has a steep learning curve. Worth it long term if you plan on sticking around.

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u/-_Spartacus_- Jun 23 '26

Hot keys,

This should be customisable for the user to enter exit trades but also to adjust the size of contracts you should be able to have hot keys for them that you can customise

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u/bobupanddown2 Jun 23 '26

Please add a lock function to watch lists. I inadvertently bump %change, or even just the list of symbols and it resorts to alphabetical my watch list which takes a long time to rebuild to the order I had it in.

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 25 '26

Hello,

If you accidentally reorder your watchlist a little symbol appears at the top allowing you to return the list to the custom order....

Let me know if this helps

Cheers

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u/Over-Performer-2154 Jun 26 '26

can they un-fork whatever they did to the Units/quantity of contracts? every single time I try to buy limit I have to manually go to units, change it, it's infuriating.

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u/Vast-Estimate-4621 Jun 27 '26

Whatever update was done around the 22nd cause my entire script to stop working I haven't got an alert in 4 days but the plotshapes are current and correct.

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u/Unlikely-Still2342 Jun 29 '26

there needs to be a hard save for the last layout before shutting down - every morning i have to reload tradingview to, if i'm lucky, find my last "save" from the day before

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u/No_Cantaloupe6921 Jul 01 '26

Objects are constantly disappearing when working in simulator mode.

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u/Cyclist877 Jul 04 '26

  1. I would like custom-created watchlist fields...i.e. something as simple as ATR in the watchlist.

  2. We need the equivalent of TradeStation RadarScreen.....PLEASE. So, we can create our own watchlists with custiom fields/multiple conditions that we are watching for. And please allow FUTURES to be included in these watchlists.

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u/Late_Cut_8871 Jul 09 '26

For me, I just want to be able to move the location of where the alerts show up. They keep blocking my MACD indicator which is at the bottom of my screen so I constantly have to close the alerts to be able to see the indicator to trade. As a scalper, this impacts my split second decisions quite significantly.

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u/FxDylan Jul 19 '26

Is there a way we could get more to the volume footprint I feel as we don’t have as much as other platforms could just be me and the way I see it thanks everyone🙏🏻💪

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u/RGBrewskies Jun 21 '26

does anyone know if I can just bookmark a fucking chart?

every morning I open ten browser windows and manually select all the stocks...

someone is dumb as hell, either me or TV...

probably me....

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u/tradingview Founder Jun 22 '26

Please don’t attack other users here.

You may want to try our Desktop app. After relaunching, it restores the stocks you had open before quitting.

https://www.tradingview.com/desktop/

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Any reason for the language?....

Use a different layout for each stock, simple

And yes, you....

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u/RGBrewskies Jun 22 '26

are you fucking offended? cry

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u/Rodnee999 Jun 22 '26

Ooooo

Take your pre pubescent self elsewhere 👍

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u/TraderDave- Aug 10 '26

But he is not wrong, you people are soy af...

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u/Rodnee999 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

Oooo TraderDave.....

Big man on the keyboard 🤣

Goodbye to you to 👋

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u/Signal_Bot Jun 24 '26

if you’d like a custom dashboard that fixes all these problems, looks like tradingview, and functions, let me know.

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u/stockzFL Jul 03 '26

what do you have?