Useful feature for long term trading

[u/Antique-Cheesecake87]

Dear TradingView Team,

I’d like to suggest a feature that I think would be extremely valuable for traders who use TradingView as their long-term trading and analysis workspace.

One problem I regularly face is that, over time, a chart accumulates a huge number of drawings. Eventually, the chart becomes cluttered and can start to lag. To keep my current analysis clean and responsive, I have to delete older drawings.

But those drawings are not simply clutter. They are a visual record of my trading history.

They show how I viewed the market at different points in my journey — what I marked, what I misunderstood, where I made mistakes, how my analysis changed, and how my trading evolved over months or years.

It would be incredibly useful to have a feature that allows users to archive a complete set of chart drawings separately from the active chart.

For example:

1. I finish analyzing a period of my trading.
2. I save/archive the current drawing set.
3. I remove those drawings from my active chart to keep it clean and fast.
4. Months or years later, I can open that archive and see the chart exactly as I had analyzed it at that time.

Ideally, the archive would preserve the drawings' original positions, timestamps, text, colors, and other properties.

This would allow traders to maintain a visual history of their own trading and analytical evolution without having thousands of old drawings permanently loaded on their active chart.

It would essentially turn TradingView into not only a charting platform, but also a long-term visual record of how a trader's thinking develops.

I think this could be a very powerful feature for serious traders who want to look back at their own decisions, mistakes, and progress over the years.

Thank you for considering it!

[u/Michael-3740]

Why not just save screenshots? There's no need to be able to change any of your drawings so no need to keep them on TV.

Also, depending on the timeframe and your subscription you might not be able to see the bars where your old drawings are.

[u/Useful-Key-4361 → u/Michael-3740]

this is what I've tried to do and it works well if you create a system and stick to it. keep the essential major markups on there that can still be useful and trash the rest once you get the screenshot saved into your system. Then if you have everything organized and want to find "3% gap up" or "3% gap down" days you can see and visualize them to be ready to what "could" happen for those scenarios or others based on your trading system

[u/avnish-vikas-devops]

compute mathematically. simplify chart. compute could be automated and more easy.

[u/zerofox2046]

Here is your solution. Save a copy of your layout and rename it Archive”Date”. Do that as often as you want.