Right Menu — Watchlist, Ideas & Options
The Right Menu in TradingView provides quick access to essential tools for portfolio management, community engagement, and advanced features like options chains.
This final section covers everything from watchlists and alerts to idea streams, options analysis, stock screeners, and economic calendars.
Watchlists allow traders to monitor a selected set of assets in one centralized place. Each asset displays real-time updates of current price, change, percentage change, and trading volume.
When you select an asset from the watchlist, the Details Panel shows in-depth information: current price, day's range, 52-week range, market status, next earnings date, and market capitalization.
The integrated News feed provides real-time news related to the selected symbol, including management changes, earnings reports, and market-moving events.
The Alerts tab in the Right Menu provides a centralized view of all your active, triggered, and expired alerts. From here you can create new alerts, edit existing ones, and review the alert history.
This is different from the alert creation dialog — it's your alert command center for management and monitoring.
The Object Tree lists all graphical elements on your chart — trend lines, shapes, text, indicators. You can toggle visibility, rename, delete, or reorder objects without clicking on the chart directly.
The Data Window provides real-time OHLCV data and indicator values for any point on the chart that you hover over. It dynamically updates as you move your cursor.
My Ideas lets you create and share detailed posts based on your market analysis, including chart patterns, technical setups, and trade ideas. Other users can interact with your ideas through likes, comments, and follows.
The Chats feature provides both public and private messaging. Public chats are organized by market or topic, while private chats enable one-on-one communication with other traders.
The Idea Stream displays a constant flow of trading ideas from the entire TradingView community. You can filter by 'For You' (personalized based on your interests) or 'Following' (from traders you follow).
Ideas include rich media like annotated charts, technical setups, and detailed analysis, making it a powerful learning resource.
TradingView's Options section provides tools to analyze and evaluate options strategies. The Strategy Builder lets you create and visualize strategies like Long Call, Short Call, Bull Call Spread, and Bear Put Spread.
The Options Chain shows all available contracts with strike prices, expiration dates, and premiums. The Greeks panel monitors Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho — essential for understanding options pricing.
The Stock Screener in the Right Menu provides full screening capabilities with technical and fundamental filters, sector filtering, and real-time scan results.
The Calendars feature provides a comprehensive overview of key market events: Economic reports (GDP, inflation, interest rates), Earnings announcements, Revenue reports, and Dividend dates. Each event includes forecasted and prior values, and can be filtered by importance.
TradingView includes a comprehensive Help system with search functionality, a knowledge base of articles and tutorials, and live support for premium users.
To summarize the platform: TradingView's Pros include its user-friendly interface, HTML5 charting (no installations), free membership, extensive customization, Pine Script, server-side alerting, multi-asset coverage, vibrant community, broker integration, and regular updates.
The Cons include inconsistent community content quality, limited customer support for free users, restricted brokerage integration in some markets, locked premium features on free tier, and occasional service outages.
