Right Menu — Watchlist, Ideas & Options

The Right Menu—internally referred to as the Widget Bar—is a vertical column of icons on the far right edge of your TradingView screen. Clicking any icon slides out a dedicated panel, overlaying the right side of your chart. You can adjust the width of this panel by dragging its inner edge, or collapse it entirely by clicking the active tab icon again.

Every tab in the Widget Bar is 'symbol-aware': when you switch the ticker on your main chart, the Details, News, Options Chain, and Data Window tabs automatically update to reflect the new symbol. This eliminates the need to manually search for data every time you change assets.

Professional traders keep this panel open during their pre-market routine (scanning watchlists, checking the calendar, reviewing overnight alerts), but collapse it during live execution to maximize the chart canvas for price action.

The Watchlist (the top list icon) is where your daily trading routine begins. It allows you to monitor a curated list of assets—like 'Nifty 50 Components', 'IT Sector', or 'Active Swing Trades'—with real-time price updates, percentage change, and volume.

You can create multiple watchlists (e.g., one for equities, one for F&O, one for global macro). Each list is saved to your TradingView cloud account and syncs across all your devices—phone, tablet, and desktop.

The most powerful watchlist feature is the Spacebar shortcut. With a watchlist active, pressing the Spacebar cycles your main chart to the next symbol in the list. This allows you to visually scan 50 charts in less than 2 minutes, identifying setups at breakneck speed.

Directly below your watchlist (or accessible via its own tab) is the Details Panel. When you select a symbol, this panel instantly updates to display a comprehensive fundamental snapshot: today's high/low range, the 52-week range, market capitalization, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend yield, next earnings date, average volume, sector, and industry classification.

This eliminates the need to open a separate finance website like Moneycontrol or Screener.in just to check basic fundamentals. The Details Panel is your one-glance summary of whether a stock is overvalued, undervalued, and when its next catalyst (earnings) is approaching.

The integrated News Feed sits below the Details panel and aggregates headlines from major financial networks, specifically filtered for the symbol you are currently viewing. For Indian stocks, you will see news from Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Livemint, and other domestic sources.

The Alerts tab (alarm clock icon) opens the Alerts Manager. This is distinct from the alert creation dialog—it is the centralized command center where you manage every alert across your entire account, regardless of which chart it was created on.

The panel displays two sections: an Active Alerts list at the top (currently armed and waiting to trigger) and an Alerts Log at the bottom (a chronological history of every alert that has recently fired, including the exact timestamp and the price at the moment of trigger).

For professional traders managing dozens of alerts across different sectors, this panel is indispensable. When a complex alert triggers at 9:17 AM (e.g., 'Bank Nifty touches 200 EMA + RSI oversold'), you can immediately review the log entry, assess the live chart, and decide whether to execute or pass. You can also 'Clone' an alert to duplicate its exact conditions onto a different symbol.

The Data Window (crosshairs icon) is the absolute source of truth for your chart. When you hover your mouse over any candle, the Data Window displays the exact Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume (OHLCV) for that specific bar—down to the last decimal point.

Crucially, it also displays the exact numerical value of every active indicator at that specific moment. If you have RSI, MACD, and three moving averages on your chart, the Data Window will show the precise value of each one for the candle your cursor is hovering over.

This is essential when you need mathematical precision rather than a visual estimate. For example, you might visually see that RSI 'looks like it is near 30', but the Data Window will confirm it is exactly 31.47—which means it has not yet entered the oversold zone. That distinction can be the difference between a valid entry and a premature one.

The Object Tree (layered squares icon) is the file manager for every visual element on your chart. It lists all drawings, shapes, text annotations, indicators, and order lines in a hierarchical, manageable list.

From the Object Tree, you can `Ctrl+Click` to select multiple drawings, group them into named folders (e.g., 'Daily Support Zones'), lock them from accidental movement, toggle their visibility (the eye icon), and set per-timeframe visibility rules so that weekly trendlines automatically disappear when you zoom into a 5-minute chart.

This feature is covered extensively in its own dedicated article (Object Tree & Multi-Timeframe Visibility), but its home in the Right Menu makes it instantly accessible without navigating away from your analysis.

The Hotlists tab (flame icon) provides pre-built, real-time scanners that rank stocks by specific criteria. Unlike the Stock Screener (which requires you to configure filters), Hotlists are ready to use immediately with zero setup.

Available Hotlists include: Volume Leaders (highest absolute volume today), Top % Gainers (largest percentage increase), Top % Losers (largest percentage decline), Most Volatile (highest intraday range as a percentage of price), and Unusual Volume (stocks trading significantly above their average volume).

For day traders looking for momentum at the 9:15 AM open, the Hotlist is the fastest way to find stocks in play. Within seconds of the market opening, you can identify which stocks are seeing a surge of activity and focus your attention accordingly.

The Calendar tab (calendar icon) is your macroeconomic radar. It aggregates three categories of market-moving events: (1) Global Economic Data (GDP, CPI, manufacturing PMI, central bank rate decisions), (2) Corporate Earnings Reports (quarterly results dates for individual companies), and (3) Dividend Ex-Dates and Payment Dates.

You can filter the calendar by country (India, US, UK, etc.), by impact level (High, Medium, Low), and by date range. High-impact events are marked with red exclamation icons and represent announcements that are most likely to cause significant market volatility—like RBI monetary policy meetings, US Federal Reserve rate decisions, or Indian GDP releases.

When you enable 'Economic Events' in your chart settings, these calendar events are marked directly on your chart timeline as small icons. This ensures you never accidentally hold a position through a major data release without knowing it.

The Options tab provides a professional-grade derivatives analysis toolkit that rivals dedicated platforms like Sensibull or Opstra. When you select an F&O eligible symbol (like Reliance, HDFC Bank, or any index—Nifty/Bank Nifty/Fin Nifty), this panel transforms into a full options suite.

The Options Chain displays Calls and Puts side-by-side for any selected expiration date. Each strike shows real-time Last Price, Bid/Ask spread, Volume, Open Interest, and calculated Implied Volatility. More importantly, it computes real-time Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, Rho) for every single strike—information that is essential for professional options pricing and risk management.

The Strategy Builder is the crown jewel. It allows you to construct multi-leg options strategies by selecting individual strikes for each leg. TradingView will generate a visual P&L payoff graph showing your exact max profit, max loss, and breakeven points at expiration. This is how institutional options desks plan their risk before deploying capital.

TradingView is not just a charting platform—it is a social network of 100M+ users. The Ideas tab (lightbulb icon) allows you to browse technical analysis published by other traders, or publish your own fully annotated chart with a thesis, entry/exit levels, and risk parameters.

The Ideas stream is personalized ('For You') based on the assets you trade and the authors you follow. It is an invaluable resource for finding alternate perspectives. If you are heavily bearish on Nifty, deliberately searching the Ideas tab for bullish Nifty analyses can help you identify blind spots in your own thesis—a practice known as 'seeking disconfirmation'.

The Chats tab (speech bubble icon) provides access to public chat rooms organized by asset class (e.g., 'Forex', 'Crypto', 'Indian Equities') as well as private direct messaging. The Notifications tab (bell icon) aggregates all system and social updates: new followers, comments on your published ideas, alert triggers, and platform announcements.