Trading, Alerts & Events Settings

TradingView is a charting front end, not a broker. It holds no client money and is not a member of any exchange. What broker integration does is authorise a link between your TradingView account and an account you already hold with a broker, so that instructions typed on the chart are relayed to that broker's systems. The list of connected Indian brokers currently includes Dhan, Fyers, Kotak Securities.

Understanding that chain matters, because it tells you who is responsible for what. The chart is where you decide. The broker validates margin, applies its own product rules and routes the order to NSE or BSE. The exchange matches it. If an order is rejected, it is almost always the broker or the exchange rejecting it, not the chart.

Connecting an account is done from the Trading Panel at the bottom of the screen: pick your broker from the list, and you are sent to the broker's own login page to authorise the connection. Your trading password is entered on the broker's site, not on TradingView, and the platform receives a limited access token rather than your credentials.

Indian brokers typically issue those tokens with a short life, so expect to re-authorise the connection regularly — often daily before the 09:15 IST open. Building that into your pre-market routine avoids discovering an expired session at the exact moment you wanted to place an order.

Once connected, the 'Trading' tab inside Chart Settings decides what is drawn on the canvas: whether your open positions appear as horizontal lines, whether resting orders appear as draggable lines, and whether past fills appear as small arrow markers on the candles where they happened.

The practical gain is that the stop-loss you place is the stop-loss you drew. Instead of reading ₹1,392.40 off a chart, switching to a broker terminal and retyping it, you drag a line to the level and the price travels with it. The number of transcription errors this removes is the real argument for the integration.

The limits are worth stating plainly. Not every order type or product code a domestic broker offers is exposed through the chart interface; intraday versus delivery product selection, bracket orders and cover orders behave according to that broker's own rules. Anything the chart does not support still has to be done in the broker's own terminal.

If you have no broker connected — or you are still learning — the platform's built-in Paper Trading account is selected from the same Trading Panel dropdown. It renders identical position lines, order lines and fill markers against live prices with simulated money, which makes it the correct place to practise the mechanics described in the next section.

The Trading tab is a list of visual toggles for a connected brokerage account. Switching on 'Show Positions' draws a horizontal line across the chart at your average entry price, with a live profit-and-loss box attached to the right-hand end that updates on every tick.

That P&L box can display three different units, and the choice changes how you think. Currency shows rupees. Percentage shows the move relative to entry. Ticks shows it in the smallest increment the exchange allows — on most NSE cash stocks that is ₹0.05 — which is the unit intraday traders find easiest to compare across different-priced stocks.

'Show Orders' draws every resting order as a dashed horizontal line: a pending limit buy, a stop-loss, a target. The line is not a picture of the order. It is a handle on it. Click it, drag it to a different price, release, and TradingView sends a modification request to your broker for that order.

Take an illustrative example on NSE:RELIANCE, using round numbers purely to show the mechanics. Say a long position is opened around ₹1,420 with the stop placed just under the most recent swing low at ₹1,392 — the level that, if traded through, says the reason for being long no longer holds. Both appear as lines: entry solid, stop dashed.

If price later builds a higher swing low near ₹1,410, dragging the dashed stop line up to just below it re-anchors the risk to the newer structure. The important part is not the number. It is that the stop stays tied to a level that would invalidate the idea, rather than to a round figure typed into a different application.

'Show Executions' plots small arrow markers on the exact candles where past orders were filled. This is the single most useful toggle for review. When you open last week's NSE:HDFCBANK chart, you see precisely which candle you entered on rather than the version of events you remember.

Order rejection notifications appear on the chart itself. If margin is insufficient or the broker rejects the product type, the message surfaces immediately instead of leaving you believing a stop is protecting a position that has no stop attached to it at all.

Two safety notes. Drag-and-drop is fast enough to be dangerous: keep the order confirmation dialog enabled until the gesture is second nature, because a mis-drop is a live order modification at the exchange. And nothing on this tab reduces risk by itself — a stop-loss order can still be filled well away from its trigger price when a stock gaps at the open.

An alert is a condition that TradingView watches on its own servers. That is the part beginners miss: once the alert is created, your browser can be closed and your laptop shut, and the condition is still being checked. The engine covers roughly 13 built-in conditions across price, indicators and drawings.

Alerts are created on the chart — right-click a price level, an indicator or a drawing and choose 'Add alert' — while the global Alerts settings decide how you are told when one fires. Keeping those two ideas separate saves a lot of confusion about where a particular option lives.

The condition types matter more than the delivery. A price alert on NSE:INFY crossing ₹1,600 fires the moment any trade prints through that price, including a single wick that immediately reverses. A 'closing price crossing' condition on the same level only fires when a candle actually finishes above it.

That distinction is the difference between being woken by every intraday spike and being told when something structurally changed. If you are watching a 15-minute BANKNIFTY level, a closing-basis alert on that timeframe is usually the honest version of the question you are actually asking.

You can also attach an alert to a drawing rather than a fixed number. Draw a rising trendline under NSE:TCS and set the alert on the line itself: the trigger price then moves with the line every session, which is exactly what a fixed price alert cannot do.

Delivery is configured globally: on-screen popups, email, mobile push through the TradingView app, and a sound. Assigning distinct sounds to distinct alert types is a genuinely useful habit — a sharp tone for a stop level and a soft chime for a watchlist touch means you know what happened before you look.

Webhooks are the automation route, available on paid tiers. A webhook is simply a URL that TradingView sends a message to when the alert fires; the message body is JSON, a plain-text format that programs can read. A server you control receives it and decides what, if anything, to do next.

Treat that path with real caution. An automated chain that places orders is your responsibility end to end — the alert can fire on bad ticks, the receiving server can be down, and the broker can reject the order. Test any such setup on Paper Trading for a long time before it touches a live account.

Finally, the housekeeping. Alerts have limits per plan on how many can be active at once, and they expire: free-tier alerts stop after a couple of months, while the highest tiers do not expire. An expired alert fails silently, so review the alert list periodically rather than assuming a level from last quarter is still being watched.

Technical analysis describes how price moved. The Events tab lets you mark why, by overlaying corporate and macroeconomic dates directly onto the timeline you are already reading, so a violent candle stops being a mystery three months later.

Switching on Earnings and Dividends places small 'E' and 'D' markers along the bottom of the chart. 'E' sits on the date a company published its quarterly results. 'D' marks the ex-dividend date — the first session on which a buyer is no longer entitled to the declared dividend, which is why the price typically opens lower by roughly the dividend amount.

Clicking an 'E' marker opens the reported figures, including EPS. EPS means earnings per share: the company's net profit for the period divided by the number of shares outstanding. It is quoted per share so that companies of very different sizes can be compared on the same basis, and it is the figure most results-day reactions are measured against.

For Indian equities this overlay earns its place during results season. Load NSE:TCS or NSE:INFY on a Daily chart with events on, and the quarterly clusters of gaps line up with the 'E' markers. What looked like random volatility resolves into a repeating calendar you can plan around.

The same applies to your own history. A trade that stopped out on a candle sitting directly on an 'E' marker was not a failure of the level you drew — it was a position held into a scheduled announcement. Being able to see that in review is what stops the same mistake repeating each quarter.

The Economic Calendar overlay extends this to macro events, placing markers for scheduled releases such as RBI monetary policy decisions, domestic inflation prints and major overseas data on the timeline. On BANKNIFTY in particular, policy dates explain a large share of the outsized single-session moves.

Use it as a filter for what not to do, not as a signal. Knowing that an RBI policy statement is due does not tell you the direction of the reaction; it tells you that ordinary volatility assumptions do not hold that session and that a stop placed at a normal distance may not survive it.

One caveat on data quality: coverage of corporate actions varies by symbol and vendor, and a missing marker is not proof that no event occurred. For anything you are acting on, check the company's filing on the NSE or BSE website — the chart overlay is a convenience layer, not the official record.