Charting tips

Essential TradingView keyboard shortcuts

Clicking through menus is slow. Learn a dozen high-frequency shortcuts and switching intervals, adding indicators, drawing and screenshotting all become one-key actions. On macOS, swap Ctrl for Cmd.

Viewing & navigation

ActionShortcut
Symbol searchCtrl + K
Switch intervaltype a number (e.g. 5, 15) then Enter
Zoom in / out+ / −
Full-screen chartShift + F

Indicators & drawing

ActionShortcut
Open indicators panel/
Trend lineAlt + T
Horizontal lineAlt + H
Remove all drawingsright-click chart → Remove drawings

Alerts & screenshots

ActionShortcut
New alertAlt + A
Screenshot chartAlt + S
Key takeaways
  • Ctrl+K search, / indicators, Alt+A alert, Alt+S screenshot are the big four.
  • Type a number to switch interval — far faster than menus.
  • On macOS, Ctrl becomes Cmd.

The desktop app has fuller system-level shortcut support.

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