How to view charts
Almost everything in this library assumes you are looking at a chart. This is how to get one.
TradingView is what nearly every trader uses. It runs in a browser, as a desktop app and on a phone, the charts are the same on all three, and the free tier does everything in these lessons. You do not need an account to look at a chart - only to save one.
Finding a pair
Type into the symbol box, top left. Crypto pairs are written as exchange plus pair: BINANCE:BTCUSDT is Bitcoin against Tether on Binance.
The exchange part matters more than beginners expect. The same coin trades at slightly different prices on different venues, and a thin pair on a small exchange will show wicks and gaps that never happened anywhere else. Chart the venue you actually trade on.
Changing the timeframe
The button next to the symbol. Start on the 4-hour or the daily - low timeframes look like information and are mostly noise. See charting on different time frames.
Adding an indicator
The Indicators button opens a search. Typing a name and pressing enter adds the built-in version, which is the one you want - the community scripts below it are other people's code.
Two is plenty. Every indicator you add is another thing that can agree with you.
The drawing tools
The rail down the left. In practice you will use three of them: the horizontal line for levels, the trend line, and the rectangle for zones.
Building a watchlist
The panel on the right. Put the pairs you actually trade in it and nothing else - a watchlist of forty coins is a way of guaranteeing that something in it always looks like a setup.
Before you go further
Open a demo account and practise there first. It is free, it is built into TradingView, and it costs nothing to be wrong on.
5 questions on what this lesson says. Nothing here unlocks or blocks anything - it is here so you can find out whether it stuck.
Education, not advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and every example is one trade rather than a rule.