TradingView

TradingView is a financial analysis platform, mobile app and social trading network for traders and investors. The product centres on browser-, desktop- and mobile-based charting ("Supercharts") covering equities, indices, crypto, forex, futures and economic indicators, combined with a community layer where users publish trading ideas and share custom indicators, strategies and Pine Script libraries. The company is described as American-British, founded in 2011, headquartered in New York with its European market headquarters in London and additional offices in Málaga and Tbilisi.

Alongside analysis tools, the platform supports order entry and trade management through connections to more than 100 verified broker partners, with orders placeable and modifiable directly on the chart, an order-size and risk calculator, a consolidated trading panel for balances, equity and P&L, and a paper-trading simulator. It also runs a risk-free trading competition product called The Leap. Broker credentials are stated to be stored locally in the user's browser rather than on TradingView servers, and the company states it is not a broker.

Founding story

The company was founded in 2011 by Stan Bokov, Denis Globa and Constantin Ivanov. In the summer of 2013 the project was selected for the Techstars accelerator in Chicago, where it signed contracts with Microsoft and CME.

Business model

TradingView offers a free tier alongside paid subscription plans that add features, tools and data; the company states it earns money through low-cost subscriptions and advertising rather than brokerage activity. It also distributes its charting and investing tools to publishers, brokerages and fintech companies, and integrates with broker partners.

Subscription plans layered on a free account tier, plus advertising; the company states it is not a broker and does not earn from order flow. In 2021 the company said it was profitable.

Traction

The company reported 29 million monthly active users and a 237% rise in visitors over the prior 18 months as of October 2021, and said it was profitable at that time. Other records cite over 15 million monthly active site users and more than 40,000 publishers, brokerages and fintechs using its tools, while the company website states that 100 million traders and investors use the platform. Its official profile on the platform has roughly 750,000 followers.

Latest developments

Oleg Mukhanov was appointed chief executive officer in January 2024. The company continues to recruit across US and UK locations and promotes desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux, chart-based trading with 100+ broker partners, paper trading, and The Leap trading competition.