HOW I SET UP MY TRADINGVIEW CHARTS

First we have to change all application colour theme to BLACK.

You can make it happen in upper Left corner by pressing on three lines

Second step is to create new layout so we can start building from scratch

You can find this menu in upper right side 

Now lets rename it to keep everything sorted

You can delete your OLD, unnecessary layouts to keep everything clean and tidy

To do that, clink in the same menu LOAD LAYOUT and press X on layout which you don’t need.

Now the layout

To change it, click the same right upper corner on layout box icon

As you can see, here is many options to chose from.

Here we gonna chose 3 vertical charts

And chose syncing options. To sync SYMBOL, CROSSHAIR and DRAWINGS

SETTINGS

Now we select any of smaller time frame charts

AND go into SETTINGS of chart. To do that you can click ⚙️(gear) icon on top right corner or just right click on chart and choose SETTINGS.

Now we can start setting up the chart. You can set up how you like, but I will show my way.

1. I change BODY, BORDERS, WICK colours. Red can stay as it is. I will change only the green to look more green…lol
2. Take the tick off Last price line, you can keep it if you like
3. Add Previous Day close price line – I find it quite useful when you’re expecting gap close (I set it colour yellow)
4. Leave the tick on for Pre/Post Market line (I like to see how its trading These hours too)
5. now it on your preference, what more you would like to see. I gonna keep all the rest options off. Later we will return to Extended hours option…

Next STATUS LINE SETTINGS on top of chart

Not Changing anything here. it stays as it is.

Scales settings

Here the most important for me is to enable

• Symbol last price label
• Pre/post Market price label
• CountDown to bar close – find it very useful, and haven’t seen this anywhere else

You can experiment and see, what each of these mean and what difference it makes.

Appearance tab

This is where we do most of our tweaking

You can try and experiment and see what you like.

I will show you, how I like it.

• Background – we change it to SOLID and chose black colour ▉
• Vert Grid Lines – i choose to remove these. Just press on colour and take the OPACITY down to zero
• Horz Grid Lines – same as for Vertical
• Session Breaks – OFF, as can be quite disturbing ( shows start of new trading day on intraday charts)
• Scales text – stays the same
• Scales Lines – I’m changing to something brighter and increase opacity
• Crosshair – can stay the same, looks good as it is
• Watermark – ON, sometimes on other layouts where I got multiple charts and tickers, its easier to navigate by seeing watermark
• everything else stays the same

Events tab

We gonna skip trading tab as there is settings for, if you are trading from TradingView charts

I choose to see

• Dividends
• Splits
• Earnings
• Economic Events (more useful for FOREX)

And the last Bit

Is to save Template, so we can use it on other layouts and we dont need to do it all over again.

AND finally – Press – APPLY TO ALL – that will enable settings to all three charts in this layout.

AND HIT  – OK –

First we will set up VOLUME

1. Hover over it, and click on three small dots … Chose – Move TO – NEW PANE BELOW (so volume isn’t overlapping chart)
2. Now adjust settings of Volume by pressing ⚙ (gear) icon or double click on it.
3. Change the MA Length to 50 (INPUTS tab)
4. And enable Volume MA (STYLE tab)

You can adjust colours if you like.

Setting UP 1ST EMA

1. Double click on first EMA
2. Inputs – Length – 9
3. Style – Colour – Yellow – Thickness – 2nd line

Setting UP 2ND EMA

1. Double click on second EMA
2. Inputs – Length – 20
3. Style – Colour – BLUE – Thickness – 2nd line

Setting UP 1st MA (Simple Moving Average)

1. Double click on first MA
2. Inputs – Length – 50
3. Style – Colour – next to white – Thickness – 2nd line

Setting UP 2nd MA (Simple Moving Average)

1. Double click on 2nd MA
2. Inputs – Length – 200
3. Style – Colour – dark blue – Thickness – 3rd line

Setting up VPVR (Volume Profile Visible Range)

1. Double click
2. Inputs As in picture
3. Style – see picture

This time I chose blue colour and set opacity to 20%

You can decrease opacity or decrease WIDTH if its overlapping chart

You can experiment with the values here and see what it does.

Setting up VPSV (Volume Profile SESSION VOLUME)

Here main thing what interest me is VOLUME POC Point for every separate day.

Here we dont need Volume Profile, only VPOC, thats how we gonna know where was the biggest volume traded each day.

Very often it acts like a good support or resistance the next day.

• The only thing you need to do here is disable VOLUME PROFILE and change style for POC to dotted line.
• See pictures 🡺
• AND almost forgot – Make sure to turn opacity down to zero at HISTOGRAM BOX, so you dont get that blueish background

To SHOW or HIDE indicators you can press EYE icon next to indicator label

So you can hide VPVR and VPSV  on 5MIN chart not really necessary

If you change  your time frames for example to WEEKLY chart, you can switch them back on. Simple as that.