Have you been trading for a while and decided to post your first-ever TradingView Idea? TradingView is known for its social features, and these features include the option for traders to share their thoughts, strategies, and analyses to help their fellow traders make informed decisions.

It may take a while before coming up with the right approach on how to formulate the thoughts and how you’ll present them to your target audience. So, before anything else, you should first identify your target audience. After that, you can decide on the topics you want to discuss and how you want your discussion to sound.

In this article, we’ll discuss some of the tips for organising your first-ever TradingView Idea post.

1. Track Your Thought Process

When you click the Ideas button on TradingView, you can either use it as a trading journal or share your ideas with the public. Either way, it’s a great feature that allows you to take notes and arrange your thoughts without the pressure of publishing them.

When using the Idaea feature for the first time, don’t forget to add the necessary parts, including the chart screenshots, trade rationale, and entry and exit points. In addition, you should also use other things that can help your entry be easily recognisable.

Once you’re ready to publish your entry, whether public or private, you can still edit it in the future.

2. Create Multiple Watchlists by Categories

Having multiple watchlists in a single entry can be confusing for you and your target audience. So, instead, you should categorise them based on timeframe, strategy, and class. The timeframe is based on how you trade (such as scalping or day trading). Meanwhile, the strategy is based on the timing of your trade (long-term or short-term), and the class is either forex, stocks, crypto, or commodities.

It’s best if you identify the details first before creating the watchlist, or even vice versa. However, if you’re publishing in public, ensure to complete all the necessary details, so that curious readers can learn from your Ideas.

3. Utilise Colour-Coding in Charts and Annotations

Another fun feature that you can use to help catch the attention of your target audience is that you can assign different colours to easily identify the differences of each drawing tool. For instance, you can use read for short-term trades, and green for long-term trades. Additionally, if you’re going to maximise the use of this tool for the rest of the chart parts, ensure to be consistent, and don’t forget about the length of each tool or colour you use.

4. Set Alerts for Key Levels and Avoid Constant Checking

If you’re making updates about your trades, you should also set alerts so that you don’t have to check the charts constantly. Some of the alerts you can use to get notified if the pre-determined value or adjustments have been reached include trendline touches, resistance or break support, and trendline touches.

If you often update and review your Ideas, it’s easier to improve your thoughts, and your target audience can understand your trading patterns.

5. Use Templates and Layouts

If you put everything in one setup, it might confuse you, and you won’t be able to come up with a better system when formulating your ideas. So, for starters, choose templates and layouts that suit your style. After that, use the different templates or layouts for each strategy, so that you can access them without being confused.

Once everything is in order, and you can look at them easily, you can also come up with better content for your Ideas.

6. Review and Archive Old Ideas Regularly

After creating some Ideas, as a responsible trading influencer, you should take some time to update the entries. If you don’t, and your followers see that there are mistakes that should’ve been updated, you may lose them since you’ll lose their trust.

Besides, since trading is about reliability, other traders should be able to rely on your Ideas to serve the purpose. On the other hand, if your content isn’t as reliable as the others, there’s no reason why traders should follow you.

7. Use Third-Party Integrations

Although TradingView can be considered a one-stop platform for your trading needs, you can still utilise other third-party apps or software to improve your Ideas. Besides, if you use as many tools as possible to improve your content, you can gain more followers, and you can also improve your note-taking skills.

Final Thoughts

Whether you’re organising your thoughts to publish publicly or privately on TradingView Ideas, it can help you become more efficient and confident in your trading decisions. So, if this is the time when you want to try publishing your first entry on Ideas, don’t forget to consider the tips listed in this article.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aliana Baraquio has over 5 years of experience as a writer and market analyst. She specialises in developing beginner-friendly trading techniques and tutorials. Additionally, she suggests FP Markets as the top broker for trading CFDs and Forex.