TradingView
TradingView is a desktop charting and market analysis app for tracking stocks, forex, futures, and crypto on macOS.
What is TradingView?
TradingView is a finance app for charting, market monitoring, and trading analysis on macOS. It helps traders and investors follow stocks, forex, futures, indices, and cryptocurrencies from a dedicated desktop workspace instead of a browser tab. The app includes advanced interactive charts, watchlists, alerts, screeners, and drawing tools that support both quick monitoring and deeper technical analysis. TradingView Desktop also adds desktop-focused features such as multi-monitor layouts, synchronized symbols across tabs, crosshair syncing, and native notifications. Your layouts, watchlists, and settings can stay in sync across desktop, web, and mobile use, which is useful if you switch devices during the day. Published by TradingView, Inc., it is best suited to active market participants who want a focused charting environment and access to TradingView’s broader analysis platform.
Key features
- Track stocks, forex, futures, indices, and cryptocurrencies in one workspace
- Analyze price action with interactive charts, drawing tools, and technical indicators
- Create watchlists, set alerts, and monitor markets throughout the day
- Use multi-monitor layouts and restore chart workspaces on desktop
- Sync symbols and crosshairs across tabs and windows for side-by-side analysis
- Open a dedicated desktop workspace with native notifications and system theme support
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
TradingView is legitimate financial analysis software. It connects to online market data and your TradingView account, so it may store sign-in details, watchlists, chart layouts, and other market preferences. Network access and notifications are normal for this kind of app, and some users may also connect supported brokers or use paper trading features. As with any finance platform, protect your account with a strong password and review any broker connections or shared ideas before acting on them.
Recommendation: Keep TradingView if you use it for charting, alerts, watchlists, or market analysis on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer use the platform, understanding that uninstalling the app can remove local settings and offline app data from this Mac while your cloud-synced account data may remain available when you sign in on another device.
Common paths
/Applications/TradingView.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.tradingview.tradingviewapp.desktop
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/TradingView
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.tradingview.tradingviewapp.desktop.plist
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