This guide walks you through a complete migration from TradingView to ChartingLens in about 10 minutes. You'll export your watchlists, recreate your indicators and alerts, set up chart layouts, and decide which ChartingLens tier (Free, Premium $14.99, or Pro $29.99) fits your workflow. No card required to get started. Run both platforms in parallel for a week before canceling TradingView so you don't lose anything important.
TradingView's pricing has held steady at $14.95–$59.95/month while the platform's free-tier restrictions (1 indicator per chart, 1 alert, 1 layout, ads everywhere, 15-min delayed US data) have remained unchanged. Meanwhile, ChartingLens shipped its new tier structure on May 8, 2026 — Free (genuinely usable), Premium at $14.99/mo with 20 alerts and unlimited indicators, Pro at $29.99/mo with everything unlimited. Both paid tiers ship AI tooling TradingView doesn't have natively: AI Buy Signals, an AI Trading Assistant, custom AI indicator generation, and a plain-English strategy backtester. The price-per-feature gap is now wide enough that a 10-minute migration pays for itself in the first month.
You don't need to cancel TradingView to begin. ChartingLens has a permanent free tier (no card required, no trial timer), so you can run both platforms in parallel while you migrate. Once you're confident the new setup works, cancel TradingView from your account settings — you'll keep access through the end of your current billing period.
Have these ready before starting:
On TradingView, open each watchlist. Click the menu (⋮) at the top of the watchlist panel and select Export (or copy ticker symbols to clipboard). You'll get a plain-text list of tickers — one per line. Save the list temporarily in Notes or a text file. Repeat for each watchlist you maintain. If you have many watchlists, prioritize the 2–3 you actually use daily; you can migrate the others later.
Go to chartinglens.com/signup-firebase and create a free account with email or Google sign-in. No credit card. The free tier is permanent — you can use ChartingLens indefinitely without upgrading. Verify your email if prompted.
On ChartingLens, click the watchlist menu (top-left of the chart). Choose + Create new watchlist, name it to match your TradingView name (keeps mental overhead low), and paste your ticker list. Symbols are added one by one. Repeat for each watchlist. Free tier: 1 watchlist with up to 40 symbols. Premium: 10 watchlists with unlimited symbols each. Pro: unlimited watchlists. If you have more than 1 watchlist, you'll hit the free cap — see Step 9 for the upgrade decision.
Click the Indicators menu in the chart toolbar. ChartingLens supports the 15+ most-used indicators on the free tier:
Click each indicator to add it to your chart, then double-click to configure (period, source, color). Match your TradingView setup parameter-by-parameter. Free tier: 3 indicators per chart. Premium and Pro: unlimited.
For exotic indicators or custom Pine Script you used on TradingView, type a plain-English description into ChartingLens's AI Assistant ("create a 9-period Hull Moving Average" or "build a custom Donchian breakout indicator with volume confirmation") and the AI generates the indicator on the spot. Saves go to your personal indicator library and sync across devices.
Open the Alerts menu. Add each alert by symbol, condition (price above/below, indicator cross, trendline cross, candle close), and notification channel (in-app, or email on Premium/Pro). For trendline alerts, draw the trendline first then right-click to attach the alert. Free tier: 3 active price alerts (in-app only). Premium: 20 active alerts, 10 with email. Pro: unlimited alerts and unlimited email-notified alerts.
Tip: if you ran 50+ alerts on TradingView, prioritize the 20 most-used during migration. The bulk are usually stale — this is a good moment to prune.
If you used multi-chart layouts on TradingView, click the layout selector in the ChartingLens toolbar. Choose from 8 arrangements: 1, 2 horizontal, 2 vertical, 3 horizontal, 3-left, 3-right, 3-top, 3-bottom, 3-grid. Up to 3 charts per layout (matches TradingView Plus). Configure each pane with its symbol, timeframe, and indicators. Save with the ★ Save layout button — give it the same name you used on TradingView.
Free tier: 1 saved layout. Premium: 10. Pro: unlimited. Multi-chart layouts (2+ charts) are Premium-or-Pro only — Free is single-chart.
TradingView doesn't offer drawing export. For high-value chart annotations (long-term trendlines, Fibonacci levels, key support/resistance zones), screenshot them from TradingView and keep them open in a side window while recreating on ChartingLens. This sounds tedious but most users have only a handful of permanent drawings — the rest are scratch annotations that can be discarded.
ChartingLens auto-syncs drawings to your account, so once you redraw them they survive page refresh and follow you across devices. The 14 drawing tools cover everything TradingView ships: trendlines, channels, Fibonacci, callouts, position tools (long/short with risk/reward boxes), arrows, and more.
This is the part TradingView doesn't have an equivalent for. Open the AI Assistant panel and try a few prompts:
Click the AI Buy Signals button to see today's top 25 ranked picks (Free tier sees 5; Premium/Pro see all 25). Click any signal to reveal entry, stop, and target. Free tier: 2 AI credits per day. Premium: 20/day. Pro: unlimited.
Spend one week on the Free tier. The caps you hit will tell you which tier fits:
Both paid tiers ship the same complete feature set — Pro just removes quotas. View the full pricing comparison →
Free tier is permanent. No card required. Real-time stocks, crypto, forex, and metals.
Sign up free →After 7 days using ChartingLens for your daily workflow, decide whether to cancel. If you've fully replaced TradingView's role in your trading, log into TradingView, go to Account > Subscription, and cancel. Your access continues through the end of your current paid period — no immediate loss. If you find yourself still opening TradingView for specific things (Pine Script strategies, the Ideas social feed, niche community indicators), keep it on the cheapest tier or downgrade to free for those use cases while running ChartingLens as your primary platform.
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