Moving from TradingView

• Watchlists. Download each list from TradingView and import it into the Leaf Charts watchlist. US-listed stocks and ETFs come across, and every other entry is listed with the reason it stays behind.
• Trade history. TradingView's Order history file imports as fills, and Leaf Edge pairs them into trades with their P&L.

Chart layouts, drawings and indicator templates stay behind: TradingView has no way to export them. The last section shows the quickest way to set them up again.

1. 01

   In TradingView, open the watchlist and choose Advanced view. Find the table of quotes and choose Download list as TXT. TradingView saves the list as a .txt file (TradingView's own steps ↗ (opens in a new tab)).

2. 02

   In Leaf Edge, open Charts. Open the watchlist menu, the three dots beside the filter box at the top of the watchlist, and choose Import from TradingView.

3. 03

   Drop the file on the window, or choose it. Leaf Edge reads it in your browser without uploading it, then lists the symbols it will add and every entry that stays behind, with the reason.

4. 04

   Choose Add to put the new symbols after the ones already on your watchlist. To start from the file instead, tick Replace my current watchlist first.

Leaf Edge has one watchlist, so import each TradingView list in turn and they add up.

• What comes in: stocks and ETFs listed on NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX (NYSE American and NYSE Arca) and CBOE. TradingView's exchange prefix is dropped, so NYSE:BRK.B becomes BRK.B.
• What stays behind: futures, options, crypto, forex, CFDs, indices, economic data, OTC stocks and listings outside the US, because Leaf Charts show US-listed stocks and ETFs only. A spread or formula such as NASDAQ:AAPL/NASDAQ:MSFT stays behind too: Leaf Edge charts one symbol at a time.
• Sections: TradingView's sections aren't kept. Their symbols come in the order the file lists them.
• Repeats: a symbol already on your watchlist stays where it is, and one listed twice in the file comes in once.
• Size: a watchlist holds up to 500 symbols. Any past that are listed in the import window, not added.
• This browser: Leaf Edge keeps your watchlist in the browser you import it in. To have it on another computer or browser, import the file there too.

Leaf Edge imports the Order history file you download from TradingView's Trading Panel. Each filled order becomes a fill, and Leaf Edge pairs them into trades with their P&L. Orders that never filled are listed with the reason and left out. File imports work on every plan.

The TradingView import guide walks through the download, the accounts it covers and what to check once the trades are in.

TradingView doesn't export chart layouts, drawings or indicator templates, so there is no file for Leaf Edge to read. Pine Script indicators stay behind too: Leaf Charts has its own studies and doesn't run Pine Script. Drawings you make in Leaf Charts are saved per symbol with your account.

Two tools make the rebuild quick.

• The command bar. Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac), or start typing on the chart. Type a ticker to open it, an interval such as 15m, a study with its settings such as RSI 14 or EMA 21, or CMP QQQ to compare, then press Enter. Every chart shortcut.
• Sage on the chart. Type sage in the command bar to open it, then ask in plain words: “add the 20 and 50-day moving averages”, “show the 1-hour chart” or “draw a horizontal line at 150”. Sage changes the chart for you, and Undo takes a change back. Each question uses one of your daily Sage messages.

Once a chart looks right, save it from Layouts in the chart's header. A layout keeps the chart type, studies, overlays, session breaks, symbol and interval. Load it from the same menu, or type layout and its name in the command bar. To have a study open with your settings every time, change them in its settings and choose Save as default.