Best TradingView Indicators: 13 Built-in and Community Scripts Compared

The best TradingView indicators for most traders are the built-in ones: RSI for momentum, VWAP and moving averages for trend and fair value, and Supertrend for a single trend line with a clear flip. They are all usable on the free Basic plan, which allows 2 indicators per chart. Volume Profile is the most useful paid upgrade: it needs the Essential plan or higher, which raises the limit to 5 indicators per chart. Among community scripts, Smart Money Concepts by LuxAlgo and LazyBear's Squeeze Momentum are open source, each with more than 100,000 boosts on its page. We read every plan limit and setting below on TradingView's official pages on November 12, 2026.

An indicator, on TradingView, is a calculation plotted on the chart from price, volume or financial data. TradingView's pricing page lists more than 400 pre-built indicators and more than 150,000 community-powered indicators on every plan, the free one included. The table below keeps the nine built-in ones we would add first, grouped by what they measure.

How many indicators each TradingView plan allows

The limit that matters most is indicators per chart. On TradingView's plan comparison, Basic allows 2, Essential 5, Plus 10, Premium 25 and Ultimate 50. A volume indicator, a moving average and an oscillator already make three, so the free plan forces a choice.

The plans also differ in what you can stack and which indicator families you get. "Indicators on indicators", for instance an RSI calculated on another indicator's output, are limited to 1 on Basic and Essential, 9 on Plus, 24 on Premium and 49 on Ultimate. Technical alerts, the alerts you set on an indicator's values, are not available on Basic; Essential allows 20 active ones.

Monthly prices were $14.95 for Essential, $34.95 for Plus, $69.95 for Premium and $239.95 for Ultimate; annual billing lowers them to the special prices of $12.95, $29.95, $59.95 and $199.95 a month shown on the pricing page. Refunds are available for annual plans only, within 14 calendar days of payment. You can start on the free TradingView plan and compare the paid plans once two indicators per chart feel tight.

The built-in indicators worth adding first

Volume: Volume Profile and VWAP

Volume Profile shows how much volume traded at each price over a period, rather than over time. TradingView offers several versions, including Visible Range, Fixed Range, Session and Periodic profiles. The key levels are the point of control, the price with the highest traded volume, and the value area, typically set to 70% of the volume. Read our volume profile guide for how traders use these levels as support and resistance.

VWAP, the volume weighted average price, is free and works best on intraday charts. TradingView's version resets by session, week, month, quarter, year, or on earnings, dividends and splits, and can draw standard deviation bands. VWAP Auto Anchored starts from a chosen point, such as the bar with the highest volume among the last bars you set. See our VWAP guide and our anchored VWAP guide.

Trend: moving averages, Supertrend, Ichimoku, Williams Alligator

Moving averages are the base of most setups; TradingView's built-in EMA has a default length of 9. Our moving average guide compares the types. Supertrend draws one line from the Average True Range that turns green in an uptrend and red in a downtrend; TradingView's article notes that it sometimes gives false signals and suggests pairing it with MACD, Parabolic SAR or RSI.

The Ichimoku Cloud packs trend, support, resistance and momentum into one indicator; its leading spans are plotted 26 periods ahead, and price above the cloud reads as an uptrend. The Williams Alligator uses three smoothed moving averages of 13, 8 and 5 bars, called the jaw, the teeth and the lips.

Momentum: RSI and MACD

The RSI moves between 0 and 100, with a default length of 14 bars on TradingView; Wilder treated readings above 70 as overbought and below 30 as oversold, and TradingView's version can also highlight RSI divergences. The MACD shows the gap between a fast and a slow moving average, with a signal line and a histogram in a separate pane; you can switch either average between EMA and SMA.

Volatility: Bollinger Bands and ATR

Bollinger Bands default to a 20-period simple moving average with bands 2 standard deviations away. The Average True Range, 14 periods by default, gives no direction: it measures volatility, which makes it useful to size stops.

Popular community scripts

Community scripts are written in Pine Script by TradingView users. The four below are open source, so you can read the code before you trust a signal, and they count toward the same per-chart limit as built-in indicators. Boost counts are those shown on each script's page on November 12, 2026.

LazyBear's Squeeze Momentum describes itself as a derivative of John Carter's TTM Squeeze; our TTM Squeeze guide explains the idea. Smart Money Concepts labels market structure, order blocks and fair value gaps automatically; the author's page lists alerts for swing structures. A popular script is not a tested one: the boost count measures interest, not results.

Pattern tools built into TradingView

TradingView also detects patterns for you. Candlestick pattern recognition is available on every plan, under Technicals, then Patterns, in the indicators menu, and works with alerts. Auto chart patterns start with the Premium plan and search the most recent 600 bars shown. A detected pattern is a starting point: our pattern pages, such as the engulfing pattern, the head and shoulders and the double bottom, show how each one did when we tested it on real price data. Our candlestick patterns section lists them all, and if you would rather learn to read candles yourself, the Marwood candlestick course covers them step by step.

Browse all our indicator guides, our day trading indicators, or compare TradingView with other platforms in our technical analysis software review. To practice without risk, see our paper trading apps; to find stocks to chart, our stock screeners; and all our trading reviews. Before you trade any setup, run a backtest.