International SMM

TradingView

RegionUSA and Canada

Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.

Overview

TradingView is a market charting service with a public social layer on top. Besides the terminal there is a feed of "ideas" (an analysis of an instrument with a chart image and text), a public library of scripts in the Pine language, chats, comments and short Minds notes. The platform describes itself as a "charting platform and social network used by 100M+ traders and investors worldwide".

For audience work this is a single-genre platform: everything you publish must be connected with trading, investing or the financial markets — "Be on topic". TradingView is not a universal channel for a brand.

The main thing to understand before signing up: publications here are by default entirely free of advertising. Links to your own site, social media and contact details in the text of an idea are prohibited by the rules (more on this in the section on rules). This article describes how the platform is built and what its publishing rules are; it contains no investment recommendations and cannot contain any.

Who's here

The platform reports "more than 100 million traders and investors worldwide". This is TradingView's own claim about itself, with no explanation of what counts as a user or over what period; there is no independent measurement on any public page.

The platform names its language coverage in the affiliate programme section: "We are global and support 20 languages worldwide". The same page carries another self-description — "#1 The biggest website in the world when it comes to all things investing"; this is a marketing claim by the platform, the measurement method is not stated, and it cannot be relied on as a measurement.

TradingView gives no public audience breakdown by country. An indirect sign of its geography is the regional versions of the site (for example in.tradingview.com) that turn up in the platform's own help pages.

Getting started

Registration is free: the platform stresses that basic access requires no payment. There is no separate "business account" with document checks — companies and individual authors work with identical profiles.

Publishing an idea is the main way to make yourself known. The rules require a clear title and a substantive description explaining the logic of the analysis. An important practical limitation: a published idea can only be edited or deleted within 15 minutes of publication. After that the text is fixed, and any development of the analysis is handled by the separate "Update Idea" feature.

The second format of presence is publishing a Pine script. The requirements for it are stricter: the title must be in English only, the description must begin with English text, and it must be self-contained and explain the script's originality and usefulness. The same page prohibits emoji and special characters in titles, and titles in all caps other than abbreviations.

What you can publish

The formats: an idea (a chart plus text), a script (an indicator or strategy in Pine), a comment, a public chat and a Minds note. The platform keeps the full list of rule sections in its help folder on the House Rules.

Direct prohibitions for ideas: do not publish analyses after the fact to show off past profits, do not invite readers into private messages, do not publish private and invite-only scripts in public ideas; timeframes shorter than 15 minutes are allowed only in private posts and chats.

For scripts the platform separately requires a clean chart and prohibits reworkings of built-in indicators, closed code that duplicates someone else's open code, and imitating several other people's scripts at once. If a backtest is shown in the description, the rules require a realistic account size, allowance for commissions and slippage, risk of no more than 5–10% per trade and a sample of more than 100 trades.

How to grow

TradingView does not write openly about the mechanics of feed ranking: there is no description of the idea selection algorithm on the open pages. What the platform does describe explicitly is reputation and the ban on manipulating it: "Don't try to game the ranking system", including "like for like" and "follow for follow" schemes.

The language rule directly affects reach: you must publish in the language of the site version you are on, the exception being scripts, whose title must be in English.

The platform has no advertising for authors in the usual sense: there is no way to buy promotion for an idea, and any advertising inside publications is prohibited. For vendors the rules put it literally: reputation must be "acquire… by providing useful content", while teaser framing, covert product demonstrations and time-limited offers are prohibited.

Path to monetization

TradingView makes no direct payouts to authors for ideas and scripts — there is no share of ad revenue and no creator fund on the open pages. Earning here works differently.

Selling access to scripts

The paid scenario is invite-only scripts. Only Premium accounts can publish them, and the author manages access themselves: to use the script you need the author's permission, usually for money. Settlement bypasses the platform, while its rules limit how such a script may be advertised: you may only link to an invite-only script from publications in the "HOW-TO:" format, and there may be no more than ten such publications per script per year.

A seller places their contact details and links not in the text but in the signature field: an exception to the advertising ban is made for Premium, Expert and Ultimate subscribers, who are allowed contacts, links and offers in the Signature field beneath every published idea or script.

Affiliate money

The referral programme: for a friend who signs up for the first time through your link and pays for a subscription within 3 months, you receive $15 towards subscription payments and they receive a coupon for a $15 discount.

The affiliate programme, for those who bring in a lot of people, pays in cash. The platform publishes the rates: Essential — $10 for a monthly and $60 for an annual subscription, Plus — $25 and $100, Premium — $50 and $120, Ultimate — $200 and $400; payouts within 30 days of the end of the month, with an attribution window of 90 days to sign up and another 90 to pay. The same page states that the platform has paid affiliates more than $10 million, and that average income per 100 clicks is $17.5 — these are its own figures.

Tools and automation

The platform has no public API for data, and it says so plainly: "We don't have an API that gives access to data as of now, but we are planning to add it in the future". The existing REST interface, according to the same help answer, is intended only for brokers integrating with the trading platform, not for exporting quotes or indicator values. Which means that scheduling ideas through a third-party service is impossible by standard means.

What is available free of charge are embeddable widgets for other people's sites: "Copy and paste your way to a stunning financial UX with our free widgets". Branding is mandatory with them: "We provide widgets as a technology piece for FREE with default TradingView branding". The list of widgets — charts, market overview, ticker tape, heatmaps, screeners, economic calendar, company profile — is set out in the documentation.

The automation tool inside the platform is the Pine language: indicators, strategies and alerts. It lives entirely inside TradingView and does not export data by any standard means.

Limits and rules

Who it's for

It suits authors whose subject is markets and trading systems and who are prepared to earn a reputation with substance rather than links. It suits Pine developers: the script library gives visibility, and Premium opens up selling access to closed indicators.

It suits brokers and data providers — for them there is a separate integration route through the broker REST interface. It suits owners of finance websites: the free widgets solve the charting problem with no development work.

It does not suit you if you are counting on driving traffic from here to your own site, Telegram channel or course: that is directly prohibited, and moderators hide such publications. It does not suit scheduling: there is no API for publishing. It does not suit brands outside financial subjects — the "be on topic" requirement cuts them off at the door.

Verified data

The checked data this deep dive rests on.

About the platform

the platform describes itself as follows: «Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.»

Self-description: this is the platform's claim about itself, not an independent assessment

source, checked 2026-07-28

Languages

the interface language of the home page: en; the declared language versions are ar-sa, de, en-in, es, fr, he-il, id, it, ja-jp, ko-kr, ms-my, pl and 7 more

The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang. The "and N more" figure is OUR count of the remaining hreflang links in the markup, not a claim by the source: that number does not appear on the page.

source, checked 2026-07-28

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