Hey everyone! 👋 Last week, we put out a post about some of the authors that are gaining momentum on our platform, which led to lots of great feedback from the community. And, while we plan on releasing those “compilation” lists on a monthly basis going forward, we thought it would be nice to highlight other ways you can find insightful / skilled authors who are trading the same things you’re trading. Let’s jump in. Step 1: Open a chart of whatever you like to trade. This can be any asset, on any timeframe higher than 15 minutes - we don’t allow people to post on timeframes lower than 15 minutes. Step 2: Enable Visible Community Ideas Head to the right rail, and make sure you’ve selected the idea stream tab. This is the shaking lightbulb icon. From this menu, select the lightbulb at the top. This will make all of the ideas published for your symbol and timeframe appear on your chart! If you don’t see anything, try going to a more ‘common’ symbol or timeframe. Check out the daily chart for AAPL or BTCUSD. Step 3: Who nailed the tops and bottoms? With the visual interpretation of the long and short idea callouts, it should be easy to spot who’s been doing a good job of figuring out what's going to happen next. Who was first to the big run? Who was right to take some profits? Step 4: Follow them! Bonus Step 5: Clean up your idea stream. One thing you can also do is limit the visible ideas on your chart to people you follow. This should make it entirely obvious if someone you’re following is constantly wrong. If so, you can remove them easily from your idea generation feed by unfollowing them. Make the idea feed work for you, not overwhelm you! See you all next week :) -Team TradingView
Once you’ve found someone who seems to do a good job at this, it's absolutely crucual to see how their other ideas have done! Be sure to go to their profile and check to see if most of their ideas have been accurate, or if they got lucky with one real winner.
This is a really easy way to build up high quality information flow, and buttress your process of idea generation. Even if the poster doesn't do a good job of trading their own ideas, there could still be an advantage in it for someone with good trading practices. A highly curated stream of follows can actually be a source of significant alpha!
