How to Use TradingView Screener (2026 Guide)

What Is TradingView Screener?

TradingView Screener is a market-discovery tool that lets you filter, sort, rank, and compare instruments according to criteria you choose. Instead of opening hundreds of charts manually, you can ask a narrower question and let the Screener produce a shortlist.

• Which liquid stocks have strong recent momentum?
• Which ETFs match the exposure and performance profile I care about?
• Which crypto assets have enough volume to deserve a closer look?
• Which symbols in my own watchlist meet the same technical condition?
• Which stocks currently show a candlestick pattern I already use?

The Screener returns candidates. Your full chart, watchlist, alert system, risk process, and manual review decide what happens next.

What’s New in TradingView Screener in 2026?

The Screener has changed enough during 2026 that older tutorials now miss several useful workflow features.

The important point is not that the Screener suddenly became a decision-making AI. The changes mostly reduce repetitive setup work and make existing screening logic easier to build and review.

Which TradingView Screeners Exist?

Choose the screener that matches the asset type first. A stock valuation idea belongs in Stock Screener. A custom-indicator scan across your own list or an index universe may belong in Pine Screener.

How to Open TradingView Screener

1. From TradingView’s main navigation, open Products → Screeners and choose the screener you want.
2. Or open the Screener from the product tools available beside Supercharts.
3. Choose the asset type and market before building filters.

The current Screener is built around a screener switch menu, screens menu, filter panel, result table/chart area, and settings. You do not need to master everything on the first day.

How to Use TradingView Screener Filters

Filters decide which symbols qualify. TradingView lets you add them from the top panel with the + control, and the current keyboard shortcut for opening filters is Shift + F.

Stock Screener includes broad filter groups such as security information, market data, technicals, financials, and dividends. You can search for a filter instead of browsing every category manually.

Start broad, then narrow. Most beginner screens become worse when extra filters are added only because the options exist.

Table, Chart and Heatmap Views

Filters decide what qualifies. The result view decides how you inspect the survivors. TradingView now uses three main Screener views, although availability depends on the screener type.

Chart View: Moving Averages and Volume

TradingView added lightweight technical context to Screener chart view in September 2026. You can now apply SMA 50, SMA 200, EMA 50, EMA 200, and volume across the mini-chart grid at once.

Volume remains available on all plans. TradingView currently requires a paid plan for the SMA and EMA overlays. Volume is supported in the listed chart-view screeners except Crypto Coins.

Use these overlays for triage, not full technical analysis. When a result looks interesting, open the complete chart and inspect structure, levels, liquidity, volatility, and context properly.

Heatmap View

Heatmap view uses the same filtered symbol universe as your screen, but turns the results into tiles. You can choose what determines tile size, color, and grouping, making it useful when a table has too many rows to interpret quickly.

TradingView currently offers heatmap view in Stock, ETF and Crypto Coins Screeners. Switching views does not add filters for you, and saved screens can remember the selected heatmap view and its settings.

Saved Screens, Autosave and Undo/Redo

Saved screens turn the Screener into a repeatable research system. You can save, copy, rename, reopen, share, and export screens instead of rebuilding the same setup every session.

Autosave

TradingView added Screener autosave in 2026. Open a saved screen and enable Autosave from the screen menu. Changes are then saved automatically shortly after each edit.

Autosave is off by default and works independently for each screener type. Turning it on in Stock Screener does not automatically enable it in every other screener.

Undo and Redo

Undo/redo lets you experiment with filters, columns, and sorting without manually rebuilding the previous state. Current shortcuts include Ctrl/Cmd + Z for undo and the standard redo shortcuts supported by your platform.

How to Scan a TradingView Watchlist

You do not always need to search the whole market. TradingView lets compatible screeners use a custom or flagged watchlist as the symbol universe.

1. Open a compatible Screener.
2. Open the Watchlist filter in the header.
3. Select the custom or flagged list you want to scan.
4. TradingView displays only symbols from that list that belong to the current screener type.
5. Add your normal filters and save the screen if you want to repeat the process.

If the watchlist contains stocks and ETFs, Stock Screener shows only the stocks and ETF Screener shows only the ETFs. A list with no compatible symbols can produce an empty table.

You can also go the other direction: select Screener results and add them to a watchlist. This creates a clean workflow: Screener → shortlist → chart → watchlist → alert.

Use our TradingView Watchlist Tutorial for the next stage.

TradingView Candlestick Pattern Screener

One of the biggest Screener changes of 2026 arrived in July. Candlestick patterns now appear as miniature candle illustrations in the Screener instead of relying only on text labels.

TradingView currently supports 44 candlestick patterns in this workflow. Examples include engulfing patterns, piercing, dark cloud cover, rising and falling three methods, harami cross, tweezer tops and bottoms, morning/evening doji stars, Tasuki gaps, and rising/falling windows.

When multiple patterns appear on the same symbol, the result column can prioritize stronger patterns and show several pattern miniatures. The filter interface uses the same visual language.

Pattern detection can be configured across timeframes from 1 minute to 1 month. Intraday candlestick-pattern intervals require a paid TradingView plan.

How to Use TradingView Stock Screener

Stock Screener is the broadest TradingView screener for many investors because it combines market data, technical signals, financial statements, dividends, growth, and valuation-style metrics.

The strongest stock screen answers one question. If the goal is momentum, do not overload it with unrelated value metrics just because they are available.

For company-level metrics, continue with our TradingView Fundamentals guide.

Crypto Coins, CEX and DEX Screeners

For beginners, liquidity should come before excitement. An unusual token is not a useful Screener discovery if the market is too thin, the spread is poor, or the chart cannot be traded cleanly.

If your shortlist is mainly Bitcoin-related, use our Best Bitcoin Indicators on TradingView guide after the screening stage.

TradingView AI Screener: What It Does and Who Can Use It

TradingView’s AI Screener — previously described in earlier beta material as AI Filter — turns a natural-language Stock Screener idea into a ready-made screen. It can apply matching filters, choose relevant columns, and configure sorting.

Open AI Screener from its icon in the filter area or use Shift + A. TradingView also provides an Explanation view so you can inspect why the AI mapped your request to particular filters and columns.

Read the resulting filters before trusting the setup. A new AI Screener request can replace your current filters, columns, column set, and sorting. The selected market stays unchanged unless you specify another market in the prompt.

If AI Screener access affects your subscription decision, compare the requirement with the rest of your workflow instead of upgrading for one feature alone. Our TradingView Plan Limit Finder checks the lowest current tier that satisfies the limits and gated features you actually select.

Which TradingView Plan Do You Need for Screener?

You can use TradingView Screener on Basic, but some of the most flexible Screener workflows are paid-plan features. The useful question is not “which plan is best?” but which Screener limits and features do you actually use?

For a Screener-only decision, Essential can already unlock much of the paid workflow. But your subscription also controls chart layouts, alerts, historical bars, connections, Replay depth, and other features. Use the Plan Limit Finder if you want the lowest tier that fits the whole workflow rather than just the Screener.

TradingView Pine Screener: Scan Watchlists or Indices with Custom Logic

Pine Screener is designed for a later stage of the workflow. Instead of relying only on standard Screener fields, it applies an indicator across a selected symbol universe.

TradingView changed this workflow substantially in September 2026. Watchlists are no longer the only symbol source: you can choose an index and scan its constituents directly. TradingView also replaced the old Favorites-only script selection with a broader Indicators dialog.

1. Choose one symbol source: a watchlist or an index.
2. Select an eligible indicator from the expanded script picker.
3. Set the interval and inputs.
4. Configure the output conditions you want to filter.
5. Run the scan and sort the results.
6. Change the source or logic and rescan when needed.

The script picker can now surface personal scripts, Favorites, purchased or invite-only indicators, built-in technicals, community scripts, and Store content when compatible. Unsupported scripts can be disabled in the picker before you run them.

Only one symbol source can be active at a time, so a watchlist and an index cannot be combined in the same scan. TradingView also continues to apply Pine Screener compatibility rules to scripts and their outputs.

Use our updated TradingView Pine Editor guide if you want to build your own Pine Script v6 screening logic.

How to Share and Export TradingView Screens

Share a Saved Screen

1. Create and save the screen.
2. Open the screen menu.
3. Enable Share screen.
4. Copy the share link.

A shared screen can include its filters, sorting, columns, and watchlist configuration. Another user can interact with it and make a personal copy. Some fields can remain unavailable if the recipient’s TradingView plan does not support the same data.

Export Results

You can export screen results to CSV from the screen menu. This can be useful for weekly research logs, comparisons across time, or additional spreadsheet analysis.

3 Simple TradingView Screener Workflows for Beginners

1. Liquid Momentum Shortlist

1. Choose the correct market.
2. Add a basic liquidity or volume filter.
3. Add one trend or performance condition.
4. Sort the survivors by the metric that matters most.
5. Open the top charts manually.
6. Move the best candidates into a watchlist.
7. Create alerts only around meaningful levels or conditions.

2. Candlestick Pattern + Context

1. Choose a liquid market universe.
2. Add a candlestick pattern you understand.
3. Add one trend or location filter.
4. Use the visual pattern column for quick triage.
5. Open the full chart and verify the pattern formed in useful context.

3. Weekly Watchlist Rescan

1. Open your existing watchlist through the Watchlist filter.
2. Apply the same stable filter set.
3. Sort by your priority metric.
4. Remove names that no longer fit the process.
5. Add new discoveries from a broader scan.
6. Save the screen and repeat the same routine next week.

The weekly rescan is often the best long-term habit because market discovery becomes maintenance rather than a daily search for something exciting.

Common TradingView Screener Mistakes

Why Is My TradingView Screener Empty?

The fastest troubleshooting method is to remove filters gradually. When results return, the last removed condition is a strong clue about what made the screen too restrictive.

Official TradingView Sources Checked

TradingView changes Screener features and plan access over time. This October 2026 refresh was checked against TradingView’s current pricing table, Screener support documentation, and the official 2026 release posts below.

• AI Screener: natural-language screens and paid-plan access
• AI Screener usage, beta limits and prompt behavior
• Pine Screener: indices and expanded script selection
• Heatmap view in Screener
• Moving averages and volume in Screener chart view
• Visual candlestick patterns in Screener
• Autosave and undo/redo
• Current TradingView plan and Screener limits

Conclusion: How to Use TradingView Screener Well

TradingView Screener is a substantially stronger research workspace in October 2026 than it was earlier in the year. Autosave and undo/redo make saved screens easier to maintain, visual candlestick patterns speed up technical scanning, heatmap and indicator-enhanced chart views make result triage more visual, AI Screener reduces setup friction across paid plans, and Pine Screener now supports both watchlist and index-based custom scans.

But the best workflow remains simple: use the Screener to reduce noise. Choose the right market, apply a few purposeful filters, sort the survivors, review the full charts, move strong candidates into a watchlist, and create alerts only where continued monitoring makes sense.

Continue with our TradingView Watchlist Tutorial, TradingView Alerts Guide, or Pine Editor Tutorial.

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