How To Close Your Trade In Pieces Using TradingView and book Partial Profit or Loss

Once you're logged into TradingView and a trade is open, the chart itself becomes your control panel: you'll see the entry line, a running buy/sell price ticker, and the paper trading account summary docked underneath. In this example the account is a Paper Trading account labeled PMN_Online, holding a long position on CAPITALCOM:US30 (the Dow Jones index). The tabs along the bottom (Positions, Orders, History, Account History, Trading Journal) are where you manage anything you have open, and Positions is the one you'll use here.

Click the Positions tab at the bottom of the chart to see your open trade listed with its symbol, side, quantity, and live unrealized profit or loss. On the chart, the same position shows up as a horizontal line running from your entry price, with small TP and SL markers and a live P&L badge next to it.

In this case the trade is 11 units long at 44,190.5, sitting a little underwater. That badge on the chart and the row in the Positions tab are two doors to the same place, so you can trigger a close from whichever one is in front of you.

Click the small X next to the position's P&L badge on the chart, or use the equivalent close control in the Positions row, and a Close position dialog pops up over the chart. It confirms exactly what you're about to touch: the symbol, the side, and the size, so you're not guessing which trade you're closing when you have more than one open at once.

If Instant order placement is still on, TradingView skips this dialog and closes the full position immediately with no partial option, so check that setting first if nothing pops up. This is the window where the partial close option lives, so don't close it yet even if your first instinct is to just hit close and be done.

Inside the dialog, tick the Partial close checkbox and a quantity field appears showing how many units are eligible out of the total position size. In the example, the position is 11 units and the field is set to 5, with a line underneath spelling out the math directly: "Partially close CAPITALCOM:US30 5 - Leaving a position of 6." That confirmation line is worth reading every time, since it's your last check that the split you're about to execute is the one you intended, before any money moves.

With the quantity set, click the Partially close button instead of Cancel. TradingView immediately books the realized profit or loss on the portion you closed. You'll see it reflected in the Realized P&L figure on the account panel, while the remaining units stay open under the same position, still tracking against your original take-profit and stop-loss unless you adjust them separately.

Head back to the Positions tab and you'll see the size of the trade has updated to reflect the smaller remaining quantity, with a fresh unrealized P&L figure calculated only on those leftover units. This is the moment to decide whether to leave the stop and target where they are, tighten the stop toward breakeven now that some profit is locked in, or repeat the partial close process again later if the trade keeps moving your way.