How To Draw A Line In Tradingview, Make Straight Line Easily 2026

Log into TradingView and open the chart for whatever symbol you're analyzing. The example here is the Dow Jones Industrial Average on a daily timeframe. The drawing tools sit in a vertical strip down the left edge of the chart, separate from the timeframe and indicator controls along the top; this is where every line, shape, and annotation tool lives.

Click the trend line icon in that left-hand toolbar: a simple diagonal line positioned near the top of the tool list, next to the other line-based tools. Selecting it puts your cursor into drawing mode; the icon stays highlighted in the toolbar until you finish drawing or press Escape.

Click your starting point directly on the chart, hold, and drag to your intended endpoint before releasing the mouse button. Hold Shift while dragging to lock the line to an exact 45-degree angle, a shortcut TradingView documents for its line tools.

In the example, the line runs from a swing low up through the recent price action: anchored to two meaningful points instead of dropped arbitrarily. Once released, the line stays selected with small circular handles on each end, so you can immediately drag either point to fine-tune the angle.

With the line selected, a small floating toolbar appears at the top of the chart showing color, line style, and thickness controls: a quick way to change the line's weight (the example shows it set to 1px) without opening a full settings menu. The same toolbar carries a clock icon for setting a price alert on the line and a trash icon for deleting it. This is the fastest path for a small tweak; the fuller settings panel below is better when you want to change several properties at once.

Right-click the line and choose its settings, or double-click it, to open the full Trend Line panel with Style, Text, Coordinates, and Visibility tabs. The Style tab is where most of the useful options live: line color and dash pattern, checkboxes for Extend Left Line and Extend Right Line if you want the trend to project beyond your two anchor points, a Middle Point toggle, and a Price Labels option, plus a Stats section that can display price range, percent change, change in pips, bars range, and more directly on the line.

The Visibility tab controls which chart timeframes the line appears on. By default a new drawing is often limited to the interval it was drawn on, which is why a line can seem to vanish after you switch from, say, the daily chart to a 4-hour one.

Click the line once to select it and press the delete key, right-click it and choose the remove option from the context menu, or use the trash icon in the floating toolbar from the earlier step. Any of these removes only that line and leaves every other drawing on the chart untouched. Clearing out old trend lines regularly keeps a chart readable, since a handful of unrelated lines from past analysis makes the current setup harder to read at a glance.