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, and this is where every line, shape, and annotation tool lives.

Click the trend line icon in that left-hand toolbar — it's typically shown as a simple diagonal line and sits near the top of the tool list, close to other line-based tools like horizontal and vertical lines. Selecting it puts your cursor into drawing mode, ready for the next click on the chart itself.

Click your starting point directly on the chart, hold, and drag to your intended endpoint before releasing the mouse button. In the example, the line runs from a swing low up through the recent price action, which is exactly how a trend line is meant to be used — anchored to two meaningful points rather than 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. This is the fastest path for a small tweak, while the fuller settings panel 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, and change in pips directly on the line.

Click the line once to select it and press the delete key, or right-click it and choose the remove option from the context menu — either works, and neither affects any other drawing on the chart. 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.