How to Overlay 2 Charts in TradingView Easily 2026

Landing on TradingView, you're typically shown a broad market snapshot — an index chart like the S&P 500 alongside a sidebar of major indices such as the Nasdaq 100, Japan 225, and FTSE 100, each with its current level and percentage move. This overview is useful for spotting which assets are worth comparing before you commit to a chart, but the actual overlay work happens once you open a specific symbol's chart, not from this summary screen.

Search for and open the primary symbol you want to compare against — in this workflow, Apple (AAPL) on a 1-day timeframe. The toolbar along the top gives you drawing tools, indicators, and alerts, and the watchlist panel on the right keeps other symbols like the major indices and TSLA visible for quick reference. Add any moving averages or indicators you rely on now, since they'll carry through once you add a second symbol on top.

With your base chart open, use the Compare tool to search for and add a second symbol — in this case Google (GOOG) — directly onto the same chart window. TradingView plots it as an overlaid line on its own percentage scale, shown along the right edge from 0% up past 90%, while your original candlesticks stay on their own price scale. The result is two very differently priced assets shown on the same visual plane, with each one's move expressed in percentage terms rather than raw dollars.

Hover over the compared symbol's label in the top-left legend and a small toolbar appears — an eye icon to toggle visibility, a settings icon to change its line color and style, and a trash icon to remove it entirely. Giving the overlay a distinct color from your candlesticks makes it far easier to track at a glance, especially once you're also watching moving average lines on the same chart.

With both lines on the percentage scale, watching them move together or apart tells you what's happening between the two assets over the selected period. If both climb in step, they're moving with high correlation; when one keeps climbing while the other flattens or drops, that gap is exactly what a relative-strength read is meant to surface. It's a much faster way to answer "which of these two is actually outperforming" than eyeballing two separate price charts.

This Compare workflow isn't limited to stocks — the same steps work for comparing crypto pairs, indices, or forex symbols, which is useful when checking whether a coin is moving with or against the broader market, or whether a currency pair is tracking a related index. Once you're comfortable adding and styling one overlay, adding a second or third follows the identical process, though TradingView's own guidance is to keep it to two or three lines before the chart gets too busy to read at a glance.