How To Take Partial Profit in TradingView, Close Part Position Only 2026

Once you're logged in and a chart is loaded, an open position shows up directly on the price axis: you'll see the SELL and BUY price buttons on the left plus a small TP/SL tag tracking your live profit or loss in the account's quote currency. In the example here, a short position on BITSTAMP:BTCUSD is running at a loss of a few hundred dollars as price chops around the 118,000 level.

This on-chart view is useful for watching a trade, but it isn't where you'll find the partial close control. For that you need to open the account panel underneath the chart.

The partial-close checkbox only appears when TradingView is asking you to confirm actions before it sends them. Open Settings (the cog icon in the top right of the chart), go to the Trading tab, and check that One-click trading is switched off.

TradingView's own support page for partial closes still calls this setting "Instant order placement," an older name for the same toggle. With it left on, every close, including a partial one, executes the moment you click, and the confirmation window where the partial-close option lives never opens.

Click Paper Trading in the tab row above the chart (alongside Pine Editor, Strategy Tester, and Replay Trading) to expand the account panel. This gives you Account Balance, Equity, Realized and Unrealized P&L, and Available funds across the top, with a Positions tab below listing every open trade with its symbol, side, quantity, and live P&L. Paper trading mirrors the real order flow without risking money, which makes it the right place to rehearse a partial close before doing it on a funded account.

From the Positions list, click the row for the trade you want to partially close. In this example that's the short position of 6 units on BTCUSD.

Clicking a position (or its on-chart marker) brings up the position's action menu instead of immediately closing anything, so there's no risk of accidentally flattening the whole trade with a stray click. This is also a good moment to glance at the Unrealized P&L column and confirm you're about to act on the right symbol, especially if more than one position is open at once.

The Close position dialog opens with the position's details at the top (symbol, side, size, and entry price) and a Partial close checkbox just below. Checking it swaps the simple Cancel/Close position choice for a quantity field showing how many units you're closing "of" the total position size.

Type or use the up/down arrows to pick the portion you want to exit. Leaving it at the full amount closes everything, so the number entered here is what determines how much stays open afterward.

With the quantity set the way you want, click Close position to execute. TradingView immediately reduces the position size and books the realized P&L on the closed portion, while the remainder stays open under the same entry and stop levels unless adjusted.

Head back to the Positions tab to confirm the new, smaller size is showing correctly and that your stop loss still makes sense relative to the reduced quantity. A stop sized for the original position can leave you over- or under-hedged once part of the trade is gone.