Chartink vs TradingView: which should Indian traders use?

Search this question on any Indian trading forum and you'll find the same argument running in circles. It's the wrong question — Chartink and TradingView aren't really competitors. One is a screener that happens to have charts; the other is a charting platform that happens to have a screener. The honest comparison is about which job each one wins.

Where Chartink wins

• The scan engine. Chartink's condition builder ("latest close greater than latest sma(20)…") lets you express almost any technical setup over every NSE/BSE stock at once — no coding, no spreadsheet exports. This is the single feature that keeps Indian traders on the platform.
• Community scans. Thousands of ready-made screeners — breakout setups, volume shockers, 52-week-high lists — shared and refined by other Indian traders. You can fork any of them and tweak the conditions.
• India-first coverage. Sector groupings, F&O filters and index constituents all reflect how the Indian market is actually organised, because the whole product is built for it.
• Scan-based alerts. Get notified when any stock newly satisfies your scan conditions — effectively an alert on a whole strategy, not just a single stock's price level.

Where TradingView wins

• Charting, by a mile. Indicator library, multi-timeframe layouts, bar replay, and drawing tools that survive across sessions and devices. Chartink's charts are serviceable; nobody calls them the reason they use Chartink.
• Price alerts and watchlists. Fine-grained alerts on price, indicators and trendlines, delivered to app and email, with watchlists that sync everywhere.
• Global markets and ideas. If you also watch US stocks, crypto or commodities, it's all in the same workspace, alongside published trade ideas from a worldwide community.
• Pine Script. Custom indicators and strategy backtesting, with a massive open library of community scripts.

Feature by feature

Notice the pattern: Chartink's wins are all about finding stocks, TradingView's are all about analysing them. Which is why "which one should I use?" usually resolves to "both, in sequence."

The real workflow: use both — without the tab-juggling

The standard routine looks like this: run your scan on Chartink, get 20 results, then check each one's chart on TradingView before deciding anything. The painful part is the middle — Chartink's stock links open Chartink's own dashboard, so for every single result you end up retyping NSE:SYMBOL into TradingView's search box. Twenty results, twenty searches.

That's the gap Chartink Redirector closes. It's a free 19 KB Chrome extension that rewires Chartink's stock links: click a scan result and it opens directly on the stock's TradingView chart — and, if you want, on its Screener.in fundamentals page at the same time. Each platform reuses one tab, and Ctrl+Q flips between chart and fundamentals for whatever stock you're on. (There are also manual ways to bridge the two — we compared all three in the scan-to-chart guide.)

Common questions