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Three books on the same question this site keeps asking: which of the things traders put on a chart are worth the screen space.

Cover of The ThinkorSwim Playbook

The ThinkorSwim Playbook

What real traders say about the indicators that actually work

Ask a trading forum which indicator is best and you get fifty answers, half of them from someone with a subscription to sell. This book took the opposite route: it read the places …

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Cover of The ThinkScript Playbook

The ThinkScript Playbook

40 tested ThinkorSwim indicators, scans, watchlist columns and strategy scripts

The code is the easy part. Knowing what is worth building — and what is a waste of screen space — is the harder half, and it is why this book is organised around working scripts ra…

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Cover of What Actually Works

What Actually Works

The TradingView indicators real traders swear by — and the ones they threw away

Every trader eventually asks which indicators actually make money. This book went looking for the answer in the places traders speak candidly to each other — veteran forums, the la…

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Start with something free

Our Formations study measured sixteen classic chart patterns across twelve million occurrences. The results are public, and so is the ThinkScript study that plots them on a ThinkorSwim chart.

The free ThinkScript study
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