In this video, we show you how to change your chart's timeframe with a few taps on your keyboard. While many of you are already familiar with this shortcut, we think it's worth highlighting here for those who haven't had a chance to try it.
To get started, type any number on your keyboard and then press Enter. Your chart will adjust its timeframe to the number you entered. For days, type D after the number you enter. For example, 1D will show you a daily chart or 5D will show a 5-day chart. For weeks type W and for months type M. If you type 1W, your chart will show a weekly chart and if you type 1M it will show a monthly chart. This is one of the fastest ways to go from any timeframe or time interval you're interested in from minutes to hours, weeks, and months.
For those who look at hundreds of charts or analyze price action, growth, and trends on multiple timeframes, this shortcut will save you time and effort.
We hope you enjoyed this video tutorial. Thanks for watching and please let us know in the comments if you want us to cover any other video shortcuts, ideas or concepts.
why not make an option so that the left and right arrow keys are for switching the timeframe favorites as well? that would be so cool bec I dont think anybody uses the left-right arrows a lot, right?
TradingView
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@RobGee, Currently the arrow keys are used to move right or left on your chart. Give it a try.
RobGee
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@TradingView, yeah sure, but I give you an example: My highlightet favorite timeframes in the upper left corner of the screen are 5m 15m 1h 4h
so when I screening through the market with the up/down arrow it would be nice to switch the favorite timeframes with the left/right arrow too. so when I press left it jumps from 4h to 1h for example. there could be an option in the options menue to turn that feature on. give it a try, I am sure a lot of people will like it
francxisz
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@RobGee, I agree with you. And also applying the up and down buttons while in the alert log will be great. Just like in the watchlist. Because for now, you need to click the asset one by one to in order to see it in the chart.
dust8103
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@RobGee, I have just come across this thread searching if this functionality is possible. I skip between timeframes all the time and it will be wonderful if left & right arrows (or any other key combination) can be to scroll the time frames. @TradingView, please get your devs to sort it out for us
onlyfomo
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@dust8103, same. did they develop any progress on this request?
Jack-J-P
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@TradingView, This feature is useless for traders.
@TradingView, That is not what OP asks, so why ask him to give it a try?? Entering numbers to change timeframe sucks, why not enable custom keyboard shortcuts as a professional feature?