A small collection of free, open-source TradingView indicators built for serious intraday traders. No paid tiers, no signup gates, no AI-generated nonsense. Every script is Pine v5 or v6, every feature exists because a real trading problem needed solving, and every line of source code is public so you can audit the math before you trust it on a live chart. Works on any chart — your TradingView account, your prop firm's TopstepX or Tradovate setup, or anywhere Pine Script runs.
Trading at a prop firm?
These indicators work on every major prop firm platform — TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, and any TradingView-integrated execution. Browse vetted prop firm directories for futures, forex, and crypto.
Free TradingView indicators
Session Volume Pulse
The volume indicator most traders actually want. A time-of-day baseline shows the typical volume for each minute of the trading day averaged over the trailing 21 sessions, and a clean spike label fires only on bars genuinely above the recent average. No divergence tints, no oscillator pane, no nine-row info table — two visual signals, both readable at a glance. Built specifically for liquid futures (NQ, ES, MNQ, MES) on 15m charts, configurable for any market and timeframe via the bars-per-session input.
Volume Z-Score Readout
A statistical companion to Session Volume Pulse. Computes the z-score of the current bar's volume against the same-time-of-day mean and standard deviation across the trailing 21 sessions, then displays a single readout box on the price chart: z=-0.5 · normal for this time. The box color shifts grey → blue → orange → red as the bar becomes more unusual. Overlays on price (not its own pane) so it pairs with whatever volume display you already use. Three-preset setup: trader style, market, sensitivity. Pine v6, no repainting.
Market Regime Detector
Answers the question you should ask before every trade: what kind of market am I in? Instead of a hard-coded "ADX above 25" threshold that breaks on every other symbol, it ranks each metric against its own recent distribution, so the read adapts to whatever chart you load it on. Crosses a trend axis (Kaufman Efficiency Ratio plus ATR-normalized EMA slope) against a volatility axis (ATR plus Bollinger width) to produce four distinct regimes — and critically, it separates volatile trend from volatile chop instead of dumping both into one red "avoid" zone. Background shading plus a corner dashboard with confidence reading. Pine v6, no repainting.
What's next
Indicators get built when a problem doesn't already have a clean open-source solution. The roadmap below tracks what's published, what's planned, and what's been considered and shelved. Suggestions welcome via the contact page — if there's a pattern you want a tool for and the math is reasonable, it gets evaluated.
| Indicator | Category | Status | Solves |
|---|---|---|---|
Session Volume Pulse Live |
Volume | Published, v1.0 | Volume context vs typical session at this exact minute. |
Volume Z-Score Readout Live |
Volume | Published, v1.0 (Pine v6) | Statistical "how unusual is this bar" verdict at a glance. |
Market Regime Detector Live |
Context | Published, v1.0 (Pine v6) | Adaptive four-state classifier: trend, volatile trend, chop, quiet range. |
Prop Firm Drawdown Tracker Planned |
Risk | Scoping | Visual trailing/EOD drawdown overlay matched to your prop firm rules. |
Liquidity Sweep Detector Considering |
Price action | Pattern-matching too noisy in testing · may not ship | Stop-hunt detection at prior session highs/lows. |
Why these indicators are open source and free
Three reasons, in order of importance.
First, audit-ability matters for anything you put real money behind. Closed-source indicators in finance are a known yellow flag — they often do less than they claim, or rely on lookahead bias to look better in backtests than they perform live. An open Pine script the trading community can read, fork, and improve is more likely to surface bugs and to evolve than a black box. Prop firm traders especially should be able to verify what their tools are actually computing.
Second, the prop firm landscape pushes traders toward tools that work everywhere. A futures trader who's funded at Apex, evaluating at Topstep, and watching pre-market on TradingView needs an indicator that loads identically across all three. Open Pine scripts on TradingView do — every prop firm we cover in the prop firm directories supports TradingView integration or platforms that consume Pine via TradingView. Paid closed-source indicators tied to a single platform create lock-in that doesn't serve the trader.
Third, the alternative is selling indicators on Etsy. The market for $97 "secret algorithm" TradingView indicators is enormous and almost entirely garbage. Putting good free tools out there competes against that garbage on quality, not price. If a tool is genuinely better than the paid alternatives, free is the right price for it.
No affiliate links, no upsells, no email gates. The indicators are linked directly to their TradingView script pages. Source code is visible on the script page itself — TradingView's Pine Editor shows the full source to anyone who saves the script to their library. Mirror copies are also maintained externally where applicable.
Works with every prop firm platform we cover
Every indicator on this page is built in Pine Script and runs natively on TradingView. That means it works on any prop firm or broker platform that integrates TradingView charts — which, in 2026, is most of them. Specifically:
Futures prop firm platforms
- All 14 firms in the futures directory use TradingView-compatible execution platforms
- TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, Bookmap — all consume TradingView charts
- Apex, Topstep, MFFU, Tradeify, FundedNext Futures — pull charts from TradingView
Forex & crypto platforms
- All 7 firms in the forex directory support TradingView for charting
- All 7 firms in the crypto directory support TradingView for charting
- MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXTrade, TradeLocker — all have TradingView integration paths
If you trade across multiple instruments — say NQ futures during US hours, forex into Asia, BTC perps overnight — the same indicator loaded into your TradingView account follows you to every chart. No re-licensing fees, no per-platform setup, no maintenance fragmentation.
How to add a TradingView indicator to your chart
The install flow takes about 30 seconds.
- Click the link to the indicator's TradingView script page above.
- On the script page, click "Add to favorite indicators" (the star icon at the top right).
- Open any chart on TradingView. Click Indicators in the top toolbar.
- Click Favorites in the indicator picker — the script will appear.
- Click to add. The indicator loads into the chart with default settings.
- Click the gear icon next to the indicator name to configure inputs (presets for trader style, market, sensitivity).
Default settings are tuned for NQ futures on 15m. For other markets and timeframes, see the relevant article — each indicator's full guide includes the configuration table for stocks RTH, futures across all timeframes, crypto, and forex.
Frequently asked questions
Are these indicators really free, or is there a paid tier I'm going to hit?
Free, full stop. No paid tier, no upgrade prompts, no premium features. The indicators are published as open-source Pine Script on TradingView and remain free. The maintained externally-mirrored copies on GitHub (or equivalent) are also free. If a future indicator turns out to need infrastructure that can't be open-sourced — for example, a calendar that pulls real-time prop firm rules from an API — it would be released as a separate project and priced based on actual hosting cost, not bundled into these.
Will the indicators work on my prop firm's platform?
Almost certainly yes if your prop firm uses TradingView charts (which most do in 2026). TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, DXTrade, TradeLocker, Bookmap — all of them support TradingView integration. Load the indicator into your TradingView account once and it follows you to every chart you open through these platforms. If you're using a less common platform that doesn't support Pine Script, the indicator won't run — but you can usually port the logic to ThinkScript, EasyLanguage, or another Pine-equivalent language manually since the source is open.
Why TradingView instead of NinjaScript or ThinkScript?
Reach. TradingView has roughly 60 million users globally and is the default charting layer for nearly every retail and prop firm platform in 2026. Pine Script is the most widely-readable scripting language in retail trading — more traders can audit it, fork it, and learn from it than any platform-specific alternative. Ports to NinjaScript or ThinkScript are welcome from the community but won't be official releases.
Can I modify the source code for my own strategy?
Yes. The source is published on TradingView's Pine Editor and on a mirror repository. Fork, modify, and use however serves your trading. Attribution is appreciated but not required for personal use. If you publish a modified version on TradingView's public script library, credit the original and link back to this directory — that's the only ask.
Will these indicators give me a trading edge?
No indicator gives anyone an edge by itself. Tools surface information; edges come from a tested strategy, disciplined risk management, and consistent execution. The indicators here exist to make specific information easier to read — "is this volume unusual for this time of day" is faster to answer with Session Volume Pulse or the Volume Z-Score Readout than by squinting at a raw volume pane, and "what kind of market am I in" is faster to answer with the Market Regime Detector than by eyeballing it. That's a workflow improvement, not a strategy. The strategy is on you.
Are these affiliated with TradingView or any prop firm?
No. The indicators are independent open-source projects published on TradingView's public script library because that's where Pine Script lives. No commercial relationship exists with TradingView, with any prop firm referenced in our prop firm directories, or with any other platform. Partnership disclosures, if any are made in the future, will appear here and on the relevant article pages.
