My TradingView layout for the London open, explained

[FXS London Scalper]

A few people asked about the TradingView layout I use from 07:30 to 10:00 London. It's deliberately simple.

Four charts in a 2 by 2 grid:

• EURUSD M1, with the Asian session high and low drawn by a session indicator, the previous day high and low, and the overnight midpoint. No oscillators.
• GBPUSD M1, same levels.
• EURUSD M15, to see where the morning sits in the bigger structure. The only indicator is a 20 period EMA, mostly to see slope.
• DXY M5, as a quick check on whether a move is a dollar move or a euro or sterling move.

Under the charts I keep a watchlist with EURGBP, USDJPY, the German two-year yield and the UK two-year yield.

What I removed over the years: RSI, MACD, volume on spot FX, and any indicator that repainted. They made the screen busier without changing my decisions.

I execute on the broker platform, not TradingView. The prices differ slightly, so I always check the level on the broker feed before placing an order.

What does your open layout look like? I'm interested in what others consider essential.

[Amanhasnoname]

Mine is surprisingly close to yours, which makes me think most of us end up in the same place after a few years of deleting things. I run EURUSD and GBPUSD on M1 with the Asian range and yesterday's high and low, but instead of the M15 chart I keep a single H1 chart of EURUSD with the last five days showing, just so I know whether the morning is starting near the top or bottom of the week.

The one thing I added that I would not give up now is a small panel with the Bund and Gilt futures. More than once a sterling move that looked like it came out of nowhere was already visible in Gilts a minute earlier, and it stopped me fading something that had real flow behind it.

Same experience on the price feed too. My TradingView levels are often a few tenths off the broker, so I draw the levels on TradingView for planning but set the actual orders using the broker chart only.