Claude × TradingView
the AI that codes your Pine Script indicators(and what it will never do)
The Captain connected Claude, Anthropic's AI, to TradingView. The result: Pine Script indicators coded in a few sentences, in plain English, without writing a single line of code yourself. But let's be clear from the start: the AI assists, it doesn't trade for you. This page shows you both sides, videos included.
What we actually plugged in
No magic involved. An open-source MCP server (Model Context Protocol) — in plain terms, a bridge that lets Claude drive another piece of software, here TradingView Desktop. Claude doesn't "enter" TradingView, it controls it: it opens the app, selects assets, and above all it writes Pine Script, the language behind TradingView indicators. You describe what you want in plain English. It executes. No need to be a developer, no need to understand what's happening under the hood.
It all started with a slightly provocative question, asked in the live session on June 23rd: does Claude trade better than you? The Captain's answer fits in one sentence: the real question isn't whether the AI will trade in your place, but how you can get better with its help. In this first part, he runs through everything this setup makes possible: building a custom Pine Script indicator from a simple price action idea, breaking down an existing indicator to make it your own, building watchlists on your own technical criteria, setting alerts where TradingView doesn't offer any, and backtesting a strategy — while keeping in mind that a backtest never tells you what will happen in real trading.
The short from July 3rd — the setup summed up in 42 seconds.
▶ The replay — "Does Claude trade better than you?"
Part 1 — the live session from June 23rd: a tour of the use cases, then the week's market prep (50 min).
Pine Script without knowing how to code: what it lets you do
A week later, it's time to put it into practice: part 2 happens live, no safety net. The team loves the Choppiness Index — the "chop" —, an indicator that measures whether the market is going sideways or ripe to send a trend. Problem: TradingView doesn't offer any native alert for it. Until now, you needed real Pine Script skills to build one. In a few commands, Claude wrote the alert indicator. A compile error along the way? It fixed it itself. End result: an alert on crossing the 70 threshold, on H1, H4 and daily — on crossing only, to avoid spam. All of it live, in front of the members, hesitations and corrections included.
Here's the detail that changes everything: the Captain can't code. Zero programming knowledge, and his first indicator was born in a matter of moments. And that's only the start: building other custom indicators, generating then backtesting strategies without coding, building dashboards and watchlists on your own parameters. In the short from July 7th — shown here —, the Captain goes further: instead of combing through 200 charts by hand, Claude scans the market against his criteria in a single command, and surfaces a trade he would probably have missed on his own.
The short from July 7th — 200 charts scanned in 49 seconds.
▶ The replay — the indicator coded live
Part 2 — the live session from June 30th: the Pine Script indicator coded live, then the market analysis (46 min).
The limits, no filter
We're not here to sell you a dream, that's not how this place works. Three things to know before you get started.
You need a paid Claude subscription and a paid TradingView plan, and the tokens burn fast.
It can be a real pain — the Captain struggled with it, a colleague didn't, go figure.
The AI doesn't have a hidden holy grail wired into its circuits. An excellent assistant, not an oracle.
"It will never replace your judgment as a trader, only the time you used to waste on repetitive tasks."
And what the AI produces can be checked: a backtest is only ever a test on the past, never a promise about the future.
What the AI won't do in your place
The last video on this page isn't about AI, and that's on purpose. A NASDAQ trade, pure method, in three steps: spotting a key zone — here a supply zone —, reading the volume of the last rally on the Volume Profile, then waiting for the breakout to fail. Take profit set on the next key zone, counter-trend and fully owned, and a line that sums it all up: "no need to shoot for the moon."
Look closely: no AI is involved. Reading the market, the plan, the patience, the execution discipline — that's all brought by the trader. That's the real verdict of the "AI vs trading" match: there isn't one. The AI absorbs the repetitive mechanics, the trader keeps the decision. And that part — the only one that really matters — is something you learn.
A NASDAQ trade in 3 steps — 100% human judgment.
Frequently asked questions
Can you build a TradingView indicator without knowing how to code?
Yes — that's the whole point of this page. You describe your idea in plain English, Claude writes the Pine Script code, compiles it on TradingView and fixes its own errors. You do need a paid Claude subscription and a paid TradingView plan, though.
Can Claude build and backtest a Pine Script strategy?
It can code a strategy from your rules and run it through TradingView's backtester. Keep in mind that a backtest is only ever a test on the past: it guarantees nothing about real results.
Can the AI trade in my place?
No, and that's not the point. The AI absorbs the repetitive mechanics — the code, the alerts, the watchlists; reading the market, the plan and the decision stay with the trader. That's exactly what the last video on this page shows.
What's next at Captain Trading
We keep testing these tools first, so you don't have to hit the same snags. Next up: more use cases explored live session after live session — new indicators, backtests and custom dashboards.
Watch the videos on this page, then come talk about it on Discord or subscribe to the channel so you don't miss what's next. And if you want to learn to trade with real method, the free trading course is a solid place to start.
A grid bot is a robot that places buy and sell orders at regular intervals inside a range that YOU define ahead of time. The repetitive mechanics, taken to their purest form — and still the same philosophy as the rest of this page: the tool executes the plan, the trader sets the frame, the levels and the risk. It's already being discussed in the community's dedicated channel: questions, real feedback and settings get shared there between members.
Content published for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice in any way. Trading carries a risk of losing capital.