How to Remove Indicators on TradingView (2026 Guide)

A cluttered TradingView chart hides the price action you are trying to read. Removing or hiding indicators takes one click once you know where the chart legend lives, and TradingView gives you four ways to clean things up: remove one at a time, clear them all at once, hide without deleting, or strip the value labels off the screen. This guide walks through every option on desktop and mobile, plus how to keep your charts clean by tracking which indicators actually help your trades.

Key Takeaways

• Click the arrow under the symbol name to open the chart legend, then use the trash icon to remove a single indicator or right-click anywhere on the chart and choose Remove Indicators to clear them all at once.
• The eye icon hides an indicator without deleting it, which preserves your custom settings for later. Use it instead of removing when you only need a temporary cleaner view.
• TradingView limits the number of indicators per chart by plan: Free 2, Essential (formerly Basic) 5, Plus 10, Premium 25, Expert and Ultimate higher. If you hit the limit, you have to remove or hide before adding more.

How to Remove an Indicator on TradingView (Desktop)

When you want to remove a single indicator from a TradingView chart, the trash icon in the chart legend is the fastest path. The chart legend is the strip of indicator names that lives just under the symbol name in the top-left corner of every chart.

1. Click the arrow button under the symbol name to expand the chart legend if it is collapsed. The legend lists every indicator currently on your chart.
2. Hover over the indicator you want to remove. Five icons appear next to the name: eye (hide), gear (settings), source code, arrow up (move up), and a trash icon.
3. Click the trash icon. The indicator is removed immediately.

If you remove the wrong indicator, press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Cmd+Z (Mac) to undo. TradingView also surfaces an Undo button at the top of the chart that walks back recent changes.

How to Remove All Indicators at Once

Removing indicators one by one gets old fast when you have a dozen on a chart. TradingView gives you two faster paths.

Right-click shortcut: Right-click anywhere on the chart and a context menu appears. Scroll to the bottom and click Remove Indicators. Every indicator on the chart is cleared in one move. Drawings stay in place.

Remove Indicators and Drawings: If you also want to clear every drawing (trendlines, Fibonacci levels, rectangles, text notes), click the small arrow next to the trash icon in the left sidebar (the one labeled Remove Drawings and Indicators). The dropdown offers four options: Remove Drawings, Remove Indicators, Remove Drawing Tools and Indicators, and Remove Price Line. Choose whichever level of cleanup matches what you need.

If you remove indicators by mistake, the Undo button at the top of the chart restores the most recent removal. Note that closing and reopening the layout will not bring them back unless you saved the layout first; see our TradingView keyboard shortcuts guide for the save-layout hotkey.

How to Hide an Indicator Without Removing It

There are times when you want an indicator off the screen but still in the layout: maybe you are scanning a clean chart for support and resistance, but you want your moving averages back later. Hiding an indicator preserves every customization (color, period, source) so you can flip it back on without rebuilding it.

To hide an indicator, hover over its name in the chart legend and click the eye icon. The line is removed from the chart but the indicator stays loaded. Click the eye icon again to show it. This toggle is faster than removing and re-adding when you are testing whether an indicator is helping or hurting your reads.

Hidden indicators still count toward your plan’s indicator limit. If you need to free up a slot to add a new indicator, you have to remove (not hide) an existing one.

How to Remove Indicators on Mobile (iOS and Android)

The mobile workflow is almost identical to desktop but the icons live in a different place.

iOS and Android (TradingView app): Tap the chart legend (the indicator names stacked under the symbol in the top-left). A bottom sheet opens listing every indicator on the chart. Tap the trash icon next to the indicator you want to remove, or tap the eye icon to hide it without removing.

To clear every indicator on mobile, tap the indicator legend, then tap the three-dot menu at the top of the bottom sheet and choose Remove All. This mirrors the desktop right-click Remove Indicators shortcut.

The mobile app uses the same indicator-limit-per-plan rules as desktop. The free plan still caps you at 2 indicators per chart on mobile.

TradingView Indicator Limits by Plan

If you keep hitting an “indicator limit reached” message, your plan is the bottleneck. Here is the current ceiling per chart:

Plan	Indicators per chart
Free	2
Essential (formerly Basic)	5
Plus	10
Premium	25
Expert	50
Ultimate	unlimited

Invite-only scripts, community scripts, and your own Pine Script saves all count against the same limit. If you are bumping up against the cap, hiding does not free a slot; only removing does. For a full breakdown of what each tier costs, see our TradingView pricing guide.

How to Hide Indicator Values From the Chart

Even after you clear the indicator lines, the value labels next to each indicator name can stay on the chart. These are the small numbers that read out the current value of every loaded indicator. They are useful in some setups and pure noise in others.

To strip them off:

1. Click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the chart to open Settings.
2. Click the Status Line tab.
3. Scroll to the Indicators section.
4. Uncheck Arguments and Values.

Click OK and the value clutter disappears. The indicators themselves stay on the chart; only the readout strip is hidden.

Saving Your Cleaned-Up Layout

Once you have your chart looking exactly the way you want it, save the layout so the cleanup sticks. Click the cloud icon in the top toolbar (or press Ctrl+S / Cmd+S) and TradingView saves the current chart as a layout. The free plan allows one saved layout; paid plans go up from there. For a step-by-step walkthrough of TradingView’s save and load flow, our TradingView keyboard shortcuts guide covers the layout hotkeys in full.

If you want a completely fresh chart, use the Reset Layout option in the left sidebar instead of removing items one by one. It strips every indicator, drawing, and overlay in a single click. Pair this with the steps in our how to delete a TradingView layout guide if you want to wipe a saved layout entirely.

Common Mistakes When Removing Indicators

Three small frustrations come up constantly when traders are cleaning charts:

Removing instead of hiding. Custom indicator settings (color, period, source) are lost when you remove. If you spent time tuning a TradingView moving average or TradingView RSI setup, hide it instead of removing it. Removing forces you to rebuild every parameter from scratch.

Hiding does not free a slot. Free-plan users especially run into this. You hide your 200-period moving average, try to add a Bollinger Band, and TradingView tells you the indicator limit is reached. Hidden indicators count. Only removing frees the slot.

Not saving the cleaned layout. If you spend twenty minutes cleaning a chart and forget to save, the next time you reload your account the original mess is back. Save Layout (Ctrl+S / Cmd+S) commits the cleanup.

Track Which Indicators Actually Help Your Trades

Removing clutter from a chart is the surface-level fix. The deeper question is which indicators are actually helping your trade decisions, and which are noise you keep loading out of habit. The only way to answer that is to log every trade with a tag for which indicator gave you the signal, then sort win rate and average R by tag.

The Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal handles this with tagging on every trade entry: tag with “RSI divergence” or “MA crossover” or “VCP breakout” and the journal sorts your performance by tag in the Trades tab search. Trades from indicators that consistently lose can be removed from your chart with confidence, not by guesswork. If you are still on a spreadsheet, our free trading journal template has a tag column you can sort by in Google Sheets.

FAQ

How do you remove all indicators from TradingView in one click?

Right-click anywhere on the chart and select Remove Indicators from the bottom of the context menu. This clears every indicator at once while leaving drawings (trendlines, Fibonacci levels, rectangles) in place. To also remove drawings, use the dropdown arrow next to the trash icon in the left sidebar and pick Remove Drawing Tools and Indicators.

What is the difference between removing and hiding an indicator on TradingView?

Removing deletes the indicator from your chart and discards any custom settings you applied. Hiding keeps the indicator loaded but pulls the line off the chart so you can toggle it back on later with the eye icon. Hidden indicators still count toward your plan’s indicator limit.

How many indicators can I have on a TradingView chart?

The cap is set by your plan: Free 2, Essential 5, Plus 10, Premium 25, Expert 50, Ultimate unlimited. Invite-only scripts, community scripts, and your own Pine Script overlays all count. Hidden indicators count too.

How do I remove indicators on the TradingView mobile app?

Tap the chart legend under the symbol name to open the indicator list, then tap the trash icon next to the indicator you want to remove. To clear every indicator at once, tap the three-dot menu at the top of the indicator list and choose Remove All. The eye icon hides without removing.

Why can I not add more indicators on TradingView?

You have hit your plan’s indicator limit. Hiding indicators does not free a slot; only removing does. Either remove indicators you no longer use or upgrade your TradingView plan to raise the cap.