Connect FXCM to TradingView

Yes, you can connect your FXCM account to TradingView as of October 2023, allowing you to make trades directly from TradingView. To learn some valuable insights, read more below about our first-hand experience on how we did it.

My key findings in a nutshell

My key findings in a nutshell

Gyula Lencsés, CFA

Master of Broker Brilliance | Stock Market • Commodities • Market Analysis

With over a decade in finance, I lead content creation at BrokerChooser and personally evaluated some of our 100+ listed brokers. I open real-money accounts, execute transactions, and engage with customer services, offering firsthand assessments. Prior to BrokerChooser, I managed mutual funds in wealth management, trading stocks, ETFs, bonds, commodities, forex, and derivatives. My goal: simplify the hunt for top brokers in a dynamic investment landscape.

Learn about our methodology

Gyula Lencsés, CFA

Master of Broker Brilliance | Stock Market • Commodities • Market Analysis

I've thoroughly tested FXCM services with our analyst team by opening a real-money account and these are my most important findings:

• You can connect TradingView, a popular advanced charting platform, to FXCM in a few easy steps.
• The connection has to be initiated from your TradingView account.
• With a TradingView connection you can place orders in few simple steps.
• Not all the symbols that you see on TradingView can be traded on FXCM, which may be a bit confusing.

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TradingView is a widely used online platform that provides advanced tools and superb charting for traders and investors. It is known for its user-friendly interface, extensive charting, and real-time data on stocks, cryptocurrencies, forex, and commodities. Almost all financial assets are available on the platform.

Users can create interactive charts with various indicators and tools, customizing their trading experience. It also provides additional decision-making tools, such as screeners for stocks, forex and crypto, heat maps and more.

From novice to seasoned traders, everyone will find TradingView’s versatile platform useful. Additionally, its collaborative platform allows users to share analyses and ideas with a large community of over 50 million traders, offering access to experienced traders' strategies and real-time discussions through video streams and chat rooms. TradingView is accessible through a web browser and also offers mobile applications.

Why should I connect my broker to TradingView?

The benefit of using TradingView to trade on your various brokerage accounts is that you can use the same user-friendly, advanced charting platform for all brokers, without having to familiarize yourself with all the different trading platforms at the different brokers. You can make trades directly from the TradingView chart, without having to go to your broker's platform. You can also see your previous trading activity and account details at the broker in TradingView.

Check below whether these other forex brokers can be connected to TradingView:

Here at BrokerChooser we review a lot of quality, trustworthy brokers (more than 100!), all of them by opening accounts with real money. So we have first-hand experience with a FXCM account as well.

In order to help you out, we went through the process of connecting our account to TradingView. You can see on the image at the top of the article what the broker connection interface looks like in TradingView. Here are the basic steps you need to go through to set up a connection:

1. In order to connect your brokerage account, you will first need to open a TradingView account. This is free of charge.
2. Once you have a TradingView account, you are ready to connect the two.
3. For the smoothest experience, log in to both your brokerage and TradingView accounts separately.
4. In TradingView, open a Trading Panel, find FXCM in the list at the bottom of the screen and connect. If you have not logged in to your brokerage account, you will be taken to the broker’s sign-in page and prompted to log in.
5. Done! If all went well, you should see FXCM’s name below the chart with a green dot next to it, showing that the connection is live. Below, you will also see the broker logo and your FXCM account and trading information (balance, margin, etc.)

A few things to keep in mind:

• Some brokers will require you to fund your trading account before enabling the connection with TradingView.
• You cannot log in to multiple broker accounts at the same time, only one connection at a time. This is not made very clear, as you will not get a message about having been disconnected. The way we found out was that when you log in to another broker, and then try to switch back to the previous one, you need to log in again.

Check FXCM’s website for more specific information on connecting your brokerage and TradingView accounts.

Once the connection between FXCM and TradingView is all set up, you are ready to start trading. Let’s see how that goes:

• After you connect your brokerage account, you are taken back to the Trading Panel within TradingView.
• Now you can also see your open positions and other account information at FXCM.
• To place an order you need to simply search for the ticker in TradingView as you normally would.
• Below the chart you’ll see a ‘Trade’ button; if you click on that, an order panel will open on the right side on desktop.
• Initiate a trade by filling the order panel and clicking the Buy/Sell button.

If you don’t want your brokerage account connected to TradingView anymore, or want to connect TradingView to another broker account, you will need to end the connection. This is how to disconnect:

• Click on the FXCM name below the chart; from the drop-down menu, select “log out FXCM” which you will see in red at the bottom.
• We were a bit surprised that there is no confirmation message about the disconnection, but if below the chart you don’t see the FXCM name with a green dot next to it, that means you are no longer connected.
• With one broker disconnected, you can now connect to another brokerage account.