My Igor_Arapov profile on TradingView contains market analyses with charts, descriptions and publication dates. You can read the original reasoning and compare it with the price movement that followed. This archive records published analysis. By itself, it does not establish which trades I placed, the return on an account or the amount of money risked.
The profile has been registered since October 2021. Ideas and views change as publications are added, so this page uses dated examples rather than a fixed total. The current list is available in my public TradingView profile.
What you can check in a public idea
An idea page identifies the author, date, instrument, chart and description. A “long” label indicates a view in favour of rising prices; “short” indicates a view in favour of falling prices. Neither label confirms that an order was placed. Look for the reasoning, the conditions that would change the scenario and the period being analysed. Treat missing information as a limit of the record rather than supplying your own assumptions.
TradingView allows ordinary editing or deletion of a public idea during the first 15 minutes after publication. The original material is then locked against ordinary editing. That helps readers compare the initial analysis with the later market. Moderation and page availability are separate conditions, however: a public archive should not be described as an indestructible record.
The Load new bars control adds later price bars to a published chart. A bar represents the price movement over one selected time interval. Read the original scenario before loading what happened next. Otherwise, knowing the outcome can influence your interpretation and lead you to attribute conditions to the author that were never written down.
Examples of Bitcoin, oil and currency analysis
“Bitcoin: a long crypto winter”, published on 12 May 2022, identifies BTCUSDT and a short view. Its description discusses continued Bitcoin weakness alongside gold, oil and a strengthening dollar. The page carries an Editors’ Pick mark. That mark identifies a publication selected by the platform; it does not report my trading profit or the success rate of the archive.
“What to expect from oil prices?”, dated 27 January 2022, identifies the CLH2022 futures contract. A futures contract is an agreement tied to a specified asset and settlement terms; the contract code matters when checking its chart. The description refers to positions held by hedgers, participants managing price risk, and the page also carries an Editors’ Pick mark. A different contract, a chart joining successive contracts or another quotation source may show a different sequence of prices.
“Oil market review”, published on 14 January 2022, concerns a Brent futures contract and is labelled long. The description names volume analysis and price behaviour. Read the two oil ideas separately: their instruments and dates differ, so they cannot be combined into a single forecast without checking the original conditions.
“British pound / dollar: waiting for a stronger dollar”, dated 11 January 2022, identifies GBPUSD and a short view on the currency pair. The description refers to reading volume and price behaviour. This is an example of a currency analysis in the archive, not evidence that its scenario applies to a different pair or today’s market.
These examples establish that dated analyses exist for different instruments. They are not the complete archive and are not used here to calculate a success rate. To assess the consistency of the reasoning, also read nearby publications from the same period, including opposing scenarios and conditions that would invalidate a view.
Published analysis versus trading performance
A direction that later matches the market does not reveal where someone entered, how much they traded or when they exited. Actual execution, trading costs and position management affect the money result. Even if a stated price is reached, the publication does not establish that the author held a trade until then.
An assessment of trading performance needs records of completed transactions, trades still open, deposits, withdrawals, costs and changes in account value. An idea page may not contain those records. Use the archive to check reasoning and publication dates rather than treating it as verified account performance.
How to review the archive
Choose one instrument and a limited period, then open its ideas in date order. Record the publication date, quotation source, direction, scenario conditions and conditions that would invalidate it. Use comparable charts so that a change of instrument or chart interval does not change what you are evaluating.
After reading the original description, load the later bars. Check what actually occurred: further movement in the expected direction, a return to the previous price range or a breach of a stated condition. If the idea gives no precise condition, record that limitation. Do not invent an entry, a planned exit or an expiry date afterwards.
Save the idea’s link and your assessment. If you review several publications, choose consistent criteria before comparing them and include unsuccessful examples too. This lets you discuss specific reasoning while keeping published analysis distinct from actual trading.
Frequently asked questions
It shows published ideas with an author, chart, description and date. This is an archive of analysis, not confirmation of executed trades or account returns.
TradingView permits ordinary editing or deletion during the first 15 minutes after publication. The original material is then locked against ordinary editing. Moderation and page availability remain separate conditions.
Editors’ Pick identifies a specific publication selected by TradingView. It does not confirm the author’s profit, the accuracy of the entire archive or a future result.
Read the original description and its conditions first, then load later price bars. A bar covers one selected time interval. Compare the subsequent movement with the stated scenario without inventing missing entry, exit or time conditions.
About the author
Igor Arapov, practising trader since 2013 and author of the ArapovTrade learning library. ORCID: 0009-0003-0430-778X.
