tradingview-reader
Read TradingView desktop app for market data, news, alerts, watchlists, and screener results using opencli (read-only). Use this skill whenever the user wants quotes, options chains, options expiries, screener results across stocks/crypto/forex/futures/bonds, gainers/losers/movers, news headlines or full story bodies, alerts (active list, fire log, offline fires), watchlists including colored flag lists, symbol search/autocomplete, chart state, or screenshots from their local TradingView.app. Triggers include: "options chain for X", "IV on Y", "show me SNDK puts", "TV screener for Y sector",
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill tradingview-reader --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# TradingView Reader (Read-Only) Reads TradingView's desktop macOS app for quotes, options chains, and chart state via [opencli](https://github.com/jackwener/opencli) and a CDP attach to the running TradingView.app process. Powered by the `tradingview` plugin in this repo's [`opencli-plugins/tradingview`](https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills/tree/main/opencli-plugins/tradingview) tree (a se
What does the tradingview-reader skill do?
Read TradingView desktop app for market data, news, alerts, watchlists, and screener results using opencli (read-only). Use this skill whenever the user wants quotes, options chains, options expiries, screener results across stocks/crypto/forex/futures/bonds, gainers/losers/movers, news headlines or full story bodies, alerts (active list, fire log, offline fires), watchlists including colored flag lists, symbol search/autocomplete, chart state, or screenshots from their local TradingView.app. Triggers include: "options chain for X", "IV on Y", "show me SNDK puts", "TV screener for Y sector",
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill tradingview-reader --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From himself65/finance-skills, a repository with 3,115 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.