All of our ThinkOrSwim Indicator Tutorials
Step-by-step tutorials to help you unleash the full power of ThinkOrSwim and become a better trader
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Parabolic SAR
Build a better Parabolic SAR indicator, that allows you to predict reversals before they happen.
Watch Tutorial Smarter MACD
Learn how to build a powerful MACD indicator with built-in higher time frame analysis. Download for free on our website!
Watch Tutorial Candle Counter
Download this free indicator to easily analyze your favorite markets, and compare red vs. green candles to find patterns and trends.
Watch Tutorial Moving Average Clouds
A simple, yet powerful Moving Average Clouds indicator, to easily spot trends and reversals. Free download!
Watch Tutorial DCA Calculator Pro
The DCA Calculator for ThinkOrSwim allows you to test the effectiveness of two different dollar-cost average strategies and compare their performance.
Watch Tutorial Dividend Yield Pro
The Dividend Yield Pro indicator allows you to compare a company's current dividend yield, to its historical dividend yield, and find outliers easily.
Watch Tutorial Dividend Yield
Analyze the current dividend yield vs. the historical yield in your favorite markets, and find hidden gems with outperformance.
Watch Tutorial Stacked Moving Averages
Find the best trends with our free Stacked Moving Averages indicator. We'll show you how to build it, and use it with your favorite EMA's and SMA's.
Watch Tutorial Average Volume Stats
Analyze and compare today's daily volume with historical volume in less than 1 second.
Watch Tutorial Super Bowl Indicator
Build your own Super Bowl indicator, and test how useful it has been in predicting stock market moves.
Watch Tutorial Bollinger Bands Reversal
Build your own Bollinger Bands reversal indicator, by taking advantage of a popular reversal pattern.
Watch Tutorial Price to Book Value Ratio
Track the current and historical P/B ratio levels for any market, using our free P/B Ratio Indicator for ThinkOrSwim.
Watch Tutorial Multiple Time Frame Moving Averages
Add different timeframe moving averages to a specific chart, using a few lines of simple thinkScript code
Watch Tutorial Relative Performance Indicator for ThinkOrSwim (FREE)
Build a relative performance indicator, which lets you easily compare two symbols against each other and find outperformers
Watch Tutorial Rate of Change Indicator for ThinkOrSwim (FREE)
Learn how to build a smarter Rate of Change indicator for ThinkOrSwim in 23 minutes.
Watch Tutorial Opening Range Breakout
A smarter and easy to use Opening Range Breakout indicator, allowing you to trade the strategy like a pro.
Watch Tutorial P/E Ratio
Track the current and historical P/E ratio levels for any market, using our free P/E Ratio Indicator for ThinkOrSwim.
Watch Tutorial Edge Signals Pro
In this members-only thinkScript tutorial, I'll show you how the Edge Signals is built, with the powerful twist in the code, that allows it to be used for a variety of setups.
Watch Tutorial MTF Market Pulse Pro
In this members-only thinkScript tutorial, I'll show you how to build a MTF Market Pulse indicator, which allows you to quickly view the market trend across 18 different time frames.
Watch Tutorial Extreme TICK Counter
I'll walk through how you can build a counter to keep track of +1000 and -1000 NYSE $TICK readings, every single day.
Watch Tutorial Pre-Earnings Analysis Pro
In this tutorial, we're going to build a brand new Pre-Earnings Analysis indicator for you to be able to analyze price and implied volatility moves PRIOR to earnings.
Watch Tutorial Seasonal Analysis
In this thinkScript tutorial, we'll build a Seasonal Analysis indicator to identify recurring patterns and tendencies in your favorite stocks, ETFs, and futures.
Watch Tutorial Keltner Channel Wedges
In this beginner thinkScript tutorial, we'll build an indicator to alert us whenever we are in "overly extended" territory, as measured by the Keltner Channels.
Watch Tutorial Wheel Option Calculator Pro
The Wheel Option Calculator helps you quickly calculate return percentages and identify the best stocks to run the wheel option strategy.
Watch Tutorial Cash-Secured Put Calculator
The Cash-Secured Put Calculator helps you quickly calculate return percentages and identify the best stocks to sell cash-secured puts.
Watch Tutorial Adv. Covered Call Calculator Pro
The Advanced Covered Call Calculator is useful for managing existing positions, by including your own cost-basis for customized return percentages.
Watch Tutorial Covered Call Calculator
Build a simple, yet powerful Covered Call Calculator for ThinkOrSwim to find the most profitable calls to sell.
Watch Tutorial Reversion to 50 Day SMA
Learn how to build a "reversion to the mean" type indicator, using boolean variables and labels.
Watch Tutorial Wilder’s Momentum Concept
Explore the multi-decade old momentum concept created by Wilder, using a few, simple lines of code.
Watch Tutorial Cumulative TICK
Build a cumulative TICK indicator to track market internals ($TICK) in an efficient manner, keeping the count.
Watch Tutorial Cumulative TICK Pro Pro
Leverage Python and Jupyter Notebooks to identify trending and trend exhaustion days, using market internals.
Watch Tutorial Option Chain Relative Value
We'll use the implied volatility, along with our option's pricing thinkScript to find opportunities and craft high-probability trades.
Watch Tutorial Multi-Time Frame (MTF) Squeeze Indicator
Build a multiple time frame squeeze that shows you all the different time frames in which we have a TTM_Squeeze.
Watch Tutorial Beginner’s Guide to Automated Trading
The complete beginner's guide to automated trading in ThinkOrSwim, with 8 different trading examples.
Watch Tutorial Volume Zone Oscillator
We'll take the basic VZO indicator in ThinkOrSwim and extract meaningful patterns to turn it into a useful trend trading tool.
Watch Tutorial Multi Time Frame (MTF) DMI
Identify momentum waves changing across multiple time frames, and “calm before the storm” opportunities.
Watch Tutorial Dynamic RSI
Build a more powerful version of the RSI, that shifts and adapts to changing price condition and helps to identify overbought/oversold zones.
Watch Tutorial Smarter Earnings
Build your very own earnings indicator in 45 minutes, to help you trade the actual day of earnings using data.
Watch Tutorial Simple Breakout Tool
Build a breakout indicator, using a simple, yet effective combination of moving averages and stochastics.
Watch Tutorial Market Pulse
Identify the 4 different market stages with one simple line, and replace the noise on your charts.
Watch Tutorial VScore
Build the VScore trading indicator which helps you understand and plot price behavior in relation to its standard deviation, using the VWAP bands.
Watch Tutorial Supply Demand Edge
Easily spot $TICK and $ADSPD supply/demand imbalances, and identify divergences that you can leverage in your trading.
Watch Tutorial Cumulative Advance Decline Trading System
Build an introductory trading system using the Advance Decline line, by taking a basic indicator and extracting patterns and signals.
Watch Tutorial Anchored VWAP Indicator for ThinkOrSwim (2022)
Build a simple, yet effective Anchored VWAP indicator for ThinkOrSwim in less than 10 minutes using just a few lines of code.
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