TradingView Desktop Proxy Setup on Windows 11.
One proxy settings. Four values. Your orders stop touching commodity ISP routes.
In TradingView Desktop on Windows 11, go to Three-dot menu (top-right) ? Settings ? Network ? Use a proxy server. Select SOCKS5, paste in your host, port, username, and password from the TradersProxy portal. Restart the platform. Done — under 5 minutes.
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How to configure TradingView Desktop on Windows 11
Before you start
You need three things:
- TradingView Desktop installed and able to reach your broker without the proxy first — confirm a clean baseline connection.
- Your TradersProxy credentials from the portal: host, port, username, password.
- Five minutes and no active trades open.
Step 1 — Copy your credentials
Log in to the TradersProxy portal. Go to your connection details. Copy the host, port, username, and password for your assigned node. Do not type these — copy-paste. One transposed character breaks the connection.
Step 2 — Open the proxy settings in TradingView Desktop
Navigate to Three-dot menu (top-right) ? Settings ? Network ? Use a proxy server. The proxy dialog opens. On Windows 11, this dialog may require administrator confirmation before changes are saved — accept the prompt if it appears.
Step 3 — Select SOCKS5 and enter the details
Enable the proxy checkbox or toggle. Select SOCKS5 as the protocol. Paste your host into the server/host field. Enter your port number. Fill in the username and password.
If TradingView Desktop shows a separate DNS option — resolve DNS through proxy or similar — enable it. This prevents DNS leaks outside the proxy tunnel.
Note: TradingView Desktop also supports HTTP proxy. If SOCKS5 fails to connect, switch to HTTP — both protocols use the same host and port from your portal.
Step 4 — Save and restart TradingView Desktop
Click OK or Apply to save the settings. Fully quit TradingView Desktop — do not just minimise it. On Windows 11, proxy changes do not apply to an existing process. Relaunch the platform.
Step 5 — Confirm the connection
Look for TradingView Desktop's connection indicator after relaunch. A successful proxy connection looks identical to a direct connection — green status bars, server connection confirmed, data flowing. If the indicator stays red or the platform throws a connection error, see the gotchas section below.
Known gotchas on Windows 11
These are the issues traders hit most often when setting up TradingView Desktop on Windows 11. Check these before contacting support.
TradingView Desktop on Windows 11 auto-updates silently. Proxy settings are preserved across updates, but verify after a major version update.
Windows 11 Smart App Control or Defender may flag TradingView's Electron binary on proxy port 1080. Add TradingView.exe to the Firewall allow list in Windows Security.
The three-dot Settings menu location may shift in newer TradingView Desktop builds — if it is not in the expected position, check the application menu bar or the notification tray icon.
General rule for Windows 11: run TradingView Desktop as the same user account that configured the proxy. Settings saved under an administrator account may not carry over to a standard user session.
Why the proxy settings matter
Most traders use the network path of infrastructure. The platform (TradingView Desktop) is the tool — free, from the broker. The idea — signals, analysis, a method — is your trading idea. The connection path is the network path every order packet travels from your machine to the broker's matching engine.
The connection path is the one nobody names. Nobody charges for it. So it defaults to whatever your ISP gives you — shared bandwidth, peering decisions made for Netflix, routing paths designed for web browsing.
The proxy settings in TradingView Desktop let you replace that default path. TradersProxy puts a clean network relay — purpose-built for trading traffic — between your platform and your broker. Split TCP buffers separate interactive order flow from bulk chart data. The per-connection congestion algorithm adapts to your path conditions in real time.
Four fields in TradingView Desktop is how you access that layer. That's the whole setup.
FAQ — TradingView Desktop on Windows 11
Windows updates do not clear application settings stored in %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA%. However, a major TradingView Desktop update can reset app preferences. After any TradingView update, check Settings ? Network and re-enter proxy details if the field is empty.
Yes. The proxy dialog in Settings ? Network includes a protocol selector. Choose SOCKS5 for the TradersProxy connection. The host, port, username, and password fields are the same values from your portal.
TradingView mobile does not have an in-app proxy settings — it uses the OS-level proxy settings (iOS: Wi-Fi ? HTTP Proxy; Android: Wi-Fi ? Proxy). Desktop uses its own in-app proxy. Both can connect through TradersProxy simultaneously if your plan includes enough device slots.