TradingView helps you make sure your long-term positions are aligned with healthy trends and not driven by short-term noise.

10.1 Zooming Out: Weekly and Monthly Charts

For long-term investing, always start with higher timeframes:

• Use weekly and monthly charts to see:
  • The general trend (up, down, sideways).
  • Major support and resistance zones.
  • Big drawdowns and recoveries.

This perspective:

• Prevents you from overreacting to a random bad day or week.
• Helps you see whether a stock or ETF is in a long-term uptrend that fits your thesis.

10.2 Spotting Major Trends vs Noise

A few simple checks:

• Is the price mostly above or below a long moving average (e.g., 200-day or 40-week)?
• Are higher highs and higher lows forming over time (uptrend), or the opposite?
• Is volume generally supporting major moves (rising on rallies, not just on drops)?

For broad ETFs (like XEQT/VEQT) and large, steady companies, you’re often looking for:

• A long-term upward bias with temporary dips, not perfect smoothness.
• Whether big drops correspond to market-wide events rather than company-specific disasters.

10.3 Simple “Health Checks” for Long-Term Positions

Every 6–12 months, open your key long-term holdings in TradingView and ask:

• Has the long-term trend changed (uptrend broken, multi-year support lost)?
• Has something fundamental changed at the company or in the ETF (e.g., severe dividend cut, major strategy change)?
• Is this position still aligned with my time horizon and plan?