TradeGrub Charts
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Updated: August 2026

Looking for a TradingView alternative?

The most common reasons people go looking are alert caps, indicator limits on the free tier, ads, and a scripting language that cannot reach outside its sandbox. Here is the full feature matrix so you can check the ones that matter to you rather than take our word for it.

268
Features Compared
28
Platforms
501
Indicators
88
Drawing Tools
15+
Broker Integrations
80+
Crypto Exchanges
Free
No Ads, No Gates
$5.99
Pro Per Month

Pricing Comparison

Published list pricing at the time of the last review. Verify before purchasing.

Platform Free Tier Paid Tiers Ads on Free Feature Gates
TradeGrub Yes (full access) Pro $5.99/mo ($4.99 yearly) ✓ None ✓ None
TradingView Yes (limited) $14.95 – $239.95/mo × Yes × Heavy
thinkorswim Yes (with Schwab account) Free (brokerage account required) ✓ None ✓ Minimal
Yahoo Finance Yes (ads, limited) Gold $39.95 – $49.95/mo × Yes × Heavy
Finviz Yes (delayed) $39.50/mo × Yes × Heavy
StockCharts No (trial only) $24.95 – $59.95/mo × — × All paid
Bloomberg Terminal No ~$2,500/mo (~$30k/yr per seat) ✓ None ✓ All included
eSignal No (trial only) $58 – $359/mo + exchange fees × — × Tiered
Koyfin Yes (limited) $39 – $109/mo ✓ None × Heavy
Sentieo (AlphaSense) No ~$500+/mo per seat ✓ None × Tiered
FactSet No ~$12,000+/yr per seat ✓ None × Modular
YCharts No (trial only) $300 – $600/mo × — × Tiered

Charting and Trading Comparison

177 features across 14 categories, TradeGrub against TradingView. Switch platform above, or see every column on the full comparison.

Feature TradeGrubTradingView
Charting
Candlestick / Bar / Line / Area ✓ ✓
Heikin Ashi ✓ ✓
Renko ✓ ✓
Kagi ✓ ✓
Point and Figure ✓ ✓
Range Bars ✓ ✓
Volume Profile ✓ ✓
Market Profile / TPO ✓ ✓
Multi-panel layouts ✓ ✓
Custom timeframe intervals ✓ ✓
Tick charts (Pro) ✓ P
Bar Replay ✓ ✓
Bar Magnifier ✓ ×
Auto Fibonacci ✓ ×
Saved chart layouts ✓ ✓
Compare overlay ✓ ✓
Deep history (20+ years) ✓ ✓
Event markers (earnings/divs/splits) ✓ ✓
Extended trading hours ✓ ✓
Dividend adjustment ✓ ✓
Volume Profile (order flow proxy) ✓ P
GalleryView (mini-chart grid) ✓ ×
PerfCharts (performance comparison) ✓ ×
Correlation charts ✓ ×
Seasonal charts ✓ ×
Relative Rotation Graphs ✓ ×
Technical Rank / SCTR ✓ ×
White-label embeddable widget ✓ P
Indicators & Analysis
Built-in indicators ✓ 501 ✓ ~150
Patterns (auto-detected) ✓ 96 Community
Pre-built strategies ✓ 41 Pine
Marketplace (free scripts) ✓ 349 100K+
Custom formula charts ✓ ✓
Indicators on indicators ✓ ✓
Strategy Builder ✓ ✓
Backtesting ✓ ✓
Monte Carlo simulation ✓ ×
Parameter Sweep / Optimizer ✓ ×
Deep backtesting (15k+ bars) ✓ ×
Automatic Elliott Wave Labelling × ×
Drawing Tools
Trend lines / channels ✓ ✓
Fibonacci tools ✓ ✓
Gann tools ✓ ✓
Pattern tools (XABCD, Elliott) ✓ ✓
Annotations / text ✓ ✓
Snap modes ✓ ✓
Indicator snap ✓ ×
Drawing alerts ✓ ✓
Total drawing tools 88 ~80
Alerts
Price alerts ✓ ✓
Multi-condition alerts (AND) ✓ ✓
Push notifications ✓ ✓
Strategy / indicator alerts ✓ ✓
Pattern alerts ✓ ✓
Screener alerts ✓ ×
News alerts ✓ ×
Volume spike alerts ✓ ×
Second-based alerts ✓ ×
Financial metric alerts ✓ ×
Webhooks (HMAC-signed) ✓ ✓
Email notifications ✓ ✓
SMS notifications × ✓
Alert limits (free tier) Unlimited 3
SMS Alerts × ×
Scripting
Pine-compatible interpreter ✓ ✓
thinkScript × ×
Python scripting engine ✓ ×
Visual Strategy Builder (no-code) ✓ ×
Multi-timeframe in scripts ✓ ✓
HTF data in visual builder ✓ ×
Script editor IDE (autocomplete + diagnostics) ✓ ✓
Invite-only / private scripts ✓ ✓
AI & Automation
AI chart assistant ✓ ×
AI technical analysis ✓ ×
AI fundamental analysis ✓ ×
MCP server (Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini) ✓ ×
AI trade thesis generator ✓ ×
News + sentiment heat layer ✓ ×
Widgets
Symbol Tape ✓ ✓
Market Overview ✓ ✓
Market Movers ✓ ×
Stock Heatmap ✓ ✓
Stock Screener ✓ ✓
Insider Trading ✓ ×
Financial Statements ✓ ×
Economic Map ✓ ×
Yield Curve ✓ ×
Financial Calendar ✓ ×
Total widgets 23 ~6
Trading & Broker Integration
Live broker trading ✓ 15+ ✓ 8
Robinhood ✓ ×
Schwab ✓ ×
On-chart trading ✓ ✓
Bracket orders (TP/SL) ✓ ✓
Quick trade (instant execution) ✓ ✓
Flip/reverse position ✓ ×
Paper trading ✓ ✓
BYOD (Bring Your Own Data) ✓ ×
Level 2 order book / DOM ✓ P
Time and Sales tape ✓ ×
Options chain / strategy tools × ✓
Crypto
80+ exchange integrations ✓ ✓
Crypto spot trading ✓ ✓
Crypto futures ✓ ✓
Wallet management ✓ ×
GridBots (automated) ✓ ×
Data Coverage
US stocks ✓ ✓
International stocks ✓ ✓
Crypto data ✓ ✓
Forex × ✓
Commodities / Futures × ✓
ETFs ✓ ✓
Fundamental data ✓ ✓
Earnings calendar ✓ ×
Consensus EPS estimate vs prior ✓ ×
Insider trading data ✓ ×
Analyst ratings and price targets ✓ ✓
SEC filings browser ✓ ×
Institutional ownership ✓ ×
Fundamental trend charts ✓ ✓
Economic indicators ✓ ✓
Global Real-Time Data Add-On (per-exchange) × ×
Valuation Multiple Bands (P/E, EV/EBITDA history) × ×
Forward Estimate Series (multi-quarter consensus) × ×
Arbitrary Metric Graphing (any line item, 10yr+) × ×
ETF Holdings and Fund Flows × ×
Earnings Call Transcripts × ×
Order Book Depth Beyond Top of Book × ×
Fixed Income and Credit Analytics × ×
Collaboration & Social
Chat rooms ✓ ×
Forum ✓ ✓
Learning platform ✓ ×
Documentation ✓ ✓
Community scripts ✓ 349 ✓
Portfolio & Risk
Real-time portfolio tracking ✓ ×
Portfolio rebalancer ✓ ×
Risk analysis tools ✓ ×
37+ analytics charts ✓ ×
P&L tracking ✓ ×
Portfolio Attribution and Factor Risk × ×
Screeners & Signals
Advanced screeners ✓ ✓
Signals marketplace ✓ ×
Autotrade from signals ✓ ×
Screener notifications ✓ ×
Scheduled Scans with Email Delivery × ×
Platform & Experience
Mobile responsive ✓ ✓
Native mobile app ✓ ✓
Desktop app ✓ ✓
Offline-first PWA ✓ ×
No account required ✓ ×
No ads on free tier ✓ ×
No feature gating on free ✓ ×
CSV export ✓ ✓
REST + WebSocket API ✓ ×
Cloud sync ✓ ✓
Chart sharing via short URLs ✓ ✓
19 languages ✓ ✓
Settings portability (JSON export/import) ✓ ×
Rebindable keyboard shortcuts ✓ 33 ×
Settings search + live preview ✓ ×
Toolbar drag-reorder + status config ✓ 24 ×
Custom dashboards (composable panels) ✓ ×
Multi-symbol trading grid ✓ ×
Multi-chart sync (6 modes) ✓ ✓
In-app help + animated demos ✓ ×
Stickers / icons (OpenMoji + Lucide) ✓ ×
Bar countdown timer ✓ ×
Non-modal side panels ✓ ×
Watchlist panel ✓ ✓
Auto-scaling global infrastructure ✓ ×
Quality gates on every deploy ✓ ×
Sub-300ms render (~14KB gzipped) ✓ ×
Portfolio correlation matrix ✓ ×
Live Collaborate (Figma-style) ✓ ×
Google Sheets and Excel Add-On × ×
Client-Ready Report Export (PDF/deck) × ×
Multi-Monitor Workspace (tear-off windows) × ×
Supported
Paid only
Not supported

TradeGrub figures are counted from the shipping product registries. Other columns reflect publicly documented capabilities at the time of the last review.

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Backtesting Engine Comparison

62 capabilities across 9 categories, against a different field: dedicated backtesting frameworks and cloud quant platforms rather than charting products. Only TradingView appears in both tables.

Feature TradeGrubTradingView
Order Types
Market orders ✓ ✓
Limit orders ✓ ✓
Stop orders ✓ ✓
Stop-limit orders ✓ ✓
Trailing stop ✓ ✓
Bracket / OCO orders ✓ ×
Position Management
Long & short ✓ ✓
Long-only mode ✓ ✓
Pyramiding / scaling in ✓ ✓
Multiple concurrent positions × P
Partial fills / scaling out ✓ P
Open position tracking (unrealized) ✓ ✓
Position Sizing & Risk
Fixed % of equity ✓ ✓
Kelly criterion sizing ✓ ×
Volatility-target sizing ✓ ×
Risk parity ✓ ×
Max loss % cap ✓ ✓
Margin / leverage model ✓ P
Cost Models
Flat commission ✓ ✓
Slippage (bps) ✓ P
Percentage-based commission ✓ ✓
Spread / market-impact model ✓ ×
Data & Multi-Asset
Daily bars ✓ ✓
Intraday (1m-4h) ✓ ✓
Tick-level data × ×
Multi-asset portfolio × ×
Multi-timeframe ✓ ✓
Deep history (15k+ bars) ✓ ×
Long-Range M1 Backtesting (multi-year intraday) × ×
Metrics & Analytics
Sharpe / Sortino / Calmar ✓ ✓
MAE / MFE per trade ✓ ×
Monte Carlo simulation ✓ ×
Walk-forward analysis ✓ ×
Walk-forward matrix (cluster analysis) × ×
Regime detection ✓ ×
Strategy DNA / confidence score ✓ ×
Stress scenarios ✓ ×
VaR / CVaR ✓ ×
Benchmark alpha / beta / IR ✓ ×
Monthly P&L heatmap ✓ ×
Optimization
Grid / exhaustive search ✓ ×
Genetic / Bayesian optimizer ✓ ×
Automated strategy generation (genetic programming) × ×
Fragility heatmap ✓ ×
Visualization & UX
Equity curve overlay on chart ✓ ✓
Trade markers on price chart ✓ ✓
Interactive trade replay ✓ ✓
No-code GUI configuration ✓ ✓
"What-If" trade editor ✓ ×
Decision journal ✓ ×
Trade duration analysis ✓ ×
Day / hour-of-week P&L breakdown ✓ ×
Cumulative P&L + drawdown charts ✓ ✓
Long / short trade split ✓ ×
Trade CSV export ✓ ✓
Shareable backtest snapshots × ×
Free backtesting ✓ ✓
Zero-install (browser-based) ✓ ✓
Execution & Live Trading
Live trading bridge P P
Strategy source export (MT4/MT5/cTrader/TradeStation) × ×
Alerts / webhooks from signals ✓ ✓
WebWorker-based execution ✓ ×
Supported
Paid only
Not supported

VectorBT, Backtrader, Zipline, and Bt are free and open source, but they are libraries rather than products: they require Python and self-hosting, and none of them ship a chart. TradeGrub runs the same class of backtest in the browser.

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The short version

Of 177 capabilities compared, TradeGrub and TradingView both cover 73. TradeGrub adds 74 that TradingView does not, and includes 4 that TradingView reserves for a paid tier. TradingView covers 4 that TradeGrub does not.

What it costs

TradingView is priced at $14.95 – $239.95/mo. The free tier is limited, with ads. TradeGrub is $5.99 a month, or $4.99 billed yearly, and its free tier is permanent rather than a trial: no ads, no account required, no feature gates.

What you gain

bar magnifier, auto fibonacci, galleryview (mini-chart grid), perfcharts (performance comparison), correlation charts, seasonal charts, relative rotation graphs, technical rank / sctr, monte carlo simulation and parameter sweep / optimizer, and 64 more.

Included here, paid there

tick charts (pro), volume profile (order flow proxy), white-label embeddable widget and level 2 order book / dom.

What you give up

sms notifications, options chain / strategy tools, forex and commodities / futures. These are the honest reasons to stay on TradingView; several are on the roadmap below.

Also compared

This page covers the comparison TradingView competes in. A separate table compares 29 trading platform capabilities across different fields of platforms.

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Common Questions

Can I bring my Pine scripts across?

Yes, in most cases. TradeGrub ships a Pine-compatible interpreter that covers the great majority of the v6 language surface, so indicators and strategies usually run with little or no editing. Scripts that depend on features outside that coverage will report exactly which line failed.

Are alerts capped?

No. Alerts are unlimited on the free tier, including multi-condition, pattern, volume spike, financial metric, and second-based alerts, with HMAC-signed webhook delivery. Server-side evaluation is a Pro feature.

What can Python do that Pine cannot?

Python strategies run in the browser with the scientific stack available, so a strategy can use pandas, scikit-learn, or a trained model directly. Pine is deliberately sandboxed and cannot call external code. TradeGrub also adds Monte Carlo simulation, parameter sweeps, and a genetic optimizer on top of the backtester.

Is TradeGrub Charts really free?

Yes. The free tier includes all 501 indicators, 88 drawing tools, 134 pattern detectors, unlimited alerts, and backtesting, with no ads and no per-chart indicator caps. Pro at $5.99 per month, or $4.99 billed yearly, adds the TradeGrub data feed, cloud sync, and server-side alert evaluation.

How current is this comparison?

Feature counts for TradeGrub are read directly from the product registries rather than from marketing copy. Competitor rows reflect publicly documented capabilities and published pricing at the time of the last review, and pricing in particular changes often, so treat the other columns as a starting point and verify anything you are about to make a purchase decision on.

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