TradingView is the most popular charting software, allowing one to trade stocks, crypto, forex, and futures while utilizing the best technical analysis tools together with the active community of traders that share their ideas and custom indicators. There is a fully-fledged free plan, along with four premium tiers of varying quality.
Despite the fact that most SaaS tools cripple the free tier, TradingView's Basic plan provides users with all possible charts, all available timeframes, drawing tools, a full library of community-created indicators, both paper trading and mobile/desktop application. The downside is capacity limitations: 1 chart per tab, 2 indicators on that chart, 3 price alerts with monthly expiration, and advertisements on the interface.
As soon as you start using several opened charts, several indicators per chart or non-expiring price alerts you will reach the limit very quickly. That was done intentionally – free version is designed for someone who tracks one strategy on one chart, and not for people who use multiple strategies or watch multiple tickers.
Essential is the cheapest way to become a paid user and the easiest way to upgrade after free plan is no longer enough. Plus plan almost doubles the number of charts and indicators and will work well for traders who actively manage several strategies. Premium plan adds non-expiring alerts, full historical data, and some unique features, like Volume Footprint and second-based interval – here is the place where swing and day traders usually settle. Ultimate plan is for professionals, providing 16 charts, 50 indicators, 1,000 alerts, and the most detailed historical data.
Essential, Plus and Premium plans provide the users with a 30-day trial of the paid plan with full access to all of its functions. The Ultimate plan's trial lasts 14 days. Those are not just demos, it is the fully-paid version of the plan, which is free for 30 (14) days, so that you can truly test if more charts and price alerts will change your trading workflow.
Annual plan pricing is always presented as "save up to 17%" but this is true only about the Ultimate plan. In case of Essential, Plus and Premium tiers you will get 13-14% off in comparison with monthly plan's price.
Real-time price data for crypto and forex (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken and more than 50 others) is absolutely free, no matter of the plan. Fees appear when talking about stock and futures' exchange specific data (CME, for example). And they grow drastically, if you are a "professional" trader according to financial regulations.
TradingView holds Black Friday promotion every year, providing deep discounts on annual plans, usually more than 60%. So, if you are thinking about subscribing from September to November, it would be much cheaper than subscribing in other periods of the year.
Yes, it is. Full charting is available on every market, on all timeframes, all drawing tools and community indicators with no trial limitation. Limitations are only capacity-related: one chart per tab, two indicators, and price alerts with monthly expiration.
Plus plan doubles the number of charts and indicators and raises the number of alerts significantly. So, it is the better choice for traders who use several trading strategies at the same time. If Essential plan's limitations do not seem to bother you, then there is no reason to go to Plus plan.
The full plan. Essential, Plus and Premium plans include 30-day trial of the full feature set of that tier, so you can test everything you will pay later.
Yes. Crypto and forex data from 50+ exchanges, like Binance, Coinbase and Kraken is free, no matter of your plan. Additional expenses appear when talking about the exchange specific stock and futures' data, which can bring additional monthly fees.
You were probably reclassified as "professional" user – status, which is assigned to those who are registered in financial regulator or trade on behalf of the company. This restricts you to the Ultimate plan and can drastically increase exchange data fees (some feeds jump from few dollars to hundreds).
Yes, but your current plan will stay until its end. Downgrade will be implemented after the end of the current paid period, without any refund.
Sure, Black Friday. This promotion usually brings 60%+ discount on annual plan. Sometimes, there are promotions at other points of the year but they are unpredictable, so it is much safer to wait for Black Friday for the lowest price.
Non-expiring alerts are the feature of Premium and above plans. Downgrading to a lower tier means trimming the number of alerts and setting the expiration on them.