What to use instead of TC2000

The product

We list TC2000 ourselves, and its card is the full account of it: plans, data add-ons, coverage and limits, verified against the vendor's pricing page in September 2026 and re-read on 9 October 2026 with the same figures. This page does not replace the card. It answers the narrower question a TC2000 user asks once one of its limits starts to bite: what else does this job, and what does the switch cost.

TC2000 is a technical analysis platform for US and Canadian equities, descended from Worden Brothers' TeleChart, and its centre is EasyScan: build a condition set from built-in criteria or from PCF, the in-platform formula language, run it across the market in real time, and push the results onto a chart. The Windows application is the real product. Basic is 24.99 a month with real-time US stock data, charts, watchlists and paper trading; Premium at 49.99 adds real-time scanning, the EasyScan wizard, PCFs and 100 alerts; Premium Plus at 99.99 adds market gauges, auto-refreshing sorts and 1,000 alerts. Annual billing takes those to 20.82, 41.65 and 83.32.

Nothing has happened to TC2000. What sends its users looking is one of a handful of fixed walls:

• It is Windows-first. Mac users are on the browser platform, where the feature set thins, and the iPhone app was still listed as coming soon in September 2026.
• Two countries, four asset classes. Stocks, ETFs, indexes and equity options, US first with Canadian names through the TSX index watchlists. No futures, no crypto, and forex charts but cannot be subscribed to.
• Scanning is the 49.99 tier, and data is extra. Basic has no scanner at all. Real-time options and real-time indexes are 9.99 a month each, the consolidated tape 14.99.
• No backtesting. EasyScan can show what a scan would have returned on a past date, not what a strategy would have done. There is no equity curve.
• No API, thin export, one broker. Chart export is a delimited text file capped at 1,500 bars; orders go only to TC2000 Brokerage, a separate broker-dealer that accepts US residents only.

What to use instead

Name the wall first. The answer is different for each, and a move made for the wrong reason costs more than it saves.

If the wall is the operating system. TradingView is the one platform here that runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux as well as in the browser and on phones, with a built-in screener and alerts that run on its servers with the tab closed. US stocks arrive real-time from Cboe One at no charge. StockCharts and TrendSpider are browser products with iOS and Android apps.

If the wall is scanning. TrendSpider is the real-time scanner in a browser, priced by bar size: the 82-dollar Standard plan scans only on two-hour bars and up, five minutes needs Premium at 137, one minute Enhanced at 183. Finviz Elite at 39.50 is a screener rather than a scan engine — 10-second refresh on real-time US quotes, alerts and CSV export, no formula language. Barchart.com runs saved screens for you at midday and the close and emails the matches.

If the wall is testing. TrendSpider backtests the conditions you scan on, from 2,000 candles on Standard to 20,000 on Enhanced. Optuma has a backtester and a scripting language written to read like Excel formulas, on Windows, at analyst prices and on end-of-day data unless you buy a feed. A portfolio backtest with sizing and costs is a different product — see backtesting frameworks.

If the wall is the market. eSignal is the Windows desktop that covers what TC2000 does not: futures, forex and exchanges from CME to Asia and Latin America, on ICE's consolidated feed, with EFS for custom studies. Real-time starts at 241 a month before exchange fees. TradingView covers the same breadth at plan prices from 12.95, with futures and most non-US exchanges delayed until you buy that data.

If the scans were really about fundamentals. Stock Rover screens US and Canadian stocks on 400 to 800 metrics and runs portfolio analytics beside them, from 29 a month billed annually — not a trading screen, and not real-time below its 79-dollar Ultimate tier.

The rest of the category, and the screeners as their own list, are on the charting platforms and screeners page and in the stock screeners collection.

What you give up

Real-time scanning at 49.99. That is the number to beat, and little here beats it on the same terms. TrendSpider's one-minute scan is 183 a month. StockCharts' included real-time is BATS prints only, with no usable volume. Barchart.com has no consolidated real-time tape at any price. Finviz Elite is cheaper and real-time, but it is a filter grid you refresh, not a formula engine. Our card puts TC2000's case as the speed of its Windows client at the price of real-time scanning. We have not timed the client; the price half of that case holds.

PCF and the scans built on it. PCF is TC2000's alone. Every custom indicator and condition is a rewrite, and the new tool's built-in criteria will not line up one to one with EasyScan's.

Options on the same screen, cheaply. TC2000 puts option chains beside the chart, with real-time options data at 9.99 on top. Finviz shows a 15-minute-delayed chain and screens options only as optionable or not; StockCharts and Optuma have no options analytics; eSignal carries chains at its own prices.

The brokerage rebate. If you already trade through TC2000 Brokerage, the vendor takes 25 dollars off the subscription for any month you place a trade or hold more than 30,000 dollars, up to 300 dollars a year. No pick here pays anything back for your order flow.

Migration notes

Take the symbols out, because only the symbols come. Watchlist exports carry tickers without the RSI, ratio or PCF values shown beside them, and chart export is a comma-delimited text file capped at 1,500 bars, from the Windows application only. Export before the subscription lapses.

Price the data before the platform. TC2000 includes real-time US stocks for a non-professional at every tier. Elsewhere it differs: TradingView includes real-time US stocks from Cboe One but bills futures and most non-US exchanges separately; eSignal adds exchange fees that appear only during signup. If you are registered as a professional, every one of these changes again — see the real-time market data fees guide.

Expect a rebuilt scan to return a different list. Before trusting the new scan, run it alongside the old one on the same day and diff the two lists. The cause is usually not your criteria; it is how each vendor defines the session, adjusts history and computes the indicator — the guide on why two screeners disagree covers the usual suspects.