# TradingView

Charting across 50-plus markets, with Pine Script, server-side alerts and broker trading.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tradingview · Stock Charting Platforms & Screeners*

## Also covered on

- [TradingView on CryptoMarkets.tools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/tradingview.md) — which of its 429 data sources are crypto, and what the exchange feeds cost there

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | TradingView |
| Category | Stock Charting Platforms & Screeners |
| Job | charting |
| Website | https://www.tradingview.com |
| Pricing model | subscription |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | 0 USD | month |
| Essential | 12.95 USD | month |
| Plus | 29.95 USD | month |
| Premium | 59.95 USD | month |
| Ultimate | 199.95 USD | month |

### Coverage

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Asset classes | stocks, etf, options, futures, forex, crypto, bonds, indices |
| Markets | global |
| Works outside the US | true |
| Data latency | realtime |
| Platforms | web, ios, android, desktop_win, desktop_mac, desktop_linux |
| AI features | research |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | false |
| Webhooks | true |
| Scripting | Pine Script |
| Python | false |
| Spreadsheet add-in | false |
| MCP server | false |
| Export | csv, xlsx |

### Capabilities

Yes: charting, screening, backtesting, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, alerts, news, options_analysis

No: scanning, automation, broker_import, tax_reporting

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-13; capabilities 2026-09-13; coverage 2026-09-13.*

## What it is

TradingView is the charting surface retail traders default to, and the scale is the point:
stocks, ETFs, futures, options, forex, crypto, bonds and indices from 50-plus countries under
one symbol search, on web, phone and a Windows, macOS and Linux desktop app. Pine Script is the
second reason — an indicator and strategy language with a strategy tester behind it, and the
largest public library of shared technical analysis anywhere.

The rest is discovered after subscribing: server-side alerts, screeners, a Portfolios tab fed
by a CSV of transactions, an options chain with a strategy builder, order entry through a
connected broker. AI arrived in 2026 as filing and news summaries plus a Chart Copilot
extension — research assistance, not signals.

## Pricing

Basic is free; the four paid plans are $12.95, $29.95, $59.95 and $199.95 a month billed
annually, and monthly billing costs $24 to $480 a year more. Most of what the money buys is
counts: charts per tab 1, 2, 4, 8, 16; indicators per chart 2, 5, 10, 25, 50; price alerts 3, 20,
100, 400, 1,000, with the same allowance again in technical alerts from Essential up; history 5K,
10K, 10K, 20K, 40K bars. The rest is gates — downloading chart data opens at Plus, and
second-based intervals, the Pine Screener, deep backtesting and volume footprint at Premium. The
trial is 30 days, 14 on Ultimate.

## Data & coverage

US stocks are real-time out of the box, but from Cboe BZX rather than the listing exchange —
free because Cboe charges no per-user fee, at the cost of thinner prints on quiet names. Crypto
and FX are real-time for everyone too. Everything else is the expensive misunderstanding, because
the subscription does not cover exchange fees: CME futures run 10 minutes behind and most non-US
exchanges 15 to 20 until you buy that feed. NYSE, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, NASDAQ indices and OTC come
as a $9.95 bundle for a non-professional; bought singly, a professional pays $25 to $50 per
exchange. A broker that already entitles you can be verified instead of billed twice.

## Integrations

Brokers for execution; webhook alerts for everything else — an alert can POST JSON to your URL,
which is how TradingView signals reach execution bots. The vendor's embeddable charting
libraries are a separate product; nothing written in Pine runs on them.

## Limitations

- For futures and anything outside the US, the plan price is not the bill. Budget exchange data
  as its own line.
- No API. Scripts, alerts and watchlists live only inside the product; the exports are a CSV of
  the chart's bars from Plus up, watchlist import/export from Essential, and the strategy report
  in CSV or XLSX.
- History is capped at 5K–40K bars by tier, and 10K on both of the cheaper paid plans — shorter
  than a serious backtest wants.
- With a broker connected, the order panel shows the broker's quotes, still delayed there even
  if you bought real-time data from TradingView.
- Pine Screener needs Premium, runs one scan at a time on a fixed set of timeframes, takes one
  indicator per screen with no indicator-on-indicator, and calculates on the last 500 bars.

## Alternatives

[NinjaTrader](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ninjatrader) or [Sierra Chart](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sierra-chart) for futures and order flow, [Trade Ideas](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/trade-ideas) for real-time scanning,
Finviz or [Koyfin](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/koyfin) when screening rather than charting is the job — see
[charting platforms and screeners](https://stockmarketstack.com/categories/charting-screeners). Which of the five things
TradingView does you are actually replacing, and what each one costs on its own, is worked
through in [what to use instead of TradingView](https://stockmarketstack.com/alternatives/tradingview).

## FAQ

### Does a TradingView subscription include real-time market data?

No — the plan and the data are billed separately. The support pages say it plainly — most stock and futures exchanges charge for their real-time feed and the paid plans do not cover those fees. What saves you is that some feeds cost nothing. US stock charts default to real-time Cboe BZX prints, free because Cboe levies no per-user fee, and crypto and FX are real-time for everyone. CME futures run 10 minutes behind and most non-US exchanges 15 to 20 until you buy that exchange. The US stock bundle covering NYSE, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, NASDAQ indices and OTC is $9.95 a month for a non-professional.

### What does the free Basic plan actually give you?

One chart per tab, two indicators on it, three active price alerts, ads, and bar replay on daily and higher timeframes only. Intraday replay, webhook alerts, volume profile, technical alerts and an ad-free screen start at Essential; downloading the chart's data starts at Plus; second-based intervals and the Pine Screener at Premium. The charts themselves are the same charts.

### Can a Pine Script strategy trade automatically on TradingView?

Not by itself. A strategy can backtest on the chart and fire an alert, and that alert can POST to a webhook — but something outside TradingView has to receive it and place the order. Trading through a connected broker is manual order entry.

### Is the TradingView screener a real-time scanner?

Not in the sense a dedicated scanner means it. The built-in screeners refresh on a timer — once a minute on Basic, optionally every 10 seconds on a paid plan — and hand you a list rather than a stream of events. The Pine Screener does not refresh at all — change the indicator, its inputs or the timeframe and it asks you to rescan, and it runs one scan at a time. The streaming half of the job is done by alerts, which run server-side and fire with the tab closed.

## Also from TradingView

- [Lightweight Charts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/lightweight-charts.md)
- [TradingView Advanced Charts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tradingview-advanced-charts.md)

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- [Optuma Desktop](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/optuma.md) — Windows technical-analysis desktop for analysts, with Optuma's own EOD data bundled in.
- [Optuma Web App](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/optuma-web.md) — Browser rebuild of Optuma, per seat, with scans and backtests run on Optuma's servers.
- [StockCharts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/stockcharts.md) — Browser technical charting, custom scans and alerts, priced per service level.
- [TC2000](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tc2000.md) — Real-time charting and EasyScan screening for US and Canadian stocks and options.
- [ATAS](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/atas.md) — Footprint charts and a market-by-order DOM for futures, with data bought separately.