Leaving TradingView

This table is first because it is the most common reason for the search and the one most likely to end it. Neither free tier is generous with indicator slots.

Read the middle row honestly: on price per indicator slot the paid ladders are close enough that neither is a reason to migrate. The reason, if there is one, is in the next section.

Evidence under the chart

TradingView draws Volume Footprint charts, with availability depending on the plan. source What arrives on a switch is the layer around it: stacked and diagonal imbalance, absorption, exhaustion, iceberg and sweep detection, cumulative delta with divergence against a slower timeframe, volume profile and TPO, computed from raw trades in the browser. The thresholds behind each of those readings are published rather than implied.

Depth without a broker

TradingView shows Depth of Market through a connected broker that supports Level 2 data. source Here the DOM panel reads the Binance book directly over a WebSocket, with click-to-trade and no account in between. This is a narrower thing — one venue, crypto only — and it works without a brokerage relationship.

Structure in the same price

Automatic Elliott labeling with 24 wave patterns is in the free tier, and Smart Money, Wyckoff, Ichimoku, Gann and the rest arrive with Premium rather than as separate purchases. TradingView has manual Elliott tools plus automatic recognition of the Elliott Wave chart pattern. source How automatic counting works, and what it cannot fix.

One bill

Most professional real-time feeds on TradingView are bought separately. source There is nothing to buy here on top of the subscription, for the same reason there are no professional feeds: the market data economics are the whole explanation.

• Scripts, partially. Script Converter reads Pine Script, MQL4, MQL5, EasyLanguage, AFL, MetaStock and produces an indicator for this terminal. Coverage is partial and no percentage is published, because no registry in the codebase supports one — anything with library calls or custom drawing needs work after conversion.
• Chart habits. 12 chart types, 82 drawing tools and multi-chart layouts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 panes, so the working surface is familiar rather than identical.
• Screening intent, not the screener. A scanner covering 166 core rules plus 37 from the methodology modules runs over the instruments this terminal charts, which is a much smaller universe than an equity screener.
• Nothing else. There is no import path here for saved layouts, watchlists, alerts or published content of any kind, from any product.

A migration page that only lists gains is an advertisement. These are the reasons people switch back, stated before they cost anything.

• Direct broker execution from the chart
• Exchange-listed shares and US exchange feeds: stocks and ETFs chart as Binance perpetual contracts
• Copy trading and signal subscriptions
• Third-party indicator marketplace
• Native iOS and Android apps (web + PWA only)
• Market coverage: Binance spot crypto, US stocks and ETFs as Binance perpetuals, and bridged forex, metals and indices, against an aggregator covering stocks, futures, forex, crypto, indices and bonds. source
• Order flow on forex is built from synthetic prints, because spot forex publishes no trades — the same charts on weaker evidence, described in full on the forex page.
• There is no third-party script library here and no marketplace, so indicators come from the built-in set or from a converted script, and the discovery that a public library provides is absent.