Comparison
TradersWeek vs Bookmap
Bookmap is a desktop platform built around one thing: a historical order-book liquidity heatmap that shows resting orders appearing, sitting and disappearing over time. source TradersWeek has no equivalent of it, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What TradersWeek does is the other half of order flow in a browser: 28 layers built from Binance spot trades, footprint clusters, cumulative delta, imbalance, absorption, exhaustion, iceberg and sweep detection, volume profile and TPO, plus a DOM panel that reads the exchange book live without a broker account. Elliott Wave labeling is automatic and free. Bookmap covers futures and US equities through paid feeds; TradersWeek covers Binance spot, and forex through a MetaTrader bridge, with nothing to buy on top. All Bookmap facts below were checked against its own pages on 2026-08-11.
Which one fits
Choose Bookmap if
You read resting liquidity, not just executions: where size stacked, how long it sat, whether it was pulled or absorbed. source You trade futures or US equities and are willing to pay a feed on top of the licence. source You want a Java API and a marketplace of third-party add-ons. source You want live execution from the DOM through a supported broker.
Choose TradersWeek if
Your market is crypto and your reading is the tape: footprint, delta divergence, stacked imbalance, absorption. You want it in a browser, on any machine, with one subscription and no data invoice. You want wave counts labeled automatically and still editable. You want Smart Money, Wyckoff, Ichimoku and Gann in the same price rather than as separate add-ons.
Two things called a heatmap
This is the whole comparison in one section, so it is worth being exact. Both products draw a coloured grid on price and time. They colour it from different data, and the two are not interchangeable.
- What Bookmap colours
- Resting orders in the order book, recorded over time. Bright bands are levels where size was waiting, and the picture keeps its history, so you can see liquidity build up before a move and vanish during it. Volume bubbles mark the executions on top of it. source This is the product, not a feature of it.
- What TradersWeek colours
- Executed volume inside footprint cells. A hot cell means a lot traded at that price in that bar, not that a large order was resting there. It answers where business got done, which is a different question from where liquidity waited.
- Where the two overlap
- The live book itself. The TradersWeek DOM panel shows current bid and ask levels with pulling and stacking detection and takes limit orders by click, reading the Binance book directly over a WebSocket. It shows the book now; it does not keep the book as a picture of the past. That history is exactly what Bookmap sells.
- What TradersWeek adds instead
- Detection layers on the tape: stacked, diagonal and horizontal imbalance, absorption, exhaustion, iceberg and sweep, cumulative delta with divergence, volume profile, TPO, and a confluence layer that scores the others. Plus the methodology modules and automatic Elliott labeling on the same chart.
Licence plus feed, or one subscription
| Line item | Bookmap | TradersWeek |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Digital: real-time crypto, basic heatmap, delayed stocks and futures. source | 123 indicators, Elliott labeling and paper trading, with no card. Order flow is not in it |
| Paid plans | $19 to $99 per month, $16 to $79 annual, lifetime $990 or $1,990. source | Pro $30, Premium $120 per month. Order flow is Premium |
| Market data | From $34 per futures exchange, CME bundle $79 per month. source | Nothing on top. Binance public trade data carries no exchange fee |
| What the money buys | Crypto in the base product, futures and equities through paid connections. source | Binance spot, plus bridged forex, metals and indices. No futures |
A crypto-only comparison narrows the gap: on crypto Bookmap needs no paid feed either, and its free Digital tier already draws the heatmap. The cost argument for TradersWeek is not that it is cheaper than Bookmap, it is that footprint, the detectors, the methodology modules and wave labeling arrive in one subscription instead of a licence tier plus add-ons.
Feature comparison
| Capability | Bookmap | TradersWeek |
|---|---|---|
| Order-book heatmap | Historical order-book liquidity heatmap with volume bubbles. source | None. The chart heatmap colours executed volume |
| Market coverage | Crypto in the base product, futures and equities through paid connections. source | Binance spot and bridged forex |
| Order execution | Simulated and live trading from the chart or the DOM. source | Paper account, or an exchange through your own API key |
| Extensibility | Java API, Python in alpha, plus a Marketplace. source | Script Converter reads 6 languages. No public API, no marketplace |
| Depth of history | Recorded book history is the product source | Trade tape for the visible window only: 7 days on weekly, 15 hours below hourly |
| Capability | TradersWeek | Bookmap |
|---|---|---|
| Footprint | Bid and ask per level, delta, imbalance, absorption, exhaustion | Footprint and volume bars on the higher packages. source |
| Depth of market | DOM panel on the Binance book, with click-to-trade | DOM Pro, with trading from the DOM and the chart. source |
| Free real-time crypto | Yes for charting, no for order flow | Yes, including the basic heatmap source |
| Capability | TradersWeek | Bookmap |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Any modern browser, installs as a PWA | Desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux. A web build exists. source |
| Elliott Wave | Automatic in the free core: 24 wave patterns, counts scored against the rules | Not listed in the package comparison or the documentation. source |
| Structural methodology | The methodology modules are included in Premium | Third-party add-ons through the Marketplace, priced per item |
| Charting outside order flow | 123 indicators, 82 drawing tools, a 166-rule scanner | Split by package, not by a per-chart count. source |
Questions people actually ask
Does TradersWeek have a liquidity heatmap like Bookmap?
No. Bookmap draws resting orders in the book over time, so you see size appear at a level, sit there and get pulled or eaten. TradersWeek draws a heatmap of executed volume inside footprint cells, which shows where trades happened, not where liquidity waited. Those two pictures answer different questions and one does not substitute for the other. If the historical order-book heatmap is what you came for, Bookmap is the product that has it.
Is TradersWeek an alternative to Bookmap?
Only for part of the job. TradersWeek covers footprint clusters, cumulative delta, imbalance, absorption, exhaustion, iceberg and sweep detection, volume profile and TPO, 28 layers in total, in a browser at $120 per month with no data bill. It does not cover the order-book heatmap or exchange-traded futures, and it has no order flow on US stocks: they chart here as Binance perpetual contracts with the order-flow layers switched off. If the heatmap is part of how you read a market, that requirement decides the question before any other line in this comparison matters.
Which one is free?
Both have a free tier and they draw the line in different places. Bookmap Digital is free with real-time crypto, limited history, delayed stocks and futures, and the basic heatmap. TradersWeek is free for the whole chart, the indicator library and automatic Elliott Wave labeling, with no card and no registration, and keeps order flow in Premium. If your question is specifically about a free crypto heatmap, Bookmap Digital answers it and TradersWeek does not.
What does Bookmap cost once data is included?
The package is one line and the feed is another. Bookmap publishes both: Global is $49 per month, or $39 on annual billing, and market data runs from $34 per futures exchange up to $79 for the CME bundle, with US equities at $34 to $119. TradersWeek Premium is $120 per month with nothing on top, because Binance public trade data has no exchange fee. The reason there is no data bill is also the limitation: there are no professional feeds here to pay for.
Can I run either of them on a Mac or in a browser?
Bookmap ships desktop builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, and a Bookmap Web exists, though its parity with the desktop build is not stated on the same pages. TradersWeek is browser-only and installs as a PWA, so there is nothing to install and no operating system requirement.
Does Bookmap label Elliott waves?
Automatic Elliott Wave labeling is not listed in its package comparison or documentation as of 2026-08-11. TradersWeek fits 24 wave patterns automatically, scores every count against the Elliott rules and leaves labels editable by hand, in the free tier. These products barely overlap on this axis: one is an order-book microscope, the other adds structural methodology on top of the tape.
Can I trade from the chart in TradersWeek the way I can from the Bookmap DOM?
Into a paper account, or to an exchange through an API key you connect yourself. The DOM panel does take limit orders by click on crypto. There is no broker integration and no futures execution, so live trading through a broker connection is a Bookmap capability, not a TradersWeek one.
The free core opens without an account, so the footprint half of this is checkable in a minute. The heatmap half is not here, and that is the honest end of the comparison.
Open terminalLast reviewed 11 August 2026