Comparison
TradersWeek vs Jigsaw Trading
These two disagree about what you are buying. Jigsaw sells a licence once — Independent $579, Professional $879, Institutional $1,979, with the same software in all three and the difference in training and support — plus $50 per month or $500 a year for live trading. source Its centre is Depth & Sales, a ladder built for reading order flow at the price, with Auction Vista as the heatmap around it. source TradersWeek sells a monthly subscription with a free core and puts the reading on the chart instead of the ladder: 28 order-flow layers on the Binance spot tape, automatic Elliott labeling, and the structural methods in the same price. Jigsaw is Windows and reaches futures through CQG, Rithmic, IQFeed and others, with market data billed separately; source TradersWeek is browser-only, crypto and bridged forex, with nothing to buy on top. All Jigsaw facts below were checked against its own pages on 2026-08-11.
Which one fits
Choose Jigsaw if
You read the ladder rather than the chart, and want the tool built around that. source You would rather own the software than rent it. source You want structured training bundled with the purchase rather than assembled from elsewhere. You trade futures through a supported broker connection. source You want live execution from the DOM. source
Choose TradersWeek if
You want to see whether order flow suits you before paying anything at all. Your market is crypto or major FX, where there is no data subscription to add. You work from a browser on whatever machine you have. You want wave counts and the methodology modules on the same chart as the tape.
Own it once, or pay monthly
This is the axis of the comparison and it deserves arithmetic rather than adjectives. The two lines below use the vendor's published figures and the registry price here; neither includes market data, which Jigsaw does not include and does not publish a single price for. source
| Horizon | Jigsaw Independent with live trading | TradersWeek Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | $579 for the licence source | Nothing. The free core opens without a card |
| First year | $1,079 — the licence plus $500 for a year of live trading source | $1,440 |
| Each year after | $500 for live trading; simulation does not require it source | $1,440 |
| Market data | Not included; no single published price. source | Nothing on top. Binance public trade data carries no exchange fee |
| Machine | Windows; Boot Camp or Parallels on Mac. No browser or mobile build listed. source | Any modern browser, installs as a PWA |
Read that table honestly and it favours Jigsaw on software cost over any horizon longer than a year — and the two monthly figures are not buying the same thing. The $50 a month there buys live execution; Premium here buys the order-flow layer, and execution goes to a paper account or to an exchange through your own API key. What the table does not show is the futures data subscription on one side and the absence of futures on the other.
Ladder or chart
Beneath the pricing there is a genuine methodological difference, and it matters more than the money for anyone choosing between them.
- What Jigsaw is built around
- A ladder. Depth & Sales is the central DOM tool of the product, source Auction Vista adds a heatmap and order-flow visualisation, source and the chart package carries footprint. source Reading order flow at the price, in a ladder, is a skill rather than a setting — which is consistent with tiers that differ in training rather than in features. source
- What TradersWeek is built around
- The chart. Footprint clusters, cumulative delta, stacked imbalance, absorption, exhaustion, iceberg and sweep detection are drawn as layers on price, with published thresholds rather than a trained eye. The DOM panel exists and reads the live Binance book with click-to-trade, but it is one panel rather than the centre of the product.
- Which is right
- That depends on the timeframe you work on more than on the software. Ladder reading pays off at the scale of seconds on a liquid futures contract; layered chart reading covers a slower horizon and survives being away from the screen. Neither approach substitutes for the other, and a product built for one will feel thin to someone who wanted the other.
Feature comparison
| Capability | Jigsaw | TradersWeek |
|---|---|---|
| DOM reading | Depth & Sales, its central DOM tool. source | A DOM panel on the Binance book with click-to-trade, not the product centre |
| Liquidity visualisation | Auction Vista, a heatmap and order-flow view. source | The chart heatmap colours executed volume in footprint cells, not resting orders |
| Markets | Futures and other markets through CQG, StoneX, IQFeed, Rithmic and Tradovate. source | Binance spot, plus bridged forex, metals and indices. No futures |
| Order execution | Live execution through supported connections, DOM-centric order entry. source | Paper account, DOM click-to-trade on crypto, bots on your own API key |
| Training | Bundled with the licence and the basis of the tier difference source | No bundled training programme |
| Capability | TradersWeek | Jigsaw |
|---|---|---|
| Footprint | Bid and ask per level, delta, imbalance, absorption, exhaustion | Footprint in the Daytradr chart package. source |
| Cumulative delta and profiles | CVD with divergence, volume profile, TPO, value area and POC | Time & Sales, volume profile, TPO and CVD on its product pages source |
| Capability | TradersWeek | Jigsaw |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Any modern browser, installs as a PWA | Windows; Boot Camp or Parallels on Mac. No browser or mobile build listed. source |
| Trying it without paying | Permanent free tier, no card, no registration | No permanent free plan; 14-day money-back guarantee. source |
| Elliott Wave | Automatic in the free core: 24 wave patterns, counts scored against the rules | Not listed on its product or support pages. source |
| Structural methodology | The methodology modules are included in Premium | No published statement either way on the pages checked |
| Extensibility | Script Converter reads 6 languages. No public API | Not listed on its product or support pages. source |
Questions people actually ask
Is buying Jigsaw outright cheaper than a subscription?
Over a few years, on the published figures, yes. Independent is $579 once, and live trading is a further $50 per month or $500 per year — so a first year with live trading comes to $1,079 from those two lines, and later years to $500. TradersWeek Premium at $120 per month is $1,440 a year, every year. Two things keep this from being a straight win: market data and exchange fees are not included with Jigsaw and no single price for them is published, and the software is Windows. Add a feed and a machine and the totals move.
What is the difference between the three Jigsaw licences?
Not the software. Independent at $579, Professional at $879 and Institutional at $1,979 are the same product; the tiers differ in training and support. What you pay more for is instruction, not capability. There is no equivalent bundled programme in TradersWeek.
Can I try either of them for free?
Jigsaw has no permanent free plan; a 14-day money-back guarantee applies, so an evaluation means paying first and asking for it back. TradersWeek is permanently free for the chart, 123 indicators, 82 drawing tools, automatic Elliott labeling and paper trading, with no card and no registration. Order flow is Premium.
Which one is better for reading the DOM?
Jigsaw. Depth & Sales is the central DOM tool of that product, and Auction Vista adds a heatmap and order-flow view on top. The DOM panel in TradersWeek reads the live Binance book over a WebSocket with click-to-trade and pulling and stacking detection, which is a working ladder rather than the centre of the product. If ladder reading is the skill you are buying, this comparison does not favour the browser.
Does Jigsaw run on a Mac?
It is Windows software; its support pages describe Boot Camp and Parallels approaches for Mac, and a browser build and native mobile apps are not listed. TradersWeek runs in any modern browser and installs as a PWA. For a Mac trader unwilling to run Windows, this decides the comparison before features are weighed.
What does TradersWeek do that Jigsaw does not?
It runs without an install, opens without an account, and labels Elliott waves automatically — 24 wave patterns with every count scored against the rules — where automatic Elliott labeling is not listed on the Jigsaw product or support pages. It also charts crypto without a data subscription and bundles the structural methods into one price. Jigsaw reaches futures through supported broker connections; the two products overlap less than the shared category suggests.
For futures on a ladder with training attached, the answer above is not this product. For chart-based order flow on crypto, the free core opens without an account and without a refund window to watch.
Open terminalLast reviewed 11 August 2026