Trade Ideas vs TradingView

Yes, Trade Ideas is considerably more expensive at every listed tier. Its pricing page lists the Standard plan at $127 per month, or $1068 per year, which the vendor equates to $89 per month. The Premium plan, which adds Holly AI signals and backtesting, is $254 per month or $2136 per year, equivalent to $178 per month. TradingView's pricing page lists Essential at $12.95 per month billed annually and Premium at $59.95 per month billed annually, and the free Basic plan has no time limit. Trade Ideas has no free plan: a free account only gives 15-minute delayed data on browser-based dashboards, and a separate paid Test Drive offers one or two weeks of Premium access. Refunds also differ: Trade Ideas states that all sales are final, while TradingView's Terms of Service allow refunds within 14 days for annual plans and 7 days for monthly ones. All figures come from the vendors' own pages and were last checked in October 2026.

TradingView has screeners and an AI screener, but no listed equivalent of Holly. Trade Ideas describes Holly as its AI signal engine, giving buy and sell signals with entry and exit points in real time, and its guide says Holly employs over 60 strategies whose proprietary parameters cannot be customized. The vendor's pricing page lists AI signals among the Premium features, and the Standard plan includes a real-time scanner with streaming alerts and 500+ data points for alerts and filters. TradingView's features page lists stock, ETF, DEX and crypto screeners across 150+ exchanges and 500+ fundamental and technical fields. Its comparison table shows AI screener requests of 100 on Essential, 250 on Premium and 500 on Ultimate. The vendor's Holly page shows selected example trades but gives no aggregate win rate, so these pages do not establish signal quality for either product. All figures were last checked in October 2026.

Trade Ideas backtests over a short window, while TradingView can test on all data in its storage. The OddsMaker, Trade Ideas' backtesting tool, typically has 64 days of history, excludes the current day and premarket and postmarket sessions, and lists the first 100 trades per day, according to the vendor's user guide. Its results rest on the open, high, low and close of 1-minute candles, not on tick data, and backtesting is a Premium feature. TradingView's Deep Backtesting runs on all data in its storage, capped at 2 million bars per calculation, and is checked only for Premium and Ultimate in the comparison table. TradingView scripts are written in Pine Script, which the vendor lists on all five plans; no custom scripting is documented for Trade Ideas in the sources collected here. Trade Ideas also states that simulated results do not represent actual trading. All figures were last checked in October 2026.

Trade Ideas is focused on US equities. One help article states that it currently works only with the US equity market, although another says it watches US and Canada stock markets, so the vendor's own pages differ. Forex is not supported, and options coverage is limited to a few filters on total options volume. All paid subscriptions include real-time data and scanning, with servers taking data from around 4 am Eastern, so some filters may not work in the premarket. TradingView, by comparison, lists access to major stock exchanges, global currency pairs, worldwide indexes and 70 crypto exchanges. By default its charts show real-time US stock data from Cboe, and real-time NASDAQ and NYSE data is bought separately; the US stock bundle is $9.95 per month for non-professional subscribers. Professional users of either service pay additional exchange fees. All figures were last checked in October 2026.

Trade Ideas has no native macOS or iOS app. Its help center says Mac users get a web version that runs in a browser, and the user guide describes it as a slimmer, pared-down web application, while the full desktop client is Windows-only. Its brokers page lists API integration with TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE and Alpaca, and the Interactive Brokers connection needs an IB Pro account. An older help article says automated trading works with Interactive Brokers only, so the vendor's pages differ. TradingView is delivered on the web, as iOS and Android apps, and as a desktop app with multi-monitor support, and its features page advertises 100+ brokers for trading directly on charts, a vendor claim not independently measured. TradingView also states that its market data is licensed for display only and that automated trading uses are prohibited. All figures were last checked in October 2026.