The TradingView alternative for futures traders who outgrew it.
TradingView is the best place on the internet to look at a chart. It was not built to trade a Rithmic prop account off the order book. SabrTrader is: real depth of market, footprint, a heatmap, direct execution and a copier for your funded accounts.
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What a candle looks like from the inside: bid and ask volume at every price, imbalances marked, delta statistics under each bar.
Different tools for different jobs
TradingView is a charting network that added trading. SabrTrader is a trading desk that includes charting. Which one you need depends on where your edge comes from.
SabrTrader is the better fit when
- You trade futures on a Rithmic prop account. We found no Rithmic connection in TradingView's broker list. We connect to it directly.
- You read order flow. A liquidity heatmap, Market by Order depth and 14 footprint templates, on your broker's own data.
- You run several accounts. The copier is built in.
- You keep hitting plan limits. No cap on indicators per chart, on any plan including Free.
What to know before you move
- You do not have to give up TradingView. Keep it on your phone and place the trade from SabrTrader.
- Your favourite concepts are already native. Market structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, pivots and 200+ studies, with no cap per chart.
- Your Pine scripts can come along. Port them to C# and watch each change appear on the chart as you save.
- No second data bill. You see the real-time data your broker already sends you.
- Mac and Linux are on the way. Both versions are planned for Q1 2027.
"Wow this thing is amazing! I just cancelled my TradingView subscription and started porting all my indicators over to SabrTrader. Can't wait to start automating these with Algo Studio."
RayMeeks · came from TradingViewSabrTrader vs TradingView, feature by feature
TradingView facts come from TradingView's own pricing page, blog and help centre, checked in October 2026.
| SabrTrader | TradingView | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows desktop. Mac and Linux planned for Q1 2027 | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile, all synced |
| Indicators per chart | No limit, on every plan | 2 on Basic, 5 on Essential, 10 on Plus, 25 on Premium, 50 on Ultimate |
| Footprint charts | Yes, 14 templates with imbalance and absorption signals (Pro) | Premium and higher. A volume footprint chart type |
| Market Profile TPO | Yes (Pro) | Premium and higher |
| Liquidity heatmap of the order book | Yes, with volume bubbles (Pro) | Not found |
| Market by Order depth | Yes, on Rithmic or Databento | Not found |
| DOM with order entry | Yes, SuperDOM with per-order queue | Yes, when your connected broker supplies Level 2 |
| Rithmic prop accounts | Yes. Several logins at once | Not in the broker list |
| Multi-account trade copier | Built in | Not found |
| ATM brackets | Yes, stop and target attach on fill | Depends on the broker integration |
| Backtesting | Yes, on tick data, with optimiser and walk-forward | Yes, for Pine strategies |
| No-code strategy builder | Yes, AlgoStudio Pro (Ultimate) | Not found. Strategies are written in Pine |
| Replay | Yes, Market Replay on the Free plan | Yes, Bar Replay on paid plans |
| AI assistant | Yes, inside the platform, reads bars, footprint and positions (Pro) | Not found inside the platform |
| Options tools | Yes. Chain, screener, analyzer, multi-leg orders (Pro) | Yes, chain and strategy builder for analysis |
| Trade journal and daily loss lock | Yes (Ultimate) | Not found |
| Real-time futures data | From your broker or feed, shown as it arrives | Bought separately per exchange, on top of the plan |
| Custom code | C# SDK with hot reload | Pine Script |
| Community scripts and ideas | No | Yes. 150,000+ scripts, 100M+ users |
"Not found" means we could not find the feature in the vendor's public documentation on the date we checked. If that has changed, tell us and we will correct this page.
The order book, over time, behind your candles
A candle tells you where price went. The heatmap shows where the resting orders were while it went there, and whether they held or pulled. The SuperDOM shows the queue at each price, order by order.
- Real depth from your broker's feed, not a delayed or sampled copy.
- Volume bubbles mark the trades that actually hit a level.
- Click the ladder to trade. The bracket goes on with the fill.
The clean chart you like, without an indicator budget
200+ standard studies and 11 bar types on the Free plan, with no cap on how many you load. Paid plans add the TradeDevils suite: market structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, auto trendlines, pivots, support and resistance and more.
- Tick, range, volume and renko bars alongside time bars.
- Run any indicator on another indicator's output.
- Cloud workspaces restore every chart and setting on your next machine.
Your own Pine scripts need rewriting in C#. The SDK hot-reloads, so you see each change on the chart as you save it.
An AI that reads the data, not a picture of it
Ask "what is my bias for the New York open?" and the AI pulls the bars, the footprint, the delta and your open positions before it answers, and says what it based the answer on.
- It can draw on your chart, and nothing changes until you approve it.
- It never tells you to buy or sell.
- Bring your own model key at the provider's price.
"I swear, the things you can do now with Sabr in just 5 mins... It analyses all the macro environment, the auction market theory framework and the orderflow by itself and refreshes annotations directly on the chart automatically every five minutes."
Emene · in our Discord
Compare the plan you would actually need
TradingView's order flow features sit in Premium and above, and real-time futures data is an extra per exchange on top of the plan.
| SabrTrader | TradingView | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 200+ indicators with no limit per chart, replay, backtester, copier for two accounts | Basic: 2 indicators per chart, 1 chart per tab |
| Footprint and TPO | Pro, $85 a month | Premium or Ultimate |
| Heatmap, MBO depth, copier | Same Pro plan | Not offered |
| Real-time CME data | The data your broker or feed already bills you for | Added separately to your TradingView account |
| Pay once | $1,499 Perpetual | Subscription only |
TradingView prices differ by region and billing period, so check its pricing page for yours. For a futures trader the honest comparison is SabrTrader Pro against TradingView Premium plus exchange data.
TradingView users ask us this
Can I trade my prop firm account from SabrTrader?
If your firm gives you a Rithmic login, yes. Tradovate-based accounts are not supported yet, and the reason is not on our side: NinjaTrader, which owns Tradovate, does not currently let third-party platforms such as SabrTrader connect to it. NinjaTrader plans to open that up in Q1 2027, and we intend to be the first to add Tradovate support when it does.
Will my Pine Script indicators work?
Not directly. They need porting to C#. Many popular TradingView concepts, such as market structure, order blocks and fair value gaps, already exist as native indicators.
Is there a web or mobile version?
There is no web or mobile version. SabrTrader is a desktop application for Windows, and mac and Linux versions are planned for Q1 2027.
Do I pay for market data twice?
No. SabrTrader shows the data from your own broker or feed. There is no separate data subscription from us.
Is SabrTrader only for futures?
No. It also trades stocks, options, forex and crypto through brokers such as Interactive Brokers, Schwab, Tastytrade, OANDA and Coinbase.
Can I keep TradingView as well?
Of course. Plenty of people chart on the phone with TradingView and trade from SabrTrader at the desk.
See what is inside the candle.
Connect your broker, open a footprint and a heatmap on the market you trade, and decide whether you can go back to candles alone.
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