Tickerbot vs TradingView

TradingView is where a hundred million people look at the market — the best charts in the business. Tickerbot is the same market as an API — the computed state a trading system runs on: every ticker × every signal as one SQL table, query it live, as of any past moment, or as a webhook subscription. Complete on its own, data included — there’s no feed to bring.

Free plan. Every ticker, every signal, real-time data, all-time history.

head to head

The chart vs the API.

TradingView is built for a human at a screen — charts, drawings, community. The moment you want software acting on market state instead of eyes, you need a queryable layer. That’s the layer Tickerbot sells, as one SQL table.

TradingViewTickerbot
Market dataIn-platform charts and quotesOne computed table, every ticker
Technical indicators & signalsPine Script, inside the chart421+ named signals, precomputed + custom
Stock screenerInteractive in-app screenerSQL across the whole market
Backtest-ready historyIn-platform strategy testerAs-of queries — any past moment
Stock alertsIn-app and notification alertsWebhook when your condition matches
AI agentsBuilt for human eyes, not tool callsAnswers in — context spent on decisions

in practice

Computed state is one call.

On a raw feed, market state is something you assemble — endpoint by endpoint, symbol by symbol, indicator by indicator. On Tickerbot, the assembly has already run — everything is a read:

The questionWith a raw feedWith Tickerbot
Everything about one tickerAssemble it — quote, profile, fundamentals, plus each indicator, per symbolGET /v2/tickers/AAPL — one row, every signal
Every ticker in a statePoll each symbol, compute the indicator, compareGET /v2/signals/rsi_oversold — the current list
Scan the entire marketRun your universe through your own pipelinePOST /v2/scan {"q": "rsi_14 < 30 AND market_cap > 1e9"}

Each of the three Tickerbot calls runs in three tenses: live, as of any past moment (add ?asof= — no survivorship bias), or on push — the same query as a webhook that fires when the answer changes. And every Tickerbot call is a native tool for AI agents via the MCP server: hand a model computed state and its context goes to decisions; hand it raw data and the context goes to doing the math.

None of this is a knock on TradingView — it’s the best place in the world to look at a chart. It just isn’t a layer software can build on. To act on market state, you either build the computed layer on a raw feed, or buy it from Tickerbot as a table — data included; there’s no feed to bring.

the right tool

When TradingView is the right choice.

TradingView is the right tool whenever a human is the consumer: charting and drawing, discretionary analysis, community ideas, and eyes-on-the-screen alerting — no one does that experience better, and Pine Script is a fine home for an indicator whose life is on a chart. And using both is natural: many builders keep TradingView open for their own eyes while their systems read computed state from Tickerbot.

questions

FAQ

Is there a TradingView API for market data?

TradingView doesn’t offer a public market-data API — it’s a platform for humans, and its data lives in the chart. If you arrived here searching for one, what you likely need is what Tickerbot sells: the market as a queryable table — 421+ precomputed signals per ticker, SQL in, answers out, live, as-of, or on push. Complete on its own — the data under the table is included.

Why does a trading system need computed state?

Because every action it takes — an alert, a screen result, an order, a row in a user-facing app — is a condition over derived values: RSI below 30, price above the 200-day average, volume three times normal. Raw data doesn’t contain those. Something has to compute and refresh them for every symbol, continuously, and keep the history so past answers are reproducible. That’s a data pipeline, not a feature — you either build and operate it, or query one that already runs.

Can I use TradingView and Tickerbot together?

Naturally — they serve different consumers. Keep TradingView for your eyes: charts, drawing, watching a setup develop. Point Tickerbot at your software: the screens, alerts, and systems that need the same market as data rather than pixels.

How does Tickerbot work with AI agents?

Every call here is also a native tool call: install the MCP server and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP runtime queries the market directly. Computed state is what makes that work well — hand a model raw data and its context window fills with math to do; hand it computed answers and the context goes to decisions. A scan returns the tickers matching your condition — a list, not a workload.

How does Tickerbot pricing work?

The Free plan needs no card and carries the full data side: every ticker, every signal, real-time data, all-time history and as-of queries. Paid plans start at $29/mo and add real-time webhooks, websocket streaming, and higher rate limits. Data depth is never a tier lever — every plan sees the same table.

in the wild

900K+ calls served, and counting.

What people are saying.

“dude. whoah.”
President, ShopifyHarley Finkelstein
“Tickerbot is insane. It turns Claude into a quant.”
Quantitative Finance MScLounes Vennema
“Best value for hobbyists and advanced traders alike.”
AI Engineer, ImergeRon Reid

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