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Chart, analyze, and trade

ATAS, Bookmap, MotiveWave, NinjaTrader, TradingView

Automate your trading workflow

PickMyTrade, Replikanto, TradersPost, Tradesyncer

Practice and backtest

Forex Tester Online, FX Replay

Review your trades and your discipline

Edgewonk, StopTilt, TraderSync, Tradervue, TradeZella

Compare prop firms

LegitPropFirm

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Every trading tool and resource TradingLoot has reviewed so far.

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Order flow tool

ATAS

Futures traders who want footprint charts, the DOM, and volume profiles in one dedicated order-flow platform, on PRO or ULTRA.

Real-time market news

Benzinga Pro

Traders whose workflow centers on reacting to real-time news and market-moving events rather than charting or backtesting.

Order flow tool

Bookmap

Futures traders (and, to a lesser extent, stock or crypto traders) who want to see order-book liquidity and executed volume directly, rather than inferring it from price action alone.

Trade journal & analytics

Edgewonk

Traders who want structured analysis of their own rule adherence and behavioral comments alongside performance statistics.

Practice & backtesting

Forex Tester Online

Traders who want to combine manual historical practice with systematic backtesting in a single browser-based workflow.

Practice & backtesting

FX Replay

Discretionary futures and forex traders who want to rehearse entries, exits, and trade management on historical 1-second to daily bars.

Prop firm comparison

LegitPropFirm

Traders comparing specific prop-firm account structures and rules across a curated set of firms before purchase.

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Charting & trading platform

MotiveWave

Traders who want charting, order-flow analysis, and live trading through their own broker consolidated into one desktop platform.

Charting & trading platform

NinjaTrader

Futures traders who want to build, backtest, and simulate strategies at no software cost before risking capital.

Trade automation

PickMyTrade

Futures traders on Tradovate, including traders with several accounts under one Tradovate login, who want TradingView alerts executed with take-profit, stop-loss, trailing and breakeven rules attached.

Trade automation

Replikanto

NinjaTrader 8 traders copying their own trades between accounts connected in one NinjaTrader, or between computers they control on a local network.

Trading discipline tool

StopTilt

Traders who want a free, manual-entry journal across personal, evaluation, or funded accounts, with the option to add the Pro Trade Gate later.

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Market scanner

Trade Ideas

Active US stock traders who want real-time, configurable market discovery rather than a static screener.

Trade automation

TradersPost

Traders with an existing TradingView (or other supported) alert-based strategy who want it automated to a broker they already hold an account with.

Trade journal & analytics

TraderSync

Traders who want a journal fed automatically from a supported broker or platform, with detailed exit and risk analytics.

Trade journal & analytics

Tradervue

Traders who want to start journaling on a free plan and upgrade only if they need more.

Trade automation

Tradesyncer

Futures traders copying their own trades across several accounts on different connections, who want the copier to run without a computer left on.

Trade journal & analytics

TradeZella

Traders who execute elsewhere and want a dedicated tool for structured post-trade review and analytics.

Charting & trading platform

TradingView

Traders who want deep charting, custom indicator development, and cross-market analysis in one place.

Market scanner

TrendSpider

Traders who want to find, test, and automate setups in the same platform.

Trading books

Summaries of individual trading books, by what each one teaches. Not ranked.

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Trading in the Zone

Mark Douglas

Thinking in probabilities: judging an edge over a series of trades, not on the last result.

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

John J. Murphy

A broad survey of chart analysis: trend, price patterns, indicators, candlesticks and intermarket analysis.

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques

Steve Nison

How candles are read, why context matters, and how candlesticks combine with Western tools.

Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

Thomas N. Bulkowski

A pattern-by-pattern reference, with statistics on how patterns performed and failed in the author's samples.

Mind Over Markets

James F. Dalton, Eric T. Jones, and Robert B. Dalton

Market Profile and auction thinking: reading the market through price, time and value.

The Mental Game of Trading

Jared Tendler

A system for tracing recurring emotional mistakes, such as fear, greed and anger, to their cause.

Chart patterns

Formations that develop across many bars. Each card links to its full guide.

Chart pattern basics

Head and Shoulders

Top shown

Three peaks after an uptrend, the middle one highest, above a neckline.

Double Top and Double Bottom

Double top shown

Two similar peaks or lows, confirmed by a break of the level between them.

Triangles

Symmetrical triangle shown

Converging boundaries, ascending, descending or symmetrical; the breakout can go either way.

Flags and Pennants

Bull flag shown

A brief pause after a sharp move, between parallel or converging boundaries.

Wedges

Rising wedge shown

Two converging lines sloping the same way, in reversal or continuation contexts.

Rectangles

Rectangle in an uptrend shown

A range between horizontal support and resistance that can break either way.

Cup and Handle

A rounded cup after an advance, then a short handle near the rims.

Triple Top and Triple Bottom

Triple top shown

Three comparable peaks or lows after a trend, and the level that would confirm them.

Read the candlestick guide

Japanese candlesticks

Shapes made by one candle or a few in a row, explained in TradingLoot's candlestick guide.

Doji

Open and close virtually equal, so the body is tiny; read as indecision.

Marubozu

A long body with no shadows: hollow if it closes at the high, filled if it closes at the low.

Hammer

A small body near the top and a long lower shadow, after a decline.

Hanging Man

The hammer's shape after an advance; the prior trend sets the name.

Inverted Hammer

A small body near the bottom and a long upper shadow, after a decline.

Shooting Star

The inverted hammer's shape after an advance; the prior trend sets the name.

Bullish Engulfing

After a decline, a hollow body that completely covers the filled body before it.

Bearish Engulfing

After an advance, a filled body that completely covers the hollow body before it.