Every trading tool and resource TradingLoot has reviewed, grouped by what you're trying to do. Looking for a side-by-side view? Explore our Comparisons, or learn the concepts behind the tools in our Guides.
Real-time market news
A real-time financial news and market-intelligence platform for active traders, built around a customizable Newsfeed, curated Audio Squawk, and structured Signals, with a stock Scanner and options-flow alerts available at higher tiers.
Best for: Traders whose workflow centers on reacting to real-time news and market-moving events rather than charting or backtesting.
Market scanner
A real-time US-equities scanning and market-discovery platform, with an AI suggestion layer, backtesting, paper trading, and optional connected-broker execution.
Best for: Active US stock traders who want real-time, configurable market discovery rather than a static screener.
Market scanner
A browser-based platform for scanning, charting, backtesting and automated trading bots across stocks, futures, options, forex and crypto, with four paid plans.
Best for: Traders who want to find, test, and automate setups in the same platform.
Order flow tool
An order-flow and volume-analysis platform with footprint charts, Smart DOM, and Market Replay, a free plan with delayed futures data, and prices in euros.
Best for: Futures traders who want footprint charts, the DOM, and volume profiles in one dedicated order-flow platform, on PRO or ULTRA.
Order flow tool
An order-flow and liquidity-visualization platform built around a real-time depth-of-market heatmap and executed-volume display, with optional order execution through a connected broker.
Best for: 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.
Charting & trading platform
A desktop charting and technical-analysis platform with live trading through a connected external broker, spanning general charting, order-flow tools, and strategy backtesting across its editions.
Best for: Traders who want charting, order-flow analysis, and live trading through their own broker consolidated into one desktop platform.
Charting & trading platform
A futures-focused charting, backtesting, and order-flow platform, with software usable at no cost for charting, backtesting, and simulation, alongside an affiliated futures brokerage and clearing arm.
Best for: Futures traders who want to build, backtest, and simulate strategies at no software cost before risking capital.
Charting & trading platform
A browser-first charting and market-analysis platform with an optional trade-execution layer through connected third-party brokers.
Best for: Traders who want deep charting, custom indicator development, and cross-market analysis in one place.
Trade automation
Webhook automation that sends TradingView alerts to a trader's own broker account, with its most detailed feature set and documentation built around Tradovate.
Best for: 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
A NinjaTrader 8 add-on that copies a leader account's orders to follower accounts on the same computer, over a local network or, with credits, the internet.
Best for: NinjaTrader 8 traders copying their own trades between accounts connected in one NinjaTrader, or between computers they control on a local network.
Trade automation
Automation middleware that routes trading instructions from an external strategy or signal source to a trader's own connected broker account via webhook.
Best for: 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 automation
A cloud trade copier that mirrors a lead futures account's orders to follower accounts across connections such as Tradovate, Rithmic, dxFeed and ProjectX.
Best for: Futures traders copying their own trades across several accounts on different connections, who want the copier to run without a computer left on.
Practice & backtesting
A browser-based platform for practicing and testing trading strategies against historical market data, combining manual historical trade practice with backtesting and automated strategy testing.
Best for: Traders who want to combine manual historical practice with systematic backtesting in a single browser-based workflow.
Practice & backtesting
A browser-based market replay and backtesting platform, with 20 CME futures on the Pro plan, plus a practice journal, analytics, and a prop-firm rules simulator.
Best for: Discretionary futures and forex traders who want to rehearse entries, exits, and trade management on historical 1-second to daily bars.
Trade journal & analytics
An online trading journal with broad performance analytics and detailed analysis of the behavior and rule adherence that traders record and rate themselves.
Best for: Traders who want structured analysis of their own rule adherence and behavioral comments alongside performance statistics.
Trading discipline tool
A free-forever trading journal for personal, evaluation and funded accounts, with unlimited manual trade logging, P&L, win rate and calendar history. Optional StopTilt Pro adds pre-trade discipline and risk tools for $24.99/month.
Best for: Traders who want a free, manual-entry journal across personal, evaluation, or funded accounts, with the option to add the Pro Trade Gate later.
Trade journal & analytics
A trading journal and analytics platform with automatic broker sync, explicit futures support, a historical Market Replay simulator, and the Cypher AI assistant.
Best for: Traders who want a journal fed automatically from a supported broker or platform, with detailed exit and risk analytics.
Trade journal & analytics
A web-based trading journal with a Free plan, detailed performance reports, and futures support on its paid plans. Trades are imported from other platforms.
Best for: Traders who want to start journaling on a free plan and upgrade only if they need more.
Trade journal & analytics
A trading journal and analytics platform that imports trade data from external brokers and platforms for performance analysis, backtesting, and post-trade review.
Best for: Traders who execute elsewhere and want a dedicated tool for structured post-trade review and analytics.
Prop firm comparison
A curated prop-firm comparison resource that also lists trading competitions from the firms it covers, with prizes, entry costs and dates side by side.
Best for: Traders comparing specific prop-firm account structures and rules across a curated set of firms before purchase.
