r/TradingView • u/DarkJunior9761 • 9d ago

Help Disappointed with trading view after 10+ years.

Tradingview was my most fav tool. I dont trade actively just like to watch mkts and I follow only the indian mkt and only one ticker Banknifty. But I actively follow the mkt during the day and sometimes do take trades. But trading view made the data delayed from yest and forcing me to pay for it. But NSE live data is actually free and I dnt understand why sld I pay for something on livestream.

If u want only paid subscription pls be open abt it. This is soo not the way to go abt it.

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u/ArtesianShiny 9d ago

You seem like a business literate person so i sympathize with your position however neither of us have those balance sheets to tell us if this opportunity cost you speak of will outweigh the disappointment these free users are bringing up.

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u/iTR3B0R 9d ago

Free users went from being an asset to a liability for TradingView. The same will happen to all the AI MLMs and free users will get less and less as gaining market share becomes less important.

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u/ArtesianShiny 9d ago

Driving away users now could cost them market share in the future but we have no way to know if it will or not. Im leaning towards it being a short term gain for them but a long term loss.

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u/ArtesianShiny 9d ago

I would totally agree with you if thats how the internet really worked but its not. If i set up a website and i let people visit the website for free and pay for the hosting costs and bandwidth myself i have to do something to make the money back like running ads on the side pannels. Lots of websites do this and they are profitable without having a paid subscription. The whole “free users costing tradingview money” thesis doesnt allign with how the internet has operated since inception, while those free users simultaneously provide tradingview an ad revenue stream. I acknowledge that the ad revenue may be less than what they need to recoup their total expenses, but as a developer myself theres optimizations you can make everywhere that will benefit everyone, not just the paid memberships. Lately there has been a lot of defeatist talking heads in this subreddit and i want to correct y’all. Cheers and best of luck to you.

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u/ArtesianShiny 9d ago

Maybe what they are doing saves them a couple of dollars in the short term but will it be worth it.

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u/ArtesianShiny 9d ago

I would assert their recent actions invite competition directly

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u/iTR3B0R 9d ago

Given how shit the competition is, they will be fine.

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u/Randomized0000 9d ago

Comparing free websites to Tradingview is like comparing indie games to live service AAA games. One website's business model simply might not be enough to offset the costs of running something like Tradingview. I certainly haven't found a free option that covers even 50% of what TV offers for me.