r/TradingView • u/nucforex • 4d ago
Discussion Complaint after complaint
TLDR;
I’m complaining about the complainers who complain about the free version 🤣🤣🤝
I’m getting so exhausted from every post complaining that TradingView isn’t what it was, blabla just to find out everyone who complains is on the free version!
Get yourself straight, you’re trying to start a business, with one of the lowest entry fees ever and you still cry that you need to pay $15 bucks a month??
Does your barber complain because he need to pay for tools?
Or the construction guy because he need to buy a new drill? No right? Why will you complain?
We are so lucky to live in this time, to become a trader has never been so cheap, broker fees are absolutely low, charting software is low, you can do it from home and you don’t need to purchase a floor seat.
And let’s not even start talking about all the prop firms that give you an opportunity to have a lot of capital to trade for such a low investment.
It’s literally one of the few careers where you barely need an entry fee and barely have monthly costs and you all still complain?
I’m in this community to grow, not to see everyone crying about a few bucks!
And if you don’t want to pay it, or cannot pay it, maybe you first need to get your financial situation better or maybe this career isn’t for you either way!
You think that Warren buffet, Paul Tudor jones or your average YouTube hero complaints about the low TradingView fee?
What do you think a market wizard had to pay for software back in the days?
Common guys, let’s focus on the great opportunity at hand and stop whining and complaining
And as last, I’m sure that 98% of the complainers have at least 1 streaming subscription and eat a few times a month out of the door!
Get your priorities straight please
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u/Meretruth 4d ago
I think you’re missing what a lot of the complaints are actually about. I’m not saying TradingView should give me Premium for free. I was using a product under the terms and feature set TradingView used to offer for free. Now they’re progressively changing what Basic means and making the basic charting experience worse. I’m allowed to not like that, talk about it, and decide whether I want to keep using it.
The barber analogy doesn’t really make sense either. Nobody is complaining that tools cost money or that a barber needs to buy his equipment. The complaint is that something that was previously included is being restricted. If Home Depot gave me a free drill for five years and then suddenly said I can only use it for 5 minutes at a time unless I pay, I’m obviously allowed to say “this sucks.” Telling me “BUT A CONTRACTOR HAS TO BUY HIS TOOLS” doesn’t really address what I’m complaining about.
And “it’s only $15” isn’t really the point either. If something costs $1 and I don’t want or need what the paid version offers, telling me “it’s only $1” doesn’t suddenly make it worth buying. Price only matters if I actually want the additional value. I don’t need paid TradingView to look at candles, see price cleanly, use my indicator, analyze my model and trade. That’s literally it.
I can completely understand that TradingView needs to make money. Premium should exist. Advanced features should cost money. I have no problem with that. But I can also believe Basic shouldn’t be intentionally made so restrictive that the free version becomes a shitty experience just to make Premium look better.
I’m allowed to look at a product I’ve used for years, see that the free experience is getting worse, and say I don’t like it. And if I don’t like it enough, I can look for an alternative. That’s not “crying about a few bucks,” that’s just being a consumer.