An NSE screener alternative to TradingView's global one
TradingView's screener is excellent at what it is for: filter 150 exchanges in real time, click a row, land on the best chart in the business. It is not an Indian end-of-day research tool. Delivery percentage appears nowhere in its data model, nothing there answers what a screen would have matched last quarter, and whole-market screening stays inside preset fields unless you scope a Pine script to a watchlist you assembled first. If your workflow is NSE, after the close, and increasingly about whether setups actually work, the gap you noticed is real.
| Capability | PatternsRadar | TradingView |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time / intraday screening | No, end-of-day by design | Yes, 10s/1-min refresh; NSE real-time free for non-professionals |
| Scan-level backtesting (what would this screen have matched?) | Every scan; window, horizons, entry, stop and target all configurable | No |
| Per-symbol strategy backtesting with costs and sizing | No. The replay models entry, stop and target, but not brokerage, slippage or position size | Pine strategy tester, one symbol at a time, with costs and sizing |
| Delivery % screening | Scannable and backtestable | Not in the data model |
| Query model | Sift, event operators over the whole market | Preset filters; Pine Screener scripts scoped to watchlists |
| Sector & fundamentals filters | NSE classification, P/E, market cap, growth, shareholding. Point-in-time, coverage still backfilling | Extensive fundamental fields, global |
| NSE F&O as stock-screener fields (futures OI, put-call ratio) | Per-stock aggregates, backtestable | OI lives on derivative symbols and charts, not as cash-screener columns |
| Charting | Basic price charts | Best in the business, plus the Pine ecosystem |
| Markets | NSE cash equities only | 150+ exchanges, all asset classes |
| Daily history depth | 30 years, every plan | 10K–40K bars, capped by plan tier |
| Scan alerts after the close | One digest email per day; webhooks on Max | Chart/watchlist alerts (20–1,000 by tier), webhooks on paid |
| REST API + MCP for agents | Every plan, including Free | No public API; alert webhooks only |
| Paid plans | ₹400–2,000/month | ₹995–17,333/month (annual billing) |
TradingView INR prices verified on tradingview.com/pricing on 2026-08-16, quoted at annual billing. Monthly billing costs more. This page is maintained by PatternsRadar. Competitor capabilities as generally available at the time of writing; verify current features on their site.
The differences that matter
Two kinds of backtest, honestly distinguished
TradingView has serious backtesting. The Pine strategy tester models position sizing, brokerage and slippage, which nothing here does, and on its own terms it is the deeper of the two. It runs one symbol at a time, on a chart. What it cannot answer is the screener question: what would this scan have matched across the whole market over thirty years, and what did those matches do next? That scan-level replay is PatternsRadar's entire premise, and it is configurable in its own right, with a window, up to four forward horizons, entry at the close or the next open, a stop, a target, and the excess over an NSE index. Different instruments for different questions. If you trade one symbol's strategy, TradingView's tester is the better tool.
Delivery percentage does not exist there
TradingView's data model is built from global exchange feeds, and NSE delivery volume, the share of trade actually taken to demat, is not in it. For Indian end-of-day analysis that is a missing sense: the field that separates conviction from churn cannot be scanned at any price. Here it is a first-class query token, backtestable like everything else.
Whole-market sentences vs watchlist scripts
TradingView's stock screener filters the whole market on preset fields. The Pine Screener will run any indicator, but over a watchlist you assemble first. Sift inverts that: event conditions such as crossed above within three bars, or has been above for ten, run across every NSE equity at once with no watchlist required. If the setup you want is a sequence rather than a threshold, that inversion matters daily.
Which should you use?
When TradingView is the right choice
Choose TradingView for charts. There is no contest, and I keep it open beside this one. Also for anything intraday, global, or Pine-shaped: real-time NSE data free of charge for non-professional users, alerts across hundreds of symbols, a decade of community scripts, a per-symbol strategy tester that is the reference implementation. If you trade during market hours, it is simply the right tool.
When PatternsRadar is the right choice
Choose PatternsRadar for the after-close NSE workflow. Write the setup in a sentence, replay it across as much of thirty years as the question needs, screen delivery alongside price and volume, and let the alert email arrive when it matches. The tools compose. Most people who use both keep TradingView open for charting and run their scans here.
Common questions
Is PatternsRadar a free alternative to TradingView's screener?
For NSE end-of-day screening, yes. Free with no account, including the replay at full depth and delivery data TradingView does not carry at any price. It is not an alternative for charting, for intraday screening or for non-Indian markets. TradingView keeps those jobs.
Why use anything besides TradingView for NSE stocks?
Three concrete gaps. Delivery percentage is absent from TradingView's data model. No feature answers what a screen would have matched historically. Daily history is capped by plan tier at 10K to 40K bars, where thirty years comes with every plan here. If none of those bite, TradingView plus patience is a fine screener.
Can PatternsRadar replace TradingView charts?
No, and it does not try. The charts here are functional price-and-indicator views for checking a scan's matches. The realistic setup, which plenty of people run, is scans and alerts here, charting there.