Sonarcast or TradingView: how they differ
This comparison is less obvious than it looks: these are tools for different parts of the same job. TradingView draws the chart; Sonarcast answers what sits behind the move on it.
TradingView
TradingView is a charting platform: hundreds of indicators, drawing tools, its own scripting language, alerts, a huge community, and markets far beyond crypto. It is the industry standard, and we are not trying to replace it.
Sonarcast
Sonarcast is a crypto futures terminal built around derivatives data: funding, open interest, liquidations, the order book, market structure — and a written read of what those numbers mean together. We do have a chart, but it is part of the card rather than the centre of the product.
| What we compare | TradingView | Sonarcast |
|---|---|---|
| Charts and drawing | The core of the product: indicators, scripts, drawing tools | A chart inside the coin card, no scripting of its own |
| Derivatives data | Partly, through separate tickers and indicators | The foundation: funding, OI, liquidations, order book per coin |
| Written read | Ideas and opinions from the community | Text from the coin’s own data: what is unusual and what it lines up with |
| Market coverage | Equities, commodities, FX, crypto | Crypto futures only |
| Watching a coin | Alerts on chart conditions | Guardian: structural change on coins under watch |
| Community | Published ideas, scripts, other traders | None |
Where TradingView is stronger
Everything to do with the chart. Drawing tools, custom indicators, scripting, multi-pane layouts, markets outside crypto, the community — TradingView is in a class of its own there, and we do not aim at it. If your work is marking up levels and building a system on indicators, TradingView stays the main workplace and Sonarcast sits next to it.
Where Sonarcast fits
Where the chart is not enough. A chart shows that price went up; it does not show whether positions were being opened or closed while it did, who is paying whom in funding, or whether anyone got taken out on the way. Those numbers normally live in other services and get assembled in your head. Here they sit on one card next to the chart, with text that names the disagreements between them.
Which to pick
Almost always both, and that is not a dodge. TradingView for the chart and the markup, Sonarcast for the derivatives picture and a quick answer to "what is this coin doing now". You can test the second without a card: seven days of Premium.