The Full Workflow
You probably already have TradingView open right now. Good — keep it open. FuturesIntel isn't trying to replace it. TradingView is where you chart, draw, and pull the trigger. FuturesIntel is where you figure out what to chart in the first place.
What TradingView Is Great At
No hedging here — TradingView earned its position as the default charting platform for a reason:
- The best charting engine in retail trading, full stop. Fast, clean, endlessly customizable.
- Drawing tools built for the way traders actually think — Elliott Wave counts, Fibonacci tools, trendlines, channels, all first-class citizens.
- Pine Script for building and backtesting your own indicators and price-based alerts.
- A massive, active community publishing ideas, scripts, and setups you can learn from.
- Broker integrations that let you go from chart to order ticket without switching apps.
- A genuinely good mobile app, which is more than most trading platforms manage.
We use it. Our own analysts use it. It's not going anywhere, and it shouldn't.
What FuturesIntel Adds — the Stuff TradingView Isn't Built to Chart
TradingView's chart is built around price and volume. A lot of what actually moves markets over a multi-day or multi-week horizon lives outside price data — options positioning, fund flows, cross-market correlation, macro composite scores. That's the gap FuturesIntel fills.
Estimated dealer gamma exposure by strike (SPY / QQQ / IWM) — call walls, put walls, gamma flip level
Options-implied price ranges (daily / weekly / monthly / yearly) from live IV and straddle pricing
Daily and 10-day-MA options sentiment, with historical percentile calibration
SKEW, VVIX, and VIX term structure (9D vs 3M vs 6M) — reads contango vs. backwardation directly
A/D Line, % above 50/100/200-day MA, McClellan Oscillator, Summation Index, Bullish Percent Index
Weekly CFTC positioning shifts by trader category, with an advanced view breaking out Managed Money, Asset Managers, and Leveraged Funds
Monthly seasonal return patterns with 10-year, 5-year, 2-year, and median overlays against the current year
Pearson correlation of each market against DXY, crude oil, the 10-year yield, HY credit spreads, VIX, and CPI
Our proprietary Futures Intel Simple Economic Score — a 22-indicator composite from FRED, scored 0-100
And then there's the layer this whole product was built around: My Market Hub — My Alerts, My Intel, My Analysts, and My Calendar. You configure the conditions that matter to your strategy directly in your dashboard, and it notifies you. None of this needs to live on a price chart, because none of it is price.
A Day in the Workflow
Morning: check your FISES score and overnight Intel feed. Say the dollar is breaking down, credit spreads are tightening, and oil seasonality is historically weak into Q3 — the picture forms before you've touched a chart.
Open the US Indices Intel Hub. Check the Correlations panel, scan the Advanced COT breakout for positioning extremes, and note the next data catalyst on your Calendar.
Pull up the weekly chart. Mark the trendline break level. Draw your Elliott Wave count. This is TradingView's job, and it does it better than anything else on the market.
Set a condition — "FISE Score drops below 40" or "new COT data posts Friday at 3:30 PM ET" — things a price alert can't watch for you.
Set your price alert at the level you marked, and route your order through your broker.
Through the day, check My Analysts for corroborating (or contradicting) views, and glance at GEX and Expected Move for intraday range context while the trade plays out.
FuturesIntel is the research and structure layer. TradingView is the chart and execution layer. You need both, and they don't compete for the same five minutes of your attention.
Where We Overlap — and Where We're Intentionally Lighter
We're honest about this: FuturesIntel does have charts, and charting is not where we're strongest today. When we want to really dig into price action, we open TradingView too — in fact, My Market Hub's own chart widget runs a dual engine, with TradingView's charting built directly into the dashboard alongside our native views. We're not pretending otherwise.
Same with data feeds — several of our tools run on delayed or end-of-day data rather than tick-level feeds. That's deliberate. FuturesIntel exists to structure the why, not to be the platform you route live orders through. Execution-grade data belongs to execution platforms.
If You're Already Paying for TradingView
If you're on TradingView Pro or Premium, our Free tier is a strong companion — no reason to give up either one. FuturesIntel Premium (My Market Hub) adds the alert, dashboard, and curated-intel layer that neither TradingView nor a Bloomberg terminal cover well for a futures trader working outside an institutional desk. Different budgets, different problems solved.