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title: "Vela vs TC2000 (2026): Every Market, Free to Start | LuxAlgo"
description: "Vela by LuxAlgo charts crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, commodities, and CME futures, with footprint and TPO from real trades, unlimited Price Alerts, and Quant, our coding agent, free to start. How it compares with TC2000."
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# Vela vs TC2000 (2026): Every Market, Free to Start | LuxAlgo

> Vela by LuxAlgo charts crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, commodities, and CME futures, with footprint and TPO from real trades, unlimited Price Alerts, and Quant, our coding agent, free to start. How it compares with TC2000.

## Vela: every market on state-of-the-art charts, free to start.

- **Choose Vela** if you trade beyond US stocks: crypto, forex, commodities, and CME futures on one chart, footprint and TPO from real trades, unlimited Price Alerts, and Quant, our coding agent, free to start.
- **Stay with TC2000** if you screen US stocks and options with EasyScan, want its phone apps, or trade through TC2000 Brokerage.

Facts checked November 3, 2026.

Vela is our next-generation charting platform: charts engineered in-house for crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, commodities, and CME futures, footprint and TPO built from real trades, unlimited Price Alerts, Replay, paper trading, and Quant, our coding agent, built in. Here is how Vela compares with TC2000, with TC2000’s wins marked as wins.

Open Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart · Plans: https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/

## At a glance

| | Vela | TC2000 | TC2000 source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Markets | ✓ Crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, and commodities on every plan, plus CME futures on paid plans. | ± US stocks from NYSE, Amex, and Nasdaq through Nasdaq Basic, and US options; real-time options and index data are optional monthly feeds. | Pricing and plans |
| Footprint and TPO | ✓ Footprint, TPO, CVD and delta, and volume profiles on every plan, including Free, built from real trades. Orderflow lookback scales by plan: 1 day on Free, 30 days on Essential, up to full history on AI Ultra. | ○ Not listed on its pricing or home page (checked November 3, 2026). | Pricing and plans |
| Drawing tools | ✓ 66 drawing tools across 7 groups on every plan: the Fibonacci and Gann sets, harmonic patterns, Elliott waves, and position tools with R:R. | ± Chart drawing tools from its Premium plan up. | Pricing and plans |
| Price alerts | ✓ Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included. | ± Up to 100 alerts on Premium and 1,000 on Premium Plus; extra alert packs are sold monthly. | Pricing and plans |
| Coding agent | ✓ Quant, our coding agent, built into Vela on every plan: it reads and draws on your chart, writes indicator and strategy code, and tests it against history. Free includes Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ○ Not listed on its pricing or home page (checked November 3, 2026). A condition wizard builds conditions step by step, with formulas optional. | TC2000 home and features |
| Paper trading | ✓ On every plan, Free included: a $100,000 paper account, up to 5 accounts, and market, limit, and stop orders from the chart with a stop loss and a take profit. | ✓ A free, fully functional trading simulator with a chart, positions, trades, and an option chain, no credit card. | TC2000 home and features |
| Apps | ± In the browser, and a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. | ✓ Windows, Mac, and web, with iPhone and Android apps. | Pricing and plans |
| Free plan | ✓ Free, no credit card: 16 charts per tab, unlimited tools per chart, unlimited Price Alerts and 5 Custom Alerts, the Orderflow suite with 1-day lookback, Replay, a $100,000 paper account, and Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ± No free plan on its pricing page; the trading simulator is free. | Pricing and plans |

Marks: ✓ included, ± partial or paid plans only, ✗ not included, ○ not listed on TC2000’s official pages. Vela and TC2000 facts checked November 3, 2026.

## 01 Charts

The engine, the layouts, the chart styles, and the tools you draw with.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Drawing tools | ✓ 66 drawing tools across 7 groups on every plan: the Fibonacci and Gann sets, harmonic patterns, Elliott waves, and position tools with R:R. | ± Chart drawing tools from its Premium plan up. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Multi-chart layouts | ✓ 16 charts per tab on every plan, including Free, with up to 16 linked charts in one desktop window. | ± Customizable layouts on every plan; multi-monitor support from Premium. (source: Pricing and plans) |

## 02 Orderflow and data

The flow inside every candle, where the data comes from, and the markets you can chart.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Markets | ✓ Crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, and commodities on every plan, plus CME futures on paid plans. | ± US stocks from NYSE, Amex, and Nasdaq through Nasdaq Basic, and US options; real-time options and index data are optional monthly feeds. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Footprint and TPO | ✓ Footprint, TPO, CVD and delta, and volume profiles on every plan, including Free, built from real trades. Orderflow lookback scales by plan: 1 day on Free, 30 days on Essential, up to full history on AI Ultra. | ○ Not listed on its pricing or home page (checked November 3, 2026). (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Live CME futures data | ✓ Real-time, licensed CME Group data with 16 years of history, included in every paid plan at no extra cost. | ○ Not listed on its pricing page (checked November 3, 2026). Its data feeds there are US stocks, options, and indexes. (source: Pricing and plans) |

## 03 Alerts

What you can alert on, how many you get, and where they reach you.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price alerts | ✓ Unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Free included. | ± Up to 100 alerts on Premium and 1,000 on Premium Plus; extra alert packs are sold monthly. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Alerts on indicators and strategies | ✓ Custom Alerts run any indicator or strategy, your own Pine Script® included: 5 on Free, then 50, 100, 200, and 500 by plan. From Essential up they can fire before the bar closes. | ✓ Alerts when an indicator reaches a condition you set. (source: TC2000 home and features) |
| Where alerts reach you | ✓ In-app, email, browser notifications, Telegram, Discord, and Slack on every plan, and webhooks from Essential up: up to 16 destinations per alert. | ± Its pricing page lists no Telegram, Discord, Slack, or webhook delivery. (source: Pricing and plans) |

## 04 Code and strategies

Who writes the code, what language runs it, and how a strategy is tested.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coding agent | ✓ Quant, our coding agent, built into Vela on every plan: it reads and draws on your chart, writes indicator and strategy code, and tests it against history. Free includes Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ○ Not listed on its pricing or home page (checked November 3, 2026). A condition wizard builds conditions step by step, with formulas optional. (source: TC2000 home and features) |
| Scripting language | ✓ Pine Script® v6 and v5 run on Vela as written through PineTS, our open-source runtime, with a Pine editor beside the chart. | ± Personal Criteria Formulas, from its Premium plan up. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Scanning | ± Custom Alerts watch any indicator or strategy around the clock; Vela has no market-wide stock scanner to match EasyScan. | ✓ EasyScan and real-time scanning and sorting from Premium, with up to 5 streaming scans running at once. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Indicator library | ✓ The LuxAlgo Library, the largest indicator library in trading: hundreds of free indicators on Free, and the full Library of 800+ advanced tools from Essential. | ± Indicators applied to anything on the chart, plus your own formulas. (source: TC2000 home and features) |

## 05 Trading and practice

Paper accounts, replaying the past, keeping a journal, and what reaches a live market.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paper trading | ✓ On every plan, Free included: a $100,000 paper account, up to 5 accounts, and market, limit, and stop orders from the chart with a stop loss and a take profit. | ✓ A free, fully functional trading simulator with a chart, positions, trades, and an option chain, no credit card. (source: TC2000 home and features) |
| Trading journal | ✓ A trading journal built into Vela on every plan: paper fills land on their own, with a P&L calendar, stats, breakdowns, and day notes, and exports from other platforms import by file. | ✓ A personal journal inside its simulator. (source: TC2000 home and features) |
| Replay | ✓ On every plan with a free account: pick a start bar, play it forward, and trade it on a replay account of its own, with a results card when it ends. Up to 16 charts replay on one clock. | ○ Not listed on its pricing or home page (checked November 3, 2026). (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Live trading | ✗ Not on Vela: orders fill on paper. From Essential up, Custom Alerts reach your own bot over signed webhooks. | ✓ Through TC2000 Brokerage, a registered broker-dealer and FINRA/SIPC member. (source: TC2000 home and features) |

## 06 Platforms

Where it runs and what you need to open it.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | ± In the browser, and a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. | ✓ Windows, Mac, and web, with iPhone and Android apps. (source: Pricing and plans) |

## 07 Plans

What you get for nothing and how the paid plans are sold.

| | Vela | TC2000 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free plan | ✓ Free, no credit card: 16 charts per tab, unlimited tools per chart, unlimited Price Alerts and 5 Custom Alerts, the Orderflow suite with 1-day lookback, Replay, a $100,000 paper account, and Quant usage that refills every 5 hours and every week. | ± No free plan on its pricing page; the trading simulator is free. (source: Pricing and plans) |
| Paid plans | ✓ Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, monthly or annual, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. | ✓ Basic, Premium, and Premium Plus, billed monthly, annually, or every two years, with optional data feeds on top. (source: Pricing and plans) |

## Which one

- **Vela.** For traders who chart more than US stocks: crypto, forex, commodities, and US stocks and ETFs in real time on Free, CME futures on paid plans at no extra cost, footprint and TPO built from real trades, 66 drawing tools and unlimited Price Alerts on every plan, Replay, and Quant, our coding agent, built in. Free to start.
- **TC2000.** For US stock and options traders who scan the whole market with EasyScan and Personal Criteria Formulas, want desktop, web, and phone apps, and trade through TC2000 Brokerage.

## Questions traders ask about Vela and TC2000

Q: Is Vela a free alternative to TC2000?
A: Yes. Vela, our next-generation charting platform, is free to start with no credit card: real-time US stocks and ETFs, crypto, forex, and commodities, 16 charts per tab, 66 drawing tools, unlimited Price Alerts and 5 Custom Alerts, footprint and TPO built from real trades, Replay, a $100,000 paper account, and Quant, our coding agent. TC2000’s pricing page lists three paid plans, Basic, Premium, and Premium Plus; its trading simulator is free.

Q: Which markets can I chart on Vela?
A: Crypto, US stocks and ETFs, forex, and commodities on every plan, Free included, and real-time CME Group futures with 16 years of history on every paid plan at no extra cost. TC2000’s pricing page covers US stocks from NYSE, Amex, and Nasdaq and US options, with real-time options and index data as optional feeds.

Q: Does Vela have footprint charts?
A: Yes, on every plan, including Free. The Orderflow suite, footprint, TPO, CVD and delta, and volume profiles, is built from real trades on crypto, US stocks and ETFs, and CME futures. What scales with paid plans is Orderflow lookback: 1 day on Free, up to full history on AI Ultra.

Q: Can Vela scan the market like EasyScan?
A: Not the same way. Vela has no market-wide stock scanner to match TC2000’s EasyScan. On Vela, Custom Alerts run any indicator or strategy on our servers around the clock, and Quant, our coding agent, counts how often a setup happened over the dates you name.

Q: What does TC2000 do that Vela doesn’t?
A: TC2000 scans US stocks and options with EasyScan and Personal Criteria Formulas, runs on Windows, Mac, the web, and iPhone and Android, and trades through TC2000 Brokerage. Vela runs in the browser and as a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and orders on Vela fill on paper.

Q: How much does Vela cost?
A: Vela, our next-generation charting platform, is free to start, with no credit card. The paid plans are Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and AI Ultra, billed monthly or annually, and every paid plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. Current prices are on the pricing page.

Q: Is LuxAlgo affiliated with TC2000?
A: No. LuxAlgo is an independent company and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Worden Brothers, Inc.. TC2000 facts on this page come from Worden Brothers, Inc.’s own public pages.

Q: Where do these facts come from?
A: Vela’s plan entitlements, product pages, and documentation, and TC2000’s official website and help pages, all checked on November 3, 2026 and linked at the bottom of the page. Plans and features change on both sides; corrections are welcome.

## Sources

- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Plans and limits](https://www.luxalgo.com/pricing/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Charts](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/charts/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Alerts](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/alerts/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Orderflow](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/orderflow/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Replay](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/replay/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Paper trading](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/trading/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Journal](https://www.luxalgo.com/trade-journal/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Pine Script® on Vela](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/pine-script/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Quant](https://www.luxalgo.com/features/quant/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Desktop app](https://www.luxalgo.com/desktop/)
- Vela, checked November 3, 2026: [Market data](https://docs.luxalgo.com/platform/charts/data)
- TC2000 [1], checked November 3, 2026: [Pricing and plans](https://www.tc2000.com/pricing)
- TC2000 [2], checked November 3, 2026: [TC2000 home and features](https://www.tc2000.com/)

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