TradingLite has shut down: what its order-flow users can use now

tradinglite.com still answers. It returns HTTP 200, it renders, and there is nothing on it but a notice that the technology is for sale. Ask for /chart, /login or /pricing and you get a 404.

We checked the site on 2026-08-20. The answer is on the vendor's own homepage, in the vendor's own words: the technology is for sale, and the previous service will not resume.

This post does two things. First it records what happened, using only primary sources: the site itself and the status monitor TradingLite ran on its own subdomain. Then it maps where a browser-based order-flow trader can actually go, with real prices attached.

The map

Only browser-reachable tools count as like-for-like here, because that was TradingLite's whole shape: open a URL, get order flow. Desktop platforms are listed so you know they are desktop.

What the site says now

The homepage heading is "Technology available for acquisition". Under it, two flat sentences: "The technology is for sale." and "The previous service will not resume."

The status line is equally direct: "The platform is not currently operating. Its technology is being sold as a standalone asset". The page adds that the sale includes substantial work that was built and never shipped, available to review under NDA.

Then the product description, which is the part worth reading slowly, because of its tense:

"TradingLite was a browser-based order-flow platform: high-performance app, a GPU-rendered liquidity heatmap, a custom scripting language and interpreter for building indicators, and a footprint and volume-profile suite, which ran on normalised real-time data from more than a dozen exchanges."

Was. Ran. That is the vendor writing its own obituary, not a rumour.

On accounts and money, the page draws a hard line: "The service operated by the previous company has stopped and will not be restored by it. This page is not a service, takes no payments, and holds no account records." And then the practical instruction: "Account, subscription and billing matters relate to the former operating company and cannot be resolved at the address above. If a payment method was charged for a period without service, your card issuer or payment provider is the appropriate route."

A note on method, for anyone verifying this themselves. The page is a client-rendered SvelteKit app, so a plain HTTP fetch returns a near-empty shell with no readable text. The strings above were recovered from the JavaScript bundle the page loads and checked against what it renders.

Five good years, one bad quarter, then silence

The temptation with a dead product is to write the decline backwards, as though it was always failing. TradingLite's own monitor refuses that story.

From June 2020 through March 2025, the monitor logs downtime in only a handful of months. The worst single month is 2 hours, in October 2024. The rest of the list is small: 1 hour in August 2024, 45 minutes in April 2024, 35 minutes in November 2024, 20 minutes in August 2023, 10 minutes in September 2023. Average response times sat around 200 to 500 ms across those years. That is a genuinely well-run service.

Then the shape breaks:

• April 2025: 61 hours of downtime, average response 1.86 s.
• May 2025: 418 hours of downtime, average response 10.3 s. May has 744 hours, so that is roughly 17 days.
• June 2025: 52 hours of downtime, average response 1.16 s.

A 10.3-second average response is not a chart you can trade on. It is not a chart you can look at.

Then an apparent recovery. July through December 2025 carry no downtime line at all. Whatever broke in the spring appears to have been fixed. The monitor's last entry is 2025-12-15, and every 2026 month is blank.

So the honest shape is: five good years, one catastrophic quarter, an apparent recovery, then a quiet end. Not a slow rot, and not a service that limped along broken for its last year. The vendor has not published what ended it, or when.

What we are deliberately not telling you

A few things circulate about TradingLite that we could not verify to a standard we publish at, so they are absent above rather than hedged:

• Review-site ratings. Every fetch we tried was blocked, so no score, no review count and no reviewer's words appear here.
• Anything about the size or composition of the team, or about what the company did or did not post on social media.
• Any third-party notice claiming service was about to resume. Those are unarchived and single-source.
• The shutdown date. It is not published anywhere we can cite, so we do not state one.

If you came here hoping for a villain, we have no evidence of one, and we are not going to invent it.

Where order-flow users can actually go

Exocharts

The closest thing to a direct browser replacement, and it has a real zero-cost web tier. Their pricing page lists a 0.0€ plan with no registration needed, capped at 3 crypto pairs and one candle type on the web. Unregistered web users see data on a 24-hour delay, which makes the free tier a study tool rather than a live one.

Paid web access is Web Premium at 28€/mo billed monthly, 25€/mo on a 3-month prepay and 23€/mo on a 6-month prepay. History on Web Premium is limited by period. The desktop application is a separate ladder: Desktop Pro at 49€, 43€ and 38€ per month across the same prepay tiers, all plus VAT in the payer's country, and it is the tier that carries unlimited historic data and stacked imbalances.

What Exocharts does not advertise anywhere on that page is an absorption or spoofing feature. You get the cells and the imbalance colouring, and the read is yours to make.

TradingView

Browser-based, familiar to everyone, and the footprint is behind a login and a subscription. The Volume Footprint chart type requires a Premium or Ultimate plan. Premium runs $59.95/mo billed annually, or $69.95 month to month. The chart is per symbol and per exchange, so a footprint of Binance BTC perpetuals is exactly that, one venue's tape.

For most ex-TradingLite users this is the expensive option that also drops two of the things TradingLite had: there is no GPU liquidity heatmap and no scripting language of TradingLite's kind.

Coinglass

Browser-based, freemium, and it does carry a footprint inside its Legend product. Two caveats matter. The footprint is per venue: the documented endpoint takes an exchange parameter and supports Binance, OKX and Bybit, one at a time. And which tier includes the Legend footprint is not published, so we cannot put a number in the table.

Coinglass does merge venues in its Combined Order Book, and that is a good tool, but it merges resting depth. Depth and executed flow answer different questions, which is exactly the distinction a footprint exists to draw.

Bookmap

Worth naming, and worth being clear about: Bookmap is a desktop install, not a browser tool. Its package comparison shows a free Digital tier that does include real-time crypto data, which is more than most free tiers offer. The footprint is not in it. Footprint sits in Global Plus, at $79/mo billed yearly or $99/mo month to month.

Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader

Both are desktop platforms, and neither is a browser tool. If you liked TradingLite specifically because it opened in a tab on any machine, these are a different kind of product.

MarketTrace

We built the cross-exchange footprint because a per-venue footprint was the wrong unit for perpetuals. It is free, runs in the browser, needs no account and no install, and streams over WebSocket.

Binance USDⓈ-M, Bybit linear, OKX and Hyperliquid trades land in the same cell grid, for seven assets: BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, DOGE and HYPE. The base cell is a 1-minute candle, aggregated client-side to 5m, 15m and 1h. Scrollback runs 30 days, paging backwards through the Parquet trade tape until it hits the end of retention. Live cells refresh about four times a second.

Two things there are not eyeballed for you. Runs of 3 or more consecutive same-side imbalanced cells get a zone rectangle stroked around them, with the imbalance ratio selectable at 2:1, 3:1 or 4:1. And walls are classified: a solid cyan dot marks an absorbed wall, where resting size held near its peak while takers hit it, and a hollow cyan ring marks a pulled wall. Every wall is re-classified on a 30-second cycle. Anchored VWAP takes up to 3 anchors and travels in the URL through the ?avwap= parameter, so a chart state is a link you can send. The exact rules are written up in the footprint methodology.

Why merging venues is the part that matters

Here is one instant from our own aggregation layer, pulled 2026-08-20 at 14:38 UTC, on a loud day: BTC perpetuals at 71,468.76, up 9.22% over 24 hours, with 68.86B USD of volume across the four venues, about 6.8 times the weekly median.

Open interest was 16.50B USD: Binance 7.80B, Bybit 4.01B, Hyperliquid 2.53B, OKX 2.15B. Binance alone held 47.3% of it. Over the prior 30 minutes taker flow netted 82.63M USD of selling, a taker buy ratio of 0.4545, while price fell 0.45%. The split: Binance 50.64M, Bybit 14.71M, OKX 9.38M, Hyperliquid 7.91M, all on the sell side.

Now the part that no single-venue chart can show you. At that same instant the order-book imbalance disagreed across venues. Hyperliquid read +0.287 and Bybit +0.223, both bid-heavy, while OKX read -0.245 and Binance -0.013, both ask-heavy. Funding sat at the 85th percentile of 730 days.

Two traders watching two different venues would have described the book in opposite terms, and both would have been right about their own screen. That is the argument for merging the tape, and it applies to footprint cells as much as to depth. We wrote the longer version of this in the order flow primer, and the history of how the footprint got here is in the footprint chart's own story.

What nobody on this list replaces one-for-one

Two things made TradingLite distinctive, and we are not going to pretend the market absorbed them.

The vendor's own description called it a GPU-rendered liquidity heatmap inside a high-performance app, and rendering book history in a browser at all is hard engineering. Other heatmaps exist. That one does not come back.

The scripting language and its interpreter are the bigger loss. Users wrote their own order-flow indicators inside the platform, which no option on this list offers, ours included. If your workflow was built around a script you wrote yourself, nothing here restores it.

What MarketTrace doesn't give you

We would rather you find the limits here than after twenty minutes of clicking.

• Timeframes stop at both ends. The base cell is a 1-minute candle and the top aggregation is 1h. No tick charts, no sub-minute cells, no 4-hour or daily footprint.
• 30 days of scrollback, not unlimited history. The chart pages backwards through the trade tape and stops when it reaches the end of retention. If you want a footprint of last spring, we cannot draw it.
• Seven assets, perpetuals only. BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, DOGE, HYPE. No equities, no FX, no spot pairs, no long tail of altcoins.
• No scripting language and no custom indicators. You get what we compute. That is the trade for zero cost and zero setup.
• No account, which cuts both ways. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing stored for you either. The anchored VWAP state lives in the URL because that is where we keep it.
• Four venues, not more than a dozen. TradingLite's own description named normalised data from more than a dozen exchanges. We cover four, and we cover them deeply.

FAQ

What happened to TradingLite?

The platform stopped operating and its technology was put up for sale. tradinglite.com returns HTTP 200 but serves a single acquisition page, and /chart, /login and /pricing all return 404. The site states plainly that the technology is for sale and that the previous service will not resume.

Is TradingLite coming back?

There is no indication it is. Their own page says the service operated by the previous company has stopped and will not be restored by it. A buyer could revive the codebase, but nothing published says one has.

Was TradingLite unreliable before it closed?

For most of its life it was not. Their own status monitor records downtime in only a handful of months between June 2020 and March 2025, with the worst single month at 2 hours in October 2024 and response times around 200 to 500 ms. Then came one catastrophic quarter: 61 hours down in April 2025, 418 hours in May 2025, 52 hours in June 2025. The second half of 2025 records no downtime at all, and the monitor stops on 2025-12-15.

I was charged for a TradingLite subscription. Who do I contact?

The acquisition page cannot help you. It states that it takes no payments and holds no account records, that account, subscription and billing matters relate to the former operating company, and that if a payment method was charged for a period without service, your card issuer or payment provider is the appropriate route.

What is the closest free alternative to TradingLite?

For crypto footprint in a browser with no account, MarketTrace at /perpetuals/footprint: four venues merged into one chart, seven perpetuals, 30 days of scrollback, absorption and spoof markers. Exocharts has a genuinely free 0.0 euro web tier, capped at 3 crypto pairs and one candle type, with a 24-hour delay for unregistered users. Coinglass has a footprint in its Legend product, per venue rather than merged.

Does any browser tool merge footprint across exchanges?

MarketTrace does: Binance USDⓈ-M, Bybit linear, OKX and Hyperliquid trades land in the same cell grid. Coinglass merges venues in its Combined Order Book, but that is depth, not footprint; its documented footprint endpoint takes an exchange parameter and covers Binance, OKX and Bybit one at a time. Exocharts and TradingView chart one venue per chart.

Open one and check us

Every claim we made about our own chart is checkable in about a minute. The MarketTrace footprint is live: four venues merged, seven perpetuals, 30 days back, imbalance zones stroked, absorbed and pulled walls marked. No account and no install.

Open the footprint chart →

Related

→ Footprint chart: from the CBOT pit to crypto perpetuals

→ Order flow trading: how to read the flow in crypto perpetual futures

→ Spoofing and fake walls: what the crypto order book is (and isn't) telling you

→ Where volume profile is actually free, and what each free tier hides

→ Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD): the crypto perpetual futures trader's guide to order flow

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Sources

• TradingLite homepage, acquisition notice
• TradingLite status monitor
• Pricing — Exocharts
• Package comparison — Bookmap

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The TradingLite, Exocharts and Bookmap pages cited here were checked on 2026-08-20, and the MarketTrace figures were pulled from our aggregation layer the same day at 14:38 UTC.