TC2000 Charts, Scanning & Trading Test & Review 2024

TC2000 is a popular trading platform that has been around for over 30 years and is well-respected in the industry. But is it still relevant today?

My TC2000 testing uncovers powerful market scanning, live trading, and options charts for US traders. TC2000 is powerful and cost-effective but lags behind the competition in backtesting, AI pattern recognition, and social features.

One of the standout features of TC2000 is its market scanning, which allows users to quickly filter through thousands of stocks based on specific criteria such as price, volume, and technical indicators

Test Ratings

TC2000 Rating	4.2/5.0
💸 Pricing	★★★★★
💻 Software	★★★★★
🚦 Trading	★★★★★
📡 Scanning	★★★★★
📰 News & Social	★✩✩✩✩
📈 Charting	★★★★★
💡 Pattern Recognition	★✩✩✩✩
🔍 Backtesting	★✩✩✩✩
🖱 Usability	★★★★★

Verdict

My TC2000 testing reveals powerful real-time stock scanning, charts, and custom indicators for US stock and options traders. Broker integration and advanced technical analysis features like options strategy charting, and trade execution are also big benefits. The only functionality missing is backtesting.

Key Features

⚡ Features	Charts, Custom Indicators, EasyScan
🏆 Unique Features	TC2000 Brokerage, Options Strategies
🎯 Best for	Stock & Options Traders
♲ Subscription	Monthly, Yearly, Bi-Annually
💰 Price	Free or $60/m or $50/m annually
🆓 Free	Try TC2000 Free
💻 OS	PC, Mac, Web
🎮 Trial	Yes, 30-Day
✂ Discount	-25% for 2-Year Subscription
🌎 Region	USA

*If you sign up for TC2000, you will receive ebooks & training discounts worth $199 from LiberatedStockTrader.com

What is TC2000?

TC2000 by Worden Brothers Inc. is a leading technical analysis and stock market screening platform. Its mature service includes a good selection of stock charts, indicators, and fundamental scanning. Voted Best Software by Stock & Commodities magazine for 25 years straight, it is a great option for US investors.

As a professionally certified market analyst, TC2000 (Telechart) has long been one of my favorite tools. I have been a Platinum service subscriber for over 20 years and find the latest release another great step forward. Endlessly customizable and scalable, the platform offers everything an investor in stocks, exchange-traded funds, and options would need.

TC2000 features in our Best Stock Market Analysis Software Review, beating 25 other competitors.

Pros

• Excellent US Customer Support & Training Webinars
• Trade Stocks & Options From Charts
• Great Selection of Charts & Indicators
• Options Strategies & Live Trading
• Real-time Entire Market Scanning
• Great Usability & Simple Setup

Cons

• No Social Community
• No Backtesting
• No Forecasting

Compare to Similar Products

Our tests show that TC2000 lacks many AI and pattern recognition features compared to TradingView, TrendSpider, MetaStock, and Trade Ideas. TC2000 is better for options trading. TrendSpider is better for automated stock chart analysis, backtesting, and automated bot trading. Stock Rover is better than TC2000 for long-term growth, dividend, and value investors. Trade Ideas is better for AI-driven robotic day trading.

Features	TC2000	TradingView	TrendSpider	Trade Ideas	MetaStock
Awards
Rating	4.2	4.8	4.8	4.6	4.4
Global Market Data	❌	✅	USA	USA	✅
Powerful Charts	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Stocks	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Futures	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅
Forex	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
Cryptocurrency	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
Options	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅
Social Community	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌
Real-time News	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Screeners	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Backtesting	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Code-Free Backtesting	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Automated Analysis	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅

Pricing

TC2000 is competitive on pricing with all premium stock market analysis software vendors; it is a leader in pricing, with only TradingView offering a similar price point.

TC2000 is free for basic charts and trendlines. The silver service costs $9.99 monthly and unlocks indicators, watchlists, and trading. Gold costs $29.99 monthly and adds scanning, multiple monitors, and alerts. Platinum is priced at $59.99 monthly for historical condition and real-time scanning.

You must opt for the Gold service for robust stock charting software because Silver is not worth $10 monthly.

Is TC2000 Free?

Yes, you can download and use TC2000 for free. The free version lets you view bar, candle, and Heikin Ashi stock & option charts and draw trendlines. You will need a gold or platinum subscription for customizable layouts, watchlists, and plot stock chart indicators.

The free version of TC2000 is useful but does not have the essential features you need.

Silver Pricing & Features

Starting at $9.99/mo, the silver subscription enables more features, allowing you to plot advanced stock chart indicators, use customizable watchlists, simulate paper trading, or trade through the TC2000 Brokerage. You will also need a data subscription, costing $14.99 per month. In my opinion, the Silver service is not worth $10/mo due to many features being restricted.

• All service levels enable you to use the TC2000 Brokerage, enabling live from the chart trading and competitive commissions.
• 100,000 stock, options, and exchange-traded fund data
• Real-time streaming data is available with an additional charge per exchange connection. This is the same for all software providers.
• Eight great layouts are ready for use, including my favorite Sector Drilldown, which I discuss later in the review.
• Unlimited watchlists with 80 pre-built layouts
• Personal Notes to keep track of your actions
• Unbelievable application flexibility, probably the best in the industry, enabling you to build intricate workflows, tabs, and pop-out windows
• Mobile access to your charts, watchlists, and settings.

Gold Pricing & Features (Recommended)

The TC2000 gold service costs $29.99 monthly, and a bi-annual subscription offers a 25% discount. The gold service includes real-time stock and options scanning, custom conditions, 100 alerts, and custom formulas. It strikes a good balance between price and functionality.

I highly recommend Gold Service because of the following features:

• EasyScan allows you to unleash powerful fundamental scanning; you can scan on EPS, PE Ratio, Earnings Growth, Sales, and many more.
• Unlocks Technical & Fundamental Scanning Combinations—for example, if you want to combine the stock price crossing the 20-day moving average plus a volume surge with growth in the earnings per share for the last quarter, this is only possible with TC2000.
• EasyScan results are displayed extremely quickly – this can save a lot of time.
• 100 Alerts are enabled. TC2000 has an excellent, extremely flexible alert system that allows you to alert on any indicator, price, or trendline. Alerts can be routed to your email, SMS, or an on-screen popup.
• Charting of Fundamentals from MorningStar – This is great because it enables you to plot, for example, earnings per share (EPS) on the chart. This lets you see visually if a company has accelerated earnings over time.

Platinum Price & Features

The Platinum service is double the price of the Gold service, costing $59.98, and includes the real-time EasyScan dashboard, historical scanning, and customizable indicators.

• Easyscan is now real-time; watchlists’ scans and criteria pulsate with activity as they constantly refresh.
• Real-time scan results, so you can set up reports that summarize the results of your scans to enable simpler tracking of thousands of data points.
• Historical condition testing and scan results are a type of backtesting functionality.
• 1,000 stock and option alerts.
• Build custom market timing indicators from scan plots.
• A $300 discount annually when you trade once per month with a TC2000 Brokerage Account.

TC2000’s competitive pricing starts at only $9.99/mo for the Silver package. I recommend the Gold service, as you get a more powerful alert engine and unlock the huge power of the technical and fundamental scanning and filtering that TC2000 is famous for. TC2000 is aimed squarely at trading stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and stock options, specifically in the US market.

Gold vs. Platinum

While both the TC2000 Gold and Platinum services are excellent, Platinum unlocks real-time scanning, historical condition testing, and custom indicator creation. Plus, if you decide to trade stocks with TC2000 Brokerage, you will get an annual $300 rebate on TC2000.

TC2000 Discount

Our partnership with TC2000 enables us to share a discount coupon worth $25 off your first purchase. You can also combine it with a bi-annual subscription, which saves an additional 25%.

TC2000 Discount Coupon

TC2000 Software

TC2000 is free to download for PC or Apple IOS devices. I have been testing and using the software since 1999, and I can confirm the platform is first-class, mature, and reliable.

TC2000 for Windows Download

Developed with Microsoft’s Dot.net framework, TC2000 runs natively on the PC. It is fast, responsive, and simple to use. The software’s resolution enables intricate design details that other development platforms cannot match. It is very quick to download, and installation is a breeze.

Download TC2000 for Windows Free

TC2000 for Mac/IOS Download

There is no additional cost to access TC2000 from a Mac, mobile device, or web client. If you want to use the PC version on an Apple device, you require the free Parallels Client App. TC2000 can only be run from one device at a time. The following devices are supported: Mac, iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Android Tablet, Android Phone, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Chromebook, and Kindle Fire.

Download TC2000 for Mac Free

TC2000 App for Adroid & IOS

• Google Play Store Rating: ★★★
• Our Service Rating: ★★★★

TC2000 has a 3-star-rated app on the Google Play Store but is unavailable on the Apple App Store. However, you can access the fully functional TC2000 by installing TC2000 Anywhere.

While the current reviews on the Play Store suggest some technical issues, TC2000 has recently been updated to run natively on all devices. I have tested it, and the new version is excellent.

It is an incredibly powerful yet easy-to-use stock analysis suite.

TC2000 is ideal for those wanting to trade and invest in the US and Canadian stock markets, as international exchanges are not supported. Worden Brothers, who created TC2000, have also launched the TC2000 Brokerage, which has some incredible benefits:

• You can trade directly from the charts.
• You can scan fundamentals and customer technical conditions and initiate a trade in seconds.
• You get a first-class experience on mobile.

The trades are not commission-free, but the software will be free if you sign up for the TC2000 brokerage. The downside is the app’s lack of social integration, real-time news, or stock research.

Trade Management

TC2000 Brokerage offers live trading for $1 per trade, which is pricey compared to Firstrade, which offers free stock trades. This service does mean a tight integration between the charting software and the brokerage house. Essentially, it means the holy grail, trading directly from charts visually.

Worden Brothers makes a clean sweep regarding trade management with full Broker Integration (if you choose them as your broker).

Options Strategies

Use the Options Trading button at the top of the chart to open Options Strategy tickets directly on the chart. The menu divides strategies into bullish, bearish, and volatility categories. Strategies include single-leg, multi-leg, and combinations of the underlying stock.

Multi-leg strategies then open as a single trading ticket on the chart.

TC2000 also offers a nice implementation of options trading and integration; you can scan and filter many options strategies and then execute and follow them directly from the charts.

Good profit and loss tracking reporting round off the package as a well-implemented solution.

Opening A Stock Option Trade With TC2000

Industry Leading Live Trading

The image below shows how well-planned the order execution is from the chart. You can open an order and execute it based on many conditions.

The interesting thing is that conditions can be any technical or fundamental criteria. So, you could theoretically execute a trade if the last quarter’s EPS exceeds 35%. Alternatively, execute a trade as the real-time price breaks through the Ichimoku cloud on higher volume.

The possibilities are limitless and mind-boggling.

Screening

Make no mistake: TC2000 is a power player if you want real-time fundamental stock screening layered with technical screens, all integrated into live watch lists connected to your charts.

I selected TC2000 as my tool of choice back in 1999 because it offered the best implementation of fundamental scanning, filtering, and sorting available on the market. Twenty years later, they are still a leader in this section.

They offer a huge selection of fundamentals to choose from—192, to be exact—but even better than that, what makes it truly unique is the fact that you can, with a few clicks, create your own indicators based on the fundamentals.

You can then overlay the indicators directly on the charts, opening up a new world of technical and fundamental analysis. Again, TC2000 gets 10 out of 10.

My Favorite Scan & Watchlist Setup

TC2000 is perfect for scanning the entire market in a few seconds for the best fundamental setups of any company.

Key TC2000 Stock Screener Criteria to Find High-Growth Companies:

• Earnings as Percent of Sales 1-Year
• EPS Percent Change Latest Quarter
• EPS Percent Change Latest Year
• A Positive Operating Cash Flow
• Percent Change Revenue 1 Year
• Earnings Growth Rate 5 Years
• Trailing EPS
• Shares Outstanding

Plotting Fundamental Indicators As Stock Chart Indicators.

The chart below shows you how to plot over 129 fundamental variables from the balance sheet, income statement, and financial performance onto a chart. According to the classic William O’Neil book “How To Make Money In Stocks,” the C from the CANSLIM method stands for current earnings. This fundamental criterion and many others are easily plotted using TC2000.

Newsfeed

While TC2000 does not have a perceivable real-time news element, it has integrated links to external websites like Google Finance, CNN, Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, Marketwatch, and StockTwits. The software will open a separate browser window and sync between TC2000 and the web browser. This is, however, less than satisfactory.

For an extra $8 per month, you can upgrade to the Live Briefs By MT Newswire Investor service. This is a reliable news service if you do not need real-time news. If you do, you may want to pay for Live Briefs By MT Newswire, which will cost a mighty $50 monthly.

If real-time news is critical, you may want to look at Benzinga PRO or MetaStock R/T integration.

To have a social community and integrated news, you must roll back to TC2000 v12.5 and use Internet Explorer as your browser. The social integration cannot be compared to TradingView, which is a seamless implementation.

Charts

TC2000 has an excellent array of technical indicators and drawing tools; all the big ones are there, from OBV, RSI, and Bollinger Bands to Fibonacci Fans and Andrews Pitchfork. With over 240 different indicators, you will have plenty to play with.

Here is a setup I use to find divergences in stock price and volume supply and demand; it is very reliable because it uses a mix of price, volume, and price/volume indicators.

All of these indicators are available in TC2000. The chart below shows the implementation.

A Powerful Chart Setup With TC2000:

Top Chart Pane: Daily Price – GOOGL

• Parabolic Stop and Reverse (SAR) is a beautiful indicator showing trend direction and pivot points.
• Moving Averages 100, 50, 10 – the core of any analytics
• Ichimoku Cloud – an effective Japanese indicator

Lower Chart Panes Help Detect Price Momentum Divergence:

• Wilders Relative Strength Index (RSI)
• Chaikin Money Flow
• On Balance Volume

As you can see, you have a huge amount of indicators and drawing tools to choose from in TC2000

As you can see on the chart window, they have also introduced live alerts that you can configure to email or pop up if an indicator or trend line is breached. This is very useful indeed.

Backtesting

If you want to perform powerful stock backtesting or trading automation, then TC2000 is not for you. The platinum service includes historical condition testing and scan results, which is not the same as real backtesting.

If you are a Platinum member and specifically call to ask for the add-on product StockFinder, you may be able to utilize it. However, StockFinder is no longer in active development, which is a shame because it was one of the best on the market.

Advanced Features

As a US investor, I know there are numerous benefits to utilizing TC2000. These advantages encompass user-friendliness, affordability, responsive customer service, robust stock screeners, and exceptional technical analysis tools. The most recent version of TC2000 introduces even more valuable features, such as Brokerage Integration and Trading from charts, along with seven significant enhancements.

1. Condition & Value Column Improvements
2. Upgraded EasyScan Editor
3. Linked Financial Websites
4. Profit & Loss Zones
5. Graphical Options Strategies Integration
6. Updated Formula Editor
7. EasyScan Dashboard.

Other Benefits Include

• Online access from any computer anywhere (including your personal settings, WatchLists, etc.) This is a huge step forward, allowing you to access all your settings, stocks, and notes from any computer, which overcomes the previous version’s restrictions.
• Data feeds (US common, preferred, BB, PS; Canadian, Forex; Indexes)
• Bar Intervals—Daily and above; Intraday (supplied by BATS in Gold; full market real-time in Platinum) This is nice; the excellent near real-time feed from the BATS exchange is now included in the new TC2000 free for gold members.
• Indicator Library The new version has a huge library available and allows you to overlay and daisy-chain indicators.
• QuickSort—fastest sorting ever! Superfast sorting and scanning.
• Watch List Columns created by conditions directly from your charts. This is for those who enjoy the benefits of Stockfinder but wish it was integrated into Telechart.
• News/notes window—streaming news, personal notes 
• Improved Drawing Tools – A great new list of powerful tools, including trend lines, Fibonacci, Gann, text, and more.
• Alerts—trendline, price, condition & reminders—Receive alerts in your inbox when a stock breaks through a trend line you have drawn. Awesome.
• TC Menus—still have EasyScan, PCFs, Custom Date Sort, etc.

Ease Of Use

TC2000 is easy to use and yet very powerful. The interface design strikes the right balance between looking great and instantly useful. A heavy focus on watchlist management, flagging stocks, making notes, and powerful scanning make it easy to use and master. The software setup is completed in a few minutes and runs perfectly across devices.

In the above screenshot, I have drilled into the technology sector and instantly see the industry indexes, such as semiconductor, gaming, solar, etc. What is nice is that we see the sector’s relative performance versus the S&P-500 to the right. Instantly, you can see which sectors outperform the market in 5 clicks. Full marks for TC2000.

Support & Customer Service

Support is excellent on the forums, via email, or the phone. When you call, you will get straight through and speak with skilled personnel in the US; I have never had an issue where it was not solved more or less immediately.

If you have not selected a Brokerage, you should consider TC2000 Brokerage as an option. This means you get full integration to trade stocks, options, and ETFs directly from your charts for $1 per trade.

Summary

TC2000 is a first-class technical analysis and stock market screening platform. Its mature service includes a good selection of stock charts, indicators, and fundamental scanning. Voted Best Software by Stock & Commodities magazine for 25 years straight, it is a great option for US investors.

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