Deepwick is a browser platform for crypto and CFDs that runs a subset of Pine on its own engine, with AI on your own API key, alerts, webhooks and a free plan. Alpha Charts runs the full Pine v6 script on US stocks and ETFs, charges costs and checks every run on held-out data by default, with the AI included. Here is how to choose.
Deepwick's column is what deepwick.com says, checked on 24 October 2026.
| ALPHA CHARTS | DEEPWICK | |
|---|---|---|
| What runs your script | The Strategy Tester runs the Pine v6 script you paste, on its own Pine runtime, on real market data | Deepwick Script, a subset of Pine with over 300 function and variable names; most ta.*, math.*, str.*, input.*, plot* and strategy.* calls run as-is, and unsupported lines are flagged with line and column |
| Where you work | The Alpha Charts dashboard in the browser, plus the Alpha indicators on TradingView (Pro, Max) | Deepwick's own browser charts, with scripts, backtests, bar replay, alerts and an AI chart assistant; not affiliated with TradingView |
| Markets | US stocks and ETFs; NQ, MNQ, ES and MES futures for signed-in accounts | Crypto: over 790 Binance spot pairs and USD-M perpetuals; CFDs from a regulated broker's feed: forex majors, gold, WTI oil, major indices and large US stocks; futures not yet |
| Market data | Stocks live from IEX, the full US tape after 15 minutes (Alpaca); daily history from 2016, intraday from one minute | The last price refreshes about every 3 seconds with the chart open; several years of history for gold, silver and major forex pairs, from September 2026 for the other CFDs |
| Trading costs in a backtest | 5 bps commission and 2.5 bps slippage per side on every run, by default; a commission the script declares wins | Fills at the next bar's open; saved backtests pay half the live spread on every market and stop fill; slippage and commission apply whenever the strategy() sets them |
| Every backtest | Split into in-sample and out-of-sample with a verdict, drawdown analytics, the full trade list and every trade on the chart | Net profit, profit factor, win rate, max drawdown, Sharpe, Sortino, buy-and-hold, exposure, the full trade list and an equity curve with drawdown |
| Held-out test | Every run: about the last third of the history is kept apart and judged on its own, with its dates and a verdict | Not described on its pages |
| AI | The Pine Copilot writes Pine v6 from plain words, checks it and backtests it | Deepwick AI opens charts, writes and checks scripts, runs backtests and creates alerts, on your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, MiniMax, OpenRouter or Groq; your provider bills the usage, and premium models need the Elite plan |
| Alerts and automation | No webhook trading or broker connection | Email alerts on the free plan; Telegram, Discord and webhook alerts, signed webhooks to your own endpoint, PineConnector or 3Commas on Pro and Elite |
| Free start | Unlimited free backtests on a free account, no card; free tools with no account | A free plan with no card and no time limit: 3 saved scripts, 1 active alert, 5 saved backtests, 5,000 bars per backtest, 1 year of backtest history |
| Plans | $49.99, $99.99 or $129.99 a month, less on the yearly plan; every plan comes with 30 days money back | Pro US$5 a month or $48 a year at the founding price; Elite US$49 a month |
The Strategy Tester runs the Pine script itself on real data, not a rewrite of it. Orders fill at the next bar's open, the script never sees future data, and every fill pays 5 bps commission and 2.5 bps slippage per side by default.
Each run is split into an in-sample and an out-of-sample period, stated as dates. The held-out part gets a verdict: survived, decayed, did not survive, or too few trades to judge. Drawdown analytics and the full list of trades come with every run.
The optimiser fits a script's inputs on the past, judges them on data it never saw, and compares the winner against the best of the same number of random tries.
The data and its adjustments, the universe and its survivorship bias, the fill rules and the verdict's thresholds are written out in Data and methodology.
For traders of US stocks and ETFs who want the whole Pine v6 script run as written, with costs and a held-out verdict by default and the AI included, yes. Deepwick fits crypto and CFD traders who want alerts, webhooks and a very low price.
It runs the part of Pine that Deepwick Script covers, over 300 functions and variables, and flags the lines it does not support. Alpha Charts runs the Pine v6 script itself on its own runtime, so a script can occasionally behave differently than on TradingView.
Both can. Alpha Charts charges 5 bps commission and 2.5 bps slippage per side on every run by default. Deepwick charges half the live spread on saved backtests, plus whatever slippage and commission the strategy() sets.
On Deepwick, yes: its AI runs on your key from Anthropic, OpenAI, MiniMax, OpenRouter or Groq, and your provider bills you. On Alpha Charts the AI is part of the plan.
Deepwick. Alpha Charts backtests US stocks and ETFs, plus NQ, MNQ, ES and MES futures for signed-in accounts.
Alpha Charts plans start at $49.99 a month, with 30 days money back, and a free account backtests without limit. Deepwick has a free plan, Pro at US$5 a month ($48 a year at its founding price) and Elite at US$49 a month.
Sources for Deepwick: deepwick.com (home page, pricing section) and deepwick.com/faq, read on 24 October 2026. If anything here has changed, tell us and we will correct it. Deepwick is a trademark of its owner; Alpha Charts is not affiliated with or endorsed by Deepwick. Every tool side by side: AI Pine Script tools compared.