“Bar-replay and manual backtesting are mostly sold as monthly subscriptions.”
Kinfxhk, on github.com ↗
Bar replay is a monthly bill for scrolling candles you already have. CandleDrill replays your own CSV one bar at a time on your own machine, installed once, free forever.
Bloomberg wants $2,665 a month for a dark screen full of numbers. This is a dark screen full of numbers that runs on your laptop, off free public data, for nothing.
“Real trading terminals cost $2,000+ a month. Most retail dashboards either lock the good stuff behind a paywall or run on a single flaky data source that breaks the moment you actually need it.”
Restaurant POS software bills you every month to ring up a sandwich. DineForge rings it up on one Windows box, free, forever.
“Most restaurant POS software is a subscription: a monthly fee, a cloud dependency, and your sales data living on someone else's server.”
Stockfish, your whole game history and a real dashboard, running on your own laptop — where nobody can put the good analysis behind a monthly plan.
“Free, local chess analysis because subscriptions are expensive.”
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