TradingView vs SuperX Charts for PSX stocks

TradingView shows Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) data free with a 15-minute delay, and lists a real-time PSX fee of $3.00 a month, according to TradingView’s data coverage page, checked on 18 October 2026. SuperX Charts at superx.pk/terminal is a free, PSX-only charting terminal that needs no account. It marks ex-dividends, book closures, bonus and rights issues, results and price limits on the bars, and it adjusts daily history for bonus shares, rights and splits. This post (TradingView par PSX ke free charts) compares the two on facts, and says plainly where TradingView is the better tool.

To try the terminal first, open OGDC on a one-year daily chart. Coming from TradingView? One guide page maps each feature and key: Coming from TradingView.

How much does real-time PSX data cost on TradingView?

TradingView’s data coverage page lists PSX under Pakistan with two lines: delayed data, free, at 15 minutes, and a real-time fee of $3.00 per month (checked 18 October 2026). That fee is separate from the subscription plan. TradingView’s support page says that most stock and futures exchanges charge fees for real-time data and that its paid plans do not cover those fees (why additional market data costs extra). The coverage page does not say which subscriber class the $3.00 applies to, and the support page says professional users must buy professional data subscriptions. Check your own status on TradingView before you pay.

TradingView’s pricing page, checked the same day, lists Basic at $0 (2 indicators per chart, 1 chart per tab, 3 price alerts, no technical alerts), Essential at $12.95 (5 indicators, 2 charts, 20 and 20 alerts), Plus at $29.95 (10, 4, 100 and 100) and Premium at $59.95 (25, 8, 400 and 400). These are the monthly prices as displayed with annual billing; the monthly-billing price was not separately checked.

SuperX Charts does not publish a measured delay for PSX prices, so this post makes no “real-time” claim for it. The terminal’s documentation states only that, while the exchange trades, an open chart reloads in place every minute. Judge freshness on your own screen on a day you trade.

What does a PSX chart on SuperX Charts show that is specific to the exchange?

The terminal reads the exchange’s own record and draws it on the bars as dated, sourced marks. According to its guide:

D, an ex-dividend date; B, a book closure, bonus shares, rights or a split
R, a results filing; R?, the next results window; E, a notice of the exchange
M, a move of 3% or more, with a one-sentence explanation
L, a close at the exchange’s price limit; ?, a move past the limit with no corporate action on record

Pointing at a mark opens a card with its source and date, and a record shows only from the day it was known. The terminal can also draw the latest session’s upper and lower price limit on intraday charts; the rules behind that band are in circuit breakers and upper and lower locks.

Whether TradingView’s PSX symbols carry ex-dividend, book closure or results marks was not verified, so no claim is made either way. You can test it in a minute: open PSX:OGDC on TradingView and look for a mark on 8 October 2026.

Are PSX prices adjusted for bonus shares and splits?

SuperX Charts adjusts daily prices for bonus shares, rights and splits, and does not adjust them for cash dividends. A switch labelled Unadjusted shows the exchange’s own prices, and Adjusted goes back; the link key is adj=none. For a 30% bonus, every bar before the ex-date has its price divided by 1.3. Without that, the chart shows a one-day drop of more than a fifth that is not a loss. The mechanics are in bonus shares on PSX: why the price drops, not the value.

How TradingView adjusts PSX history was not verified. Its support page describes a setting, “Adjust data for dividends”, that adds ordinary cash dividends into the price to show total return (how to enable it). What it does with PSX bonus issues is a question for a test. SHNI had a 30% bonus with an ex-date of 7 April 2026, which makes a clean one: check whether a gap is drawn.

TradingView and SuperX Charts side by side

Every cell is a fact checked on 18 October 2026 (TradingView, pages named above) or a count from SuperX Charts’ own capability notes. Where a row cannot be compared, it says so.

	TradingView	SuperX Charts
PSX data, free	Delayed 15 minutes	Free; no delay figure published
Real-time PSX	$3.00 a month exchange fee	Not claimed; open chart reloads each minute in session
Account	Free Basic plan, no card needed	None needed
Markets	Many exchanges, listed by country on its coverage page	PSX stocks and indices only
Indicators	A large catalogue (size not checked); 2, 5, 10 or 25 on one chart at once, by plan	90 in the catalogue, all free; a per-chart limit is not published
Drawing tools, chart types	Not compared (counts not checked)	72 drawing tools, 19 chart types
Charts on screen	1, 2, 4 or 8 per tab by plan	1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8
Scripting	Pine Script	Formula editor, a small language; Pine scripts do not run
Alerts	3 to 400 price and 0 to 400 technical, by plan	Price, drawn line, Formula, move, volume, circuit lock, results and filings
PSX events on bars	Not verified	Ex-dividend, book closure, bonus, rights, results, notices, explained moves
Adjusted PSX history	Not verified	Bonus, rights and splits; switchable
Time zone	Not verified for PSX	Axis and crosshair always read Asia/Karachi
Languages	Not compared	English, Roman Urdu, Urdu
Sync across devices	Through an account	None yet; work stays on the device, with a file export

What about Karachi time, the Friday session and language?

SuperX Charts always draws its time axis and crosshair in Asia/Karachi time, whatever the clock on your device says. A phone in Dubai or London still shows a PSX bar at its Karachi time. The terminal can also draw session lines and the Friday break for Jumu’ah prayers; the schedule itself is in PSX trading hours, the Friday session and holidays.

The terminal speaks English, Roman Urdu and Urdu. In Urdu the panels open on the left while the chart still reads left to right. A shared link opens in the language it was shared in (lang=rur or lang=ur), and plain-language alerts understand Roman Urdu: the guide’s own example is “agar HBL 200 din ki average se upar band ho to batao”. TradingView’s language list was not compared.

How do scripts, indicators and alerts compare?

Scripts. Pine Script is a full scripting language, and TradingView hosts community-published scripts. SuperX Charts has a Formula editor in the Indicators panel. A formula is at most 500 characters, runs apart from the page with no network, and travels in the share link. The guide’s examples are close / close(KSE100) and rsi(close, 14) > 70 as an alert condition. Pine scripts do not run there, and the terminal’s capability notes mark Pine Script and a strategy tester as “skip”.

Indicators. The count is 90 in SuperX Charts’ catalogue against TradingView limits of 2 to 25 per chart by plan. A count does not say which tool has the one you want, so check the exact name first.

Alerts. SuperX Charts has no plans, so its alerts have no plan tiers, and a tab checks them while it is open. If you turn on “Notify me when the tab is closed”, the server holds up to 200 alerts per device and sends a notice to your browser. A formula alert is checked in the tab only.

Where is TradingView the better choice?

TradingView is the better choice in these cases, and SuperX Charts does not claim otherwise:

You follow more than PSX. TradingView covers many exchanges on one screen. SuperX Charts covers PSX stocks and indices only.
You write or use Pine Script. Pine scripts do not run in SuperX Charts, and SuperX has no community of published scripts.
You want layouts and drawings on every device through an account. SuperX Charts keeps them on the device you used, with “Your work as one file” to move them. Cloud sync is planned, not built.
You want a native phone app. SuperX Charts is a web app that works in a phone browser. It has no native app today.
You want trading from the chart. SuperX Charts has no trading buttons and links to no broker.
You need sub-minute timeframes or footprint charts. The terminal’s notes skip both, because the exchange’s data is per minute.

SuperX Charts fits if you follow only PSX, want the exchange’s corporate events and price limits on the bars, want Roman Urdu or Urdu, and want it free with no account. That describes a fit, not quality: no measured speed or accuracy comparison is claimed. One more fact: SuperX Charts draws with the open-source Lightweight Charts library, which TradingView publishes, and credits it in the footer. The library draws the picture. The price data does not come from TradingView. TradingView is a trademark of its owner, and SuperX Charts is not affiliated with it.

How do I move a PSX chart from TradingView to SuperX Charts?

Read Coming from TradingView. It lists the keys that are the same, such as Alt+T for a trend line and Ctrl+K for quick search.
Open a symbol with a link, for example OGDC, or type it into the symbol box. Each symbol also has a share page that states its latest close with a date: the HBL page read Rs 290.42 on 16 October 2026, and the MEBL page read Rs 545.82.
Compare two names: HBL against the KSE-100 on a percent axis.
Choose English, Roman Urdu or Urdu under Language in the ⋯ menu.
Check a corporate action: look at a symbol with a known ex-date, then click Unadjusted to see the exchange’s own prices.

The OGDC share page read on 18 October 2026: OGDC closed at Rs 299.10 on 16 October 2026, down 1.04% on the day and up 15.8% over one year. The company also has a chart page on SuperX and a dividend history.

What could not be checked?

TradingView on PSX events, adjustment and time zone.
Whether a free Basic account can buy PSX real-time data (the pricing page lists a data purchase option under the paid plans; the Basic row did not mention it).
Professional rates, and TradingView’s drawing-tool and chart-type counts.
A speed or delay measurement for SuperX Charts. None was made, so none is stated.

Frequently asked questions

Is TradingView free for PSX stocks?

PSX is listed on TradingView’s data coverage page with free delayed data at 15 minutes (checked 18 October 2026). Real-time PSX data is a separate $3.00 a month fee on that page.

Is there a free TradingView alternative for PSX charts?

SuperX Charts at superx.pk/terminal is a free PSX charting terminal that needs no account. It covers PSX only, has 90 indicators and 72 drawing tools, and works in English, Roman Urdu and Urdu.

Does SuperX Charts use TradingView data?

No. It uses the open-source Lightweight Charts library that TradingView publishes to draw, and credits it in the footer. The price data does not come from TradingView.

Do Pine Scripts run on SuperX Charts?

No. SuperX Charts has its own small Formula language for indicators and alerts, limited to 500 characters per formula.

Education, not investment advice.