Tradune vs Finviz
Finviz is where many investors screen; fewer use it to judge their own record. This page compares the two on that second job — measuring a portfolio — while being plain about how much faster and broader Finviz’s screener is.
Checked on October 16, 2026 against Finviz’s own pages · sources listed under the table.
Finviz is the best-known fast stock screener and market heat-map, with a free tier that made it a default first stop for screening US equities.
| Capability | Tradune | Finviz |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio tracking & P&L | Yes | Yes |
| Screener | Yes | Yes |
| Price & technical alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Insider & analyst signals | Yes | Yes |
| Risk / VaR analytics | Yes | —No |
| Tax-loss harvesting | Yes | —No |
| Price | Free right now · no paid price set | Free / $39.50/mo (Elite) |
Capabilities & pricing reflect each product’s public plans as of October 2026. Coarse yes/no by design — verify current details on each provider’s site.
Finviz pricing, read October 16, 2026 on its own pricing page: Finviz’s free tier needs only registration and has delayed quotes. Finviz Elite is $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year (about $24.96 a month billed annually), with real-time quotes and unlimited alerts.
Sources for Finviz, read October 16, 2026: Finviz Elite · Finviz blog: portfolio notes
Where Finviz is strong
- Extremely fast, familiar screener and market heat-map
- Generous free tier for basic screening
- Great at-a-glance market visualizations
Where Tradune goes further
Finviz is a fast screener and heat-map; Tradune wraps a comparable multi-factor screener around portfolio tracking, VaR/beta/drawdown risk analytics and tax-loss harvesting, with backtesting included. Everything is free right now.
Specifically, versus Finviz, the gaps it closes are:
- No risk (VaR) or tax-loss-harvesting analytics
- Alerts and real-time quotes are Elite features; the free tier has delayed quotes and no alerts
- Portfolio return method, cost-basis method and file import are not described on its public pages
How Finviz and Tradune compute the numbers
| Question | Tradune | Finviz |
|---|---|---|
| How is your return measured? | Money-weighted return (XIRR) on every deposit, buy, sell and dividend you record, plus a time-weighted (TWR) base-100 curve. Under a year of history it shows a cumulative figure and does not annualise. | Finviz portfolios show holdings and gains; a return method (time- or money-weighted) is not stated on its public pages. |
| How are trades recorded? | Each buy, sell, deposit, withdrawal and split you enter is kept with its own date and price; P&L and returns are computed from those rows. | Portfolios hold individual transactions, and since March 2026 each transaction can carry a note of up to 2,000 characters, on every plan. |
| Cost basis and US tax lots | FIFO, LIFO or average cost, set per portfolio. The realized-gains report splits short- from long-term and flags a loss sale with a same-symbol buy within 30 days as a possible wash sale. No specific-lot selection. | Not described on its public pages; no realized-gains or wash-sale report listed. |
| Getting your holdings in | Manual entry, or a positions CSV of up to 200 rows (Fidelity, Schwab and Robinhood exports are recognised). No broker connection and no automatic sync — new trades are entered by hand. | How holdings get in is not described on its public pages. Free: 50 portfolios of up to 50 holdings; Elite: 100 portfolios of up to 500. |
| What is the benchmark? | A SPY twin: your own cash flows replayed into SPY on the same dates, on a total-return series with dividends reinvested. The time-weighted curve plots SPY and QQQ. | No portfolio-vs-benchmark comparison described on its public pages. |
Money-weighted vs time-weighted return: the published method →
What does Finviz Elite add over the free tier?
Finviz’s Elite page lists real-time quotes including premarket and after-hours, unlimited stock, price, screener, portfolio and calendar alerts (the free tier has none), and higher portfolio limits: 100 portfolios of up to 500 holdings, against 50 of 50 on the free tier. Elite is $39.50 a month or $299.50 a year.
For a screener-first workflow that is a strong package, and nothing on Tradune is as fast to scan the whole market with.
Can Finviz tell you whether your picks beat the S&P 500?
Not in the way this site means it. Finviz portfolios record transactions and show gains, but its public pages describe no money-weighted return and no benchmark built from your own cash flows.
Tradune’s core is that comparison. Your money-weighted return (XIRR) is computed from each deposit, buy, sell and dividend, then compared with a SPY twin funded with the same dollars on the same dates, with the method published. Around it sit VaR, beta and drawdown, and a tax-loss-harvesting view. Many people would reasonably keep Finviz for screening and use Tradune only for that measurement.
Frequently asked
Is Tradune a good free Finviz alternative?
For screening plus risk analytics and tax-loss harvesting in one free workspace, yes — Finviz has its own portfolio tool but no VaR/risk or tax tooling. Finviz remains excellent as a pure, fast screener and heat-map.
Does Tradune have a stock screener like Finviz?
Yes — an AND/OR filter builder across valuation, growth, quality, technicals, analyst consensus and insider metrics, with market-cap tiers, saved and shareable screens, and CSV/PNG export. Free for everyone right now · no card · nothing to buy.
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This comparison is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners; capability and pricing claims reflect their public plans as of October 2026 and may have changed — verify on their sites. Tradune is not affiliated with Finviz.