Two prices, read on the official pages on 26 August 2026. ProRealTime Complete: 24 euros a month excluding VAT. Socius Trades Essential: 129.99 euros a year, about 10.83 euros a month. They are not buying the same thing. One is a charting and trading platform that runs during the session. The other is a journal that reads what you did after it.
People ask us whether Socius Trades is a ProRealTime alternative. It is not, for the same reason it is not a TradingView alternative: ProRealTime answers "what is the market doing, and what would my system have done?" Socius Trades answers "what did I actually do, and what does it say about me?" Here is the comparison, on features and prices as published by both companies today. ProRealTime is a trademark of its owner; Socius Trades is not affiliated with ProRealTime.
Socius Trades
What did I do, and what does it say about me?
- Read-only import of executed trades from cTrader, MT4 and MT5
- Expectancy, R-multiples, drawdown, results by session, hour and instrument
- Socius AI answers questions on your own history
- Cannot place, close or modify a trade, by design
ProRealTime
What is the market doing, and what would my system have done?
- Charting with 100+ indicators, custom indicators and market scans
- Backtesting on historical data, ProOrder automated trading
- Trading from the chart through IG, Interactive Brokers or Saxo
- Real-time data for major markets included, add-on packages from 2 euros a month
What is ProRealTime built for?
ProRealTime is a charting platform with a trading layer. Its offer page lists three tiers. The Web version is free and gives 25 indicators per chart, 10 simultaneous charts, 20 personal lists and 3,000 units of historical data. Complete, at 24 euros or 32 dollars a month excluding VAT, removes the indicator limit, raises the count to 20 charts and 200,000 units of history, and adds custom indicators, custom market scans, backtesting and automatic trading. Premium, at 70 euros or 91 dollars a month excluding VAT, goes to 100 charts, 1 million candles in Historical Data Mode, 200 simultaneous alerts and up to 100 automated trading systems running at once, with an optimiser that tests up to 100,000 variable combinations.
The named modules are the product: ProScreener for scans, ProOrder for automated execution, ProRealTrend detection, order-flow charts, Market Profile as a paid add-on. Real-time data for US, Western, Northern and Central European stocks, 120 forex pairs, cryptocurrencies, gold and silver is included in every tier. Futures and additional exchanges are monthly packages, from 2 euros for Eurex to 64 euros for CME, all excluding VAT.
Orders go out through one of three partner brokers, Interactive Brokers, Saxo or IG. That is the point to hold on to: ProRealTime is built to test a rule on the past and then run it on the present, with money.
What is Socius Trades built for?
Socius Trades is a read-only trading journal. You connect a cTrader or MetaTrader 4 or 5 account, through the MetaApi cloud or the Socius EA, and the platform imports the trades that were executed. It computes expectancy, R-multiples, drawdown, and results by session, instrument, hour and day. Socius AI answers questions about that history in plain language. The pricing page on 26 August 2026 lists four plans: Free, with the dashboard, economic calendar, position calculator, real-time charts and community hub; Essential at 129.99 euros a year, with one broker account, Socius AI, a 30-day analysis history, advanced analytics and PDF export, on a 14-day trial; Pro at 279.99 euros a year, with three broker accounts, one MetaTrader cloud account and a one-year history; Ultimate at 499.99 euros a year, with unlimited broker accounts, two MetaTrader cloud accounts and five years of history.
Socius Trades never places, closes or modifies a trade and never touches funds. It has no backtester, no order routing and no strategy optimiser. Those are not missing features. They are the boundary of what a journal is.
Side by side
| Socius Trades | ProRealTime | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Journal of executed trades | Charting, backtesting, trading |
| Runs | After the session | During the session |
| Reads | Your fills from cTrader, MT4, MT5 | Market data feeds |
| Can send an order | No, by design | Yes, via IG, Interactive Brokers, Saxo |
| Backtesting | No | Yes, with an optimiser |
| Automated trading | No | Yes, ProOrder |
| Expectancy and R-multiples on real trades | Yes | Not the product; reports come from backtests |
| Results by hour, session, instrument | Yes | Not the product |
| Natural-language questions on your history | Socius AI | No |
| Free tier | Yes, dashboard, calendar, calculator, charts, hub | Yes, Web with 25 indicators and 10 charts |
| Entry paid tier, 26 Aug 2026 | Essential, 129.99 euros a year, about 10.83 a month, 14-day trial | Complete, 24 euros a month excl. VAT |
| Top tier, 26 Aug 2026 | Ultimate, 499.99 euros a year | Premium, 70 euros a month excl. VAT, plus data packages |
Prices are as listed on each company's official pricing page on 26 August 2026 and can change. ProRealTime prices exclude VAT; Socius Trades prices are as displayed on its pricing page.
Where does the overlap actually sit?
There is one. Both tools produce statistics about trades. The difference is where the trades come from. ProRealTime's performance reports come from its backtesting module: they describe what a coded rule would have done on historical data, and they are the right tool for deciding whether a rule deserves capital. Socius Trades reads the trades that were sent to the broker, including the ones your rule did not tell you to take, the size you actually used and the stop you actually moved. The first number is about the system. The second is about the person running it.
The second overlap is practical. Socius Trades imports from cTrader and MetaTrader 4 and 5. If your ProRealTime orders go through IG, Interactive Brokers or Saxo, that history is not something Socius Trades imports today. A trader who charts on ProRealTime and executes on a MetaTrader or cTrader account can use both. A trader who executes through ProRealTime's partner brokers cannot, yet, and it is better to say so than to let you find out after the trial.
- Socius Trades
cTrader
MetaTrader 4
MetaTrader 5- ProRealTime
Which one should a trader pay for?
Depends on what you are missing, and it is a product question, not a market one. If you have no way to test a rule on history or to run it automatically, that is ProRealTime's job, and the free Web tier is enough to find out whether you like the platform. If you already execute somewhere and have no honest record of what those executions add up to, that is the journal's job. Many traders use a charting platform and a journal at the same time, because the two run at different hours.
What you can see in a journal, and cannot see in a backtest, is the gap between the rule and the hand. A backtest has no revenge trades, no oversized Friday afternoon, no stop that quietly moved. Your fills do.
What your journal would show
The following figures are illustrative demo data, not a real account.
A demo account imports 240 trades from a MetaTrader 5 account over three months. The rule the trader follows was backtested elsewhere at an expectancy of +0.35R. The journal shows +0.11R on the trades actually taken. The breakdown by hour shows the difference is concentrated in two windows: trades opened in the first 15 minutes of the London session, which the backtest excludes and the trader does not, and trades held through 14:30 Paris on release days, where the average loser is -1.9R against a planned -1R.
That is the sentence a backtest cannot write. The rule is fine. The execution has two leaks, and both have a time stamp. You can see the same cut on your own history: connect the account, let the platform read the fills, and ask Socius AI which hour of the day carries your worst expectancy. We look. We never touch.
ProRealTime, IG, Interactive Brokers, Saxo, MetaTrader and cTrader are trademarks of their respective owners. Socius Trades is not affiliated with any of them.
Trading involves risk of loss. Socius Trades is an analytics tool, not investment advice.