Guest mode and the Free plan
The dashboard without signing in: what a guest sees, the Free plan limits, what is open for free, what carries over to your account after sign-in, and how to get 7 days of Pro without a card.
Guest mode
The app.spreadfighter.com dashboard opens without signing in. A visitor who has not signed in is a guest. A guest has the Free plan features, but some functions need an account.
On first visit a guest gets the starter layout: the chart in the center, the Manipulations screener (its tab is called MM) and the rooms catalog on the left, the Price and Volume screeners on the right. The layout works right away; nothing needs setting up.
What a guest can do
- Place up to 4 widgets and keep 1 layout. The rooms catalog does not count toward the limit.
- See Free plan data — delayed by 15 minutes.
- Set up charts: indicators and drawings are saved in this browser and survive a page reload.
- See the pricing page, the backtest reports and the trading rooms catalog.
A guest's layout is stored in the browser. In another browser, in a private window or after clearing site data it will not be there.
What needs sign-in
| Feature | What a guest sees |
|---|---|
| Alerts | Not available |
| Trading widget (trading through your own exchange) | "You should login to use this widget" |
| Joining a trading room | The "Sign in to join" button |
| Profile, API keys, API docs | Redirect to the sign-in page |
| Streamer mode and notifications | No buttons in the header |
| Paying for a plan | The pricing page asks you to sign in first |
The "7 days of Pro" banner
At the top of the dashboard a guest sees a banner: "Guest: 4 widgets, 1 layout, no alerts" → "7 days of Pro after sign-in: 16 widgets, 10 layouts, Telegram alerts, delta and order flow". On a narrow screen only the "Sign in with Google — 7 days of Pro free" button remains.
The cross on the right hides the banner until the end of the visit. It appears again the next time you open the site.
The Free plan
Free is a free plan with no end date. Every new account gets it: no separate registration and no card are needed. A guest works by the same rules.
Limits
| What | Free | Pro | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widgets per layout | 4 | 16 | 99 |
| Layouts | 1 | 10 | 99 |
| Data delay | 15 minutes | none | none |
| API access | no | yes | yes |
A comparison of all plans is in the How to choose a plan article.
What is open on Free
- Chart — the TradingView chart.
- Trading — trading from the chart and from the widget through your own exchange keys. Orders go from the browser straight to the exchange. Details: Trading and order execution.
- The Binance Top, Price, Volume and Grid 14d history screeners.
- Grid helper — range and grid count for a grid bot, see Pionex: grids from SpreadFighter.
- Learning — learning materials.
- Rooms — the trading rooms catalog: viewing and joining work on any plan.
- SpreadFighter indicators without a plan mark — in full.
- Price and Volume alerts.
The Manipulations screener can be placed on Free as a preview: the data is live, but coin names are hidden except for the first rows.
Paid indicators on Free
Indicators marked Pro or Max are visible on Free, but only on history. The latest bars stay empty:
| Indicator category | How many bars are hidden |
|---|---|
| Microstructure, Market Structure | the last 6 hours |
| Technical, Quantitative Analysis, Market Overview | the last 6 hours multiplied by the timeframe in minutes: 30 hours on a 5-minute chart |
When you hit a limit
When you add a fifth widget, a second layout or a locked widget, a dialog opens — for example, "You have reached the widget limit". It has:
- "Start 7-day Pro trial" — starts the trial if you have not used it yet;
- "See plans" — goes to the pricing page.
A guest gets "Sign in with Google — 7 days of Pro free" and an "Other sign-in options" link instead of the first button.
Signing in and what carries over
You can sign in with the "Login" button in the top right corner, the button on the banner or the one in the limit dialog. Signing in is covered in detail in Signing in with Google.
- New account. The layouts you built as a guest are uploaded to the account right at the first sign-in — both the desktop and the phone one. Nothing is lost.
- Existing account. The layouts saved in the account open.
After sign-in, layouts are stored in the account and are the same on all devices.
7 days of Pro for free
The trial gives the full Pro plan for 7 days. No card is needed and there is nothing to cancel: when it ends, the account returns to Free on its own.
How to start it:
- As a guest — the "Sign in with Google — 7 days of Pro free" button on the banner or in the limit dialog. The trial starts together with registration.
- Already on Free — the "Start 7-day Pro trial" button in the dialog that opens when you hit a limit.
- From a model landing page or an ad that promised a trial — the trial starts at registration.
Once it starts, you see the message "Pro trial started".
Who does not get a trial:
| Situation | Message |
|---|---|
| The trial was already used | "You have already used your trial." |
| A paid plan is active now | "The trial is only for accounts without a paid plan. Pick a plan below." |
| The account has ever paid | "The trial is only for accounts without a paid plan. Pick a plan below." |
The trial is given once per account. The regular "Login" button in the header does not start the trial, even for a new account. You can start it later — from the dialog that opens when you hit a limit.
End of the trial. 2 days before it ends, a strip "Your Pro trial ends in N day(s)" with a "Keep Pro" button appears at the top of the platform. The button leads to the pricing page. How to pay is covered in How to pay for a subscription.