A Free TradingView Widget Alternative
TradingView's embed widgets are the default choice for putting live prices on a website — but they are heavy, brand-locked, and the interesting ones sit behind attribution and upgrade prompts. biquote's widget suite covers the same ground with a lighter footprint: one script tag, twelve widgets, real-time WebSocket prices, free.
The one-tag embed
<script src="https://widgets.biquote.io/v1/loader.js" async></script>
<div data-biquote-widget="ticker" data-symbols="EURUSD,XAUUSD,BTCUSD"></div>
<div data-biquote-widget="pricecard" data-symbol="EURUSD"></div>
<div data-biquote-widget="chart" data-symbol="XAUUSD" data-range="1D"></div>The loader is 1.4 KB gzipped and lazy-loads only the widgets a page actually uses. A page with just a ticker never downloads chart code.
The twelve widgets
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Ticker | scrolling price tape for any symbol list |
| Price Card | one symbol in depth with a 24h sparkline |
| Chart | price chart with ranges + indexed symbol comparison |
| Watchlist | multi-symbol table, optionally reader-editable |
| Market Movers | gainers / losers / most active, tabbed |
| Market Overview | forex, crypto, indices, metals in one panel |
| Heatmap | the day's moves as a colour grid |
| Market Breadth | how many instruments are up vs down |
| Cross Rates | live currency matrix |
| Currency Converter | cross-rate calculator |
| News Feed | market/crypto/business headlines |
| Economic Calendar | releases across 54 countries with actual/forecast/previous |
Why teams pick it over TradingView embeds
- No signup, no key — a shared public key ships in the bundle, rate-limited per publisher origin so one busy site can't spend everyone's quota.
- Real-time, not delayed — prices stream over WebSocket from a MetaTrader 5 feed.
- Themes that follow the reader —
data-theme="auto"tracks the OS; light and dark are hand-tuned. - CSP-strict sites covered — every widget also exists as a plain iframe under
/embed/. - Optional attribution — the small "data by biquote.io" credit can be turned off with
data-attribution="false". No forced branding. - Same data, full API — outgrow the widgets and the identical feed is a free REST/WebSocket API.
What it does not do
Honesty section: there is no drawing-tools super-chart, no stock fundamentals, and no exchange-listed equity feeds — coverage is forex, crypto CFDs, metals, energy and index/US-equity CFDs (~280 live instruments). If you need Pine Script or NYSE level 1, TradingView remains the tool.