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TradeCut vs Loom: trade clips, not video messages
Loom is one of the best tools for quick async video: record your screen and camera, send a link, get replies. It was built for messages to teammates and customers. TradeCut is built for something narrower: recording whole trading sessions and turning each trade into its own clip.
Side by side
| Aspect | Loom | TradeCut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | A free plan with limits, plus paid plans | 7-day free trial, then from $14.99 a month |
| Built for | Short screen-and-camera messages | Trading sessions that run for hours |
| Starting a recording | You hit record for each video | Records on its own inside your trading hours |
| Knowing where the trade is | It has no idea you are trading | Detects each TradingView trade, and NinjaTrader 8 trades on Windows |
| What you get | One video per recording | One clip per trade, cut at the entry and the exit |
| Formats | A standard screen video | Vertical, square and wide renders for each platform |
| Sharing | A link with comments and reactions, built for teams | A link with the clip, the result and your handle; no account needed |
Pick Loom if…
- You record walkthroughs, updates or feedback for a team
- You want your face on camera next to the screen
- Your videos are minutes long, not hours
- You want comments and reactions on every video
Pick TradeCut if…
- You trade for hours and only want the trades
- You want each trade findable by ticker, date and P&L
- You post trades in vertical, square or wide formats
- You never want to remember to hit record
Where Loom is the better tool
For explaining something to another person, Loom is hard to beat. The camera bubble puts your face next to the screen, the link is ready the moment you stop, and viewers can reply with comments and reactions. Teams use it to replace meetings, and it has a free plan with limits alongside paid plans.
Why a trading session is a poor fit for Loom
Loom records what you tell it to, from the moment you press the button. A trading day is the opposite shape: hours of waiting with a few minutes that matter, and you rarely know in advance which minutes they will be. Recording the whole session leaves you scrubbing a long video for the entry; recording only the trade means hitting a button at the worst possible moment.
Loom's free plan also limits recording length and the number of videos, and those limits change from time to time, so a full session is usually a paid-plan job before you have cut anything.
What TradeCut adds for traders
TradeCut runs inside the trading hours you set and cuts a clip each time a position opens and closes. The clip arrives tagged with the trade's facts, with captions written from them, in the formats each social platform wants. You can review it as a video trading journal or post it, and the daily recap puts a whole day on one link.
Questions
Can I record a whole trading day with Loom?
You can, within the recording limits of your Loom plan. Its free plan caps how long and how many videos you can record, and paid plans raise those caps; the exact numbers change, so check Loom's own pricing page. Even with a long recording, finding each trade in it is still your job.
Can I share TradeCut clips with a link, like a Loom?
Yes. Any exported clip can be published as a link that plays in the browser, and whoever opens it needs no account. The page shows your clip, the trade's result and your handle, and you can switch the link off at any time.
Is TradeCut free like Loom's free plan?
TradeCut has a free trial rather than a free plan: 7 days, up to 14 clips, no card needed. To keep recording after that, you choose a paid monthly plan.
Let your next session clip itself.
7 days, 14 clips, no card. Install in two minutes on macOS or Windows.