MotiveWave Software Reviews 154

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I can say the automated emails can be a bit frustrating and initial wait times can sometimes be long but once I got in contact with support they did a great job of helping me out and getting my Rithmi... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’ve been using MotiveWave for almost 3 years now and I see no reason for looking elsewhere. I think it’s an excellent, top notch platform across the board, but by far the best option as a Mac user.... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Had some bracket order issues going on and Brian from customer support went out of his way to resolve them. He made videos and sent templates to help me get it sorted out. They provided excellent sup... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Motivewave repeatedly showed my positions as winning while they were in the negative on my broker feed. Upon monitoring my connection, it revealed that lags would accumulate during any small amount of... See more

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MotiveWave's Trading Software is broker-neutral and equips active and professional traders with a leading edge trading platform for analysis of stocks, equities, futures, forex and cryptocurrencies.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great software

Great software, light, fast and easy to use.

February 5, 2022
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Thank you!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best of all

I have tried just about every platform out there to include Trade Navigator, Daytradr from Jigsaw, Quantower and many others. MW has a great DOM and time and sales window. I’m not into indicators but they have the full load. MW let’s you save workspaces to the cloud so when you open it on the backup computer it is right where you left off. They have great sales and tech support. Given the pricing, I find them the best value out there for a full feature rich platform.

January 23, 2022
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you for the great review!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

One of the most intuitive charting…

One of the most intuitive charting packages out there, at a great price (or even free), let down by some agonising bugs, excruciating loading times, and a lack of supported brokerage feeds.

But I still find myself using it waaay more than I use TradingView.

October 18, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you for your review. We have 30+ supported brokers and data feeds. If we do not connect to your specific broker, you can email our Support Team to see if that connection can be added. Loading times do vary depending on the broker or data service you're connecting to and how much data you're trying to load at once. If you came across any issues, please make sure to send them to our Support Team so that they can look into them.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using this begainer…

I have been using this begainer friendly community addition and fine with the basic edition they provide for charting still working my way around the Elliott wave and harmonic wave I am not big fan of it so I can how it is overall good experience

August 2, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you for the feedback Raju.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Totally useless software.

Totally useless software.
The automatic Elliott wave is not updated automatically.
When I set the Auto Elliott Wave again, the wave motion is completely different.

July 30, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

We have several Elliott Wave tools. The one that updates in real time is the Auto Elliott Wave Study. The others will fill in the patterns for you when you run them (to help speed up your own EW analysis), then you need to rerun them with a click to update them. The patterns will change based on the new data that comes in, and can also change dramatically if you're using the data window with a set number of bars to look at (instead of using a Start Date). Resources on our website explain all of this. Our Support Team is also available to help you understand the tools.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Every time I open the platform

Every time I open the platform, some setting that I made is not where I left it. Bar width changes, indicator lines turn themselves off, ticks from edge keeps turning itself on. The only save function is "Save Defaults", and it doesn't seem to want to save a thing. And this irritating habit is inconsistent from chart to chart. The Manual provides no clear solution.

June 30, 2021
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Hi Mark, I'm sorry you're having trouble. Please contact our Support Team (support@motivewave.com) for assistance.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The issue was on my end!!!

I owe Motivewave a HUGE HUGE HUGE apology!

Our issue with them getting my email request were on my end. Microsoft Mail did not send ANY messages to ANYONE for over a month! Everything is siting in my outbound folder, not sent!

I will give 3 star rating: Good Footprint, good TPO, mediocre DOM, and bad heatmap!

***Update #2*** I'm thinking about just keeping it, and using it for TPO/Footprint (Volume Imprint), comparison chart, along with Quote-board, while using Jigsaw as my execution. For how I trade, that is the ultimate win-win.

Sorry Motivewave!

June 3, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Update: Hi Michael, thank you for updating this. We will check for your incoming email now and handle the cancellation for you.


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Hi Michael, we're happy to help resolve this for you. I tried tracking down your email address to look up your account, but the email address associated with your forum account is not in our system at all -- not tied to a free trial or a purchase.

Yes, to cancel your lease subscription, you need to email sales@motivewave.com, as our Cancellation Policy states. I do not see any emails from you in our Sales or Support inbox asking for a cancellation under your forum account email address.

Please email sales@motivewave.com from the email address you used to purchase and we will be happy to resolve this for you promptly.

Once we have the actual email address you used to purchase and with which you said you've emailed us, we can look into the emails you've mentioned you sent, and we can process the cancellation.

Our Forum is a User Forum that is answered by our Users. The Forum is not where you request a cancellation of a lease. The images in your post don't show how you sent your cancellation request or the email address you sent it to.

I'm sorry you didn't like our Order Flow tools. Many people do (especially our Heat map). We have very advanced tools (including DOM, Heat map, and more) with a lot of preferences, so it may just be that the settings you were using needed to be set to your preferences.

The data feed you use will also greatly impact what you see in the charts.

If you do want help in adjusting any settings, please contact support@motivewave.com

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic software and support

Fantastic software and responsive support. MotiveWave offers a complete trading package. Charting, order flow, heat map, almost every type of technical analysis tool, scanners, automation (SDK provided), and so much more. It’s a phenomenal platform/tool. I highly recommend giving MotiveWave a trial run.

May 26, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank your for the great review Chris!

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome~ MotiveWave software

Awesome! User friendly and I love it.

MotiveWave software

Scanner: it is very powerful and quickly. Easy to use it.
Interface: user friendly and beautiful.
Indicators : Lots of studies and adding new more studies (all free for Ultimate ver)
Connection: Most of forex brokers can be connected. Trading forex is happy.

April 5, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thanks James!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The Elliott software is excellent

The software is excellent. If you buy a software with a one time payment, you get one year of support. Afterwards you can use the software a lifetime. But if you buy a new computer, you feel, you are at the mercy of the company to get the license going. They sent me the link, yes, but it's a weird feeling. All I want, is the Elliott count. Not more, and that works fabulously with my "old" license. Hopefully they will repeat sending me the link to my licence.

March 29, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you for your review! We will always resend your license key if you need it and the link to the older version you have access to (if your support and updates is expired).

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Motive wave is simply the best

Motive wave is simply the best. There are more features than what a trader needs to maximize profitable trading.

The feature I like most is MotiveWave scanner. Any trading strategy setup parameters can easily be inputted in the scanner, run command and get results. Available options of Elliott Wave pattern, Harmonics, different studied or even a combination of all these concepts can be scanned to generate excellent to fair potential trading Bias. Incredible!

If MotiveWave adds a chart template with three boxes i.e one box on the left and two boxes on the left, then I will be super happy as I prefer to have Daily chart on the left, 4H chart on top right and Hourly chart on lower right. I hope this can be considered.

Thanks for your efforts to make MotiveWave an outstanding platform for both analysis and trading financial market.

Regards

Barnabas

March 23, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Barnabas, thank you for your feedback. We have quite a few chart templates to choose from, but you can also completely customize your chart layout by dragging the charts to where you want them. Please see our Custom Layouts video for how to choose the built-in chart templates and also how to create your own layout: https://support.motivewave.com/videos/layouts/

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

MotiveWave Is The Best

I have never taken the time to write a review before, in my 59 years on this planet, but this software warrants it. It is not often in life you buy something that is worth every penny you have paid for it.
I have been using the Professional/Ultimate version of MotiveWave since October 2019. I chose the full licence after trying numerous other platforms over the previous 3 years. Nothing, in my opinion, comes close to MotiveWave, especially if you study or practise Elliot Wave theory in your trading practise.
As an old timer, it has been easy to set up the work spaces to suit my style of trading. Everything is effortless and seamless. If you don't like something you can easily change it, with just a few clicks of your mouse. I like the idea that there are numerous short cuts to change your charts, wherever your mouse pointer is sitting on your screen. You just drag and drop components onto the screen for your analysis. As a retired engineer I find it is amazing what thought and invention has gone into this product.
I use MotiveWave normally 5 days a week and when I make any major changes, I am able to make a full back up copy in seconds. The flexibility is endless as you make new work spaces to suit all the different strategies and studies that are available.
You can start the day by scanning for good set ups across all markets,(dependent on your broker) using default scanners or use study scans of your own choosing. Every type of trading can be accommodated on the platform: Stocks, Forex, Options, Futures although I can only speak about trading Forex with a live account through MotiveWave.
I have never had any problems at all with the platform, which proves how stable the software is. Therefore I have not had any dealings with support, so to be fair I can not comment on this area.
I particularly liked the very sensible idea of the maintenance plan, which you can choose to pick back up at any time, for a fee, to upgrade the platform at a reasonable price.
The latest version of the platform allows you to utilise order flow, volume profile, volume imprint which is not my cup of tea, trading Forex, but would be very useful for Stocks and Futures.
I am able to back test my new strategies on the platform and it also has an optimizer panel.
The MotiveWave platform seems to have everything other platforms have and just that bit more. The DOM panel is easy to trade off and there are multiple ways of making all sorts of orders either, off the chart, using the DOM or off trade tickets.
This platform has got me so interested in trading that I am attempting to write my own strategies now, using the MotiveWave Software Development Kit (SDK). I truly believe this software is the best kit out there at the moment and it is built with all ages in mind.
If you want to stay ahead in the Trading Game, get motivated with MotiveWave.

March 13, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you David for taking the time to review us and for the great feedback!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Incredible customer service and a…

Incredible customer service and a dedication to excellence.
Intuitive, and with a beautiful interface, I have used MotiveWave for a long time and every update raises the bar -

March 7, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you AnneMarie for the great feedback!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Big data

Big data, highest data. I love motive.

March 7, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thanks Dang for your feedback!

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Motive Wave tools are second to none

Motive Wave tools are second to none. I used to count each wave manually. Now I just used the Elliott Wave scan features and decompose it. Literally, can work of a charts in minutes vs. hours before hand.

March 5, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Thank you for your great feedback!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

MW is wonderful software

MW is wonderful software. My focus is EW and Fib Zones along with general charting. It works very well with IB platform which saves money on data feeds and allows chart trading.

The EW features are exceptional and even better than DT 7 in some respects.

One simple but extremely useful change for using Fib Zones would be to remove the "bug " that defaults to a full set of fib lines when the last fib line is deleted.... extremely annoying and very very easy to fix. DT7 works properly for Fib Zones.

Just to add to my comment re the MW response... to work efficiently it needs to be deleted with one eraser click... also clicking and deleting doesn't work because one has to keep track of whether or not it is the last fib line otherwise click delete will delete all related fib lines prematurely

March 4, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Hi, thank you for your feedback! This is actually an intentional behavior so that if you delete the last fib line, it resets so that the fib component line isn't sitting there with no ratio lines.
If you want to delete the Fib you can click the line and then hit delete on your keyboard.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great TPO functionality

I think this is excellent software. I appreciate the ease of use and the wide range of studies. I use Motivewave primarily because it offers TPO studies and it integrates with IB's data feed. The TPO studies are excellent but I wish that "align letters" could occur without having to go 2 layers deep into the menu. I also wish that there would be the option to represent each TPO by only a letter rather than a letter within a box. I believe this would make it easier to read if the font is small.

March 4, 2021
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Reply from MotiveWave Software

Hi Ravi, thank you for your feedback! If you want to align letters for all of the profiles, you do need to go into the study settings. If you just want to align certain individual profiles you can right-click on the profile and choose Align Letters.
You can make each TPO just a letter by making the box fully transparent. You can also change the font and font size.
If you need help with these settings, you can email our Support team and they'll explain where to make these changes.

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