Updated 2026-07-23
What are Hunter Killer and TensorCharts actually built for?
TensorCharts (tensorcharts.com) is an order-book and market-microstructure charting tool. Its core products are order-book heatmaps, footprint charts, volume bubbles, and liquidation visualizations layered onto price, aimed at traders who want to see the book itself: where resting orders sit, how they move, and how volume prints against price at the tick level.
Hunter Killer is built around a single question: where are leveraged positions clustered, and what happens when price reaches them? The centerpiece is the liquidation Money Map, paired with a public walk-forward accuracy scorecard that shows per-symbol sample sizes and 95% confidence intervals rather than an unverifiable accuracy claim. The two products overlap on the word "liquidation" but solve different problems: one is a microstructure lens, the other is a positioning and risk lens.
What TensorCharts does well
TensorCharts has a real, earned reputation in order-book microstructure charting. Its footprint charts and volume-bubble visualizations give a granular read on where volume actually traded within a candle, which is useful for traders scalping short-timeframe entries or reading absorption at a level. Its order-book heatmap renders resting liquidity depth in real time, which is the kind of data a pure liquidation map does not attempt to show.
For traders whose edge depends on reading the live book, order flow, and tick-level volume distribution, that toolset is genuinely differentiated and not something a liquidation-focused product is trying to replace. If your process starts with "what is the book doing right now," TensorCharts' strength is squarely there.
Where Hunter Killer focuses differently
- Liquidation Money Map: a dedicated view of estimated liquidation clusters across leverage tiers, built to answer "where would forced selling or forced buying show up" rather than "what does the current book look like."
- Public walk-forward accuracy scorecard: at /proof, every headline number ships with the sample size (n) and a 95% confidence interval, computed walk-forward rather than fit to history after the fact.
- Descriptive, not predictive framing: the Money Map and its supporting metrics (funding, open interest) are presented as a description of positioning and its historical resolution, not as a forecast or a signal to auto-trade.
This is a narrower scope than a full microstructure charting suite by design. It exists to make one thing (liquidation positioning) as honest and well-documented as possible rather than covering every chart type.
Feature and philosophy comparison
- Primary lens: TensorCharts = order book and tape (footprint, bubbles, depth heatmap). Hunter Killer = liquidation clustering and positioning (Money Map, funding, open interest).
- Time horizon: TensorCharts leans toward intraday and tick-level reads. Hunter Killer's Money Map is typically read on higher timeframes where liquidation clusters build up over hours to days.
- Accuracy claims: Hunter Killer publishes a walk-forward scorecard with n and 95% CI per symbol at /proof so the numbers are checkable rather than asserted. For TensorCharts' own methodology and any accuracy claims around its liquidation visualizations, check their site directly.
- Pricing: check each provider's site for current pricing, since both change tiers over time.
Who each tool is for
TensorCharts fits traders whose process is order-flow-driven: scalpers, tape readers, and anyone who wants to see footprint and book depth directly, independent of what liquidation levels are doing.
Hunter Killer fits traders who want a positioning-first view: where is leverage stacked, how has price historically resolved around those clusters, and what does an honestly-scored, sample-sized track record look like rather than a marketing number. It is built for reading the liq tab as a decision-support layer, not a signal generator, and it pairs naturally with a separate execution or order-flow tool for the final entry timing.
The honest bottom line
These are not head-to-head competitors on every feature. TensorCharts is a mature order-book charting product; Hunter Killer is a liquidation-and-positioning product with a public, walk-forward accuracy record. If your process needs footprint and book-depth reads, TensorCharts covers that ground well. If your process needs a liquidation Money Map with sample-sized, confidence-interval-backed numbers you can check yourself at /proof, that is what Hunter Killer is built for. Many traders reasonably use both.