For backtesting intraday trades, LEAN from QuantConnect is a better alternative.
Live trading on IB, Tradier, FXCM, Oanda and paper trading.
Local charting built in for desktop and backtesting.
Lots of tools provided for free data downloads to work with public free data libraries. lean.quantconnect.com
(I'm founder of QC :))
I realize I can't win you over but I wanted to present a fair comparison for others ;)
Also, I work on zipline