Introduction to TrendSpider

TrendSpider is an all-in-one trading and analysis platform that empowers you to chart and analyze markets, find opportunities, build strategies, time trades better, and leverage AI, backed by a robust market data library covering stocks, ETFs, indexes, futures, forex, cryptocurrency, and OTCs. This document outlines its core functionalities.

1. Charting and Analysis

• Automated Trendlines & Patterns & Heatmaps – Algorithmically detected trendlines, chart patterns, candle patterns, and heatmaps.
• Multi-Timeframe Analysis – Apply trendlines, indicators, and patterns across multiple timeframes.
• Raindrop Charts – A volume-based visualization of price action.
• Anchored Indicators – VWAP, Fibonacci retracements, and other tools anchored to specific price events.
• Technical Indicators – 200+ built in technical indicators such as MACD, RSI, etc.
• Fundamental Indicators - 200+ fundamental metrics can viewed as a indicator on your chart.
• Breadth Indicators - 17 breadth types can be used as indicators or as price symbols.
• FRED Data - Federal Reserve Economic Data can be used as an indicator.
• Widgets - Manage your watchlists, alerts, bots, and notes or see more information about a given ticker using news, analyst estimates, insider trades, reports, seasonality, or unusual options.
• Smart Checklist - A popular widget that enables you to automate your entire analysis.  One of our most powerful tools.

2. Finding Opportunities

• Market Scanner – Filter stocks, ETFs, crypto, and forex using technical, fundamental, and alternative data.
• Stock Market Maps – Create custom Maps using any watchlist to see fundamental or performance metrics.
• What’s Happening Now – Real-time updates on news, unusual options, Congress trades, insider trade activity, analyst estimates, etc.
• Smart Watchlists - Use our automatically updated smart lists to quickly see things like '52 Week Highs/Lows', 'Halts', 'Top Mentioned on WallStBets', 'Top Mentioned on StockTwits', etc.

3. Building Strategies Without Coding

• No-Code Strategy Builder – Create trading strategies using visual scripting.
• Backtesting – Test strategies on historical data with performance metrics.
• Variance Explorer – Run up to 52 backtests at the same time.  .

4. Timing Trades Better

• Dynamic Price Alerts – Alerts set directly from the chart on indicators, trendlines, or annotations.
• Multi-Factor Alerts – Alerts based on complex conditions using multiple data inputs.
• Trading Bots – Think of this like it is a Strategy Alert.  Bots understand whether you are in a position and will let you know when it is time to act.
• Webhooks – Route your alert or bot signals to another application like Discord or SignalStack for automated trading.

5. AI and Machine Learning

• AI-Powered Custom Indicators – Indicators generated using machine learning models.
• AI Strategy Lab – Model-based strategy creation and optimization.
• LLM-Powered Scripting – Generate indicators and strategies using natural language.

Additional Resources

• Resource Center: All of our helpful resources in one place.  Hint: Start out with TrendSpider University
• TrendSpider YouTube: All of our videos in one place.