PatternGrade vs Finviz
Finviz is a stock screener and market visualisation site. Here is where the two differ, and what PatternGrade is built to do.
The short answer
Finviz is a broad screener with a pattern filter attached. PatternGrade is a pattern scanner that grades what it finds. If you want to filter the market on fundamentals and valuation, Finviz does far more. If you want a short list of technical setups ranked by how cleanly each one matches its textbook definition, with the rules behind that ranking published, that is the narrower thing PatternGrade does.
Where PatternGrade and Finviz differ
| PatternGrade | Finviz | |
|---|---|---|
| What the tool is built around | 75 named chart patterns, each with its own structural rules and its own reference page. | A large filter set spanning fundamentals, valuation, ownership and technicals, with chart patterns as one filter among many. |
| Ranking of results | Every hit is graded A+, A or B against the pattern's measurable structure. The same chart always earns the same grade. | Matches are returned as a list of everything meeting the filters you set. |
| Published rules | Every structural rule and grading threshold is documented publicly, so a grade you disagree with is a rule you can go and read. Neither product publishes performance figures. | The pattern-filter criteria are not documented in detail. |
| What the analysis reads | Price, volume and structure, read closely. Everything in the product serves one question: is this pattern clean? | Extensive fundamentals: valuation ratios, margins, ownership, analyst estimates and insider transactions. |
| Coverage | Covers every liquid US stock (~4,500 names), graded after every US close. Coverage reaches well past the index names. | US equities and ETFs, plus market-wide visualisations such as the treemap heatmap. |
| What you get back | A ranked shortlist, each hit showing the pattern drawn on the chart with the reference levels its geometry implies. | A filtered list with charts, drawn pattern trendlines and links into a wider research surface. |
Why traders choose PatternGrade
- You want your pattern matches ranked, not just returned.
- You want the structural rules and thresholds behind a grade published, so a grade you disagree with is a rule you can go and read.
- You review setups after the close and want the graded shortlist ready when you sit down.
- You want the pattern drawn on the chart with the structural levels it implies.
PatternGrade rescans every liquid US stock after each close for 75 patterns and grades every hit on its structure. How detection and grading work, and why no performance figures are published, is set out in the methodology, and every pattern has its own reference page. A grade describes chart structure, and target and stop levels are reference levels drawn from a pattern's geometry. PatternGradedoesn't give buy or sell recommendations.
Questions people ask
Is PatternGrade a Finviz alternative?
For the technical-pattern part of Finviz, yes — that is the part PatternGrade is built to do better, by grading each match against the pattern's measurable structure and publishing the rules it applied. For fundamental screening, market heatmaps and news, it is not an alternative at all, because it does not attempt any of that. Many people reasonably use both.
Does Finviz have chart pattern detection?
Yes, Finviz includes chart-pattern filters covering common formations such as channels, wedges, triangles and head-and-shoulders. The difference is what happens after detection: Finviz returns the matches, PatternGrade ranks them A+, A or B against the pattern's measurable structure and publishes the rules behind each rank. Neither tells you how often a pattern works, and PatternGrade deliberately does not.
What does each one cost?
Both publish current pricing on their own sites, and both change it over time. Check the two pricing pages directly rather than a comparison page written months earlier.
Which is better for swing trading?
It depends where your process starts. If it starts with chart structure, PatternGrade is built for exactly that and hands you the setups already ranked. Finviz starts from a broad filter set instead. Either way you decide what to trade: PatternGrade doesn't give buy or sell recommendations.
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Everything above was written from each product's own public documentation.