PatternGrade vs TradingView
TradingView is a charting platform and social network for traders. Here is where the two differ, and what PatternGrade is built to do.
The short answer
PatternGrade tells you which charts are worth opening. After every US close it grades the setups across every liquid US stock and hands you a ranked shortlist, with the structural rules behind each grade published. TradingView is a charting platform with a scripting language and a large community. The two sit at different points in the same workflow, and the graded shortlist is the part PatternGrade is built to own.
Where PatternGrade and TradingView differ
| PatternGrade | TradingView | |
|---|---|---|
| What the tool does | Produces a graded list of setups after every US close, ready for review. | A charting platform, with screening, alerts, a scripting language and a large social layer. |
| Charts | Every hit arrives drawn: the pattern marked on the chart with the reference levels its structure implies. | Extensive charting, drawing tools, custom indicators via Pine Script and multi-asset coverage. |
| Pattern detection | 75 scanners with deterministic A+ / A / B grading and every structural rule published. | Built-in pattern detection plus a large library of community-published pattern scripts. |
| Asset focus | Covers every liquid US stock (~4,500 names), every one of them graded after the close. | Equities, futures, forex, crypto and indices across global markets. |
| Consistency of the rules | The same rules run every day, so the same chart always earns the same grade. | Screening and indicator logic is whatever you write or choose in Pine Script. |
Why traders choose PatternGrade
- You want a shortlist produced for you after the close rather than charts to browse.
- You want detections ranked by structural quality, with the rules behind each rank written down.
- You want the same rules applied every night, with no discretion and no community script of unknown provenance.
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
Can I use PatternGrade alongside TradingView?
Yes, and many people do. PatternGrade produces the graded list after the close, and you can then chart any of those names wherever you already work. The two sit in sequence rather than in competition.
Does TradingView have pattern recognition?
It has some built-in detection and an enormous library of community pattern scripts. Those scripts vary widely in quality and most do not say what they actually test for, which is the gap PatternGrade is built around: the same rules every night, a grade per detection, and every rule and threshold published so you can check the grading yourself.
What does a PatternGrade grade actually measure?
How cleanly a chart matches the named pattern's structural rules. Nothing else feeds it, which is why the same chart always earns the same grade. Target and stop levels shown with a hit are reference levels drawn from the pattern's geometry, not recommendations.
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Everything above was written from each product's own public documentation.