Everything you need to find a setup and judge it.
After every close, PatternGrade hands you the graded setups across every liquid US stock (~4,500 names), each one drawn on its chart with the levels its shape implies and the record of how past setups at that grade turned out. Here is each part of the app, in the order you'll meet it.
A graded shortlist across ~4,500 US stocks, read on the daily chart and waiting for you after every close.
Each setup drawn on its chart with the levels its shape implies, beside the record of past setups at the same grade.
A heatmap, movers, breadth, ticker compare and a composite score across the whole universe.
75 scanners, 8 families, one grade scale
Each scanner looks for one pattern, defined the way the textbooks define it. The library covers the classical chart patterns, trend stage, volume, volatility compression, candlestick reversals, momentum, gaps and short setups.
- Every card tells you the direction it trades, bullish, bearish or neutral, and how many names it turned up.
- Filter the library by direction, or by family.
- Each setup is graded A+, A or B by fixed rules, so the same chart earns the same grade for everyone.
- A setup reads forming until price clears its breakout level, and confirmed once it has.
- A grade describes the structure on the chart. It is not a buy or sell recommendation.
The pattern drawn on the chart, not described in a row
You see the structure itself. Every setup is rendered on the candlestick chart as the shape that was found, with the levels that shape implies.
- The shape itself is drawn: the cup and its handle, the neckline, the flagpole, the channel.
- Breakout, target, first objective and stop appear as labelled levels, drawn from the pattern's geometry rather than offered as advice.
- Auto-detected trendlines and channels layer underneath, so a pattern sits in the context around it.
- Moving averages toggle on and off, and an anchored VWAP can be pinned to any candle you pick.
The rules behind the grade, printed where you can check them
A grade is worth more when you can see what produced it. Every structural test a scanner applies, and the threshold that separates one grade from the next, is published in full.
- Each rule is published per pattern, so a grade you disagree with is a rule you can go and read.
- The thresholds that separate A+, A and B are named rather than implied.
- Grading is deterministic: the same chart always produces the same grade, with no model inference in the loop.
- A grade describes how closely the chart matches the pattern. It is not a likelihood, a forecast, or a buy or sell recommendation.
Every past setup, openable on the chart as it stood that day
The grade tells you about the structure in front of you. The browser under it lets you go and look at how the same pattern has presented before, and judge it yourself.
- A historical setups browser you can filter by grade.
- Open a past setup and the chart loads as it stood on the day it appeared, so you read it the way you would have read it then.
- The pattern is drawn on the historical chart exactly as it is on today's.
- The record is there to be read, not scored. No hit rate, win rate or forward return is attached to it.
One page per symbol, with the context a decision needs
A setup is a reason to look at a stock. The ticker page puts the chart, the patterns currently on it and the calendar around it in one place, so the call is yours to make with everything in view.
- The candlestick chart, with every detected pattern available as an overlay.
- Pattern cards in the rail, each with its grade, status and reference levels.
- An earnings card showing the estimate against the actual for the last eight quarters, and the next reporting date.
- Every quote carries a plain label, so you always know whether you are reading the settled close.
What the whole market did at the last close
A shortlist reads better when you know whether the tape was carrying it. The Today workspace opens on the freshest graded setups and the market they came out of.
- Setups ranked watchlist first, then by grade, then by score, so your own names surface before anything else.
- Market internals for the last close: advancing against declining, average change, new 52-week highs against lows, and the average by sector.
- An indices strip for the session that just closed.
- A movers table covering gainers, losers, most active and relative volume.
The universe as one picture, or four tickers side by side
Two ways of zooming out. One shows where the money moved across the whole market, the other puts a handful of names on the same axis so their difference is the only thing left to read.
- A treemap of the whole active universe, ~4,500 US stocks, sized by market capitalisation and grouped by sector.
- Colour the map by daily performance, or by how many scanner hits each name is carrying.
- Compare overlays up to four tickers, as normalised percent change or as raw price.
- A returns table beside the chart covering 1M, 3M and 1Y.
Rank the universe, then test the rule that picked it
The scanners answer what is happening on one chart. The quant screener answers where a name sits against every other name, and the strategy builder answers how the rule you just wrote would have held up.
- A sortable composite score ranking the universe from 1 to 99.
- It rolls up risk-adjusted return, relative strength, trend stage, momentum, volatility regime, liquidity and accumulation into one number you can sort on.
- A sector rotation graph for reading which parts of the market are being bought.
- A strategy builder that backtests a scanner-driven strategy with entry rules, exit rules and portfolio settings, returning an equity curve, an out-of-sample split, a trade list and an explicit assumptions panel.
Every family has its own reference page
Each one describes what the scanners in it have in common, and what has to be true on the chart before a setup is returned.
Smaller things that add up
Star any ticker to put it on a watchlist, and the Today workspace ranks your starred names above everything else it found. The interface ships light and dark themes, a command palette for jumping to a ticker or a scanner without reaching for the mouse, and a short guided tour the first time you arrive.
What a grade means
A grade describes the structure PatternGrade found on the chart: how cleanly the pattern formed, and how it stands against the same pattern in the past. Targets and stops are reference levels drawn from that geometry.
PatternGrade is not a financial advisor and does not give buy or sell recommendations. A published rate describes what past setups did. The method behind those numbers is set out on the methodology page.
Questions people ask
What do I get with PatternGrade?
A graded shortlist after every close, covering every liquid US stock (~4,500 names). Every setup is drawn on its own chart with the levels the pattern implies, and it carries the published record of how past setups at the same grade turned out. Around that sit a page per ticker, a market view, a sector heatmap, a composite ranking of the whole universe and a strategy backtester. Everything described on this page is included.
Does it work for swing trading?
That's what it's built for. The patterns are read on the daily chart, and each setup carries a horizon measured in trading days, which lines up with a holding period of days to weeks. If you trade around a job, the timing suits you: the reading happens after the close, on your own schedule.
Do I need to know technical analysis already?
No. Every pattern in the library has a reference page explaining what the shape is, what has to be true on the chart before it counts, and how to read its grade. The structure is drawn for you, so you learn by looking at it rather than by taking a name on trust. Traders who already know these patterns cold use PatternGrade to stop hunting for them by hand.
How does it fit into a working day?
It fits around the market rather than inside it. Your shortlist is ready after the US close, so you can work through it in the evening or over coffee before the next open. Star the names you care about and they sit at the top of the list, which keeps most sessions to a short read rather than an hour of hunting.
Is PatternGrade a stock screener or a pattern scanner?
Both, and they answer different questions. The scanner side finds a pattern on the chart and grades what it finds. The screener side ranks the whole universe by a composite score you can sort and filter. Start from a shape or start from a ranking, and the two meet on the ticker page.
Can I study how a chart pattern has behaved before?
Yes. Every scanner has a browsable list of its past setups, and opening one loads the chart as it stood the day the pattern appeared, so you read it the way you would have read it then. The strategy builder goes further: hand it a scanner, entry and exit rules and portfolio settings, and it returns an equity curve, an out-of-sample split, a trade list and a panel stating every assumption behind the run. All of it describes what happened before, and none of it is a buy or sell recommendation. PatternGrade publishes no hit rate or expected return for any pattern or grade.
Which stocks does it cover?
The universe is every liquid US stock (~4,500 names). Coverage follows what genuinely trades rather than membership of an index, so the names you can get in and out of are the names you see.
Is there a free chart pattern scanner?
PatternGrade is free during early access, and everything described on this page is included. There's no card to enter and no trial clock counting down.
What is a stock scanner, and what does one do?
A stock scanner reads price and volume history across a large number of stocks and returns only the ones that meet a condition. That condition can be simple, like a new high or a volume spike, or structural, like the shape of a cup and handle. Instead of opening charts one at a time and hoping to notice something, you are handed the names that already qualify and you spend your time judging them. PatternGrade runs 75 of those conditions over every liquid US stock (~4,500 names) after every close.
Last reviewed . Every feature described here is checked against what is actually shipped in the app.
See what the last close turned up.
A graded shortlist across every liquid US stock (~4,500 names), drawn on the chart, with the record behind every grade.
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