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Trade Scanner
Spot chart patterns live as they form
Drawing trendlines on hundreds of charts takes all day. Trade Ideas watches the market for you and flags triangles, double tops, head and shoulders and candle patterns the moment they complete.
It finds stocks that just finished a known chart shape. A double top is two highs near the same price. A triangle is lower highs and higher lows squeezing together. A hammer is a candle with a long lower tail.
You could find these by flipping through charts. The scan watches the whole market at once and tells you which stock, which pattern and at what prices.
Most candle, MACD, Stochastic and consolidation alerts come in several bar lengths, like 5, 15 and 60 minutes. The 5 minute version is linked here; the help page lists the rest.
How detection works as patterns form
Trade Ideas reads every trade as it prints and keeps each stock’s turning points up to date. When the last piece of a pattern falls into place, the alert fires right then.
Candle alerts fire when the bar closes, since a candle isn’t finished until then. Geometric alerts fire when the final turning point is set.
These are Streaming Alerts in TI Pro, our desktop app for Windows. On a Mac, run it through Parallels.
Set it up in 4 steps
In TI Pro, open a Streaming Alerts window.
Turn on the patterns you trade, like Double Top and Triangle Bottom, or Hammer on 15 minutes.
Save the window and turn on sound, so you hear a pattern complete without staring at it.
How traders use pattern alerts
Watchlist. A pattern on a stock already moving on volume gets a closer look.
Levels. The alert lists the prices that formed the pattern. Traders use those for entries and stops.
Confirmation. Some only take a breakout when a candle pattern lines up with it.
A real chart exampleReal Trade Ideas chart: a 5 Minute Doji alert on ADMA.
The boxed candle opens and closes at nearly the same price, and the alert marks it as the bar closes. A doji says buyers and sellers were even for that bar. What comes next is up to the following bars.
Risks and common mistakes
Patterns fail. A double top can break higher, and a hammer can be followed by more selling.
Short bar lengths fire a lot of alerts. Start with longer bars, or add Relative Volume to cut the noise.
Don’t trade a pattern on a stock with wide spreads or thin volume. The shape means less when few shares trade.
Free account, just an email. No card. Live access for a limited time.
Chart pattern scanner FAQ
Plain answers to what traders ask about pattern recognition in Trade Ideas.
What is a chart pattern recognition scanner?
Software that checks many charts at once for set shapes, like triangles or double tops, and tells you when one completes. Trade Ideas does it with Streaming Alerts, one alert per pattern.
Which chart patterns does Trade Ideas find?
Geometric: triangle, double top and bottom, head and shoulders and inverted, rectangle and broadening tops and bottoms. Candles: hammer, hanging man, engulfing, doji, dark cloud cover, bottoming tail, NR7 and 1-2-3 continuation. Plus consolidation and channel breakouts, support and resistance crosses, and MACD and Stochastic crossovers. See the Geometric and Candle lists.
Is there a stock pattern scanner that works in real time?
Yes. The pattern alerts are Streaming Alerts. They fire when the pattern completes, not on the next refresh.
Is this AI chart pattern recognition?
The pattern alerts are rule based. Each one has written rules on its help page, so you can see exactly why it fired. Holly AI Signals are a separate feature and part of TI Premium.
Can I get a free chart pattern scanner?
You can try it with a free account, just an email, no card. Live access is for a limited time, then it is part of a paid plan.
Does chart pattern recognition software work on a Mac?
TI Pro runs on Windows. On a Mac, traders run it through Parallels.
Do chart patterns work?
Sometimes. A pattern shows a shape that has played out before; it does not promise what happens next. Test your rules in a simulated account first.
