Screen stocks. Study the context. Keep the ideas you want to revisit.
TrendSpider gives every individual plan the same features and separates the plans by usage limits such as scan timeframe, backtest depth and alert count. Match those limits to how often and how fast you trade.
What TrendSpider is for and who it suits
TrendSpider is a cloud-based trading research platform that runs in a web browser, with iOS and Android apps. It combines automated chart analysis, a market scanner, a Strategy Tester for backtesting, alerts and trading bots, and a built-in chat assistant called Sidekick. It suits technical and systematic traders who want to find, test and monitor rules in one place, across US stocks and ETFs, forex, crypto and, for an extra fee, futures.
How the TrendSpider scanner works
The Market Scanner checks your conditions across the supported universe and returns matching symbols in real time. Conditions can mix technical, fundamental and alternative data and use several timeframes at once, and you set them with point-and-click menus or by typing a description that the scanner converts into conditions. Scans can run across the market or a single watchlist and can be saved, cloned and stacked.
- Pattern recognition results, such as head and shoulders, wedges, triangles and candlestick formations, can serve as scan conditions.
- Strategy-based scanning runs a whole strategy and shows where it performed well in the past, on up to 510 symbols depending on the plan.
- More than 700 smart watch lists update automatically, and scheduled scans email results at times you choose.
- The shortest scanning timeframe depends on the plan: 2-hour bars on Standard, 5-minute bars on Premium and 1-minute bars on Enhanced and Advanced.
Charts, backtesting and alerts in TrendSpider
Every plan charts down to 1-minute bars with more than 300 indicators, chart pattern recognition, automated trendlines and Fibonacci levels, multi-timeframe analysis and fundamental data, including 240-plus corporate financial metrics from SEC filings. Custom indicators written in JavaScript work on charts, scanners, backtests and alerts.
The Strategy Tester backtests entry and exit rules, including stops and targets, without code. A trade cost setting models commissions and slippage, and reports include drawdown and trade-by-trade results. Each backtest is capped by candle count, which the plan table below lists as depth. Alerts and trading bots have plan limits too, and a tested strategy can become a bot that sends alerts or places orders through a supported broker.
You can connect more than 30 brokerages and crypto exchanges through a free SignalStack account included with the subscription, with 5 free automated trades a month. Every plan also includes 25 Sidekick messages a month, and paid Sidekick tiers raise that limit. TrendSpider suggests building alerts and new scanners on a desktop; the mobile apps show scanner results, alerts and charts.
TrendSpider pricing and subscription cost
TrendSpider sells four individual plans, Standard, Premium, Enhanced and Advanced, plus a Business plan for teams. Every individual plan includes all features and the same market data; the plans differ in usage limits. Prices depend on the billing option, and TrendSpider says annual billing costs less than monthly. Subscriptions renew automatically, and refunds are considered only within 72 hours of the first full charge, minus any trial fee.
| Plan | Paid trial | Scan and test limits |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $19 for a 14-day trial | Scanner: 2-hour minimum; 2,000 backtest bars; 10 active alerts |
| Premium | $29 for a 14-day trial | Scanner: 5-minute minimum; 10,000 backtest bars; 50 active alerts |
| Enhanced | $39 for a 14-day trial | Scanner: 1-minute minimum; 20,000 backtest bars; 100 active alerts |
| Advanced | $49 for a 14-day trial | Scanner: 1-minute minimum; 30,000 backtest bars; 400 active alerts |
Real-time US stock and ETF data carries no extra fee for non-professional users; professionals pay $29 a month, and real-time futures data costs $7.50 a month for non-professionals. Options data from OPRA is also a paid add-on, and Standard and Premium users can buy a deeper backtest limit of 20,000 candles for a monthly fee.
TrendSpider free plan and trial
TrendSpider does not list a free plan for its platform. Its trial is a 14-day paid test drive priced by plan, and trial fees are non-refundable. Check the selected billing term, first invoice and renewal amount together before starting the trial. Outside the platform, TrendSpider publishes free calculators, market data pages and daily trading idea emails.
TrendSpider pros and cons
These points come from TrendSpider's pricing and product pages.
Strengths:
- Every individual plan includes every feature, so an upgrade changes limits rather than tools.
- Scanning, backtesting, alerts and bots share the same conditions and custom indicators.
- Multi-timeframe charts on all plans, and scanning down to 1-minute bars on higher plans.
- Browser access plus mobile apps, with no installation.
Trade-offs:
- Standard limits scans and backtests to 2-hour bars and allows 10 active alerts, which may push intraday traders to a higher plan.
- There is no free plan, and trial fees are not refunded.
- Futures data and professional market data cost extra.
- The breadth of tools takes time to learn; plans include from 1 to 52 training sessions a year.
TrendSpider for beginners, swing trading and long-term investing
TrendSpider is built for traders, but its limits and data reach several styles.
- Beginners: TrendSpider University, a video library, documentation and plan-based training sessions support new users, and Sidekick can answer questions about charts. Start with charts and one scanner before moving to backtests.
- Swing trading: Standard's 2-hour scanning and backtest timeframe covers daily and multi-day setups, and multi-timeframe conditions can check a weekly trend before a daily signal.
- Long-term investing: weekly through yearly timeframes, 240-plus financial metrics, analyst estimates, seasonality and economic data on charts support longer-horizon analysis, although the tools center on trading.
TrendSpider alternatives and how they differ
For real-time scanning with event-based backtests in a Windows application, compare Trade Ideas. For chart-first scanning on daily, weekly and monthly bars with lower list prices, look at StockCharts. Investors who start from financial metrics may look at Stock Rover or ChartMill. Our guide to choosing a stock screener helps you rank these needs.
TradeClever, which publishes this guide, works on daily data from published sessions. Its daily candlestick charts offer moving averages, Bollinger Bands, RSI and MACD without drawing tools or intraday bars, and its Backtest is an event study of a rule's past matches rather than a strategy simulation. Its stock analysis works without an account, and its screener and heatmap offer a preview without one; running your own scans and saving scans, watchlists and notes need an account.
Is TrendSpider worth it? Size the plan with a test
Because the plans differ only in limits, the useful question is which limit you would reach first.
- Write down the shortest timeframe you need for scans and backtests, and find the lowest plan that reaches it.
- Count the alerts, bots and scheduled scans you would keep running.
- During the trial, rebuild one scan and one strategy you already use and compare the results with your current process.
- Run a backtest with a trade cost set, so the report reflects commissions and slippage.
- Check whether you need futures or professional data, which cost extra.
- Decide on billing before the trial ends, since refunds are limited to 72 hours after the first full charge.
Sources
TradeClever publishes this guide and makes a competing stock research product. Facts were checked against TrendSpider's own pages on October 1, 2026; plans and prices change, so confirm them on the vendor's site.
- TrendSpider plans and pricing (checked October 1, 2026)
- TrendSpider market scanner (checked October 1, 2026)
- TrendSpider strategy development and backtesting (checked October 1, 2026)
- TrendSpider charting and market data (checked October 1, 2026)
Read our data and methodology notes for calculation context. This guide explains research tools and observations. It does not recommend a trade or investment.