TrendSpider is a technical analysis platform built around automated charting: it draws trendlines and patterns for you, lets you build multi-timeframe scans and alerts, and backtest strategies without writing code. It is a broad toolkit for traders who want to design and test their own systems.
TrendSpider is a general-purpose toolkit for building and testing your own strategies. SwingTradeScanner is a focused tool for traders who follow established momentum methods and want the scans run, explained and ranked for them each morning.
Where TrendSpider is strong
- Automated trendline and chart-pattern detection.
- Backtesting of rules-based strategies without code.
- Custom scans and alerts across many indicators and timeframes.
- A full charting platform for day and swing trading.
What SwingTradeScanner does differently
- The methods are built in. Seven scans implement published momentum methods — Momentum Breakouts, Episodic Pivots, Minervini SEPA, O’Neil CANSLIM, Sector Rotation, and Parabolic Short and Long — so there is nothing to configure.
- Every result explains itself. Each match shows why it qualifies, its setup score, its 2LYNCH quality grade, and its chart.
- Why it moved. Catalysts, the latest SEC filing and dilution warnings sit beside every episodic pivot.
- Fundamentals in the row. EPS against estimates, revenue growth, profitability and float next to the chart.
- A morning routine, not a workbench. The market regime, breadth and the day’s scans are rebuilt every weekday at 7:00 ET.
Who each one suits
- Choose TrendSpider if you want a general-purpose platform you will configure yourself, and you are comfortable building and maintaining your own scans.
- Choose SwingTradeScanner if you trade named momentum methods (Kullamägi’s breakouts and episodic pivots, Minervini’s SEPA, O’Neil’s CANSLIM) and want those scans done for you, explained row by row, with the catalyst and SEC filings beside each result.
- Use both if you like TrendSpider for charting or custom work and want a ready-made, method-specific scan list to start each morning.
Try the difference
See today’s matches for every scan on the free daily results page, read how each scan works on its own page (start with Momentum Breakouts or Episodic Pivots), or compare SwingTradeScanner with Finviz and MarketSurge on the comparison page.
Product details for TrendSpider are summarised from its public website and may change; check its site for current features and pricing.