TradingPal vs Finviz
If you use Finviz for fundamental filters, heatmaps, news, and a fast market overview, TradingPal is not a like-for-like replacement. It is the narrower alternative for momentum swing traders who want wedges, pennants, triangles, trendline breaks, consolidations, and buy-the-dip/sell-the-rip setups connected to historical evidence on the chart.
Choose Finviz
Best when fundamentals, insider activity, heatmaps, news, sector context, and customizable stock filters drive the search.
Choose TradingPal
Best when you want automatic pattern context plus historical win rate, expected R, profit factor, drawdown, and sample size on qualifying setups.
Use Both
Build a broad candidate list in Finviz, then use TradingPal to inspect the chart, Auto Lines, targets, and any qualifying setup record.
Finviz features, market coverage, trial, and pricing re-verified from its official site on August 20, 2026. Prices exclude tax and can change. Finviz is a trademark of its owner; TradingPal is not affiliated with or endorsed by Finviz.
TradingPal's setup statistics are historical simulated results under defined rules, with wins and losses in the record. They are not live performance, a prediction, or a guarantee of what the next setup will do.
Sources: Finviz Elite features · Finviz screener guide · Finviz pricing FAQ
Finviz is the stronger general-purpose stock screener. It lets you combine valuation, profitability, ownership, volume, price, pattern, and signal filters, then move into heatmaps, news, insider activity, and exports. TradingPal intentionally gives up that breadth to go deeper on a smaller breakout-research workflow.
TradingPal reduces the amount of assembly between finding a technical pattern and evaluating its historical context. Auto Lines, Fibonacci levels, measured-move targets, and risk/reward tools live on the same chart as any qualifying setup record.
The trade-off is real: TradingPal is not a replacement for Finviz's fundamental database, heatmaps, insider feed, broad market dashboards, or export/API workflow. If those are central to your process, keep Finviz or use the two products together.
Both products let you start without paying, but their free value points are different. Finviz Free is a fast, ad-supported stock screener and market overview with delayed quotes. TradingPal Free centers on charting: Auto Lines, the latest detected pattern on each chart, and the #1 Morning Brief setup.
The paid decision is also different. Finviz Elite upgrades data speed, screening, exports, APIs, alerts, and the ad-free experience. TradingPal Premium unlocks the full scanner, complete historical pattern replay, all five Morning Brief picks, and followed-symbol line and breakout alerts.
A win rate is not a forecast. It is the percentage of past simulated trades that finished as wins under the same defined entry, safety-exit, and target rules. Expected R expresses the average result in units of planned risk; drawdown shows the deepest historical decline; and sample size tells you how much evidence sits behind the summary.
Those numbers are most useful together. A high win rate with a tiny sample or weak payoff can be less informative than a lower win rate supported by a larger sample and stronger average R. TradingPal keeps resolved losses in the replay so the record is inspectable rather than presented as a highlight reel.
Finviz can narrow thousands of stocks to the filter or chart pattern you asked for. TradingPal adds a different layer to qualifying setups: how often the defined historical rules won, what they returned in R, how deep the simulated account drew down, and how much data sits behind the result.
Want to inspect how those records are built? Read the complete backtesting methodology, including portfolio caps, 25-run medians, cost stress, and limitations.
One setup the scanner can find — with its record
Price is compressing into a continuation pattern with an upside measured move.
Backtest: Jan 2018 – Mar 2026 Updated April 21, 2026.
These pages answer adjacent search questions without pretending every trading tool does the same job.
No. TradingPal is a focused alternative for breakout research and charting. Finviz remains broader for fundamentals, heatmaps, news, insider data, exports, and general stock screening.
Yes. TradingPal Free includes charting, Auto Lines, the latest detected pattern on every chart, and the #1 Morning Brief setup. The full scanner and complete historical replay require Premium.
Yes. A practical workflow is to use Finviz for broad fundamental or market filtering, then open candidates in TradingPal to inspect automatic chart context and any qualifying historical setup record.
On August 20, 2026, TradingPal Premium was $15 monthly or $12.50 per month billed annually. Finviz Elite was $39.50 monthly or about $24.96 per month billed annually. Prices can change and exclude tax.
No. They summarize historical simulated outcomes under defined rules. They are not live performance, a prediction, or a guarantee, and TradingPal does not place trades.
We post real pattern calls and breakdowns on X — like this June SPY slide, called move by move as it played out. Every call names the level that would prove it wrong, and every call stays up — wins and losses.
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Posted Jun 30, 2026 · open the post to verifyTradingPal's qualifying pattern setups come from a small set of defined families — here's how each one works, and what the win-rate and profit-factor numbers actually mean.
Open a chart free to explore its automatic lines and any qualifying setup available for that symbol. Upgrade when you want the supported universe of 2,600+ symbols scanned nightly.