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TTrade Ideas vs TrendSpider
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Trade Ideas if…
- you work on Windows
- you're in its core audience: day traders, swing traders
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Choose TrendSpider if…
- you work on iOS, Android, Chrome
- you're in its core audience: active traders, swing and intraday traders
Side by side
Feature Trade Ideas TrendSpider
Pricing modelPaidFree trial
Starting price$89/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, WindowsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome
CategoryAI Investing & Stock ResearchAI Investing & Stock Research
CompanyTrade IdeasTrendSpider
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Founded——
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Key features
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- Streaming stock alerts that fire on each trade
- Top Lists screener refreshing every 15 seconds
- Holly AI signals with entry, stop and re-entry points
- OddsMaker strategy backtesting
- Automated trading through partner brokers
- Paper trading
- AI Assistant and AI Strategy Lab
- 308+ alerts and 249 screener filters
T TrendSpider
- Automated chart pattern recognition
- 200+ built-in technical and fundamental indicators
- No-code strategy backtesting on 50+ years of data
- Market scanners and watch lists
- Cloud alerts and no-code trading bots
- ML Strategy Lab for predictive models
- Sidekick AI assistant for charts and filings
- Custom indicators in JavaScript or generated with AI
Plans and prices
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Trade Ideas
TI Standard$127/mo, or $89/mo billed yearly ($1,068/yr)
TI Premium$254/mo, or $178/mo billed yearly ($2,136/yr)
TrendSpider
Standard$51.30/mo (sale price; regular range shown $56.05–$84.55/mo)
Premium$52.78/mo (sale price; regular range shown $57.42–$126.65/mo)
Enhanced$67.10/mo (sale price; regular range shown $73.15–$169.15/mo)
Advanced$111.28/mo (sale price; regular range shown $121.16–$296.65/mo)
Strengths and limitations
Trade Ideas
- Alerts fire on every trade, not only at candle close
- Integrates with brokers including Interactive Brokers, TradeStation and E*TRADE
- A free account gives limited-time access to the Web Dashboard without a card
- Annual billing cuts the price from $127/mo to $89/mo
- Holly AI signals and backtesting require the $178–$254/mo Premium plan
- The desktop app is Windows-only; Mac users need Parallels
- No public API is listed
TrendSpider
- Every plan includes the same features and market data access
- 14-day trial available for $19
- iOS and Android apps plus a Chrome extension
- No-code backtesting and trading bots
- No free plan; the trial costs $19 and is non-refundable
- Sidekick is limited to 25 messages on every plan
- No public API is documented
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