After hands-on testing, I found Finviz to be a powerful free stock screener, swift market heatmaps and impressive stock chart pattern recognition.| Liberated Stock Trader
My test trades yielded a 1.77 reward-to-risk ratio, with an average winning trade of 8.5%. Across a large sample, an ATR-based strategy yielded a small gain per trade, but it lost more often than it won and experienced significant drawdowns.| Liberated Stock Trader
My reliability testing of Bollinger Bands on the S&P 500, using 13,360 years of data, suggests it is an unprofitable indicator for traders. However, Bollinger Bands can be highly profitable, with the optimal settings.| Liberated Stock Trader
The Stochastic Oscillator momentum indicator compares an asset's closing price to a range of its previous prices. It oscillates between 0 and 100; below 20 indicates oversold, and above 80 suggests an overbought market.| Liberated Stock Trader
Our research shows that long-term buy-and-hold investing leads to significant profits. Over the past 30 years, annual stock market returns have averaged 10.7%, bonds and real estate yielded 4.8%, and gold returned 6.8%.| Liberated Stock Trader
Decades of research reveal the double bottom pattern has an 88% success rate in bull markets and an average profit potential of +50%. The double-bottom chart pattern is one of the most reliable and accurate chart indicators in technical analysis.| Liberated Stock Trader
My research shows the most reliable and accurate bullish patterns are the cup-and-handle, with a 95% bullish success rate, head-and-shoulders (89%), double-bottom (88%), and triple-bottom (87%).| Liberated Stock Trader
I backtested 360 years of data on the 30 most important US stocks, and our findings prove that Heikin-Ashi chart strategies outperform 66% of equities vs. a buy-and-hold strategy.| Liberated Stock Trader
There are two types of continuation patterns: bullish and bearish. Bullish continuation patterns occur when the market is trending upwards, while bearish continuation patterns happen when the market is trending downwards.| Liberated Stock Trader
I tested 23,487 RSI trades on 820 years of exchange data. When configured correctly, RSI can be highly profitable, with a 53% success rate and an average of 65% winning trades. The RSI setting of 14 on a 1-hour chart is the most reliable configuration for identifying profitable buy and sell signals.| Liberated Stock Trader
In my 40-day, 5-minute day trading test, pairing ROC with a Heikin Ashi chart outperformed the market 93% of the time, compared to 43% with classic candles, while increasing the win rate (55% vs. 45%) and reward-to-risk ratio (2.7 vs. 1.84).| Liberated Stock Trader
Research shows that the most reliable chart patterns are the Head and Shoulders, with an 89% success rate, the Double Bottom (88%), and the Triple Bottom and Descending Triangle (87%). The Rectangle Top is the most profitable, with an average win of 51%, followed by the Rectangle Bottom with 48%.| Liberated Stock Trader
My 2025 testing awards TradingView 4.8 stars due to its continued innovation in chart analysis, pattern recognition, screening, and backtesting. TradingView is my top recommendation for US and international traders.| Liberated Stock Trader
My testing awards Trendspider 4.8/5 stars due to its innovation. Its powerful algorithms recognize trendlines, chart patterns, and candlesticks automatically. It also has automated trading bots, real AI LLMs, and powerful point-and-click back- testing.| Liberated Stock Trader
Our research on 10,400 years of exchange data shows the best day trading indicators are the Price Rate of Change, VWAP, Weighted Moving Average, Hull Moving Average, Simple Moving Average, and RSI.| Liberated Stock Trader