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Most AI tools in trading platforms feel bolted on. Sidekick is different because it has direct access to the live data already inside TrendSpider, including charts, scanner results, news and earnings reports. You can ask it to review a setup you are looking at, screen for stocks that match specific criteria, or help you improve the logic behind a backtest. It works conversationally, so you refine your request the same way you would in a back-and-forth with a colleague. The practical upside is that research tasks that used to take 20 to 30 minutes can be done in a fraction of the time.

Sidekick AI answering a market question with live data from inside the platform

Building a custom indicator used to require either coding knowledge or paying someone who had it. The AI Coding Assistant removes that barrier entirely. You type a description of what you want the indicator to do, and the tool writes the code, validates it and applies it to your chart. You can keep refining it through conversation: change the colour, adjust the lookback period, add a second condition. The same workflow applies to scanners and trading bots.

The AI Coding Assistant generating a custom indicator from a plain text description

Standard backtesting shows you how a strategy performed on one symbol at one timeframe. The Strategy Variance Explorer runs the same strategy across multiple symbols and timeframes simultaneously and returns a full comparison table in seconds. You can test up to 30,000 candles on a one-minute chart, layer in stop loss and trailing stop conditions, and watch winning and losing trades plotted directly on the chart. For anyone who wants to know whether a strategy holds up across different market conditions before putting real money behind it, this is the most valuable tool on the platform.

Strategy Variance Explorer showing backtest results across multiple symbols and timeframes at once

TrendSpider calculates trendlines, Fibonacci retracement levels and candlestick patterns automatically using exact price data rather than visual approximations. The difference matters in practice: automated trendlines are drawn consistently, without the bias that comes from manually picking swing highs and lows. Pattern detection runs in real time, so you get an alert when a pattern forms rather than noticing it during a post-session review.

Trendlines calculated and drawn automatically from exact price data points

Setting up a scanner traditionally means configuring filters, selecting conditions and running tests to confirm the logic is right. TrendSpider’s scanner accepts natural language instead. You type something like “show me S&P 500 stocks with rising volume approaching the 200-day moving average” and the platform returns results with no manual configuration. Sidekick can then pick up where the scanner leaves off, analysing the results and flagging which setups deserve a closer look.

Running a market scan from a plain text description instead of manual filter configuration

Once you have validated a strategy in the backtesting tools, you can deploy it as a live trading bot through SignalStack. The bot monitors the market according to your rules, sends signals to your connected broker and notifies you when trades open or close. Supported brokers include Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, Tradovate, Robinhood and cTrader among others. A free SignalStack tier covers up to five positions a month, which is enough for initial testing before scaling up.

Connecting a TrendSpider bot to a live broker account via SignalStack

TrendSpider supports direct connections to external data sources through API integration. You can pull in CBOE market data, social sentiment feeds, news from services like Benzinga and other third-party data sets. Once connected, that data is available inside custom indicators and bots alongside the native market data already in the platform — useful for anyone who wants alternative data in their process.

Connecting an external data source via API for use inside indicators and bots