Getting started
Create an account, understand the two engines, and start a free Pro trial.
Free & Pro
StockSetups finds and tracks long trade setups across the whole US market and pushes real-time alerts the instant they fire. This page gets you from sign-up to your first setup in a couple of minutes.
1. Create an account
Click Start free trial (or Sign in) in the top bar. Sign up with Google or your email — we email a 6-digit code, no password needed (you can set one later). Signing up gives you a free account immediately and starts your 7-day Pro trial — no credit card needed.
2. Know the two engines
Everything flows from two engines working together:
- Nightly scan
- After the US close, it reads ~12,300 US stocks and ETFs, detects chart and candlestick patterns, and sorts every long setup onto the Daily Patterns board with a score and a trade plan, and the day's candlestick signals onto Daily Candlesticks.
- Real-time engine
- All session long it fires 35+ intraday alert types — runners, breakouts, gaps, volume bursts, halts — into your Live Tape the instant they happen.
In short: the board tells you what is setting up for the coming days; the tape tells you the instant it fires today. New users should start with the Daily Patterns board.
3. Try Pro free for 7 days
Your 7-day Pro trial starts automatically when you sign up — no credit card. If you have not started it yet, click Try Pro free in the dashboard top bar (or Start 7-day free trial at the foot of the left nav, or Settings → Plan & billing). When it ends you drop back to the free plan unless you add a card to keep Pro at $29/mo; nothing is charged without a card. See Free vs Pro below and the pricing page.
Free vs Pro
The free tier limits which symbols you see — not how much detail each one carries. Every symbol on your free board comes with the exact same full dossier a Pro subscriber sees. Pro is about breadth and speed.
- Free (with login): top 3 of every lane + one candle per pattern type, each with the full dossier (score, 30+ indicators, drawn levels, trade plan); the Live Tape, Top List and scan boards on a 15-minute delay; the full Reddit buzz list and top-3 Congress tickers; a watchlist of 20 symbols, 3 price alerts (in-app + browser push) and a 5-position portfolio & trade journal; the nightly board email; the macro and earnings calendars; every public symbol page, the heatmap, glossary and free tools.
- Pro ($29/mo): all of every lane (not just the top 3); real-time, no-delay alerts and Top List; the full Scanner over the whole universe plus saved scans; intraday charts; unlimited named watchlists, the multi-window workspace and saved layouts; custom alert rules and unlimited price alerts with email; the daily email digest and webhook (Discord/Slack/JSON) alerts.