Frequently asked questions
How Trade The Path draws its trend lines, decides buy and sell prices, and what it costs.
What is Trade The Path?
Trade The Path is a stock chart tool that fits an upper and a lower trend line to a stock, ETF or fund, projects both lines three months forward, and publishes a suggested buy-in price, sell-out price and the dates it expects them. It uses three years of daily prices. Searching, charts and a watchlist are free. General information only, not financial advice; consider your circumstances and seek independent advice.
How are Trade The Path's trend lines calculated?
Trade The Path detects swing highs and swing lows in a stock's daily price history and fits each line separately: the line touching the most swing highs becomes the ceiling, and the line touching the most swing lows becomes the floor. The lines are not forced to be parallel, and several lookback periods are fitted to describe the stock's current pattern.
How does Trade The Path choose its suggested buy and sell prices?
Trade The Path sets buy and sell levels separately for each stock by replaying that stock's own price history. It simulates combinations of entry level, sell target and holding time on non-overlapping historical trades, and publishes the plan its method ranks highest. There is no fixed house target or holding period. Projections are statistical extrapolations and are frequently wrong.
Is Trade The Path free?
Yes, the core of Trade The Path is free: creating an account, searching any stock, viewing charts, trend lines, projected buy and sell prices, the ranked top picks and an unlimited watchlist. Paid plans add Telegram alerts when a stock reaches its level and the full data explorer. Paid features come with a 14-day free trial that needs no card.
Which markets does Trade The Path cover?
Trade The Path covers US-listed stocks and ETFs, each with several years of daily price history. You can search any ticker by symbol or company name. If a listing is too new or too thinly traded to fit a reliable channel, the page still shows the quote, chart and company details and says that no trend or alerts are available yet.
Does Trade The Path give short-selling or leveraged signals?
No, Trade The Path only covers long, unleveraged swing trading. Everything on the site is framed as buying at a projected lower level and selling at a projected higher level, within a holding period based on the stock's own history. It publishes no short signals and no leveraged strategies. General information only, not financial advice; consider your circumstances and seek independent advice.
Is Trade The Path financial advice?
No, Trade The Path provides information only and is not financial advice. Its trend lines and projected prices are statistical extrapolations of past price action and are frequently wrong. It is not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer, trading involves risk of loss, and past performance does not guarantee future results. General information only, not financial advice; consider your circumstances and seek independent advice.
General information only, not financial advice; consider your circumstances and seek independent advice.
What is the data explorer?
A single table containing every stock the site follows and every figure the analysis produces for it — current price, buy level, predicted target and how far off it is, expected return per day of money tied up, how many comparable setups on that stock back the target and how often they reached it, the entry plan's own replayed hit rate and typical drawdown, the fit quality, how much history is cached, and, for anything that is not a candidate today, exactly which test it failed. Every column sorts and filters, so you can screen for the fastest returns rather than the biggest targets, demand a minimum weight of evidence before trusting a target, or exclude anything whose plan has historically ridden a drawdown you would not sit through. The explorer is included in every paid plan and in the 14-day free trial; without one you still see the page, a live sample of real rows and the summary figures.