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 free stock chart tool that fits an upper and a lower trend line to any listed stock, ETF or fund, projects both lines forward, and publishes a suggested buy-in price, sell-out price and the dates it expects them, based on how that individual stock has actually behaved. Searching stocks, viewing the charts and keeping a watchlist are free; Telegram alerts when a stock reaches its buy or sell level are the paid part.
How are the trend lines calculated?
Swing highs and swing lows are detected in the daily price history, then each line is fitted independently to the side it belongs to: every straight line through a pair of swing highs is tried and the one touching the most of them is kept as the ceiling, and the same is done with the swing lows for the floor. The lines are not forced parallel, so a channel can widen or narrow as the stock actually does, and several lookback periods are fitted so the line describes the regime the stock is in now rather than a regime it left two years ago.
How is the suggested buy and sell price decided?
Per stock, by replaying that stock's own history. Every combination of entry level, profit target and holding time is simulated on non-overlapping historical trades, and the one that produced the most profit per day held — after being charged for the drawdown it suffered getting there — is the one published. There is no house target and no fixed holding period: a steady large-cap and a volatile semiconductor get different plans because their histories reward different trades.
Is this financial advice?
No. Trade The Path is information only. The trend lines and projected prices are statistical extrapolations of past price action and are frequently wrong. We are not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer, and trading involves risk of loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Does Trade The Path short stocks?
No. Everything on the site is long-only swing trading: buy low, sell high, within a holding period the stock's own history supports. There are no short signals and no leverage.
What does it cost?
Creating an account, searching any stock, viewing its chart, trend lines, projected buy and sell prices and keeping an unlimited watchlist are all free. Telegram alerts are the paid tier, with a 14-day free trial and monthly or annual billing; see the pricing page for current plans.
Which markets and stocks are covered?
US-listed stocks and ETFs, with several years of daily price history each. Any ticker can be searched by symbol or by 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 plainly that no trend or alerts are available yet.
How accurate are the buy and sell calls?
Every call the site has ever published is recorded and settled automatically, and the results — hit rate, average gain, biggest win and the number of settled calls — are published openly on the track record page, alongside a walk-forward simulation over years of history in which the lines are fitted using only the data available on each historical day. If a stock's own record does not support a call, no call and no alerts are published for it.