The LSE Directory / Charting platforms
TrendSpider is a cloud-based market research and trading software platform built around automated technical analysis. Its core product lets traders draw on charts that automatically detect and redraw trendlines, support and resistance zones, and chart patterns as price moves, rather than requiring the trader to draw and adjust them by hand. Around that engine sit a multi-timeframe backtesting module with decades of historical price data, a no-code strategy builder for turning a scan or pattern into an automated alert or trading bot, and a market scanner for screening across US equities, ETFs, options, futures, forex, and crypto. The company describes itself as software built for traders, by traders, and is explicit that it is a research and execution-automation tool, not a broker or investment adviser; users connect their own brokerage accounts for order execution and the platform disclaims giving investment advice. TrendSpider's differentiation from other charting platforms is the automation layer rather than the charts themselves: competitors such as TradingView or StockCharts require manual annotation, while TrendSpider's trendline and pattern recognition, its proprietary Raindrop candle type (which splits each bar into two volume-weighted-average-price halves to show where volume actually traded within a session), and its AI Strategy Lab for building no-code machine-learning models are positioned as ways to remove manual charting work and emotion-driven decisions. Its customer base spans individual retail and swing traders through to registered investment advisers, proprietary trading firms, and small institutional teams; a paid Teams tier packages seat management and shared workspaces for firms of up to roughly 100 users. Its site lists client and partner logos including ARK Invest, Edward Jones, and several registered investment advisers and capital management firms, alongside market-data and exchange partners NYSE, Nasdaq, CME Group, CBOE, and ICE. TrendSpider was founded in 2016 by CEO Daniel Ushman, who had previously founded and led cloud infrastructure company SingleHop (acquired in 2018), together with CTO Ruslan Lagutin, who had prior engineering roles at TradingView, eSignal, and TradingSim. The company is based in the Chicago, Illinois area; it ranked No. 130 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private US companies, citing three-year revenue growth of 3,514% and placing eighth among Chicago-area honorees that year, and won Benzinga's Fintech Award for Best Trading Technology in 2021. TrendSpider holds US Patent 11,935,118, covering its automated real-time chart-tracking and alerting system. Its site states it is used by more than 20,000 traders. TrendSpider's most recent notable addition is Sidekick, an agentic AI assistant built into the platform that can read the trader's currently open chart, including price action, indicators, drawings, and timeframe, and answer questions or set alerts in that context; independent product reviews report that Sidekick runs on Claude Sonnet as its default underlying model across all paid plans. The company has also continued expanding its AI Strategy Lab for no-code machine-learning model training as a second major pillar of its 2026 product positioning alongside chart automation.
