They answer different questions. TrendSpider is a charting and automation platform: automated trendlines, backtesting, scanners you build yourself, and bots. Sector Pulse is a board: which of 30 sector baskets the money is rotating into right now, how broad the move is, and an alert the minute a leading name crosses a level on real volume. If you want to build and test your own strategies, TrendSpider is built for that. If you want to know where the tape is rotating before you open a chart, that is the board, and it is free.
| TrendSpider | Sector Pulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A chart or a scanner you configure | A ranked board of 30 sector baskets |
| Sector rotation | Build it from scans and lists | The product itself, live, with breadth |
| Alerts | Rules you write, cloud based, viewable on mobile | One kind: a leading name crossing yesterday's level on real volume, pushed to your phone |
| Backtesting | Yes, across plans | No; the record is the dated alert log with outcomes |
| Charting | Full platform, 1-minute timeframe on every plan | A five-minute chart on each alert and a daily chart in each basket |
| Free tier | A paid 14-day trial, per their pricing page | The board is free, no login |
| Price | Four plans; their pricing page lists ongoing prices from $59 to $349 a month | $12/mo founding rate, locked while spots last. $120 a year, two months free. Cancel anytime. |
TrendSpider facts are from their own site; plans and prices change, so check there before deciding.
TrendSpider if you build and test your own setups, you want automated chart analysis on many timeframes, or you run bots.
Sector Pulse if you trade the sector that is moving and the names leading it, you want the read in under a minute every session, and you want the alert on your phone at the level rather than a scan you have to run.
Several members run both: the board says which sector and which names, TrendSpider is where the chart work happens. The free Sector Pulse API and MCP server can hand the rotation to any tool that reads it.
No. It replaces the part of the morning where you work out which sector is moving. It does not do charting automation or backtesting.
The board is free with no login, so there is nothing to trial. Pro is the alert layer and the full board, cancel anytime.
The board updates every few minutes through pre-market and the session from live quotes, and re-ranks at the 4pm close. Alerts fire on the engine's own cycle, not on an end-of-day scan.
Their public pricing page. Plans and prices change; check their page before deciding.