Everything you need to know about technical analysis, trading, and using QuantivFlow
Technical analysis is a method of evaluating securities by analyzing statistics generated by market activity, such as past prices and volume. Unlike fundamental analysis, which examines a company's financials, technical analysis focuses on charts and patterns to predict future price movements.
Technical analysts believe that price movements follow trends and that history tends to repeat itself due to recurring market psychology.
The minimum amount varies by broker and strategy, but we recommend:
Most importantly, only trade with money you can afford to lose while you're learning.
Day Trading: Opening and closing positions within the same trading day. Day traders never hold positions overnight, avoiding gap risk but requiring constant monitoring.
Swing Trading: Holding positions for several days to weeks to capture larger price moves. Requires less screen time but exposes traders to overnight and weekend risks.
Swing trading is generally more suitable for beginners as it's less stressful and doesn't require full-time attention.
Yes, but it's extremely difficult and takes years of practice. Statistics show that 90% of day traders lose money in the first year. Those who succeed typically:
Start part-time while keeping your job. Only consider full-time trading after proving consistent profitability for at least 12 months.
The most reliable indicators for beginners are:
Start with 2-3 indicators and master them before adding more. Too many indicators create confusion and conflicting signals.
RSI ranges from 0 to 100:
Important: Overbought doesn't mean "sell immediately." In strong uptrends, RSI can stay overbought for extended periods. Always combine RSI with other factors like trend direction and support/resistance levels.
It depends on your trading style:
Best Practice: Use multiple timeframes. Analyze the daily chart for overall trend, then zoom into shorter timeframes for entry points. This is called "top-down analysis."
Fibonacci retracement is not "accurate" in a predictive sense, but it identifies levels where many traders watch for reactions. This creates self-fulfilling prophecies.
The 61.8% (golden ratio) and 50% levels are particularly significant. However, Fibonacci works best when combined with other technical factors:
Never trade Fibonacci levels alone—use them as part of a complete trading system.
SMA (Simple Moving Average): Calculates the average price over a period, giving equal weight to all data points.
EMA (Exponential Moving Average): Gives more weight to recent prices, making it more responsive to new information.
When to use each:
Many traders use both: EMA for entries and SMA for overall trend direction.
The 1% rule states that you should never risk more than 1% of your trading capital on a single trade. For example, with a $10,000 account, you'd risk no more than $100 per trade.
Why it works:
Professional traders typically risk 0.5-1% per trade. New traders should start at 0.5% or less.
Stop loss placement should be based on technical levels, not arbitrary percentages:
Golden Rule: Never move a stop loss further away from entry. If you're stopped out, accept the loss and move on.
A minimum 1:2 risk-reward ratio is recommended (risk $1 to make $2). With this ratio, you only need to be right 33% of the time to break even.
Example: If your stop loss is $50 away from entry, your target should be at least $100 away.
Professional traders often target 1:3 or higher. The better your risk-reward ratio, the lower your required win rate:
Trailing stops are excellent for locking in profits while allowing winners to run. They automatically move your stop loss as price moves in your favor.
When to use:
When to avoid:
A common approach: Use a fixed target for partial profits, then trail a stop on the remaining position.
QuantivFlow is a stock analysis tool for swing and position traders. Enter a ticker and one screen gives you:
Each algo answers one question. Trend says whether the stock is in a BUY or has exited. Rebound says whether a dip is worth buying. Patterns says which chart shape is forming and whether it broke out. Every verdict comes with the algo's win rate, average gain and trade list on that stock, so you can judge how much weight to give it.
QuantivFlow runs three independent algos, each looking at a stock differently:
All three are shown free on every stock page, on the website and in the app. Premium unlocks the full market-wide feeds (Recent Signals, Rebound candidates and the Patterns feed), Rebound and indicator alerts, and the complete Algo Portfolio.
The algos can legitimately disagree on the same stock. A Rebound dip-buy during a Trend WAIT is normal, and a pattern can break out while Trend is still waiting. Recent Signals has Trend, Rebound and Patterns tabs, and the Performance hub has an algorithm filter to compare their historical results.
The Patterns algo scans every stock for 19 classic shapes:
Each pattern is drawn directly on the chart, on the horizon where it formed (daily, weekly or monthly candles). When the price breaks out of the pattern - or breaks down from it - the break is marked and a measured target is drawn ahead of the last candle, so you can see how far the pattern "should" carry. The Patterns feed lists the latest breaks across the market, and the stock page keeps a track record of how often that stock's patterns reached their target.
A pattern stays on the chart only while the detector still sees it on the current candles. Shapes that fall apart are removed, so what you see is always a live read, not a stale drawing.
Every analysis runs on three horizons, and every algo gives a separate answer on each:
Trend and Patterns run on all three horizons. Rebound runs on Short and Mid term only, because a dip-buy is by definition a short-lived trade. The horizon chips on the stock page switch the signals, the chart and the patterns to that horizon.
Yes. Every plan - guest, free account or Premium - gets the full stock screen: the three algos on three horizons, the indicator breakdown, chart patterns with targets and Fibonacci, and the AI insight. What differs is how much you can use it:
Limits reset every 24 hours. The full comparison is on the pricing page.
Premium is the algos working for you across the whole market instead of one stock at a time. It unlocks:
Premium costs $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year (about $5 a month). New subscribers on Google Play can start with 5 days for $0.99. Prices are in USD; the store shows your local price. Premium is purchased in the app and unlocks everywhere you sign in with the same account, including this website. Cancel anytime from Google Play or the App Store. Details on the pricing page.
Add a stock to your watchlist and it arrives with alerts already set - you never type a condition. A free account gets 4 alerts per stock: Trend algo signals on all three horizons and Patterns algo breakouts and breakdowns on the Short term. Premium adds 7 more per stock: daily moves of 3% or more, Rebound algo signals, RSI oversold or overbought, the price crossing SMA 20 and ADX above 25.
Alerts arrive as push notifications from the app and are listed in its Alerts tab, where you can pause, edit or delete any of them. The watchlist shows a live quote and a signal chip per horizon for every stock, and it is the same list on the website and in the app.
The stock page is analyzed on demand: every analysis fetches the latest candles, so during market hours the Short term view reflects the current day's price action so far.
The market-wide feeds are rebuilt every evening after the U.S. close. The Trend scan runs first, then Patterns, then Rebound, and the Algo Portfolio is rebalanced last. Watchlist alerts and signal pushes go out as the scans find them; nothing is sent during night-time quiet hours.
The Algo Portfolio is what you would be holding if you followed Trend and Rebound mechanically across the whole market this year: every position each algo opened, with entry date, days held and P&L, marked to the latest close and rebuilt every evening on the server after the scans. It is a live record, not a backtest - a position appears when the algo fires and leaves when the algo exits.
Free accounts see the top 3 stocks per algo and horizon. Premium sees every stock and every trade, including this year's closed-trade record.
Every analysis ends with an AI insight: a short written read of the stock, generated by a language model from the analysis itself - price action, the three algos, chart patterns, news, earnings, RSI, MACD, moving averages, ADX and the bigger picture. It opens with the bottom line, then a short-, mid- and long-term view with an entry zone, target and stop, and the risks that would invalidate the thesis.
It is generated fresh for each stock and horizon once a day and is part of your analysis quota. Treat it like any other analyst note: it can be wrong, it knows nothing beyond the inputs above, and it is not investment advice.
Every win rate, average gain and trade count on QuantivFlow comes from replaying the algo's rules over historical candles: each signal is entered and exited exactly as the algo would have, and the results are added up. The Performance hub shows this across the market, with filters for algo, horizon and period; the stock page shows the same for that stock, including the position that is open right now.
These are the algos' results, not users' results, and they do not include commissions, slippage or taxes. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Yes. QuantivFlow has an official app for iPhone and Android, published by QuantivFlow. Both are free to download:
Note that apps with similar names (like "Quantum Flow" or "Qflow") are not affiliated with QuantivFlow - the only official apps are the two listings above.
QuantivFlow analyzes U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs on the NYSE, Nasdaq and AMEX: enter any ticker and you get the full analysis. The nightly scans that feed Recent Signals, the Rebound candidates, the Patterns feed and the Algo Portfolio cover the large caps - the S&P 500, the Nasdaq-100 and the Dow 30, plus the stocks users are following - so a feed row is usually a large or mid cap, while the stock page works for any U.S. ticker.
Prices, candles, news and fundamentals come from Yahoo Finance. Quotes refresh while the market is open but may be delayed by the exchange; they are not a substitute for your broker's real-time feed.
QuantivFlow is built for swing and position trading - holding periods of days to months. The algos run on daily, weekly and monthly candles, and the analysis is refreshed when you open a stock, not tick by tick.
Day traders can still use it to:
But the signals themselves are not intraday signals, and quotes may be delayed, so it is not a tool for scalping or 1-5 minute charts.
Sign in: create a free account with Google or with your email and a password. One account works on the website, the iPhone app and the Android app, and your watchlist, alerts and Premium follow it everywhere.
Cancel Premium: subscriptions are billed by Google Play or the App Store, so you cancel there - in Google Play under Subscriptions, or on iPhone in Settings under Subscriptions. Premium stays active until the end of the period you paid for, and nothing is charged after that.
Delete your account: in the app, open Profile and tap Delete account, or follow the steps on the delete account page. Your account and all its data are deleted immediately and permanently.
No. QuantivFlow is a tool to assist your decision-making, not replace it. Always:
Technical analysis is not foolproof - it's about probability, not certainty. No tool can guarantee profitable trades. QuantivFlow is not a financial advisor, and nothing on it is investment advice.
A comprehensive trading plan should include:
Write it down and follow it consistently. A mediocre plan followed consistently beats a perfect plan followed sporadically.
Divergence occurs when price moves in one direction while an indicator (like RSI or MACD) moves in the opposite direction. This signals weakening momentum and potential reversals.
Bullish Divergence: Price makes lower lows while RSI/MACD makes higher lows → Potential upward reversal
Bearish Divergence: Price makes higher highs while RSI/MACD makes lower highs → Potential downward reversal
Divergence is one of the most reliable reversal signals, but always combine it with other factors before trading.
There's no fixed timeline, but realistic expectations are:
Many traders give up during the first year. Success requires patience, discipline, continuous learning, and acceptance that losses are part of the process.
Key: Focus on education and skill development, not quick profits.
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