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How to use SQMATE

Four short chapters, from reading a chart to publishing a view.

What to click first, in the order you'd actually click it. The same pages open over your chart from the question mark in the top right.

Open on a chart

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Reading the chart

Open any ticker and the lines and patterns are already on it. Five steps to know what you're looking at.

  1. The lines are already drawn

    SQMATE draws support, resistance and channel lines for you, so you never start from a blank chart. Several usually stack up on one ticker. Start by keeping the one today's candles actually respect.

  2. Keep only the lines that fit

    Tap ‘SQMATE Lens’ at the top left — auto channels, trendlines and the liquidation map live there. Toggle each eye; an emptier chart is an easier call.

  3. Triangles are pattern tags

    A small triangle beside a bar marks a pattern that was detected there. Tap it and a card names the shape and says what that shape usually means. Learn the name once and you'll spot it next time.

  4. Read one bar

    Tap any bar to see how its body and wicks read, plus how many times the usual volume traded that day. The same long lower wick means different things at different volume.

  5. Shapes that haven't happened yet

    Dashed lines mark shapes that could still complete. They aren't forecasts to be scored. Put one next to a support line and use it as material for your own scenario.

Try it on a chart

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Build a scan, then practice it

Save the setup you like as a scan. It finds today's matches for you, and takes you back to the days it matched so you can trade them again.

  1. Start in the Signals tab

    Open the Signals tab in the right panel and hit ‘Build a scan’. It opens right there, without leaving the chart.

  2. Pick your signals

    Choose patterns like Double Bottom or Cup & Handle, candles like Hammer, and indicator filters. For a first scan, tapping one of the six starters at the top is faster.

  3. Name it and save

    Give the scan a name and it becomes yours. Every saved scan runs on its own, every day.

  4. What it matches today

    Expand a scan row to see what it matches right now. History lists the days it matched and how many tickers came up each day.

  5. Replay the days it matched

    Hit ‘Start’ on the same row and a round opens on a day this scan actually matched. The ticker is hidden and the next bar hasn't happened yet.

Open the Signals tab

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When the picture is not in the list

Meet a shape our list does not have? Mark it on a chart or describe it — we run our detectors there and build it if we can.

  1. Not in the list

    Sooner or later you hit “what I want is not here”. Two doors stand there: on the screener, and in the Signals tab.

  2. Mark it on a chart

    Drag across the spot; symbol, timeframe and dates come with it. Two or three across different charts beat one — one spot is hard to tell from coincidence.

  3. Or just describe it

    No spot in mind? Words are enough: “volume spiked ten days ago and has dried to half since”. Your plan sets how many per day.

  4. We check, then answer

    We answer only with a combination that fires on every spot you marked and is rare market-wide. If our vocabulary falls short we build what is missing — and if that fails, we say why.

Open the Signals tab

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Paper trading in replay

A practice round runs on real past bars. No money moves, but the habits you build are the ones you'll bring to a live account.

  1. Open a round

    Use ‘Start with random charts’ in the Signals tab, or ‘Start’ on a saved scan. You choose which markets rounds are drawn from: US, Korea or crypto.

  2. Decide before you step the bar

    You only get the bars up to that day. Lines and patterns are drawn exactly as they are on a live chart, so make the call on those.

  3. Buy in size, not all at once

    Entries go in as a share of the account. Scaling in and out is what you actually do with a real position. Crypto rounds let you add leverage.

  4. Stop and target first

    Set a stop and a target and the R:R appears beside them. Drag either line on the chart. When a bar touches one, it fills.

  5. Auto-play to the end

    Bars step forward on their own until one of your orders fills. It's what a resting order does in a live account.

  6. Write down why

    Every round ends with one line on why you read it that way. Once those stack up, you can see which reasons you trade well and which you don't.

Start practicing

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Getting alerts

An alert is the part that reaches you when you aren't looking. Add symbols, flip the bell on a scan, and matches arrive by email and Telegram.

  1. Add it to your watchlist

    Tap the star above the chart, or add it from the Watchlist tab. Watched symbols email you the moment their cycle turns.

  2. Conditions for that one symbol

    The bell on a watchlist row opens conditions scoped to that symbol alone. Pick the patterns and candles, and decide how many have to land on the same day before it tells you.

  3. Flip the bell on a scan

    The bell on a saved scan reports matches wherever they happen across 8,000+ tickers. This is the side where you don't pick the symbol first. Intraday scans send on bar close, daily and slower ones after the close.

  4. Set a price alert

    Get told when price reaches a level you choose. Stocks are measured on 20-minute delayed quotes by exchange rule; crypto and futures are live.

  5. Connect Telegram

    Connect it under Channels at the bottom of the Signals tab. The bot window opens, you press start once, and alerts land on your lock screen from then on. Live alerts go by Telegram only.

  6. See what arrived

    Everything that fired stacks up under recent alerts in the Signals tab. While the chart is open, it pops up over the chart too.

Open the Signals tab

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Recording real trades

Write down what you actually bought and sold, right on the chart, and it becomes your journal. It's a record, not an order ticket, so nothing leaves your account when you tap it.

  1. Log it from the chart

    Buy and sell sit at the top right of the plot. They don't place orders; they write down what you did. Give a fill price and a size and it works out your average and your return.

  2. Switch to futures

    Hit Futures and buy/sell become long/short. Tickers with a real perp feed open their own futures chart; the rest stay on spot bars with only the price shifted.

  3. The positions panel

    Open longs and shorts collect in the panel under the chart, across every ticker you hold. Close, add, or swap right on that row. A swap is written as two entries: a full close plus the opposite entry.

  4. Match your exchange's price

    The chart runs on spot, so your exchange's futures price sits a little apart. Open settings in the positions panel and add or subtract that difference; the numbers on screen then read at the price you actually trade. Bars, drawings and detection never move — only the displayed number does.

  5. Say why, while you remember

    Leave one line on why you took it and later your results split by reason. Target and stop go in the same place.

  6. Review it in the journal

    Once records stack up, the Journal tab holds closed trades, open positions and results by reason. It never compares you to anyone else; it splits your own record in two and holds the halves side by side.

Open the Journal tab

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Publishing a view

Publish what you drew and it lands on the board. The drawing freezes the moment you publish, and real bars keep arriving on top of it.

  1. Draw it first

    Put your read on the chart, whether that's one line or a run of drawn bars. Nothing to publish until something is drawn.

  2. Publish from Share

    Hit Share in the top bar and pick ‘Publish as a view’. Title and comment are optional. Publishing needs a nickname.

  3. Choose who sees it

    Public views sit on the board and in search. Followers opens it to people who follow you. Members opens it only to people who came in through your invite link.

  4. Add updates, don't repost

    When the same thesis continues, add an update instead of a new post. A view with updates is a record. Start a new view only when the thesis itself changed.

  5. Invite members

    Create an invite link under Public profile in the Settings tab. Anyone holding that link can join, so send it only to the people you mean, and rotate it when you need to.

  6. Meet on the board

    Published views show up on the Views board. Follow an author and their new views collect in your Following tab.

Open the Views board

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Webhooks and MCP

Send the moment a condition matches straight to your own server, or hand your scans to an AI client. This is the part that runs while nobody is watching a screen.

  1. Open the Integrations tab

    Webhooks and MCP share one tab in the right panel. Alerts open on Pro, and so does wiring them to a machine.

  2. Point a webhook at your server

    When a condition matches, one JSON POST goes to the URL you saved. https only, and private or localhost addresses are never stored.

  3. What arrives

    A POST carrying application/json. The signature header proves the delivery came from us. When delayed is true in the body, the signal was judged on 20-minute delayed stock quotes, so read that field before you wire it to anything that trades.

  4. Test it, then read the log

    Test sends one delivery right now. Failures retry six times starting 30 seconds later, and ten straight failures switch that URL off.

  5. Create an MCP key

    A key is shown once, at the moment you create it. Lost it, rotate. Leaked it, revoke and it dies on the spot.

  6. Attach it to your AI client

    A URL and an auth header is all any client needs: Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code. It's read-only, so the AI can read your scans but never change them.

Open the Integrations tab

Something missing here

Leave a note with the megaphone button. Your screen goes along as an image, so we can see exactly where you got stuck. We read every one, then fix what's broken and add what isn't there, as fast as we can ship it.

The numbers and names in these illustrations are made up to show the interface. They are not quotes and not investment advice.

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