# PatternsRadar vs Chartink

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/compare/patternsradar-vs-chartink

The short version: different clocks, and two different halves of the same question. Chartink is a real-time screener with a decade of community scans, and its backtest lists who matched in the past; PatternsRadar is an end-of-day screener that measures what happened after the match. Which one you need follows from which question you are asking.

## Choose Chartink if you trade intraday

This is not a close call. Chartink scans in real time during market hours; PatternsRadar is end-of-day by design — the data loads after each close, and nothing here fires while the market is open. If your triggers are 9:20 candles and momentum bursts, Chartink is the right tool and this site will not pretend otherwise.

## Choose PatternsRadar if you want outcomes

The defining difference runs the other way for daily-bar traders. Both tools can replay a scan: Chartink's backtest has listed past matches since 2019, nine years deep on daily bars, and it stops at the list — symbols, dates, sectors, no prices, no returns, no win rate. Here the replay carries the other half, measuring what the matches did over the next 1, 5 and 20 days, on every scan, free and unmetered. Knowing who matched is a starting point; knowing what happened next is the thing you actually trade on.

## The language is the quieter difference

Chartink expresses scans through form clauses; complex conditions become towers of offset comparisons. Sift states them the way you would say them: rsi(14) crossed above 30 within 3 bars. close has been above ema(21) for 10 bars. The practical effect is not elegance — it is that you can still read your own scan six months later, and that conditions about time and persistence become one line instead of an engineering project.

## Data depth decides the tiebreaks

Thirty years of split-adjusted daily history means a 200-day average near the start of the dataset is as trustworthy as one computed yesterday, and backtests can reach across regimes. Delivery percentage — the NSE's ownership-transfer figure — is a first-class scannable field here rather than a display column, and the same is true of futures open interest, put-call ratios, and point-in-time P/E and promoter holding. "Price up with OI up, on heavy delivery, in a stock promoters actually hold" is one query here, and it backtests.

## Common questions

### Is PatternsRadar better than Chartink?

For real-time intraday scanning, no — Chartink does that and PatternsRadar deliberately does not, and its backtest reaches further back than the year replayed here. For measuring what a scan's matches did next — hit rate and average return rather than a list of triggers — PatternsRadar was built around exactly that gap, with event operators in a readable language, 30 years of split-adjusted data, and an API.

### Can I use both?

Many traders should: Chartink for live-market triggers, PatternsRadar for the evening research loop — building scans, replaying them against history, and setting end-of-day alerts on the ones that survive testing.

### Does PatternsRadar have Chartink's scan library?

Not its size. Chartink's community has published thousands of scans over a decade; PatternsRadar ships 115 curated ones covering the standard setups — breakouts, reversals, momentum, delivery, volatility and candlestick patterns — each with an explanation and a backtest panel, and each editable into your own variant.

### Is PatternsRadar free?

Screening, the full language, and backtesting are free without an account. Paid plans from ₹400/month add end-of-day email alerts on the scans you save, webhooks, and higher API limits.