PipSwipe user guide

Updated 1 October 2026 · Download as PDF

Contents

• 1. Getting started
• 2. The sections of the app
• 3. Reading a card
• 4. Swiping
• 5. The analysis
• 6. Your watchlist and its labels
• 7. My scans
• 8. Chart school
• 9. AI trade coach
• 10. Ultra tools
• 11. Plans
• 12. Glossary: every term explained

1. Getting started

• Open pipswipe.app/app in your phone's or computer's browser. There's nothing to download.
• Sign in with Google or with your email (we send you a 6-digit code). Signing in keeps your watchlist and scans on every device.
• Add it to your home screen so it opens like an app. iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen. Android: the browser menu → Add to Home screen or Install app.
• Customize (the sliders button, top left): choose your markets, trading styles and timeframes, light or dark mode, and manage your account.

2. The sections of the app

On a phone the sections sit in the bar along the bottom; on a computer they're at the top.

• Scanner: the main feed of chart patterns, one card at a time.
• My scans: your own rules, checked on every chart.
• School: short lessons on real charts to train your eye.
• Coach: the AI trade coach, for your MetaTrader history (if your plan includes it).
• Ultra: extra tools such as price alerts (if you have Ultra).
• Watchlist (the eye button, top right): the patterns you chose to watch.

3. Reading a card

Each card is one market on one chart timeframe where the scanner's rules found a pattern.

• Market name (for example EURUSD, XAUUSD, NVDA): what the chart is of.
• BULLISH / BEARISH: the direction the pattern points. Bullish = the pattern leans up; bearish = it leans down. It describes the chart; it isn't advice.
• With trend / Counter-trend: whether the bigger charts agree with this pattern (see the glossary).
• The dots and a score like 4/5: the confluence score, how many of five extra checks agree with the pattern.
• The three labels: the trading style (for example Swing Trading), the kind of pattern (for example Double bottom), and the chart timeframe (for example 4H chart).
• The chart: the candles, with the levels the pattern is reacting to drawn as lines. Chart patterns also have their own lines drawn on (for example the edges of a triangle).
• Live Market Prices as of 09:30: when the prices were last updated. DEMO means live prices weren't available and the chart uses made-up practice candles.
• Now: the latest price, and how far it has moved since the scan found the pattern. A Price has moved tag appears once that's more than one average candle.
• The three price boxes: the 20-bar high, the 20-bar low, and the nearest Fibonacci level (all in the glossary).
• Analysis: tap it (or the card) to see why the pattern was found.

4. Swiping

• Swipe right, or tap the eye: watch it. The card goes on your watchlist with the price at that moment.
• Swipe left, or tap ✕: skip it.
• Undo (the curved arrow): bring back the last card you swiped. Standard and Pro.
• On a computer: the → key watches, ← skips, Z undoes.
• Daily swipes: Free has 10 a day, Standard 30, Pro unlimited. The counter under the card shows how many you've used.

5. The analysis

Open a card's analysis to see the reasons behind it. On a computer it sits beside the card.

• What the scanner found: a short plain-English description of the pattern.
• Indicator checks: every pattern must pass two indicator checks to appear at all. The dials show them; Standard and Pro see the exact readings.
• Confluence: the five extra checks and whether each agrees with the pattern.
• Timeframe alignment: the trend on every timeframe from 1 minute to weekly, and whether the bigger ones back this pattern (Pro).
• Other patterns on this market: tap one to jump to it.
• Track record (when switched on): how similar patterns behaved on past charts. Past behaviour doesn't predict what this chart will do.
• Set a price alert (Ultra): get a phone notification when the market reaches your price.
• Market commentary: a short summary of how the market has moved lately, updated once a day.
• Share (top right): makes a picture of the card with a link, to send to a friend.

6. Your watchlist and its labels

Tap the eye button (top right). Each saved pattern shows the price when you saved it, the price now and how far it has moved, its levels, and a label saying what has happened since. Tap the arrow to open it again.

• In the feed: the scanner still finds this pattern.
• From My scans: you saved it from one of your scans, and nothing below has happened yet.
• Moved against it: price has moved more than one average candle (ATR) against the pattern's direction since you saved it.
• No longer valid: price broke the level the pattern depended on.
• Played out: price reached the level the pattern pointed to.
• Time's up: time ran out before price reached either level. The time limit is counted in the pattern's own candles, for example 20 candles on a 4H chart.
• Dropped by the scanner: a newer candle closed and the scanner no longer finds this pattern.
• Not in the feed: this pattern isn't in today's feed any more.

These labels only describe what price did. They never tell you what to do.

7. My scans

Tell PipSwipe what you look for, and it checks every market and timeframe every few minutes.

• Ready-made scans: Breakouts, Pullbacks in an uptrend, Overbought and turning, Fibonacci reactions and Chart patterns. Free can open the first one.
• Your own scans (Standard: 1, Pro: up to 20): pick your rules, timeframes, markets and direction.
• Direction: Bullish, Bearish, or Both (a chart matches when every rule holds one way or the other).
• Matches: every chart where all your rules hold right now. Nearly lists charts one rule short, a good list to keep an eye on.
• Open a match to see the chart, why each rule holds, the analysis, Share and Add to watchlist (no swipe used).
• Plan it yourself (Standard and Pro): type your own entry, stop and target. The app only does the maths: the risk-to-reward, and how far each is in pips or % and in average candles.

The rules you can use

• EMA 20/50 trend: the 20 EMA is above the 50 EMA (bullish) or below it (bearish).
• Candle pattern: a bullish or bearish candle pattern on the latest candles, such as an engulfing candle or a pin bar.
• 20-bar level break or hold: price broke the 20-bar high or low, or tested it and held.
• Stochastic momentum: the stochastic is turning up or down, or pinned at an extreme.
• RSI extreme: RSI below 30 (fallen hard and fast) or above 70 (risen hard and fast).
• Chart pattern completed: a flag, pennant, triangle, wedge, channel, head and shoulders or double top/bottom has completed.
• Fibonacci break or hold (Pro): price broke or held a Fibonacci level.
• Higher timeframes trending (Pro): every bigger chart is trending the same way.

8. Chart school

• A lesson is a real chart from the last few days, stopped where a pattern appeared.
• Clues: the confluence score and the bigger chart's trend at that moment.
• Your read: choose Down, Sideways or Up. Then see what happened next and a key lesson.
• Tracks: lessons grouped by type: Breakouts, Pullbacks, Trends, Ranges, Reversals and Chart patterns.
• Mastered: 10 or more reads on a track with 60% or more right.
• Blind spot: your weakest track (5 or more reads, under 50% right), with a Practise link.
• Limits: Free gets 3 lessons a day; Standard and Pro unlimited, with score, streak and tracks; Pro adds advanced lessons.

9. AI trade coach

• What it does: reads your closed trades from a MetaTrader report and gives plain-English coaching on your habits: strengths, habits to work on, and which Chart school tracks to practise.
• How: in MetaTrader 5, History → right-click → Report → HTML (MT4: Account History → Save as Report). Then drop the file into the Coach tab. Easiest on a computer.
• Your privacy: the file is read on your device. Only your closed trades are sent, never your account number, name, broker or balance. Nothing is stored.
• Limits: 3 analyses a day. Available on Pro and Ultra.

10. Ultra tools

• Price alerts: a phone notification when a market reaches the price you set. On iPhone, add PipSwipe to your home screen first (iOS 16.4 or later).
• Correlation view: which markets tend to move together, and a warning when your watchlist doubles up on them.
• Top patterns of the day: the patterns with the most evidence behind them, in one list, with an optional 7:00 notification.
• Session filter: show only the markets most active in the Asia, London or New York session.
• AI trade coach is included too.

11. Plans

• Free: 7 markets (the main forex pairs), 10 swipes a day, 1 confluence check shown, 1 ready-made scan, 3 lessons a day.
• Standard: 22 markets, 30 swipes a day, exact indicator readings, Undo, 2 confluence checks, your own scan, Plan it yourself, unlimited lessons with score and streak.
• Pro: all 92 markets (including gold, Bitcoin, indices and the top 50 US shares), unlimited swipes, all 5 confluence checks, the multi-timeframe view, up to 20 scans with every rule, advanced lessons.
• Ultra: everything in Pro, plus the Ultra tools.

See the Plans screen in the app for prices. Nothing is charged during the beta.

12. Glossary: every term explained

Markets and charts

• Market: something you can trade, like a currency pair (EURUSD), gold (XAUUSD), an index (Nasdaq 100), a crypto (Bitcoin) or a share (NVDA).
• Candle: one bar on the chart, showing where price opened, closed, and its highest and lowest point in that period. Green = closed higher than it opened; red = closed lower.
• Timeframe: how much time each candle covers: 1 minute (1m), 15 minutes (15m), 1 hour (1H), 4 hours (4H), a day (Daily) or a week (Weekly). US shares use 1H, 4H and Daily.
• Pip: a small standard step in a currency price, usually the 4th decimal (0.0001), or the 2nd for yen pairs (0.01).
• Session: the busiest trading hours of a region: Asia, London or New York.
• Demo data: made-up practice candles shown only when live prices aren't available. Cards on demo data are marked DEMO.

Directions and trends

• Bullish: the pattern leans up.
• Bearish: the pattern leans down.
• Trend: the general direction price has been going: up, down or sideways.
• With trend: the next two bigger timeframes point the same way as the pattern.
• Counter-trend: the next two bigger timeframes point the other way. Patterns against the bigger trend tend to be shorter-lived.
• Mixed: the bigger timeframes don't agree with each other.
• Pullback: a short move against the trend before it carries on.

Levels and measurements

• Level: a price the chart reacts to, where price has turned or stalled before.
• 20-bar high / 20-bar low: the highest and lowest price of the last 20 candles.
• Fibonacci level (for example 38.2% Fib): a point part-way back along the last big move (23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%). Traders watch these for pauses and turns.
• Support / resistance: a level below price where falls have stopped before (support), or above where rises have stopped (resistance).
• Breakout: price closing beyond a level it couldn't get past before.
• ATR (average true range), or "average candle": how far price typically moves in one candle on that chart. PipSwipe uses it to measure moves fairly across calm and busy markets.
• Scan price / saved price: the price when the scanner found the pattern, or when you saved it.
• Risk to reward: in Plan it yourself, how far your target is compared with your stop. 1 : 2 means the target is twice as far as the stop.

Indicators

• EMA (exponential moving average): the average price of recent candles, with the newest counting most. The 20 EMA follows short-term price; the 50 EMA the longer-term.
• RSI (relative strength index): a 0–100 gauge of how strongly price has moved recently. Above 70 = risen hard and fast; below 30 = fallen hard and fast.
• Stochastic: where the latest close sits within the recent range, 0–100. Used here to spot momentum turning.
• MACD: compares a fast and a slow moving average to show whether momentum is building or fading.
• ADX: how strong a trend is, whatever its direction. Higher = stronger trend.
• MA slope: whether the moving average is rising or falling.
• Wick: the thin line above or below a candle's body, showing prices it reached but didn't close at. A long wick shows a strong rejection.
• Momentum: how fast and strongly price is moving in one direction.

Scores and checks

• Indicator checks: two indicators every pattern must agree with before it's shown.
• Confluence score (for example 4/5): how many of five extra checks also agree: EMA trend, candle pattern, level, momentum and Fibonacci. More agreement = more evidence behind the pattern, not a promise.
• Track record: how often similar past patterns moved one average candle their way first, against them first, or neither.

Trading styles

• Scalping: very short moves on 1-minute and 15-minute charts.
• Day trading: moves within a day, on 15-minute and 1-hour charts.
• Swing trading: moves over days, on 1-hour and 4-hour charts.
• Position trading: moves over weeks, on 4-hour, daily and weekly charts.
• HFT (high-frequency) context: 1-minute market context cards with no levels, shown for information only. Off by default.

Kinds of pattern

• Breakout trading: price breaking out of a recent high or low.
• Trend following: price moving with an established trend.
• Pullback / retracement: a dip within a trend that may be ending.
• Mean reversion: price stretched far from its average, which often snaps back part-way.
• Range / channel trading: price bouncing between a floor and a ceiling.
• Chart pattern trading: one of the classic shapes below, drawn on the chart.

Chart patterns

• Flag: a sharp move (the pole), then a short, tight pause against it (the flag), then a break out of the pause in the move's direction.
• Pennant: like a flag, but the pause narrows into a small triangle.
• Ascending triangle: a flat ceiling with rising lows under it. Completes on a close above the ceiling.
• Descending triangle: a flat floor with falling highs above it. Completes on a close below the floor.
• Symmetrical triangle: lower highs and higher lows squeezing price into a point; the side it breaks out of is what counts.
• Rising wedge: price climbing between two rising lines that come together; usually read as bearish when it breaks down.
• Falling wedge: price falling between two falling lines that come together; usually read as bullish when it breaks up.
• Channel: price moving between two parallel lines, rising or falling.
• Head and shoulders: three peaks, the middle one highest, with a "neckline" under them. Completes on a close below the neckline. The inverse version is the same upside down.
• Double top / double bottom: two peaks (or two troughs) at about the same price, then a close through the "neckline" between them.
• Neckline: the line a head and shoulders or double top/bottom must close through to complete.

Watchlist labels

• In the feed: the scanner still finds this pattern.
• From My scans: saved from one of your scans; nothing below has happened yet.
• Moved against it: price has moved more than one average candle against the pattern since you saved it.
• No longer valid: price broke the level the pattern depended on.
• Played out: price reached the level the pattern pointed to.
• Time's up: time ran out before price reached either level.
• Dropped by the scanner: a newer candle closed and the scanner no longer finds this pattern.
• Not in the feed: the pattern isn't in today's feed any more.

Plans and app terms

• Swipe: watching or skipping a card. Free and Standard have a daily number.
• Teaser card: a locked card from a market in a higher plan; it shows what was found, not the details.
• Founding tester / founding price: early beta testers who get Pro free for a time, and a lower price later.
• Price has moved: price is more than one average candle away from where the scanner found the pattern.

Need help?

Use Send feedback in the app's Customize screen, or email synlogicsystems@proton.me. See also the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.