Some interesting sites. Jeff Cooper has written several books on using patterns. Connors had a number of patterns on the VIX that seemed to work pretty well. I guess he wrote a book on them, and at oen time at least, they were explained on the TradingMarkets website. The Advanced GET software has pattern recognition features. Plenty of other packages do as well, although they require varying levels of programming skill. I recall that Ami Broker claims to be able to recognize divergences. If I was tasked with coming up with patterns to trade, I would start with divergences.