TradeBotAlpha BETA
Free private beta · access by request

A rules-based trading bot that explains every decision.

Daily stock and options setups, ranked by conviction, with the rule that fired written next to every one. Watch a real paper portfolio run on the same signals you receive — through transparent forward testing in the open, before we open to the public in January 2027.

  • 8 AM digest — top 3 call setups + top 3 put setups, ranked.
  • Live paper portfolio you can audit, position by position.
  • Every signal annotated with the rule that fired and the gates it passed.
Free during the private beta — by request →
123 days
123 days until we open to the public — and we still won't touch real money until the first trading day of January 2027 — every day until then on a public, externally-anchored paper record. Same bot, same signals, same trades you'll see; the operator's own capital goes in only once the record earns it.
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Free private beta. Access is by request — the operator reviews each one and approves at their discretion. Free while in beta; pricing is decided at the January 2027 public launch, with 30 days' notice and the choice to convert. Decision lands within 24-48h.
Paper trading since March 2026 Operator commits own capital January 2027 — after a public, auditable paper record, same signals Not investment advice
Example signal · illustrative
APH Amphenol Corporation ▲ BUY
DirectionalCall Conviction 78
ADX 25.7 ≥ 22 — trend strength confirmed
EMA-12 > EMA-30 — fresh bullish crossover today
Price $148.80 > SMA-200 ($133.30)
6M return +8.4% > 5% floor
RSI 63.5 in 40–70 momentum band
Why this fired: all 5 Directional Call entry gates passed today. The bot will pick a contract near Δ 0.40 with 30–45 DTE at tomorrow's open and manage it automatically — profit target +80%, stop −35%, force-close inside 14 DTE.
Members see real ones every morning at 8 AM ET
What lands at 8 AM

The digest itself.

Up to three calls and three puts, ranked by conviction, with the rule that fired written next to every one. Some days nothing clears the gates — and we tell you that too. Members get this Monday through Friday — the same setups the bot actually stages that morning.

  • 8 AM ET, every weekday — before market open
  • Conviction-scored — composite of all gates passed
  • Annotated — every signal carries its "why this fired"
Example digest · illustrative
TradeBotAlpha · Daily Options Digest
A recent morning · ranked by conviction
Top 3 Calls ▲
NVDA $145 Call · ~28 DTE 78
Fresh EMA-12 > EMA-30 cross · RSI 64 · price above SMA-200
AAPL $230 Call · ~56 DTE 72
Volume 2.1× 20-day average · ADX 27 · 6M return +14%
MSFT $440 Call · ~28 DTE 68
Trend resumption above 200-DMA · RSI 58 · sector ADX strong
Top 3 Puts ▼
TSLA $200 Put · ~28 DTE 76
Fresh EMA-12 < EMA-30 cross · RSI 32 · price below SMA-200
META $480 Put · ~56 DTE 71
Death cross · ADX 26 · failed bounce at SMA-50
AMD $135 Put · ~28 DTE 65
Breakdown below recent low · RSI 36 · sector ADX strong

Options are high-risk and can expire worthless — these are research signals, not recommendations to trade.

What you get

Four things, daily.

Curated, ranked, explained. No firehose, no vibes, no recycled CNBC takes.

Curated setups

A handful of stock and options plays in your inbox before market open each day, ranked by conviction. Not a feed — a shortlist.

Every signal explained

Which rule fired, which gates passed, which blocked. If a setup didn't make the cut, you see why.

Watch a real bot run

The same signals drive an actual paper portfolio with real positions, exits, and P&L you can follow live.

Built in public

The roadmap, the gates being added, the audit findings — all visible. You see what works before you commit.

Beyond the digest

A workbench, not a newsletter.

The 8 AM digest is the daily hook. The platform is what you spend the rest of the day in.

Research any symbol

Open the research view for any name the bot tracks — see whether it would trade today, which gates passed, which blocked, and what the directional call or put play would be.

Follow the paper portfolio

The same signals drive a real paper portfolio — open positions, fills, exits, and running P&L you can audit position by position.

Order history, annotated

Every order the bot placed and why — the rule that fired it, the gates it passed, and the skip-reason on the ones that didn't make the cut.

Live signal feed

Every signal as it fires, not just the morning digest. Filter by conviction, strategy, sector. Click any row to see the full rule trace.

The bot's universe

The full 500+ stock universe the bot scans nightly, with conviction scores, the gate that's holding each one back, and the trigger that would unblock it.

Live positions + exit plans

Every open position the operator's running, with the rule that will close it — profit target, stop loss, DTE gate, signal reversal. No mystery exits.

Inside the app

What members see every day.

Top Option Setups card showing tomorrow's bot picks

Tomorrow's plays, staged tonight

The Top Option Setups card on the dashboard surfaces the bot's highest-conviction directional plays for the next session — strike, expiry, premium, the strategy that picked it, and why. Updated nightly.

Universe scan results showing strategy routing per symbol

Universe scan

Every symbol in the universe scored against the live rules — strategy family, ADX regime, conviction score, and the gate-by-gate "why" for each row.

Strategy router showing market regime and per-symbol routing across three equity strategies — Trend Following, Mean Reversion, Momentum

Strategy router

Different markets need different rules. On the equity side, the bot routes each symbol through one of three strategies — Trend-Following, Mean-Reversion, or Momentum — based on its own ADX regime. Directional options run in parallel on the strongest setups.

Backtest performance page with upfront caveats about survivorship and gate gap

Honest about its limits

The performance page opens with what the backtest can't show — survivorship bias, gate gaps — before any numbers. We'd rather under-promise than ship glossy.

Under the hood

How a signal gets made.

Each step is documented, deterministic, and visible to members. No black box.

Universe scan

A 500+ stock large-cap pool screened nightly for liquidity, trend strength, and earnings hygiene. The bot's active trading universe is a tighter curated subset (~80) drawn from that screen.

Regime detection

Each symbol routed into one of three equity strategies — Trend-Following, Mean-Reversion, or Momentum — based on its own ADX, with sticky asymmetric thresholds so the regime doesn't flip-flop on noise. Directional options layer on top when the setup is high-conviction.

Layered gates

A dozen-plus filters — sector ADX, correlation drag, gap risk, VIX, earnings, move fatigue, and more — applied before any signal fires. Each gate writes its decision to an audit log.

Conviction scoring

Surviving candidates ranked by a composite score so top setups surface first instead of arriving in noisy order.

Top-N broadcast

The highest-conviction setups go out as the daily digest. The rest stay visible on the Watchlist with the exact gate that blocked each one.

Paper portfolio

Selected setups stage as orders against a real paper account at Alpaca and fill at the next morning's open — so you see fills, holds, exits, and P&L, not just a feed.

Set expectations

What this is, and isn't.

This is

  • A daily, ranked shortlist of stock + options setups
  • A rules-based companion you can audit decision by decision
  • A real paper portfolio you can follow position by position
  • Built in public — roadmap, audits, and limitations visible

This is not

  • Financial advice — the signals are research, not instructions
  • A managed account — we never touch your money. The bot trades the operator's own capital, not yours. The operator puts their own money behind the same signals you've been watching, starting the first trading day of January 2027.
  • Personalized to your portfolio, risk, or tax situation
  • Day-trading or scalping — daily cadence, not minute-by-minute
  • For sale yet — free during the private beta; pricing is decided at the January 2027 public launch, with 30 days' notice
Our north star

Discipline and honesty over hype.

We don't promise the highest returns or to beat the market every year — plenty of services make that claim, and most can't keep it. What we commit to is a transparent, risk-first, fully auditable way to see the market.

Risk first

We'd rather miss part of a rally than take a big loss. Avoiding deep drawdowns is the priority.

Fully transparent

Every signal shows what fired, why, and what's blocking it. No black box, no cherry-picked track record.

Disciplined

The same rules run every day, in every market. Emotion doesn't get a vote.

Auditable

Signals are recorded to a tamper-evident ledger, so the record you see is the record that was sent.

The honest trade-off

Because we put risk first, in a roaring bull market a simple index fund may out-return us — and that's by design. Our aim is a smoother ride and a process you can trust, not chasing every last point of upside. If beating the market on raw return is your only goal, we'll tell you honestly: a low-cost index fund is hard to beat, and we won't pretend otherwise.

On the roadmap

Where we're headed

Today's signals are built on price and trend — a well-understood approach with no special edge on raw return, and we're honest about that. We've already tested the obvious ways to add one — momentum overlays, market-timing filters, factor tilts, even long/short spreads re-checked against point-in-time data that includes the delisted companies most backtests quietly ignore — and documented every failure, letting the results govern what we claim here. If a durable edge exists for a platform like this, it most likely lives in independent, non-price information, which remains on the research roadmap:

News & sentiment
NLP on headlines & filings
Fundamentals
Real financial-statement data
Market regime
Volatility / VIX & macro context
Market-neutral
Pairs / statistical arbitrage

Our commitment is the same discipline as everything else: we ship a new edge only after it proves itself out-of-sample — never before. If one is validated, the platform can grow into a more return-oriented mandate, and we'll say so plainly, backed by evidence. Until then we won't claim an edge we haven't earned.

In a field full of hype, being the platform that under-claims and over-documents is the product.

★ Free private beta

Free private beta — access by request.

Request access below. If the operator approves you, you get full platform access at no charge for the private beta — the daily 8 AM digest, the live paper portfolio, the signal feed, and every gate explained.

We're forward-testing in the open through the rest of 2026 and opening to the public on January 1, 2027. Pricing is decided then — with 30 days' notice and the choice to convert or opt out. Approvals are operator-discretion; we review each request one at a time.

  • Daily 8 AM digest — top 3 call setups + top 3 put setups, conviction-ranked
  • Every signal annotated with the rule that fired and the gates it passed
  • Direct line to the operator — reply to any digest email
  • Free during the beta — no payment on file; pricing is decided at the January 2027 public launch
  • Watch the live paper portfolio — open positions, fills, exits, and P&L you can audit position by position
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The roadmap

What's coming, when.

Now → 2027

Forward testing, in the open

The bot runs untouched on live market data. Members onboard by request and audit every decision, position, and exit in real time — a transparent track record built long before any real money is at stake.

Later this year

Mobile app — members first

The TradeBotAlpha mobile app soft-launches to private-beta members later this year, so the morning digest and the live signal feed travel with you. Members get it before anyone else.

January 1, 2027

Public launch

We open to the public. Paid tiers arrive; anyone in the free private beta gets 30 days' notice before any pricing change to their account, and the choice to convert or opt out.

January 2027

Real money — skin in the game

Only after a public, externally-anchored paper record — every signal timestamped and tamper-evident — the operator commits their own capital on the first trading day of January 2027 — same bot, same signals, same trades you've watched all along.

Common questions

Things people ask.

Whose money is at risk — mine?

Never yours. The operator (the person running the bot) puts their own capital behind the exact same signals you see — starting small, on the first trading day of January 2027, only after a public, externally-anchored paper-trading record you can audit. You're not signing anything that touches your account. You're not "going live" with us. We go live; you get to watch.

Will the bot trade for me?

No. Signals are informational — you decide what to do with them. Your account is yours; we never touch it. (A webhook is available if you want to wire it into your own broker, but that's your call.)

What does the bot actually trade — stocks, options, or both?

Stocks are the live track; options are research-only. The signal pipeline (EMA crossover, ADX regime, RSI, ATR, volume confirmation) decides everything. For each name that passes the gates, the bot stages an equity setup for a swing-style position. It also evaluates directional calls and puts on the same signals — but our own validation testing found no durable edge in the options book, so that sleeve is switched off for real capital and its picks are published as research, labeled as such in the 8 AM digest. Equity signals stream into your in-app feed in real time as they fire. The operator's own capital goes into the equity track only.

Why "Alpha" in the name, if you don't claim to have alpha?

Two reasons. It's the software kind of alpha — this is an early build, improving in public, and we've never pretended otherwise. And it's a standing reminder of the bar we hold ourselves to: we measured our own alpha with professional-grade statistics — including re-testing against point-in-time data with the delisted companies put back in — found none we could prove, and told you. The day that changes, you'll see it in the data before you see it in our marketing.

What happens if a signal doesn't work?

It's in the weekly digest — win rate by regime, gates that fired, signals that went the wrong way. We surface the misses; we don't bury them. Forward testing is for spotting exactly this kind of pattern before the operator's own capital is exposed.

How often will I get signals?

The daily digest lands in your inbox at 8:00 AM ET on trading days — about 90 minutes before market open, with the ranked shortlist. Live signals also appear in real time on your in-app feed as the bot generates them.

When does this become paid?

Not during the private beta — it's free while we forward-test through 2026. Paid tiers arrive at the January 2027 public launch. You'll get 30 days' notice before any pricing change to your account, and the choice to convert or opt out. No advance commitment.

Why access by request?

Quality of feedback loop matters more than size of audience right now. Reviewing each request one at a time means we read every reply, follow up on every weird signal report, and ship the right things faster. The bar drops as we approach the public launch.

What if I already have a TradingView / Discord / Twitter signal source?

Most signal sources don't tell you why a setup made the list, what filters were applied, or what didn't make it and why. This one does. If you find that boring, you'll find this boring too — it's the whole point.

Get on the list

Watch the bot before anyone's real money is on the line.

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