AI Stocks Trading
The honest comparison

Trade idea scanners find trades.
We find them, gate them — and execute them.

A wave of AI trade-idea services (TradeMachine®, Option Alpha-style signal hubs, Discord alert rooms) will sell you a list of spreads and wish you luck at the broker. Here's the difference between that and AI Stocks Trading — feature by feature, price by price, with no cherry-picking.

Fairness note: we name no competitor negatively. Idea-scanner services are genuinely useful research tools — several are run by serious market veterans. This page exists because a different job needs doing: turning an approved idea into a placed, tracked, ledger-reviewed order without leaving the platform. That's the part we built, and the part they don't do.

Feature by feature

"Idea services" = AI/backtested trade-idea subscriptions (typical range $99–$179/mo). AI Stocks Trading = this platform.

CapabilityTrade-idea servicesAI Stocks Trading
Daily option trade ideas✓✓ — full-universe scan + 14-gate research, ≤5 cards/day at 9:05 ET
Exact contract (strike/expiry/limit)✓✓ + Greeks, IV, spread width, break-even on every card
Backtested strategy stats per trigger✓ (their core strength)planned — risk-filter gates today, backtest library next
Live options chain in-platform✓✓ snapshots w/ live bid × ask, Δ, IV
Human approval before any ordern/a (no execution)✓ — nothing trades without your explicit GO, every single time
Places the order for you✗ — you re-type it at your broker✓ — one click → your Alpaca keys, limit order staged & tracked
Fill/cancel/lapse visibility✗✓ — live broker statuses on the dashboard, auto-refreshed
Public decision ledger✗✓ — every approval logged; closed round trips with exits & P/L
Free tier to test for real✗✓ — $100K simulated book, 3 cards/day, forever free
Price$99–$179/mo$99/mo ($0 free tier)

The three jobs nobody else does

01 — APPROVE

Nothing moves without you

Scanner finds a setup at 4 AM. Research gates it overnight. At 9:05 ET you get ≤5 cards — each with the full 14-gate verdict attached. You read. You decide. The GO button is the only bridge between an idea and an order.

02 — EXECUTE

Click → placed at your broker

Your Alpaca keys, your account, your order. Limit order on the exact contract, staged as a DAY order, tracked second by second — working, filled at $X, or lapsed at the 4 PM bell. No copy-pasting into a second app.

03 — ACCOUNT

A ledger you can show your own kids

Every approval, every exit, every round trip — recorded with the reasons at the time you acted, not reconstructed later. Autocorrecting memory is the enemy of good trading; a real ledger is the cure.

Pricing, straight

No 9-day metered trial tricks. Start free with a simulated $100K book and real daily cards — upgrade when you want execution.

FREE — FOREVER
$0
  • Daily 14-gate approval cards (3/day)
  • Full dashboard, charts, order lifecycle
  • $100K simulated book — practice real approvals
PRO — LOCKS IN AT $99
$99/mo
  • Everything in Free, unlimited cards
  • Live execution through your own Alpaca account
  • Real-money ledger + round-trip accounting
  • Lock $99 for life before rates rise

Comparison pricing reflects publicly listed monthly rates of leading AI trade-idea services as of Oct 2026. Pro pricing currently arranged manually until automated billing goes live.

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