What Is Trade Ideas?
Trade Ideas has been running since 2003 — over two decades of building tools specifically for active traders. It's not a brokerage, not a news aggregator, and not a tip service. It's a purpose-built real-time market scanning and AI analysis platform designed for people who take trading seriously enough to invest in the right infrastructure.
The core of the platform is a real-time scanner that monitors 8,000+ U.S. stocks simultaneously, filtering through hundreds of customizable criteria and alerting you the moment a stock matches your strategy. No manual refreshing. No missed setups. The scanner does what a team of human analysts would — except it never sleeps and costs less than a trading commission per day.
What separates Trade Ideas from competitors like Finviz is the Holly AI Money Machine — an artificial intelligence system that backtests millions of scenarios every night using 20+ years of historical market data. By morning, Holly has identified the highest-probability setups for the day with specific entries, stops, and targets. You're not getting a chatbot's hot take. You're getting statistical analysis at a scale no individual trader could replicate manually.
Here's something most people don't realize: Trade Ideas isn't just for hyperactive day traders. Yes, it excels at finding intraday momentum plays. But you can also use it to discover swing trade setups, oversold bounce candidates, dividend stocks, and undervalued companies. The scanning tools are flexible enough to match any strategy. Swing traders use it to scan for weekly breakouts. Long-term investors use it to screen for companies that recently pulled back to good entry prices.