The honest comparison

Trade Ideas fires alerts all session long.
We give you one call — reasoned, and graded in the open.

Trade Ideas' Holly AI is the best-known automated scan-and-alert engine in day trading: real-time signals firing across the session, built for traders glued to the screen. The trade-off is a firehose — a stream of alerts you still have to filter, with no one accountable for whether the one you took was right. Entry Point Trading does the opposite: an opinionated daily call across the whole US large-cap universe, the reasoning shown, and a public ledger that grades every call including the ones we get wrong. We make no return or win-rate claims; transparency is the point.

What Trade Ideas actually does better than everyone

Trade Ideas is, flatly, one of the most powerful real-time scanning engines in retail trading — and for a full-time day trader that live alert flow is exactly the tool for the job. Credit where it's due, here's what it does brilliantly and where the honest limit is.

Where Trade Ideas wins

  • A genuinely powerful real-time scanner across the whole market
  • Holly AI back-tests strategies and surfaces intraday setups fast
  • Highly configurable alerts, filters and simulated trading
  • Built for active, full-time day traders who watch the tape
  • Charting, brokerage links and a deep feature set for scalping

Where the alert-firehose model has a limit

  • A stream of alerts — not one decision made for you
  • You still filter the firehose and referee the setups
  • No one grades whether the alert you acted on was right
  • Steep learning curve and a premium price for the full engine
  • Equity/ETF intraday focus — no perps or prediction markets

If you're a full-time day trader who wants a powerful real-time scanner, Trade Ideas is a genuinely capable tool — and we'll say so plainly. Plenty of active traders will get real value from Holly's alert flow.

An automated scan firehose vs an accountable daily call

The real question isn't "which scanner fires more alerts?" — it's "who actually makes a call, and does anyone show me when it was wrong?" Here's the difference across the dimensions that matter once you're trading real money. Note what's not in this table: any win-rate or return claim. We don't make them.

DimensionTrade IdeasEntry Point Trading
Core outputReal-time scans and alerts all session — you filterOpinionated daily call + Power Rankings + macro/options context, done for you
Who makes the decisionYou do, refereeing the alert streamWe publish a call with the reasoning and factors shown
AccountabilityBack-tests shown; no one grades the alert you tookPublic self-grading ledger that shows HIT and MISS, including our misses
Time commitmentBuilt for screen-glued, full-time day tradersOne synthesized read per day, factors shown
Asset classesUS equities and ETFs, intradayDaily call across every S&P 500 + NASDAQ 100 name, plus sector, country and thematic ETFs
Performance claimsSimulated and back-testing tools you run in-appWe make none — we publish indicator readings, not win rates, returns or an equity curve
Free way to evaluatePaid tiers; limited trialFree preview + free report, no time-boxed trial
The honest line: If you live on the tape all day and want a powerful real-time scanner, Trade Ideas is a genuinely strong tool — keep using it, and don't pay for a daily call you'd rather scan yourself. Entry Point Trading is for people who want the call made and graded for them across the whole US large-cap universe: a read you can trace, exit rules taught in the open, and a ledger that shows you when we were wrong — not a firehose of alerts to referee. Many active traders use both. We'd rather earn your trust slowly than win it with a headline number.

Why we lead with our misses instead of a win rate

Almost every signal service markets a headline win rate or a cherry-picked backtest. We do the opposite on purpose. Our live record is being built in the open, and we publish no performance claims until it genuinely earns them. In the meantime we grade our own calls publicly — each one marked HIT or MISS, misses included — and we teach the uncomfortable truth that a high hit-rate can still lose money without exit discipline.

The breadth compounds it. One dashboard scores every S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 name — plus sector, country and thematic ETFs — identically, every trading morning, with macro, options-flow, smart-money and technical analysis in the same place. No name is skipped because it was not interesting that day.

To keep this honest: EPT is research and decision-support, not investment advice, and not a promise of profit. It sharpens your process — it doesn't replace your judgment.

FAQ

Is EPT a Trade Ideas alternative?
They solve different problems. Trade Ideas is a real-time automated scanner and alert engine for day traders — you filter the stream and decide. EPT does the call for you: one opinionated daily read across the whole US large-cap universe, reasoning shown, every call graded in the open including the ones we get wrong. Some traders use both — Trade Ideas to scan intraday, EPT for an accountable daily decision. We make no win-rate or return claims.
Is EPT cheaper than Trade Ideas?
Entry Point Trading Starter is $49/mo (or $399/yr) and Pro is $69/mo (or $599/yr), with a free preview plus a free report you can read before paying and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Trade Ideas' premium tiers are priced separately by them; we don't quote their price because it changes. The honest point is that EPT is one daily call, not a real-time scanning engine, so it's a different product at a different price.
Why won't you publish a win rate or profit factor?
Because we hold ourselves to proof, not marketing. Our track record is being built in the open, and until it genuinely earns a performance claim we publish none. We'd rather show you every call, graded HIT or MISS with the misses included, and let you judge the process. This is research and decision-support, not investment advice.
What assets does EPT cover versus Trade Ideas?
Trade Ideas scans US equities and ETFs intraday. EPT delivers an opinionated daily call across every S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 name, plus sector, country and thematic ETFs, with macro, options-flow and technical context synthesized into one read per day.
Is any of this financial advice?
No. EPT is impersonal market commentary and decision-support of general circulation, not personalized investment advice. Signals aren't tailored to any individual account or holdings, and there's no auto-execution. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always do your own research (DYOR).
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