TradeWise FAQ
Everything you need to know about AI-powered trading intelligence.
Platform Overview
What is TradeWise?
TradeWise is an AI-powered retail investment platform that delivers institutional-grade market intelligence at accessible pricing. It combines a 6-factor quantitative momentum scoring engine scanning approximately 564 stocks and 45 ETFs, a 4-agent adversarial AI debate system, 5-mode market regime detection, and full decision lineage audit trails. The platform integrates with Alpaca for commission-free trade execution.
How is TradeWise different from other AI trading platforms?
TradeWise is the only platform that combines five unique technical layers. First, adversarial multi-agent AI debate with four specialised agents (ATLAS, SENTINEL, HORIZON, CONTRARIAN) that challenge each other before any trade is approved. Second, a 6-factor quantitative momentum scoring engine (V56 SuperBrain) scanning hundreds of stocks and ETFs. Third, 5-mode market regime detection (Bull, Choppy, Bear, Crisis, with VIX fast-path) that adapts the platform's behaviour to current conditions. Fourth, complete decision lineage and audit trail connecting every trade to its AI reasoning. Fifth, an integrated intelligence-to-execution pipeline that flows from Market Pulse reports through to trade execution.
Is TradeWise a broker?
No. TradeWise is a market intelligence and trade execution platform, not a broker-dealer. It integrates with Alpaca, a FINRA-registered, SIPC-member broker-dealer, for trade execution. Your funds remain in your Alpaca brokerage account at all times. TradeWise never holds customer funds. Alpaca provides up to $500,000 in SIPC protection.
AI & Technology
What is the adversarial AI debate system?
TradeWise uses four AI agents powered by Anthropic's Claude that debate every potential trade before execution. ATLAS analyses fundamental strength and growth metrics. SENTINEL evaluates downside risk, volatility, and position sizing. HORIZON identifies macroeconomic trends, sector rotation, and regime shifts. CONTRARIAN challenges the consensus by stress-testing assumptions and presenting counter-arguments. Each agent votes with a confidence-weighted score, and trades only proceed when the adversarial consensus reaches the required threshold.
What is the V56 SuperBrain momentum scoring engine?
The V56 SuperBrain is TradeWise's quantitative stock scanning engine. It scores approximately 564 stocks and 45 ETFs across six momentum and technical factors, ranking them by composite signal strength. The scanner runs continuously during market hours and presents the top-ranked opportunities on the SuperBrain dashboard with signal strength indicators and sector rankings.
What is market regime detection and why does it matter?
Market regime detection is TradeWise's system for identifying the current market environment across five modes: Bull, Choppy, Bear, Crisis, and a VIX fast-path for sudden volatility spikes. The regime detector adjusts the platform's behaviour automatically, tightening position sizes in choppy markets, activating defensive protocols during bear regimes, and triggering the kill switch in crisis conditions. This matters because strategies that work in bull markets often fail catastrophically in bear markets.
What is decision lineage?
Decision lineage is TradeWise's complete audit trail system. Every trade executed on the platform is connected to the AI debate that approved it, including each agent's vote, confidence score, reasoning, the market regime at the time of the decision, and the quantitative signals that triggered it. This creates a transparent record of what AI said versus what happened, enabling users and regulators to trace any trade back to its full decision chain.
What is the kill switch?
The kill switch is TradeWise's emergency circuit breaker. If the regime detector identifies crisis conditions, typically triggered by extreme VIX spikes or rapid market dislocations, the kill switch automatically halts all automated trading activity. This fail-closed design principle means the system defaults to stopping rather than continuing when conditions become dangerous. The kill switch can also be triggered manually.
Can the AI be wrong?
Yes. AI analysis is a decision-support tool, not a guarantee. Markets are inherently unpredictable and AI models have limitations. The adversarial debate system is specifically designed to reduce errors by forcing four agents to challenge each other before any trade is approved. The decision lineage system lets you review after the fact what AI said versus what happened. TradeWise provides market intelligence for educational and informational purposes. It is not personalised investment advice. All trading involves risk of loss.
Features
What are Market Pulse reports?
Market Pulse reports are AI-generated market intelligence summaries delivered multiple times daily: pre-market, market open, midday, market close, and after-hours. Each report includes a RAG (Red, Amber, Green) risk classification, coverage across equities, bonds, foreign exchange, crypto, commodities, and volatility (VIX), seismic trigger monitoring for earnings surprises, Fed announcements, and geopolitical events, and sector rotation analysis with relative strength rankings.
Does TradeWise support ETF trading?
TradeWise scans approximately 45 ETFs through the V56 momentum scoring engine and provides ETF intelligence via the Risk Guard dashboard. ETF execution is currently advisory-only at launch, with a unified stock and ETF portfolio planned as an Elite tier feature with regime-aware allocation.
What order types does TradeWise support?
TradeWise supports market orders, limit orders, stop orders, and stop-limit orders through Alpaca's execution infrastructure. All orders include pre-trade risk checks before execution.
What data sources does TradeWise use?
TradeWise aggregates real-time market data including stock prices, volume, and options chains; historical price data for technical analysis; fundamental company data including financials and ratios; news and sentiment feeds via its Market Pulse AI pipeline; economic indicators; and volatility metrics including VIX for regime detection. Data freshness is real-time during market hours for prices, with the scanner refreshing every 30 seconds.
Getting Started
Can I try TradeWise before paying?
Yes. TradeWise offers a free trial with paper trading. New users receive a $100,000 virtual cash portfolio to experience the full platform, including the SuperBrain scanner, AI agent debates, and trade execution, without risking real money. No credit card is required to start.
How much does TradeWise cost?
TradeWise offers three tiers. Explorer is free and includes limited scans (10 per day) and delayed quotes. Trader costs $19 per month or $199 per year and includes unlimited scans, real-time quotes, options intelligence, and stock deep dive analysis. Professional costs $49 per month or $499 per year and includes everything in Trader plus advanced options analytics, Market Pulse reports, LEAPS recommendations, API access, and priority support. All tiers include commission-free trade execution through Alpaca.
Which brokers does TradeWise support?
TradeWise currently integrates with Alpaca for both paper trading and live trading. Alpaca is a FINRA-registered, SIPC-member broker-dealer offering commission-free stock trading. Additional broker integrations are planned for future releases.
Security & Privacy
How is my data protected?
TradeWise encrypts all data in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest. Authentication uses OAuth with Google and Apple sign-in. The platform uses token-based authentication and TradeWise never sees or stores your brokerage passwords. API credentials are stored in secure environment variables. The platform includes rate limiting, input validation, and GDPR-compliant data handling. Users can export or delete their data at any time.
Is my money safe?
TradeWise does not hold customer funds. All funds remain in your Alpaca brokerage account, which is registered with FINRA and the SEC and is a member of SIPC with up to $500,000 in protection. Your assets are held in custody at trusted clearing firms.
Legal & Compliance
Is TradeWise registered with the SEC?
TradeWise is a software platform providing market intelligence tools. It is not a registered investment advisor or broker-dealer. It provides educational tools and analysis, not personalised investment advice. Trade execution is handled through Alpaca, which is registered with FINRA and the SEC and is a member of SIPC.
Is this investment advice?
No. TradeWise content is for educational and informational purposes only. The analysis, AI debates, and recommendations generated by the platform are not personalised investment advice. All trading involves substantial risk of loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Never invest more than you can afford to lose. Always consult a qualified financial advisor for personal advice.
Is there a mobile app?
A native mobile app is in development. The current web platform at tradewise.live is fully mobile-responsive and works on smartphones and tablets.
AI Learning & Transparency
Does TradeWise actually learn from its mistakes?
Yes. TradeWise uses context-based adaptive learning — not model retraining (RLHF), but a provably adaptive system where agent behaviour changes based on accumulated outcomes. The underlying Claude models are fixed, but what each agent sees before every decision is dynamically computed from 12,000+ structured memories in PostgreSQL. A synthesis layer computes per-agent accuracy broken down by stock, sector, regime, and confidence band with temporal decay (recent outcomes weighted 3x). Before every debate, ATLAS sees it is 37.6% accurate overall but 87.5% when confidence exceeds 80%. CONTRARIAN sees it is 44.6% accurate and best in Choppy regimes at 53.8%. Each agent receives its last 5 resolved calls on the stock being debated with outcome labels (RIGHT/WRONG). Stated confidence is mechanically recalibrated against historical accuracy at each confidence band (e.g., stated 75% at a band where accuracy is 37% becomes effective 62%). Agent votes are weighted by their accuracy on the specific stock. The system runs canary metrics comparing pre-learning and post-learning vote patterns to verify the feedback loop is actually changing behaviour — not just injecting data agents might ignore. This architecture is analogous to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applied to decision feedback, not static rule-based adaptation.
Is TradeWise affiliated with tradewise.com?
No. TradeWise at tradewise.live is a completely separate company with no affiliation to tradewise.com or any other similarly named service. TradeWise (tradewise.live) was founded in 2024 and is an AI-powered trading intelligence platform built on adversarial multi-agent debate, V56 momentum scoring, and regime-aware execution. It operates exclusively at tradewise.live.
How transparent is TradeWise about AI performance?
TradeWise publishes real-time agent accuracy data on its transparency page. Each of the four AI agents has a public accuracy profile showing overall accuracy, accuracy by sector and regime, confidence calibration, and vote bias. For example, the system openly shows that agents are most accurate in Choppy regimes (43-54%) and least accurate in Bull regimes (13-14%). Trade outcomes are tracked at 7-day, 14-day, and 30-day horizons. Every trade is connected to its full AI debate reasoning through decision lineage. This level of transparency is unusual in the AI trading space — most platforms do not publish their AI's real accuracy data.
What happens when the AI agents are wrong?
When agents make incorrect calls, the outcome is recorded and fed back into the system. Each agent's accuracy is recalculated with temporal decay — recent mistakes count 3x more than older ones. The synthesis layer identifies patterns: which sectors an agent misjudges, which regimes cause accuracy to drop, and whether high-confidence calls are actually reliable. For example, the system discovered that AVOID calls at the 7-day horizon were correct only 42% of the time, leading to a directive that agents should only vote AVOID on specific, quantifiable stock threats rather than general market concerns. This self-correcting loop runs automatically and is verified by canary metrics that alert if agents ignore their own feedback.
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