Why Alpha, in six reasons.
Not a claim to have invented order flow. A different way of holding it together: one core for your rules, your accounts and every order, including the ones an Agent prepares.
Your limits hold everywhere.
Orders from a click, a hotkey, a strategy, the copier or the Agent all meet one authority that holds your plan. A limit set at 8:30 still applies at 14:55.
In the app: Personal risk plan with notify, refuse, flatten, or flatten and lock; kill switch that keeps protective orders.
See itAn Agent that cannot overrule you.
It reads and explains with tools you can see. Its orders wait for you. It cannot confirm its own orders, grant itself permission or change limits.
In the app: Authority levels per account; standing grants with size and time limits; every tool call printed.
See itOne application, not a bundle.
Footprint, DOM, heatmap, replay, strategies, journal and copy trading share one core and one workspace, instead of separate products that each hold their own idea of your position.
In the app: Five modules and 39 panel kinds in one application.
See itIt tells you what is real.
Screens say SIM, SYNTHETIC, LIVE, MODEL or IMPORTED. Unknown depth is hatched, not zero. There is no forecast column without a licensed source.
In the app: Labels on every screen; options chain marked MODEL.
See itBusy, or just starting.
New to trading? Practise on simulated money, ask questions in plain words and size every trade by what you are willing to lose. Short on time? Give the Agent a grant (an account, a size and an end time) and it trades inside it while you work.
In the app: Plain-language Ask; sizing by dollar risk; replay at your pace; standing grants on simulated accounts.
See itResearch you can repeat.
Research cards keep their inputs and hash and reproduce exactly. Strategies are validated out of sample before deployment, and each deployment keeps the version it started with.
In the app: Reproducible cards; walk-forward and Monte Carlo; versioned deployments.
See it
Fair objections.
- It is not released.
- True. Alpha is in private development, and this site says so on every page. The Request access form tells us who should see it first.
- I cannot trade live with it yet.
- Also true. The Rithmic route is in progress and licensed data is planned. Until then Alpha runs on its own simulated market, labelled so on screen.
- I do not have time to watch charts all day.
- That is what grants are for. The Agent trades inside the account, size and time you set, and the core checks every order as if you had placed it. Today that works on simulated accounts only.
- Can it tell me what the market will do?
- No, and nothing honest can. The Agent reads prices, your accounts and the calendar, and follows the strategy and limits you give it. Its research describes history and says so.
- Others have years of users.
- They do, and they are good products. Alpha is not asking you to switch today. It is asking whether this way of holding risk and context is worth a look.
- What will it run on?
- Alpha is a native desktop application. Supported systems and requirements will be published before release, so you can check your own machine.
If two of these six matter to how you trade, we would like to show you the rest.