FOR DAY TRADERS - ANALYSIS, NOT SIGNALS
Day trading analysis: prove the edge existed before you chase it
Agenttrading is not a scanner and sends no signals. It tests whether the pattern you trade actually existed on 20+ years of history, with costs included and an honest verdict stamped.
Day traders who want the pre-market research half of the job done honestly, and who are not shopping for a signal feed.
- 1 THESIS
- 2 EVIDENCE
- 3 BACKTEST
- 4 RISK
- 5 VERDICT
02 EVIDENCE · FUNDAMENTALS
04 RISK · IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Educational analysis only, not financial advice.
In short
Day trading analysis tools should answer one question before anything else: did the edge you are about to chase actually exist on history? Agenttrading answers it. Describe the pattern in plain English, such as "buy SPY when RSI drops under 30, sell when it recovers past 55", and it restates the rule, backtests it on 20+ years of split- and dividend-adjusted daily data with a 0.1% cost per trade assumed by default, and stamps an honest verdict: that SPY mean-reversion rule graded MIXED in our historical illustration, working in chop and lagging in trends, and the risk panel says so in words. Be clear about what this is not: Agenttrading is not a scanner, not an intraday signal feed, and it executes nothing. Trade Ideas at $89 to $178 per month streams machine-picked trades all session, which is a different product with different incentives. The honest limitation is that backtests run on daily bars, so you are testing the daily-timeframe version of your edge and the discipline behind it, not tick-level fills. What you get for $19 to $129 per month is the pre-market half of the job: evidence, costs included, risk explained, small samples flagged. Educational analysis only, never advice; whether and how you trade the session is your call.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. For educational and informational purposes only. Not financial advice. Consult a licensed advisor.
ON YOUR BENCH - DAY TRADERS
What changes when the vetting is honest
Not a scanner, on purpose
No streaming picks, no alert firehose, no machine-chosen trades. Agenttrading tests the edge you already trade, because a feed of someone else's signals is a different product with different incentives.
The edge gets a history check
The pattern you chase intraday usually has a daily-timeframe version. Test it on 20+ years of adjusted data and learn whether the tendency existed at all before you fund another month of it.
Costs are the honest referee
High-frequency habits die by costs. Every test assumes 0.1% per trade, so an edge that evaporates under friction shows it on the chart before it shows it on your statement.
Small samples get called out
A rule that fired eleven times in twenty years is an anecdote, not evidence. The risk panel counts trades and says so in plain English, which is exactly the sentence a fast trader needs most.
THE MATH - TIME, NOT MAGIC
The manual loop is 4 to 6 hours per idea
A screener, ten filings, and a spreadsheet backtest, for every single idea. The bench runs the same loop in minutes and logs what it assumed. Count what that is worth in your week.
Your research hours, backTIME ONLY. NO RETURN MATH.
Manual vetting / month
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Hours back with the bench
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On the same bench
The daily-bar record every test runs on is described on historical stock data, and the trading strategy tester is where the edge gets its verdict. If you hold positions for days rather than hours, start with swing trading tools, and the best backtesting software comparison is honest about where a scanner serves you better.
Who else runs the bench
Your next idea deserves a verdict, not a hunch.
Bring a thesis or a ticker. Get the evidence, the backtest, the risks, and an honest stamp. Then decide for yourself.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. For educational and informational purposes only. Not financial advice. Consult a licensed advisor.