Closed beta · iOS & Android
TraderScope — the app only a few wanted, and every trader needs.
Whether you are learning futures, trading stocks, or investing for the long term — it is all here, in one app.
Tap a window. Chicago time.
Composite of trend, bias and structure. No arrow, no target.
- Futures, stocks and investing in one app, one switch between them.
- It follows the market's day and every account you track.
- Learning paths that start from zero, in either mode.
- It explains what the data shows, and refuses to predict.
Why it exists
Every tool is built for exactly one kind of trader.
Do more than one of those things and you end up with three tabs open and no single answer. And almost none of them will tell you plainly when they do not know something.
- Futures day traders
- Working through an evaluation
- Options traders
- Swing trading stocks
- Investing for thirty years
- People who want control of their financial future and no idea where to start
That last one is a far bigger group than anyone builds for, and the reason the learning paths exist at all.
“I would have built this even if nobody else ever downloaded it.”
So: which of those are you?
Two modes, one app
Pick your mode.
Both phones work — tap the tabs, the windows, the rows. Choosing one brings its side of the app forward, and everything below follows.
Tap a window. Chicago time.
Composite of trend, bias and structure. No arrow, no target.
Firm directory — compared on the terms that decide outcomes.
Bias Rankings — four components, each showing its own state.
You have heard futures are a way in, and you do not know what a contract is yet.
That is the whole starting point. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell something at a set price on a set date — traders buy and sell the agreement itself, never the thing. A tick is the smallest move the price can make, and it is worth a fixed number of dollars. Both get a lesson of their own before anything else happens.
The Roadmap — free, and the whole thing
Thirteen lessons in five stages, in order, from not knowing what a contract is to being ready to paper trade with a plan you wrote. It is free, all of it, and the last stage hands you into paper trading rather than into more reading.
Everything the app shows you, explained as you go
The Session Map names the parts of the trading day. The Lean is one composite read of current conditions — never an instruction. TradeScope AI answers from what is on your screen and says so when it cannot.
Next: start at What a futures contract is — six minutes.
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013 lessons
Ground floor
What a futures contract actually is, before anything else.
- What a futures contract is 6 min
- Ticks, points and money 7 min
- Margin and leverage 6 min
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023 lessons
The account
Most people lose the account, not the trade. This is why.
- How prop evaluations work 7 min
- Drawdown types, and why they differ 8 min
- Position sizing that survives 7 min
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032 lessons
Reading the session
Futures move on a clock. Knowing the clock is most of the job.
- The shape of the trading day 6 min
- Scheduled events 6 min
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043 lessons
Process
What separates people who survive year two: a written, repeatable process.
- A written trading plan 7 min
- Journaling and review 6 min
- Expectancy, and why win rate misleads 7 min
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052 lessons
Ready to practice
Turning what you have learned into a repeatable, testable routine.
- Paper trading properly 7 min
- Your first sessions 6 min
“In order to succeed, you must learn how to lose.”
It does not matter how many trades you win if you cannot take a loss on the chin. You can be dialled in with a working method, up Monday through Thursday, and on Friday the price moves badly, or your order fills at a worse price than you asked for, or one bar goes against you — and you let it tear down the discipline you built and trade it all back trying to get even.
Speaking from experience: you let one small loser become a blown account because you could not accept the small loss, even after the market had already shown the idea was wrong.
That is why the roadmap spends its time on Drawdown types, and why they differ, Position sizing that survives and Journaling and review rather than on entries. An evaluation is a paid test a firm sets before it will fund you; a drawdown is how far your account may fall before the firm closes it. Those two rules decide more outcomes than any entry does.
The industry, not TraderScope. Two sources: QuantVPS (payout figure from an FPFX Tech study of ~300,000 accounts) and The Prop Firm Guide. They agree on the pass rate and disagree on the rest — $200–$600 to a first funded account rather than $4,270 cumulative, and 10–15% of funded traders paid against ~7% of all entrants. Different denominators. Both note firms self-report pass rates and nobody audits them.
The firm directory, as research
Compare firms on the terms that decide whether an account survives: which drawdown rule they use, the profit split, and how often you can actually take money out. Filterable by drawdown type.
The Session Map, as a teaching instrument
The map names each window of the trading day, when it runs, and what tends to happen — as history, never as a claim about today.
Session map
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Chicago time
Tap a window to see what it covers.
These are windows when volatility has historically clustered — not predictions that it will. The map says what time it is in the day. What happens inside the window is still the market's business.
The Roadmap, free
The same thirteen lessons. Three of them are about surviving the rule rather than finding the trade, which is where evaluations are actually lost.
Next: read Drawdown types, and why they differ before you pay for anything.
Real-time trailing DD, freezes above start · 100% of first $25k, then 90/10
End-of-day trailing drawdown · 100% of first $10k, then 90/10
Static or EOD drawdown options · 90/10 split · 14-day payout cycle
Showing all three firms.
Admin, not analysis.
If you are already funded, the problem is not finding a setup. It is knowing which account is closest to a payout, which is closest to a limit, and what you have actually netted.
Headroom across every account
Shown as room remaining, never as damage done. A full bar means the account has room; an empty one means it is nearly out. The same reading every time, on every firm.
Payout eligibility and the YTD ledger
Which accounts are payout-ready, and a year-to-date view of evaluation spend against payouts collected, so the net is a number rather than a feeling.
Per-firm drawdown mechanics
Each account carries its firm's actual rule, so an end-of-day account and a real-time trailing account are never read the same way.
A set-aside estimator
A flat 30% of payouts collected, with the next estimated due date. An estimator and nothing more.
Calendar, Session Map and TradeScope AI
What is scheduled and when, where the day currently is, and an assistant that answers from your own numbers — including which account has the least room left.
Payout cadence, per firm
Firms differ on how often money can actually leave: some on a fixed cycle, some on qualifying days, some on a minimum balance above the starting figure. Each account carries its own, so "am I eligible yet" is a state rather than a calculation you redo every week.
What the assistant will answer here
Which account has the least room left and under which rule; what a trailing drawdown does when the balance rises; what you have netted year to date. It answers from your own numbers, and when the data is not on the screen it says so instead of estimating.
Next: add your accounts and watch the headroom bars, not the P&L. The bar that matters is the one closest to empty, not the one with the best day.
What is in the app
Here today, and what it costs.
Session Map and the Lean
The trading day as named windows, and one composite read of current conditions. Never an instruction.
Prop accounts
Drawdown headroom, payout eligibility, per-firm drawdown mechanics and a year-to-date ledger.
Firm directory
Drawdown rule, profit split and payout cadence, filterable by drawdown type.
TradeScope AI
Answers from what is on your screen, and says plainly when the data is not there.
Calendar
What is scheduled and when, in the market's own time.
What is live and what is still on sample data is listed once, in the beta ledger below — generated from the app's own source, so the two cannot disagree.
Free
- The Roadmap — every lesson, every stage, in order.
- Everything above that is not marked Pro.
- No card, no trial clock, for the whole beta.
TraderScope Pro — free during the beta
- The analysis framework. A composite across trend, momentum, volume character and news impact, each component showing its own state. It was built out of one trader's own process and refined by using it daily — it describes conditions and names nothing to do about them.
- Curated next steps beyond paper trading: advanced concepts, sequenced rather than dumped. Described by what they teach, never by what they return.
A subscription later. The price is not set, and inventing one here would be worse than saying so.
Planned — not in the app yet
- The Reference. A curated, organised body of material on the terms and mechanics, to look things up in rather than follow in order. The Roadmap ships; this does not exist yet.
- Custom TradingView indicators. Nothing in the app implements these today.
You want your money doing something sensible, and nobody ever taught you any of this.
Nothing here assumes you already know. A ticker is the short code a company trades under — AAPL is Apple. An ETF is one fund holding hundreds or thousands of companies at once, so buying one share of it spreads your money across all of them. An expense ratio is the yearly fee that fund charges, taken quietly out of what you hold. Each gets its own lesson.
The Roadmap — free, and the whole thing
Ten lessons in three stages, in order, from what a brokerage account is to what "long term" actually means. It is free, all of it, and the last lesson ends in the Invest tab setting a contribution schedule — something you do, rather than another article.
Someone has already filtered the noise
Search any of these terms and you will find a thousand people promising daily profits. This is a short, ordered set of explanations with nothing to sell you at the end of them.
Every lesson ends with one question
It explains the answer either way. Getting it wrong costs nothing and is not scored — the explanation is the point, and nothing is unlocked or withheld based on it.
It ends somewhere you do something
The last lesson hands you into the Invest tab to set a contribution schedule and a target split. A contribution schedule is simply how much goes in and how often; a target split is how you want it divided between kinds of holding.
Next: start at What a brokerage account is — five minutes.
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013 lessons
Ground floor
What you actually own when you buy a share, before anything else.
- What a brokerage account is 5 min
- What a share actually is 6 min
- Market vs. limit orders 6 min
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023 lessons
Building a portfolio
One fund can hold thousands of companies. That changes how you should think about risk.
- What an ETF is, and why index funds exist 7 min
- Expense ratios: the fee you don’t see charged 5 min
- Diversification and concentration 7 min
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034 lessons
The long game
The habits that actually compound: consistency, patience, and paying the right amount of tax.
- Dollar-cost averaging 6 min
- What dividends are 5 min
- Taxes on investments, a high-level view 7 min
- What "long-term" actually means 6 min
A schedule, a split, and honesty about how far it has drifted.
Long-horizon investing is mostly a habit problem. The Invest tab is built around the two decisions that actually compound: how much goes in on what schedule, and how it is split.
Contributions and target allocation
Set a contribution schedule and a target split across four categories, and see how far the current split has drifted from it.
Holdings and concentration
Portfolio Analysis shows what you hold and how much of it sits in one place — the single most useful thing to know about a portfolio you intend to leave alone.
Fund reference information
Expense ratios for the funds in the list. Published, stable facts, and the fee is the number that quietly compounds against you.
Concentration, before it becomes a problem
One position quietly becoming a third of everything is the risk nobody notices until it matters. Portfolio Analysis states it as a share of the whole, so the question is whether you meant it — not whether you knew.
Live quotes and headlines on what you hold
Quotes, ticker search and headlines are live, per name and market-wide, linking out to the source.
Drift, stated as a number
A split you set in January is not the split you have in December — the parts that rose take up more room. The app shows how far each category has moved from the target you chose, so rebalancing is a decision rather than a guess.
The lessons that go with it
Dollar-cost averaging, What dividends are, Taxes on investments, a high-level view and What "long-term" actually means — the four that make the Invest tab make sense, free like the rest of the Roadmap.
Next: set a contribution schedule and a target split, then leave it alone. The hardest part of this is not the setup.
Monthly — 12 contributions a year.
You will not find a return figure anywhere on this page.
Described, never called.
The part most likely to be mistaken for a signal service, so plainly: what the app shows here is described. Nothing tells you to take a position, and nothing claims to know what a contract does next.
Swing trading
Screeners, custom screens and watchlists
Prebuilt categories you would actually sort by — momentum, swing setups, high-volume names, dividend and value, ETFs — plus a builder for your own filters. Watchlists persist across the app. Quotes are live and each row says so.
Bias Rankings
A read on current conditions across a universe of names over a horizon you pick, from four weighted components that each show their own state. Part of Pro, and free for the whole beta.
News and watchlists
Market-wide and per-ticker headlines, live from the provider, linking out to the source. Live articles carry no Impact Read, because no feed supplies one.
Options
Implied-volatility context
Implied volatility is how much movement the market is currently pricing in. The app shows where a name's sits relative to its own recent range — context for what a contract costs, not a view on direction.
Notable contract activity
Which contracts are seeing unusual volume for that name, described as activity. It is never presented as somebody knowing something.
Plain-English strategy explanations
What a covered call, a spread or a straddle actually is, what each one costs to open, and — stated first — what each one risks. Explanations of mechanics, not recommendations to use them.
Next: look up a name you already follow and read its four components separately.
Market-wide volume, included to show the segment is real — not to suggest an opportunity. Source: Cboe — State of the Options Industry, Q2 2026, which draws its volume figures from the OCC monthly volume report. Re-checked 2026-08-23.
What is in the app
Here today, and what it costs.
Live quotes and ticker search
Across stocks and ETFs, live today.
Live headlines
Market-wide and per-ticker, linking out to the source.
Screeners and a screen builder
Prebuilt categories plus custom filters, saved and re-run.
Watchlists
Persist across the app, on your device.
Invest
Contribution schedule, target allocation, drift and concentration.
Options context
Implied-volatility context, notable contract activity, and plain-English explanations of what each strategy risks.
TradeScope AI
Answers from what is on your screen, and says plainly when the data is not there.
What is live and what is still on sample data is listed once, in the beta ledger below — generated from the app's own source, so the two cannot disagree.
Free
- The Roadmap — every lesson, every stage, in order.
- Everything above that is not marked Pro.
- No card, no trial clock, for the whole beta.
TraderScope Pro — free during the beta
- The analysis framework. A composite across trend, momentum, volume character and news impact, each component showing its own state. It was built out of one trader's own process and refined by using it daily — it describes conditions and names nothing to do about them.
- Curated next steps beyond paper trading: advanced concepts, sequenced rather than dumped. Described by what they teach, never by what they return.
A subscription later. The price is not set, and inventing one here would be worse than saying so.
Planned — not in the app yet
- The Reference. A curated, organised body of material on the terms and mechanics, to look things up in rather than follow in order. The Roadmap ships; this does not exist yet.
- Custom TradingView indicators. Nothing in the app implements these today.
The stance
Most tools compete on confidence. This one competes on accuracy.
The ones that sound most certain sell best. This is built the other way round — and the three refusals below are enforced in the product, not promised here.
No forecasts
The Lean describes conditions
Trend, higher-timeframe bias and structure in one read of where things stand. No arrow, no target, no "expect".
Composite of trend, bias & structure
No invented reads
Live headlines arrive bare
A news feed returns text, not meaning. Where our own analysis has not scored a story, the slot stays visibly empty — because nothing filled it.
Fed holds rates steady, cites patience
No unmarked data
Every real number says so
Live values carry a live indicator. Sample data says so, on the screen, where you are looking at it.
What it does
Four things, in both modes.
Reads the session
The trading day as a timeline in Chicago time, with the windows where volatility has historically clustered marked, and a playhead only when a session is actually running.
Tracks your accounts
Balances, day P&L, and the number that actually decides outcomes — how much room is left before a limit, shown as headroom rather than as damage done.
Marks what is live
Every surface carries a LIVE or SAMPLE indicator. The list of which is which is generated from one file the app and this page both read.
Explains without predicting
TradeScope AI answers from the data on your screen, names what it is missing when it cannot answer, and refuses to tell you what to trade.
TradeScope AI
An analysis assistant, grounded in your data.
Ask it about your headroom, your concentration, or the session. Ask it what happens next, and this is what you get — every time.
An illustration. The refusals are not a tone choice — they are what its instructions require. Not a broker, not a signal service.
What beta means
The same honesty, applied to this page.
Some of it runs on live quotes and headlines, some on sample data while the connections are finished. Here is exactly which is which.
Live today
- LIVE Stock quotes and ticker search
- LIVE Market and per-ticker headlines
- LIVE TradeScope AI chat replies
Sample data for now
- SAMPLE Prop firm rules, payouts and balances
- SAMPLE Linked brokerage holdings and history
- SAMPLE Trend and volume in Bias Rankings
- SAMPLE Lessons, options flow, fund returns
Generated from the same file the app's Beta panel reads, so the two cannot disagree. Build Beta 1 · 0.1.0.
What beta gives you
- Free for the whole beta, no card and no trial clock.
- A direct line for feedback that reaches the person building it — the TraderScope Discord.
- Real influence over what gets built next, while it is still cheap to change.
- Everything in TraderScope Pro during the beta, at no cost.
What we want back
- The unglamorous stuff: what confused you on first open.
- What you expected to be tappable and wasn't.
- Which screens you would never use, and why.
- Anything that reads as a prediction. That is a bug here.
Questions
Worth asking first.
What devices does it run on?
How do I get in, and how many seats are there?
What does it cost, during beta and after?
Which data is actually live right now?
Does it place trades?
Does it connect to my prop firm account yet?
Does the tax feature do my taxes?
Does it connect to my brokerage?
Are the fund returns in Invest real?
What happens to my data?
Is there somewhere to talk to you directly?
How do I leave the beta?
Closed beta
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