At a glance
Trade Ideas and Horizon both put an AI between the market and your trades, and they part ways on what the AI does. Trade Ideas watches the whole US market in real time, fires alerts and Holly's entry and exit signals, and can place those trades for you through a connected broker. Horizon builds a strategy from your own idea, tests it, runs it through your broker, and lets you copy strategies that creators are running live.
Side by side
| Question | Horizon | Trade Ideas |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | HorizonAn investing platform. Copy strategies that creators are running live, or describe your own idea in plain English and run it through your own broker. | Trade IdeasA real-time stock scanner with Holly AI signals. Alerts and Top Lists find ideas, OddsMaker tests them, and Money Machine can trade them. |
| How you build a strategy | HorizonDescribe the idea in plain English. Horizon turns it into rules you can read, edit and test. No code. | Trade IdeasBuild scans from hundreds of alerts and filters, or take Holly's signals. The Holly AI Assistant sets up alerts and lists from a plain-English description. |
| Where strategies run | HorizonIn your own account at Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Hyperliquid, Kraken, Robinhood, Webull, TradeStation, Tradier, E*TRADE, tastytrade and moomoo, or on Horizon Paper with simulated money. | Trade IdeasOn your desktop or in the browser, with trades sent through a connected broker: TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE or Alpaca. |
| Markets | HorizonUS stocks and ETFs through the stock brokers; crypto spot and derivatives through the exchanges. No forex or CFDs. | Trade IdeasUS-listed stocks. Equities and options orders through the TradeStation integration. |
| Backtesting | HorizonEvery strategy is backtested on historical data before it runs, and you see the rules it tested. | Trade IdeasYes. OddsMaker, on the Premium plan, tests an alert or strategy against Trade Ideas' own market history. |
| Paper trading | HorizonYes. Horizon Paper runs any strategy with simulated money at real market prices. | Trade IdeasYes. Real-time paper trading is part of the Standard plan. |
| Copying other people's strategies | HorizonYes. Discover lists creators' strategies with live track records. Creators keep 80% of what subscribers pay. | Trade IdeasHolly's signals are the strategies you follow. There is no marketplace of other users' strategies. |
| Pricing model | HorizonDiscover is free. The Builder plan is a subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. | Trade IdeasA free account to explore, then Standard and Premium subscriptions. Holly's signals, OddsMaker and automated trading are Premium. Current prices on trade-ideas.com. |
| Holds your money? | HorizonNever. Funds stay with your broker. Horizon can place trades for a strategy but cannot withdraw money. | Trade IdeasNo. Trades go through the broker you connect. |
Choose Horizon if
- You have a strategy of your own and want it built, tested and running without watching a scanner all day.
- You trade crypto on an exchange, or through a broker Trade Ideas does not connect to.
- You want a strategy that runs on its own through your broker, with rules you can read.
- You want to copy strategies that creators are running live, or publish your own.
Choose Trade Ideas if
- You day trade US stocks by hand and want real-time alerts across the whole market.
- You want an AI that finds the trade for you, rather than one that runs the trade you describe.
- You want charts, scans and execution in one desktop window.
