Trading Education for AI, Strategies, and Risk
Read practical guides on AI trading tools, options flow, technical analysis, strategy design, and risk management. Start with our best AI trading bot evaluation guide to compare signal evidence, paper workflows, and execution controls.
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Use a guide to define your question, then compare each signal’s entry, stop, target, and reasoning. Broker access is optional.
From signal to decision
Review the idea and risk, then decide whether to save or paper practice.
Start with the idea and its risk. Choose where it arrives, practice in paper mode, and check what actually happened. Broker access is optional.
- Understand your signal4 min
Read the idea, check its age, and choose review, paper practice, or skip.
- Practice with Alpaca6 min
Translate a stock idea into an order ticket in a separate paper account.
- Choose a delivery path5 min
Choose chat, email, webhooks, or a workflow tool and verify receipt.
- Connect an AI assistant6 min
Bring context to your AI, preview an order, and keep approval in your hands.
Browse by Category
The Tradewink Learn library covers how to trade stocks, options, and crypto using both classic technical analysis and modern AI-driven methods. Each category below collects in-depth, beginner-friendly guides on strategies, indicators, risk management, and automation— so you can build a process before you risk capital.
AI Trading
How artificial intelligence analyzes and trades markets
Algorithmic Trading
Automated trading systems and algo strategies
Automated Trading
Trading bots, setup guides, and no-code automation
Stock Trading Signals
Signal reasoning, risk checks, and paper trading before live decisions
Day Trading
Intraday strategies, setups, and risk management
Swing Trading
Multi-day strategies, entry timing, and regime filters
Options Trading
Options flow, Greeks, and strategy guides
Crypto Trading
24/7 crypto strategies, BTC correlation, and sizing
Risk Management
Position sizing, stops, and drawdown rules
Technical Analysis
Indicators, chart patterns, and signal generation
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Popular Guides
VWAP Trading Strategy: A Guide to Evaluating Setups
Learn how to evaluate a VWAP trading strategy: calculation, execution benchmarks, session context, limitations, and paper-tracked review.
Stock Market Simulator: Practice Trading With Fake Money
Practice stock trading with fake money in a stock market simulator. Compare free access, learn order types, and record realistic paper-trading lessons.
Discord Trading Bot: Alerts, Permissions, and Setup
Choose a Discord trading bot or webhook for alerts. Check permissions, delivery logs, and paper environments before connecting a broker.
What Is VWAP? Volume Weighted Average Price Explained for Day Traders
VWAP stands for Volume Weighted Average Price. Learn the formula, how it behaves intraday, when traders buy above or below it, and how it connects to Tradewink's VWAP strategy guide.
Pre-Market Trading: Hours, Strategies, and How to Trade Before the Open (2026 Guide)
Complete guide to pre-market trading. Covers pre-market hours (4:00-9:30 AM ET), which brokers allow it, how to find pre-market movers, gap strategies, ORB setups, risk management, and common mistakes to avoid.
RSI Trading Strategy 2026: Settings, Entries, Exits & Backtest Notes
RSI trading strategy guide for 2026 — overbought and oversold settings, divergence setups, VWAP confluence, trend filters, and backtest notes for smarter entries and exits.
Paper Trading App Workflow: Review Stock Signals
Learn to paper trade stock signals by reviewing entry, stop, target, and rationale, then recording and revisiting each decision.
ATR Indicator: The Complete Guide to Average True Range for Traders
Average True Range (ATR) measures market volatility. Learn how to calculate ATR, use it for stop losses, position sizing, and why it is the most important indicator for risk management.
Fear and Greed Index Explained: How to Use It for Trading in 2026
The Fear and Greed Index measures market sentiment on a 0-100 scale. Learn what drives it, how traders use it as context, and how Tradewink combines it with risk and regime signals.
What Is a Market Regime? Trending vs. Choppy Markets Explained
A market regime is a persistent statistical state — trending, choppy, or high-volatility — that determines which trading strategies have an edge. Learn why regime awareness is the most underrated concept in trading.
Opening Range Breakout (ORB) Strategy: The Complete Day Trading Guide for 2026
The Opening Range Breakout (ORB) is one of the most reliable intraday strategies. Learn the exact entry rules, stop placement, profit targets, and how to automate ORB detection for consistent day trading results.
Day Trading for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
A practical day trading guide for beginners. Learn what day trading is, how to build a starter workflow, the PDT rule, essential strategies, risk management, and how AI can help you practice before risking real capital.
Pattern Day Trader Rule (PDT): What It Is and How to Work Around It
The PDT rule's $25,000 minimum was eliminated June 4, 2026. How day trades are counted, broker enforcement during the transition through 2027, and strategies for small accounts.
I received a trading signal. What do I do next?
A practical first-signal checklist: understand the setup, check freshness, choose paper practice or skip, and distinguish delivery from a fill.
How to practice a Tradewink signal with Alpaca
Translate a stock signal into an Alpaca paper order, check the account and ticket, and verify order status without confusing a signal with a fill.
Choose how Tradewink signals reach your tools
Choose dashboard, email, Discord, workflow integrations, webhooks, or API access. Test delivery before adding any execution step.
Use Tradewink with Claude, Codex, and the signals API
Connect an AI assistant through MCP, retrieve signal records through the API, and use a preview-first workflow with explicit order approval.
What Is AI Trading? A Complete Guide for 2026
AI trading uses artificial intelligence to analyze markets, identify opportunities, and execute trades. Learn how it works, its advantages over manual trading, and how to get started.
Risk Management for Traders: The Only Guide You Need
Risk management is what separates profitable traders from broke ones. Learn position sizing, stop-loss strategies, portfolio heat management, and the math behind long-term profitability.
Momentum Trading: Complete Strategy Guide for Breakout Stocks
Complete momentum trading strategy guide. Learn how momentum trading works, how to find breakout stocks, time entries with volume confirmation, manage risk, and automate momentum strategies with AI.
Getting Started with Tradewink: Your First AI Trading Signals
New to Tradewink? Here's how to set up your account, understand your first signals, and start trading smarter with AI-powered trade ideas.
Options Trading for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
A complete beginner's guide to options trading. Learn about calls, puts, strike prices, expiration, the Greeks, basic strategies, and how to avoid the most common mistakes new options traders make.
Breakout Trading Strategy: The Complete 2026 Guide
A breakout trade captures the explosive move when price clears a key level with conviction. Learn the 5 types of breakouts, volume rules, entry and stop placement, false breakout filters, and how AI screeners surface the best setups before the crowd.
Mean Reversion Day Trading Strategy: The Complete 2026 Guide
Mean reversion trading profits when price snaps back after an extreme move. Learn the key indicators — RSI, Bollinger Bands, VWAP — exact entry and exit rules, risk management, and how Tradewink flags mean-reversion setups you can paper-track.
Options Trading Strategies for Beginners: Covered Calls, Puts & Spreads
Complete options trading strategies guide for beginners. Learn covered calls, cash-secured puts, vertical spreads, and how Tradewink alerts on options setups you can paper-trade.
AI Day Trading Strategies: The Complete 2026 Guide
A complete guide to AI-powered day trading strategies in 2026. Learn how artificial intelligence applies breakout, mean reversion, VWAP, and options strategies — and how Tradewink's Paper Autopilot runs the full pipeline from screening to exit in paper trading.
Quant Trading: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Quantitative Trading in 2026
Learn what quantitative trading is, how quant strategies work, the tools used by quant traders, and how to get started with quant trading as a retail investor in 2026.
AI Stock Trading Bots: How They Work, Risks, and the Best Options in 2026
Understand how AI stock trading bots work, their risks and limitations, key features to evaluate, and how to choose the right AI trading bot for your needs in 2026.
AI Day Trading: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Intraday Trading in 2026
Discover how AI is transforming day trading with faster analysis, emotion-free execution, and adaptive strategies. Learn the benefits, risks, and how to get started with AI day trading.
How to Automate Stock Trading with AI (2026 Guide)
Learn how to automate stock trading with AI — from choosing a platform and connecting a broker to setting risk parameters and testing the system on paper first. Step-by-step guide for 2026.
AI Trading Signals Explained: What They Are and How to Use Them
AI trading signals use machine learning to identify potential trade opportunities across hundreds of stocks. Learn what they are, how they work, what the data means, and how to evaluate signal quality.
AI Trading Signals Explained: How They Work, What to Trust (2026)
A transparent breakdown of how AI trading signals actually work, what accuracy claims mean, and how Tradewink generates and scores each signal.
AI Trading Bot for Beginners: Get Started in 10 Minutes (2026)
Step-by-step guide to using an AI trading bot as a beginner — no coding, no servers. Set up Tradewink's free signal alerts in under 10 minutes.
How to Automate Stock Trading in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide
How to automate stock trading: compare broker APIs, signal services and no-code tools, preview an offline request, and review paper order-state limits.
How to Build an AI Trading Bot: Python, Data and Paper Tests
Build a research prototype with Alpaca Python bars, per-symbol indicators, risk checks, and paper testing. Compare no-code and LLM workflows.
Autonomous Trading Agents: How AI Agents Are Replacing Trading Bots in 2026
Autonomous trading agents use LLMs and multi-agent AI to reason about markets, adapt to regime changes, and execute trades without manual rules. Learn how they work.
How to Trade Stocks with Claude: A No-Code Guide for 2026
Learn how to research and paper-trade stocks with Claude using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). No API key, no code — just OAuth and natural language. Tradewink's public offering is paper trading only.
What Is Agentic Trading? How AI Agents Place Trades in 2026
Agentic trading explained: how an AI agent researches, decides, and submits broker orders under your guardrails, and where it fails.
How to Use AI to Analyze Stocks: A Step-by-Step Workflow
How to use AI to analyze stocks in six steps: real data in, fundamentals, technicals, sentiment, a bull/bear debate, then a checklist instead of a trade.
0DTE Options Trading: How Zero-Day Options Work and Their Risks
0DTE options expire the same day you trade them. Learn how gamma and theta behave at expiry, the common spread structures, and the risks FINRA flags.
AI Trading Bot Scams: 12 Red Flags and How to Verify a Bot Is Real
AI trading bot scams follow a pattern: fake track records, guaranteed returns, and withdrawal traps. Learn 12 red flags and how to verify a bot is real.
Day Trading Signals: Methodology and Criteria (2026)
What makes a good day trading signal? Learn the criteria, methodology, and how to paper-test signals before risking capital.
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IEX vs SIP Market Data: Why Stock Prices and Volume Differ
Compare IEX and SIP market data, diagnose different stock candles and volume, and keep feed assumptions consistent when reviewing paper strategies.
Paper Trading Fills vs Live Execution: How to Review the Gap
Review paper trading fills against documented simulator limits, quote timing, costs, and order receipts without treating hypothetical results as live evidence.
Why Is My Limit Order Not Filled? A Paper-Trading Diagnostic Guide
Diagnose an unfilled limit order by checking quotes, order status, session eligibility, quantity, and simulator assumptions before changing the plan.
Open Interest vs Volume in Options: What Each Tells You
Open interest vs volume, side by side: what each number measures, how open interest changes, four volume/OI scenarios, and how volume above open interest feeds unusual options activity screens.
Max Pain Options: How It's Calculated and Whether It Works
Max pain options explained: a worked calculation from open interest, what research says about expiration pinning, how max pain compares with open interest and gamma exposure, and how to use it responsibly.
Gamma Exposure (GEX): How to Read Call Walls, Put Walls, and the Gamma Flip
A practitioner guide to gamma exposure (GEX): how it is estimated, the dealer-positioning assumptions behind it, positive vs negative gamma regimes, call walls, put walls, the gamma flip, and common misreads.
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Getting Started
I received a trading signal. What do I do next?
A practical first-signal checklist: understand the setup, check freshness, choose paper practice or skip, and distinguish delivery from a fill.
How to practice a Tradewink signal with Alpaca
Translate a stock signal into an Alpaca paper order, check the account and ticket, and verify order status without confusing a signal with a fill.
Choose how Tradewink signals reach your tools
Choose dashboard, email, Discord, workflow integrations, webhooks, or API access. Test delivery before adding any execution step.
Why Is My Limit Order Not Filled? A Paper-Trading Diagnostic Guide
Diagnose an unfilled limit order by checking quotes, order status, session eligibility, quantity, and simulator assumptions before changing the plan.
Getting Started with Tradewink: Your First AI Trading Signals
New to Tradewink? Here's how to set up your account, understand your first signals, and start trading smarter with AI-powered trade ideas.
How to Automate Stock Trading with Alpaca in 2026
Learn Alpaca stock automation with an offline Python request preview, paper-account setup, order states, and failure reconciliation before execution.
How to Use Tradewink: Complete Platform Walkthrough
A practical guide to Tradewink: dashboard, Discord, watchlists, explainable signals, and paper trading.
Tradewink Signals: AI-Powered Trading Signals Explained
Everything you need to know about Tradewink Signals — currently enabled signal types, how they work, delivery channels, pricing plans, and how to act on AI-generated trade ideas.
Crypto Trading with AI: How to Trade Bitcoin and Altcoins Smarter
Cryptocurrency markets run 24/7 with extreme volatility. Learn how AI trading tools handle crypto markets, manage risk in volatile conditions, and identify opportunities across Bitcoin and altcoins.
Trading Strategies
Unusual Options Activity & Options Flow: How to Read Smart Money Trades
Free guide to unusual options activity and options flow. How to spot institutional positioning, read sweeps, block trades, and dark pool prints — and filter noise from real smart money.
Momentum Trading: Complete Strategy Guide for Breakout Stocks
Complete momentum trading strategy guide. Learn how momentum trading works, how to find breakout stocks, time entries with volume confirmation, manage risk, and automate momentum strategies with AI.
Mean Reversion Trading Strategy vs. Momentum: When to Use Each
A practical comparison of mean reversion and momentum trading. Learn when each strategy works, how market regime changes the edge, and how Tradewink adapts in real time.
VWAP Trading Strategy: A Guide to Evaluating Setups
Learn how to evaluate a VWAP trading strategy: calculation, execution benchmarks, session context, limitations, and paper-tracked review.
RSI Trading Strategy 2026: Settings, Entries, Exits & Backtest Notes
RSI trading strategy guide for 2026 — overbought and oversold settings, divergence setups, VWAP confluence, trend filters, and backtest notes for smarter entries and exits.
Fibonacci Retracement: How to Draw and Trade Fibonacci Levels
Master Fibonacci retracement levels for trading. Learn how to draw Fibonacci levels, which levels matter most (38.2%, 50%, 61.8%), and how to combine them with other indicators for high-probability entries.
Candlestick Patterns: 12 Essential Patterns Every Trader Should Know
Learn how to read candlestick charts and master the 12 most important candlestick patterns. Understand doji, hammer, engulfing, morning star, and more with practical trading examples.
Swing Trading Strategy: How to Capture Multi-Day Moves in 2026
Learn swing trading strategies that capture multi-day price moves. Covers pullback entries, breakout setups, mean reversion, risk management, and how AI-powered tools generate swing trading signals.
MACD Trading Strategy: How to Read and Trade MACD Like a Pro
Learn how to use the MACD indicator for trading. This guide covers MACD crossovers, divergence, histogram analysis, and how to combine MACD with RSI for higher-probability trades.
Options Trading
Options Greeks Simplified: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega Explained
Options Greeks don't have to be complicated. Learn what Delta, Gamma, Theta, and Vega mean in plain English and how to use them in your trading.
Implied Volatility Explained: The Most Important Number in Options
Implied volatility determines whether options are cheap or expensive. Learn what IV means, how to read IV rank, and how to use volatility to your advantage.
Iron Condor Strategy 2026: Complete Setup, Management & Adjustment Guide
Iron condor strategy guide for 2026: complete setup, management, and adjustment playbook. How to sell premium in sideways markets and manage four-legged positions.
Options Trading for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know in 2026
A complete beginner's guide to options trading. Learn about calls, puts, strike prices, expiration, the Greeks, basic strategies, and how to avoid the most common mistakes new options traders make.
How to Read an Options Chain: A Complete Guide for Beginners
Learn how to read and interpret an options chain — the essential tool for options trading. Understand strike prices, expiration dates, bid/ask, volume, open interest, and the Greeks.
The Wheel Strategy: How It Works, Risks, and Examples
Learn how the options wheel strategy cycles from cash-secured puts to covered calls, with payoff examples, assignment mechanics, stock selection, and risks.
Covered Call Strategy: How to Generate Income from Stocks You Already Own
Learn how to write covered calls to generate monthly income from stocks you already own. This complete guide covers strike selection, expiration timing, rolling, and when NOT to use covered calls.
Options Trading Strategies for Beginners: Covered Calls, Puts & Spreads
Complete options trading strategies guide for beginners. Learn covered calls, cash-secured puts, vertical spreads, and how Tradewink alerts on options setups you can paper-trade.
Options Trading Strategies for Beginners: 6 Strategies to Know in 2026
A beginner-friendly guide to the 6 most important options trading strategies: buying calls, buying puts, covered calls, cash-secured puts, the wheel strategy, and iron condors. Learn how each works, when to use it, and how to manage risk.
Risk Management
Risk Management for Traders: The Only Guide You Need
Risk management is what separates profitable traders from broke ones. Learn position sizing, stop-loss strategies, portfolio heat management, and the math behind long-term profitability.
Stop-Loss Strategies: 7 Methods to Protect Your Trading Capital
Learn the best stop-loss strategies for day trading and swing trading. From ATR-based stops to trailing stops, percentage stops, and AI-driven dynamic exits.
Position Sizing: How to Calculate the Right Trade Size Every Time
Position sizing determines how much capital to risk per trade. Learn the fixed-percentage, ATR-based, and Kelly Criterion methods with practical examples.
Risk Management for Day Traders: The Complete Guide (2026)
Learn the essential risk management techniques that separate profitable day traders from those who blow up. Covers position sizing, stop placement, daily loss limits, and portfolio heat management.
How to Avoid Overtrading: Signs, Causes, and Solutions
Overtrading destroys more accounts than bad stock picks. Learn the warning signs, psychological causes, and practical strategies to trade less but profit more.
Trailing Stops: The Complete Guide to Protecting Profits While Staying in Winners
Learn how trailing stops work, the difference between fixed-percentage and ATR-based trailing stops, how to set them correctly, and how Tradewink's Paper Autopilot trails them automatically in paper trading.
MFE and MAE: The Two Numbers That Reveal If Your Trading Strategy Actually Works
Maximum Favorable Excursion (MFE) and Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) are the most underused tools in trading analytics. Learn what they reveal about stop placement, target sizing, and whether your exits are helping or hurting you.
Position Sizing for Day Traders: The Complete 2026 Guide
Position sizing is the most important — and most ignored — skill in day trading. Learn the percentage-risk model, ATR-based sizing, half-Kelly, and how AI auto-sizes positions for micro accounts. Includes a step-by-step calculator.
Advanced Position Sizing Strategies: Volatility Targeting, Regime Adjustment, and AI-Driven Sizing
Go beyond the 1% rule. This guide covers volatility targeting, ATR-based sizing, regime-adjusted sizing, portfolio heat management, and how AI optimizes position size in real time.
AI & Automation
Use Tradewink with Claude, Codex, and the signals API
Connect an AI assistant through MCP, retrieve signal records through the API, and use a preview-first workflow with explicit order approval.
IEX vs SIP Market Data: Why Stock Prices and Volume Differ
Compare IEX and SIP market data, diagnose different stock candles and volume, and keep feed assumptions consistent when reviewing paper strategies.
Paper Trading Fills vs Live Execution: How to Review the Gap
Review paper trading fills against documented simulator limits, quote timing, costs, and order receipts without treating hypothetical results as live evidence.
What Is AI Trading? A Complete Guide for 2026
AI trading uses artificial intelligence to analyze markets, identify opportunities, and execute trades. Learn how it works, its advantages over manual trading, and how to get started.
How AI Trading Signals Work: From Data to Trade Idea
Ever wonder how AI generates trading signals? We break down the full pipeline: data ingestion, pattern recognition, scoring, filtering, and delivery.
Best AI Trading Bot: A Paper-First Evaluation Guide
Choose an AI trading bot with a paper-first framework: compare signal evidence, research tools, costs, and execution controls before taking risk.
How AI Day Trading Bots Actually Work: The 8-Stage Pipeline from Data to Execution
A builder's breakdown of a production AI day trading system. Covers the full pipeline: market data ingestion, regime detection, screening, AI conviction scoring, position sizing, execution, dynamic exits, and self-improvement.
How to Backtest Trading Strategies: A Practical Guide for 2026
Learn how to backtest trading strategies properly -- avoid common pitfalls like overfitting, survivorship bias, and look-ahead bias. Includes frameworks, metrics, and validation techniques.
Market Regime Detection: How AI Identifies Bull, Bear, and Choppy Markets
Market regime detection uses statistical models to classify whether the market is trending, mean-reverting, or in transition. Learn how Hidden Markov Models and efficiency ratios power regime-aware trading systems.
Market Analysis
Dark Pool Trading: How to Track and Trade Institutional Orders
Complete dark pool trading guide. Learn what dark pools are, how to read dark pool prints, detect institutional accumulation and distribution, and combine dark pool data with options flow for higher-probability trades.
Fear and Greed Index Explained: How to Use It for Trading in 2026
The Fear and Greed Index measures market sentiment on a 0-100 scale. Learn what drives it, how traders use it as context, and how Tradewink combines it with risk and regime signals.
ATR Indicator: The Complete Guide to Average True Range for Traders
Average True Range (ATR) measures market volatility. Learn how to calculate ATR, use it for stop losses, position sizing, and why it is the most important indicator for risk management.
Market Sentiment Indicators: 8 Tools to Gauge Investor Emotion
Learn the top market sentiment indicators including the Fear and Greed Index, VIX, put/call ratio, AAII survey, and more. Use sentiment to find contrarian trading opportunities.
How to Read Level 2 Market Data: A Day Trader's Guide
Learn how to read Level 2 market data (the order book) to see real-time supply and demand, spot institutional activity, and time your entries and exits with precision.
What Is a Market Regime? Trending vs. Choppy Markets Explained
A market regime is a persistent statistical state — trending, choppy, or high-volatility — that determines which trading strategies have an edge. Learn why regime awareness is the most underrated concept in trading.
Short Squeeze Trading: How to Identify, Trade, and Survive Squeeze Setups
Short squeezes can produce explosive gains — or devastating losses. Learn how to identify squeeze candidates, time entries, manage risk, and avoid common traps.
Order Flow Analysis: How to Read Market Pressure Like a Pro
Order flow analysis reveals the real-time buying and selling pressure driving price. Learn to read the tape, time & sales, level 2, and order imbalances to trade with institutional money flow — not against it.
What Is the VIX? The Fear Index Explained for Traders
The VIX measures the market's expected volatility over the next 30 days. Learn what VIX levels mean, how to use the fear index to time trades, and how regime-aware systems incorporate VIX into strategy selection.
Jargon Wall
What Is a Stop-Loss? (And Why Ignoring It Can Wipe Your Account)
A stop-loss is a pre-set exit point that limits how much you can lose on a single trade. Learn what it means, why traders skip it — and how that one mistake ends accounts.
What Is VWAP? Volume Weighted Average Price Explained for Day Traders
VWAP stands for Volume Weighted Average Price. Learn the formula, how it behaves intraday, when traders buy above or below it, and how it connects to Tradewink's VWAP strategy guide.
What Is ATR? How Volatility Tells You Where to Put Your Stop
ATR measures average true range over the selected chart bars, including gaps. Learn how daily and intraday ATR differ when reviewing stop and position-size assumptions.
What Is RSI? The Momentum Meter Every Trader Needs to Understand
RSI (Relative Strength Index) measures how overbought or oversold a stock is on a scale of 0 to 100. Learn what the number actually means — and the common mistake traders make when using it.
What Is Position Sizing? Why the Math Behind Trade Size Matters More Than the Entry
Position sizing determines how many shares you buy on each trade. It is the most important skill in trading — and almost nobody teaches it to beginners. Here is how it actually works.
Beginner Guide
Stocks vs. ETFs: What's the Difference?
Stocks and ETFs are both ways to invest in companies, but they work very differently. Learn what sets them apart, which is right for beginners, and how to choose.
Day Trading vs. Long-Term Investing: Which Is Right for You?
Day trading and long-term investing are completely different approaches to the stock market. Learn how they compare on risk, time, skill, and returns — and which fits your life.
What Is a Brokerage Account? A Beginner's Guide
A brokerage account is how you buy and sell stocks, ETFs, and other investments. Learn how brokerage accounts work, the types available, and how to open one.
How Does the Stock Market Work? A Plain-English Explanation
The stock market can seem intimidating, but the core idea is simple. Learn how stocks are traded, who sets prices, and how markets actually work — no jargon required.
What Is a Portfolio? Building Your First Investment Portfolio
A portfolio is simply the collection of investments you own. Learn what makes a good portfolio, how to think about diversification, and how to start building one from scratch.
Technical Analysis for Beginners: Charts, Indicators, and Patterns Explained
A complete beginner's guide to technical analysis. Learn how to read stock charts, use popular indicators like RSI, MACD, and moving averages, and identify chart patterns that signal high-probability trades.
Day Trading Taxes: Capital Gains, Wash Sale Rule, and Mark-to-Market Explained
A complete guide to day trading taxes. Understand short-term vs. long-term capital gains, the wash sale rule, mark-to-market accounting, deductible trading expenses, and how to track your trading activity for tax season.
Market Order vs Limit Order: Which Should You Use and When?
Market orders execute immediately at the current price. Limit orders execute only at your specified price or better. Learn when each order type helps or hurts you.
What Is Margin Trading? How Borrowing to Trade Amplifies Both Gains and Losses
Margin trading lets you trade with borrowed money from your broker, amplifying your buying power. Learn how margin works, what it costs, and the risks that come with it.
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Reviews & Comparisons
TradersPost Review 2026: Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons
An in-depth review of TradersPost, the webhook-based trade automation platform. We cover features, pricing, broker support, pros and cons, and how it compares to AI-powered alternatives like Tradewink.
Trade Ideas Review 2026: Holly AI Scanner, Pricing & Is It Worth It?
A detailed Trade Ideas review covering the Holly AI scanner, real-time stock screening, pricing tiers, Brokerage Plus, and whether The Apex (Premium) plan is worth it for active day traders.
Unusual Whales Review 2026: Flow, Free Tier & Pricing
An evidence-based Unusual Whales review covering options flow, alerts, its free data delay, current dashboard pricing, and who the research tools fit.
How to Choose a Broker for Algorithmic Trading (2026 Guide)
Compare broker APIs, Rule 605 execution quality and Rule 606 routing reports, paper environments and costs using the same order profile.
Best Algo Trading Platforms for Beginners in 2026
The right algorithmic trading platform depends on your programming skills, capital, and goals. This guide compares the best algo trading platforms in 2026 — from no-code AI tools to full Python backtesting engines — so you can choose the right starting point.
Best AI Stock Analysis Tools in 2026: What Each One Actually Does
An honest comparison of the best AI stock analysis tools in 2026: Danelfin, Trade Ideas, TrendSpider, Tickeron, Intellectia, LLMs with MCP, and Tradewink.
Claude vs ChatGPT for Stock Analysis: Which Is Better for Traders?
Claude vs ChatGPT stock analysis compared: 10-K reading, reasoning, MCP tool use, live data limits, cost tiers, and a 5-prompt test you can run yourself.
Best Trading Journal App: Track, Analyze & Improve Trades
Best trading journal apps compared: auto-import, P&L tracking, pattern analysis, and AI insights. Find the right tool to log trades and improve performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AI trading?
AI trading uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze markets and make or recommend trading decisions. Instead of a human watching charts and timing entries manually, an AI system processes price, volume, news, and other data in real time to screen for high-probability setups, score conviction, size positions, and — optionally — execute trades through a connected broker.
Is Tradewink free to use?
Yes. Tradewink's Free plan needs no card and includes up to 3 sampler signals per day on a 15-minute delay, 7-day history, a 5-ticker watchlist, and explainable analysis. Paid plans are billed monthly and add real-time delivery, more history, an unlimited watchlist, and deeper analysis routing, plus REST API access on Pro and Elite. Public subscriptions are paper-only; separately approved private beta accounts may submit live broker orders. You can read every Learn guide without an account.
Which brokers does Tradewink support?
Tradewink's public offering is paper trading only, so broker connections are limited to paper or sandbox accounts, used by Paper Autopilot; public plans do not include live order submission. Brokers that offer a paper or sandbox environment include Alpaca, Tradier, Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, and OANDA. Each broker uses its own authorization flow (OAuth or API keys). Connecting a broker is optional — signals, research, and Tradewink's own simulator never require one.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Tradewink is built for traders who do not code. You build a watchlist and set your preferences through the web dashboard or Discord; the AI handles screening and analysis, and you review each signal's reasoning before deciding. Tradewink's public offering is paper trading only: Paper Autopilot can run signals automatically in a simulator or a paper/sandbox account, and public plans do not include live order submission. Developers can optionally use the MCP server (available on the Free plan) or the REST API (Pro and Elite), but coding is never required to use the platform.
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Trading risk
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Trading involves substantial risk of loss, including the possibility of losing more than your initial investment. You are solely responsible for your own trading decisions.