These are aimed at genuinely different people. Trade Ideas is a professional-grade scanning and idea-generation platform for traders who sit at a screen and act on what they are shown. blank is for people who do not want to be at the screen at all. Comparing them on features misses the point; the question is how much of the job you want to keep.
A long-established AI-assisted market scanning and signal platform, best known for its virtual analyst that surfaces trade ideas in real time. Built around active trading on US markets, with charting, backtesting and simulated trading alongside the idea generation. It is a professional tool with a professional learning curve.
An autonomous AI trading advisor for Trading 212. It researches the market each cycle, decides buy, sell or hold, sizes the position, arms a stop, places the order in your own account and writes down why. A desktop application for Windows and macOS with an iPhone app as a live remote. £10 per trading week or £35 a month, plus a flat 5% of net realised profit.
| Trade Ideas | blank | |
|---|---|---|
| Who decides the trade | You, from its ideas | The advisor |
| Who places the order | You | The advisor, in your account |
| Attention required | Active, during the session | Review the journal |
| Primary market | US equities | LSE, NYSE, NASDAQ |
| Broker | Various US brokers | Trading 212 |
| Where it runs | Desktop and web | Desktop, your own machine |
| Explains each trade | Signal criteria | Written reasoning at entry |
You trade actively and enjoy it, you want a powerful scanner surfacing candidates during the session, you are trading US markets, and you want to keep the final decision on every trade.
You do not want to watch the market, you are on a UK or EU Trading 212 account, and you would rather delegate the individual decisions and audit the reasoning afterwards than approve each one.
You cannot afford to lose the money. Both are tools for taking market risk more systematically. Neither reduces it, and no automated product can.
blank makes this page, so read it with that in mind. What is written above about Trade Ideas is drawn from its own public description of itself, kept at the level of category and approach rather than specific prices or performance, because those change and misquoting a competitor helps nobody. Check their current terms directly before deciding.
Nothing here is a recommendation to buy either product, or any investment. Capital is at risk.
Trade Ideas surfaces trade ideas for you to act on during the session. blank makes the decision and places the order in your own Trading 212 account, then records why. Trade Ideas is built around active US trading; blank is built for UK and EU investors who do not want to watch the market.
blank is a UK-built option, though it is a different category rather than a like-for-like replacement. It is an autonomous advisor that trades your Trading 212 account rather than a scanner that gives you candidates to trade yourself.
Neither is a beginner product in the sense of being low risk. A scanner assumes you can judge and execute the ideas it gives you. An autonomous advisor assumes you are comfortable delegating trades and reading the reasoning afterwards. If neither describes you, index investing is the honest answer.
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