AI-generated trade shortlists for active intraday traders — powerful, pricey, and steep to learn.
Trade Ideas scores 85 out of 100 across five pillars, 20 points each.
Every scanner fires alerts all day. The hard part was never getting alerts, it's knowing which ones are worth your money. Eight real-style setups below. Call each one, then see how you did against the bar third-party reviewers say Holly AI has to clear.
Illustrative setups built from common scanner criteria, not live market data. Verify current plans and Holly specs on Trade Ideas' own pages before subscribing.
This Trade Ideas review finds that it is the best dedicated momentum scanner available for active US equity day traders, passing four of five critical tests with…
Read the full Trade Ideas teardownTrade Ideas is the most capable retail scanning engine we have tested. Holly's overnight shortlist genuinely narrows a 7,000-ticker universe down to a handful of names you can actually work, and the alert plumbing — windows, filters, simulated entries — holds up under a live session. If you trade intraday every day and your bottleneck is finding candidates rather than executing them, the platform earns its place on the desk.
The price is the story. The tier most people actually need costs more per year than every other tool on this site combined, and there is no meaningful free tier to test with. Holly's selection logic is also not fully disclosed, so you are trusting a black box you cannot audit. Give yourself several weeks with the simulator before you size up on anything it surfaces.
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The traders who get the most out of Trade Ideas.
Where Trade Ideas is the wrong spend.
A real complaint from the trading forums, and what this tool actually does about it.
“Wish 90% of these videos would actually show the results of 30 days of activity”
Source: YouTube
Trade Ideas answers that with its own backtesting rather than a claim: run a scan against historical data and read the result yourself. The honest caveat is that backtesting sits on the Apex tier, which is where the price-to-value argument gets hardest.
Sentiment pulled from two independent sources, kept separate so you can weigh each one yourself.
r/DaytradingReddit“The basic plan is all you need. Holly and all that AI crap is not worth +$100. I'm sorry I paid one month for premium after I got the basic plan.”Read the original on Reddit →
r/RealDayTradingReddit“Overall, these scanners and combinations are extremely powerful.”Read the original on Reddit →
r/DaytradingReddit“I'm currently on the premium plan, however I don't use the auto trading function and Holly has turned out to not be profitable for me. I'm considering dropping down to the basic plan as I don't see anything in the premium plan to justify keeping it.”Read the original on Reddit →
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$127 / month, or $1,068 / year
Real-time scanning, charting, and alerts. No Holly AI shortlist.
$254 / month, or $2,136 / year
Everything in Standard plus Holly AI selections, simulated trading, and brokerage integration.
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Trade Ideas is the most capable retail scanning engine we have tested.
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