One Platform, Everything You Need
Trade Echo combines a professional trading journal, real-time institutional data, AI-powered analysis, and copy trading in one place. Whether you are brand new to the markets or looking to sharpen a practiced edge, every feature is available from the moment your subscription activates. There are no tiers, no upsells, and no locked modules. You get the full platform on day one.
Pricing is straightforward: $199/month (cancel anytime), $2,199/year (saves $189 versus monthly, about 8% off), or a $3,499 one-time Lifetime plan that covers all current and future features plus multi-pilot Copy Trading. The Lifetime plan is badged "Most popular" and has limited availability. You can subscribe on the web or via Apple In-App Purchase on iOS. Visit the pricing page for the full breakdown.
Not sure where to begin? The quickest path is: create your account, spend your first week in the Dashboard logging trades, and layer in the data tools from there. This overview will walk you through each pillar so you know what is waiting for you.
The Five Core Pillars
Trade Echo is built around five pillars. Each one provides real value on its own, but the platform is designed so they reinforce each other. A signal from one tool gains conviction when a second and third tool agree. That stacking is the core principle behind the daily trading system.
1. Dashboard: Your Command Center and Trading Journal
The Dashboard is where you keep score. Log trades manually or upload in bulk from .xlsx, .xls, or .csv files exported from your broker. Search and filter by ticker, date range, or P&L to review any slice of your history. The calendar view highlights your highest-activity days at a glance, and the statistics panel tracks the metrics that actually matter: win rate, total P&L, average win and loss size, profit factor, and time-based performance breakdowns.
Journaling is not an optional extra. It is the only way to know whether your edge is real or whether you have been lucky. Commit to logging every trade, even the ones you would rather forget, and your Dashboard becomes the most honest coach you have. Reviewing your stats weekly will surface patterns you cannot see trade by trade: which days you overshoot, which setups consistently underperform, and which times of day your edge sharpens or disappears.
Think of the Dashboard as home base. Start here every morning and end here every evening.
2. DealerEdge: GEX Heatmaps and Dealer Positioning
DealerEdge visualizes gamma exposure (GEX) data, showing you where market makers are positioned and how their hedging mechanics influence price. Most traders focus on charts and technical levels. DealerEdge adds a layer that charts cannot show: the mechanical buy and sell pressure created when dealers continuously hedge their options books.
Four numbers define every DealerEdge read. The Anchor Point is the highest GEX strike, the gravitational center price tends to drift toward in stable conditions. The Defense Lines are secondary strikes with significant gamma concentration that act as mechanical support and resistance. The GEX Flip Point is the regime boundary: above it, dealers stabilize price by selling rallies and buying dips; below it, they amplify moves by selling into declines. The GEX Rating summarizes the environment on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 to 2 means tight ranges and mean reversion, and 4 to 5 means explosive, trending conditions.
The built-in AI Analysis translates the current heatmap into plain English, often with specific entry levels, directional bias, and price targets. You do not need a deep background in options Greeks to use DealerEdge. The Rating and the labeled levels give you what you need in under two minutes.
The Focus view zooms into a single ticker's gamma landscape with expanded detail. Pro Mode puts multiple tickers side by side for comparison. The Replay scrubber lets you step backward through the session to see how levels formed and shifted across the day.
Ready to go deeper? The DealerEdge Quick Start walks you through your first heatmap read step by step.
3. OptionFlow: The Real-Time Options Tape
OptionFlow shows you every options trade hitting U.S. exchanges in real time, filtered and classified so you can focus on what matters. Each print is labeled by execution type (sweep or block), classified as bought or sold against the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO), and given a three-tier signal strength: Aggressive, Unusual, or Golden.
Sweeps are routed across multiple exchanges simultaneously to fill as fast as possible, which signals urgency. Blocks fill in a single large transaction, often pre-negotiated. When you see clusters of sweeps on the same ticker, same strike, and same expiration, bought at or above the ask, you are watching an institution build a position in real time.
Click any row to open the Contract Drilldown. The Net Premium pane plots cumulative net call premium versus net put premium around a zero line, with a bought-versus-sold breakdown and a Net Sentiment bar. A rising net call premium line with a persistently green sentiment bar tells you the flow is sustained and directional, not a one-time noise print. That is the difference between a trade worth watching and one to ignore.
Saveable filters and presets let you tune the feed to match your style: focus on high-premium sweeps, filter by expiration window, or zero in on your watchlist tickers. The OptionFlow Quick Start covers how to set up your first scan.
4. AlgoEdge: High-Volume Directional Alerts
AlgoEdge sorts institutional activity across eight alert channels, surfacing orders that are significant enough to move price. These are not just large trades. They are the specific category of order that repeatedly precedes directional movement, delivered in real time with ticker, direction, size, premium, and execution detail.
Each alert tells you a name is in play. When you see an AlgoEdge fire on a ticker that DealerEdge already flags as positioned for a move, and OptionFlow shows sweeps in the same direction, you have multi-source institutional confirmation. That combination is the strongest setup Trade Echo produces. The more signals that agree, the higher your conviction and the clearer your risk parameters become.
AlgoEdge fires can also serve as the opening filter for your watchlist. Rather than scanning manually every morning, let the alerts surface names with institutional activity, then run those names through the full confirmation process before deciding to trade.
5. Cortex: Your AI Trading Agent
Cortex is an AI agent with direct, live access to every data source on the platform: OptionFlow, DealerEdge, AlgoEdge, Dark Pool, NewsEdge, EDGAR filings, FINRA ATS data, and more. Ask it anything in plain English and it pulls real-time data to answer.
Ask it what dealer positioning looks like on a ticker right now. Ask for unusual dark pool activity on a name in the last hour. Ask for the top tickers by options premium for the session. Cortex queries live data, cross-references multiple tools, and delivers analysis in seconds that would take you far longer to assemble manually. Ready-made presets like Dark Pool Radar, GEX Snapshot, and Flow Scanner let you get standard answers in one click.
You can also build agents in the Composer that watch the tape on your behalf. Review what the agent surfaces in the Approvals queue before anything acts. Pause and kill controls keep execution entirely in your hands. Share your presets and agent configurations with a link, but there is no community marketplace: sharing is link-based and always under your control.
Beyond the Five Pillars
Trade Echo includes a full suite of supporting modules. Dark Pool surfaces off-exchange institutional prints with cluster analysis, a Magnet level, and Support and Resistance tags. NewsEdge delivers real-time catalysts: earnings, analyst calls, M&A, macro headlines, and unusual activity reports. Snapshot gives you a quick-read market sentiment summary. Markets and Treemap show sector heatmaps and relative performance at a glance. The Social feed lets traders share setups and results. The Leaderboard ranks traders by performance so you can find consistent winners to study.
Copy Trading lets you follow top-performing traders and see their trades in real time. Browse the Leaderboard, view trade histories, and get notified when they open new positions. Use it to learn, not to delegate your thinking.
The Workspace is your custom dashboard. Assemble tiles for DealerEdge, OptionFlow, AlgoEdge, Cortex chat, a Watchlist, and more. Arrange them to match how you actually trade, save the layout so it loads the same way every session, share it with a link, and attach a Cortex agent so the chat reads the state of your tiles in real time.
Trade Echo has native mobile apps for iOS and Android, so you can monitor the tape, check alerts, and review your journal away from your desk.
How the Tools Work Together
The platform is intentionally designed so no single tool is the whole story. DealerEdge gives you the mechanical backdrop. OptionFlow shows you institutional positioning in real time. AlgoEdge fires when high-volume directional orders appear. Cortex cross-references all three in seconds. Your Dashboard records and scores every decision you make. Each layer adds specificity; together they give you a picture no single data source can provide.
A useful mental model: think of DealerEdge as the terrain, OptionFlow and AlgoEdge as the activity happening on that terrain, and Cortex as the analyst synthesizing it all while you focus on your plan. Your Dashboard is the scoreboard that tells you over time whether your read of that terrain is accurate.
Your First Month: A Suggested Path
Week 1 - Build the habit: Log every trade in your Dashboard. Get comfortable with the journal and review your statistics at the end of each day. Do not try to use every tool at once. The habit of recording and reviewing is the foundation everything else builds on.
Week 2 - Add context: Bring DealerEdge and AlgoEdge into your pre-market routine. Before the open, note the Anchor Point, the Flip Level, and the GEX Rating for SPX and your top two or three tickers. Note any AlgoEdge alerts on your watchlist names. You are not trading on this yet; you are learning to read the context before each session.
Week 3 - Add flow: Start running OptionFlow alongside your DealerEdge reads. Look for sweeps on the same names that DealerEdge already flags. When the two tools agree, note it. You are building pattern recognition for the setups that produce the highest-conviction entries.
Week 4 - Layer in Cortex and Copy Trading: Use Cortex each morning to speed up your research pass. Ask it to summarize positioning on your top tickers before you sit down with the individual tools. Then browse the Leaderboard and find one or two traders whose style and instruments match yours. Study how they move, not just what they trade.
After your first month, your Dashboard will have enough data to show you where your edge actually lives. That is the most valuable output Trade Echo produces over time: a clear, honest picture of what works for you.
Where to Go Next
Ready to get started? Creating Your Account walks through signup, subscription, and first-day setup in five minutes. Once you are in, the Daily Trading System gives you a concrete pre-market-to-close routine. And when you are ready for your first trade, Your First Trade walks through the full seven-step process. For tool-specific deep dives, the OptionFlow Quick Start and DealerEdge Quick Start are the best next steps.