01 /ChatAgentsMarketplace

Ask the terminal. Run itwhile you sleep.

Cortex is the AI layer on top of Trade Echo. Chat with your live flow, build agents that watch the tape on a schedule, and ship them to a community marketplace. One product, three surfaces, every Trade Echo data module wired in.

Build your first agent Start asking your terminal

14+ live data toolsPaper · Review · Live modesIncluded in Pro · $199/mo

tradeecho.com/cortexLive

You

Why did $TSLA just flip to short gamma?

ToolPulling DealerEdge on $TSLA real quick

›Dealers hit net negative gamma at 14:28 as the Flip rolled through $342.10.

When dealers flip short gamma, every uptick gets sold and every downtick gets bought — moves amplify in both directions.

›Cortex Wall at $340 put strike absorbed aggressive call premium expiring Friday.

A heavy strike acting as a magnet — price tends to revisit it before expiry.

›Anchor sits at $338; below that, the next Defense Line is $332.

Expect amplified moves on any break of $342; the desk has nothing meaningful to lean on until $332.

SourcesDealerEdgeOptionFlowIndex snapshot · SPX

02 /Three surfaces

Cortex is not a chatbot. It's a layer.

Chat handles the questions you'd ask a senior trader. Agents handle the watching you'd otherwise miss. Marketplace lets the community ship what works.

Surface 01 · Chat

Ask, don't parse.

An interactive AI analyst at /cortex that reaches into 14+ live tools to answer in your own context. Narrates every tool call out loud. Writes a one-line italic gloss under every data row.

Grounded in proprietary data — DealerEdge, OptionFlow, Darkpool, AlgoEdge, plus SEC filings, XBRL financials, FINRA ATS, options chain, news.
Speaks the Cortex Lexicon — Anchor, Flip, GEX Pulse, Cortex Wall, Echo Print, Defense Line.
Reads your trade journal— your win rate, best/worst trades, most-traded tickers, ready to compare against the platform's signals.

Open Cortex chat

/cortex · chatLive

Which names crossed $1M premium on the ask in the last 15 min?

ToolScanning OptionFlow · Golden tier

›$NVDA 950C · ask side$1.2M

Aggressive — desk is paying up, willing to lift the offer.

›$AAPL 250C · ask · unusual$2.4M

Size + structure outside 30-day baseline. Conviction trade.

›$MSFT 430C · ask side$1.1M

Third Golden print this hour. Sector-coordinated flow.

Ask Cortex

Surface 02 · Agents

Run the watch on a schedule.

Member-authored automations that scan the tape on your schedule. Three modes — Research thinks out loud, Paper trades against a paper book, Live places orders through your connected broker. Every mode is bounded.

Three approval modes — Auto fires, Review stages every signal for approval, Digest summarizes daily.
Sizing models — fixed dollar, % buying power, risk-based, or Kelly capped at 0.25.
Macro-event aware — agents refuse to enter positions ahead of FOMC, CPI, NFP, PCE, PPI, or jobless claims.

Build an agent

/cortex/agents · my agentsWatching

Catalyst ScoutPaperActive

Watches macro calendar for high-impact events. Stands down inside the 24h envelope around FOMC, CPI, NFP, PCE, and PPI.

Paper days

Signals

Win rate

71%

Max $ / intent

$2,500

Review queueMon–Fri · 9:30–15:55Macro lockout · CPI · 14h

Awaiting approval · 1 staged

$SPY580P · 2 contracts · close ≤ $1.20$240 max

Surface 03 · Marketplace

Ship what works. Borrow what does.

A community catalog of shared agent configurations. Publish your agent with tags and a public description, or keep it private. A conversational Composer lets you describe an agent in plain English; Cortex asks the follow-ups.

Eight built-in presets ship out of the box — catalyst scout, flow follower, gamma scout, risk-off rotator, earnings momentum, more.
Private by default — your agent only enters the catalog if you publish it.
Composer, not a wizard — describe the strategy in plain English, Cortex asks the follow-ups, you confirm.

Browse marketplace

/cortex/marketplace · community248 published

Gamma Flip Hunter · by @volsurfer

Pings the second a name flips sign on DealerEdge GEX. Paper-tested 62 days.

DealerEdge0-DTEReview

4.7312 forks

Earnings Premium Seller · by @theta_quiet

Sells iron condors into the IV crush window after the print.

Options chainEarningsAuto

4.4198 forks

Dark Pool Tail · by @blockchaser

Trails Darkpool prints above $20M notional with a digest summary.

DarkpoolDigestSwing

4.6140 forks

03 /How Cortex thinks

A vocabulary, and the work shown.

Cortex speaks a proprietary vocabulary — six terms that compress the most useful concepts in dealer positioning and flow into one word each. And it narrates every tool call instead of hiding behind a spinner.

AnchorLevel

The price dealers defend with the most open interest. Magnet on the way in, friction on the way out.

FlipRegime

The price changes sign. Above, moves dampen; below, moves amplify.

GEX PulseSignal

The price real-time tick on gross gamma exposure. When pulse jumps, dealer hedging accelerates.

Cortex WallLevel

The price price magnet and a defense zone into expiry. The heaviest strike on the chain.

Echo PrintPrint

The price re-prints within the session — the desk is layering size, not unwinding.

Defense LineLevel

The price below the Anchor. Where the desk leans if the Anchor breaks.

Generic chatbotNo live data

Why did $TSLA just flip to short gamma?

Thinking...

Gamma describes the rate of change of an option's delta. When dealers hold net negative gamma, hedging behavior tends to amplify directional moves. Without access to live data I can describe the general concept but cannot tell you what is happening in TSLA right now.

No tool calls·No prints or levels·No work shown

CortexLive + narrated

Why did $TSLA just flip to short gamma?

ToolPulling DealerEdge on $TSLA · 250ms

›Flip rolled through $342.10 at 14:28.

Dealers shifted from buying weakness to selling it.

›Cortex Wall at $340 absorbing aggressive call premium.

Heavy strike pinning the tape into Friday expiry.

›Defense Line below: $332.

First place the desk has size to lean on if $340 breaks.

3 tool calls, named·Real strikes, real levels·Gloss under every row

04 /Presets

Built-in agents, instantly useful.

Six pre-tuned agents ship in every account. Fork one, edit the envelope, set the schedule, run it on paper. You'll have a working pipeline before lunch.

Catalyst Scout

Watches the macro calendar and refuses to enter positions through FOMC, CPI, or NFP windows.

Toolget_macro_events

Flow Follower

Tails Golden-tier OptionFlow prints with a confirmation from dealer Flip on the underlying.

ToolOptionFlow · DealerEdge

Gamma Scout

Pings the moment a name flips sign on dealer gamma, with the new Anchor and Defense Line attached.

ToolDealerEdge · GEX Pulse

Risk-Off Rotator

Trims long exposure when SPX breaks the Defense Line and VIX makes a new session high together.

ToolIndex snapshot · DealerEdge

Earnings Momentum

Stages a directional intent the morning after a confirmed beat, sized to the post-print IV crush.

ToolSEC filings · Options chain

Zero-DTE Momentum

Hunts intraday breakouts within the gamma flip zone. Hard daily loss cap, no overnight exposure.

ToolOptionFlow · AlgoEdge

05 /Safety rails

Five rails. All on by default.

Cortex Agents never run without a floor and a ceiling. Each rail is an explicit setting, not a marketing line.

Paper mode

Every agent starts on a paper book. Full P&L tracked, zero broker contact.

Approval queue

Review mode stages every signal. Approve or reject from a push notification.

Risk envelope

Caps on positions, daily orders, exposure, $ per intent, contracts per intent.

Drawdown kill-switch

Auto-pause on daily $ loss, daily % loss, or trailing high-water drawdown breach.

Type-to-confirm Live

Flipping to Live requires typing ENABLE LIVE. No accidental switches.

06 /Who it's for

Built for every seat at the desk.

Question-driven

Ask, don't parse.

Instead of reading six dashboards, ask Cortex: what just changed in $SPY? Get a direct answer with the actual prints behind it.

Surface · Chat

Level planners

Brief the session.

Ask Cortex to summarize the dealer map and macro slate for the week. Use the output as the standing brief for every session you run.

Surface · Chat + macro calendar

Discretionary

Stress-test the thesis.

When flow contradicts your thesis, ask why. Cortex grounds the counter-case in your own journal — your win rate, your best trades, the names you actually trade.

Surface · Chat + portfolio stats

Automation-curious

Off the dashboard, on a schedule.

Stop refreshing the tape. Describe the setup in plain English, paper it for a week, and only then decide if it deserves real size.

Surface · Agents

07 /The moat, plainly

Proprietary flow data plus automation.

Other tools have one or the other. Cortex has both, in the same product, under one subscription.

Cortex

This product

Proprietary OptionFlow + DealerEdge + Darkpool wired into the chat.
Member-authored agents with paper, review, and live execution.
Your trade journal grounds answers in your own history.
14+ tools including SEC, XBRL, FINRA ATS, options chain, macro calendar.
Marketplace for community-published agents.

Data · AI · Automation

Generic LLMs

No live feed

No live flow, GEX, or print data.
No scheduled agents tied to market events.
No connection to your trade history.
General reasoning, training-date knowledge.
No execution surface, paper or live.

AI only

Other retail platforms

Data, no AI layer

Proprietary flow data (sometimes).
No AI tied to that proprietary data.
No automation layer on top.
No portfolio-context grounding.
No community marketplace for strategies.

Data only

08 /Questions

Quick answers.

01What is Cortex?

Cortex is the AI layer on top of Trade Echo. It's three surfaces: Chat — an analyst you can talk to that reads your live flow; Agents — automations you author that watch the tape on a schedule; and Marketplace — a community catalog of shared agent configurations. All three share the same data and the same proprietary vocabulary.

02How is Cortex different from ChatGPT?

Generic LLMs answer from training-date knowledge. They cannot read your flow. Cortex calls 14+ live tools — DealerEdge, OptionFlow, Darkpool, AlgoEdge, SEC filings, XBRL financials, FINRA ATS, options chain, macro calendar, your own portfolio — and answers using the exact prints and levels you see on the terminal right now.

03Can Cortex actually place trades?

Agents start on Paper— full P&L tracked against a paper book, zero broker contact. Once you've earned paper days, a soft gate lets you flip to Live, where signals route to a connected broker via SnapTrade. Live mode requires typing ENABLE LIVE to confirm. Review mode is in between: every signal stages to an approval queue and you tap approve or reject from a push notification.

04What happens if I start losing money?

Every agent runs inside an explicit risk envelope — max positions, max daily orders, max exposure, max $ per intent, max contracts per intent. On top of that, a drawdown kill-switch auto-pauses the agent on a daily $ loss, daily % loss, or trailing high-water breach. You set the numbers; the agent cannot exceed them.

05Do I need to be technical to build an agent?

No. The Composer is chat-led — describe the strategy in plain English and Cortex asks the follow-ups until the agent is fully specified. Most members start by forking one of the eight built-in presets and editing the envelope.

06Does Cortex store my queries or share my trades?

Conversations and agents are private by default. Your trade history, queries, and agent configurations are visible only to you. An agent only appears in the Marketplace if you explicitly publish it. Your data is never sold, and is never used to train external models.

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09 /Get started

Build your first agent. Ask your first question.

Cortex Chat, Agents, and Marketplace ship in every Trade Echo Pro subscription. No add-on, no separate tier.

Build your first agent

OptionFlow·DealerEdge·Darkpool·AlgoEdge·Copy Trading·Cortex Chat·Cortex Agents·Cortex Marketplace

$199 / month · cancel anytime. Live agents require a connected SnapTrade broker (free to connect; subject to broker terms).