Trade Ideas alternative · published math, not "AI"
Trade Ideas markets Holly AI as proprietary algorithmic intelligence at $228/month. Framler is a Bayesian factor engine — 13 academic factor families, every weight published, every invariant audited live, free during early access.
One charges $228/mo for "AI". The other publishes the math for free.
Trade Ideas' Holly AI is presented as proprietary algorithmic intelligence with no published methodology. Framler is the opposite: every factor cites a peer-reviewed paper (Novy-Marx 2013 quality, Jegadeesh-Titman 1993 momentum, Bernard-Thomas 1989 PEAD, Sloan 1996 accruals, etc), every regime threshold is documented, every conformal calibration constant is published.
Trade Ideas Premium runs $228/month for the full Holly AI feature set. Framler's full 13-factor engine, regime detection, conformal intervals, pattern library, and 1,000+ tickers are free during early access. Pro tier launches Q3 2026 for portfolio management; quant scoring stays free.
Trade Ideas is built for day traders — real-time scanners, intraday alerts, sub-minute signal generation. Framler is built for swing and longer horizons (1 / 7 / 30 / 90 day forecasts) using academic factors that have published Information Coefficient over those windows. Different product, different math.
No. Framler's factor stack (PEAD, accruals, NLP from 10-K filings) operates on multi-day-to-multi-month horizons. Day-trading scanners need intraday tick data and microsecond reaction; Framler is built for swing and position trading. Trade Ideas remains the right tool for that use case.
Deliberately no. Framler is applied statistics — Bayesian Online Change Point Detection, Mondrian conformal prediction, Schmidt-Stadtmüller copula tail-dependence, IC-weighted Markowitz factor allocation. Every cron is deterministic. We do offer Anthropic-powered AI explanations of model output, but the scoring itself contains zero LLM calls.
Reproducibility builds trust. If you can't verify the model, you can't evaluate it. Counter-positioning vs AI-branded products: post-2026 fatigue, "we publish every formula" sells stronger than "we have proprietary AI".
Look up any of 1,000+ tickers and see the 13-factor breakdown, regime context, prediction interval, and pattern flags. Free during early access.