Why video
A trade is a decision made in a moving frame. The candle didn't pause. The DOM was scrolling. Your cursor was moving. A static screenshot, taken five seconds after the click, captures none of this. The only honest record of a discretionary entry is the moving image of the entry itself.
Pro tennis players review their matches on video. Surgeons review surgeries on video. Pilots review approaches on video. Traders, almost uniquely, try to review themselves on screenshots and after-action notes. We think this is the gap.
Why "trade and error"
Trading is empirical work. You try something, you see what breaks, you adjust, you try again. The discipline that produces real edge over time isn't insight — it's the loop. Trial. Error. Trial. Error. The product is named after the loop, not the outcome.
What we believe about traders
- Most retail traders aren't lazy. They're under-instrumented. The right tool turns weeks of fuzzy "I should review more" into a 20-minute habit.
- Discretionary edge is real. Algo people sometimes claim it isn't. They are wrong, but not for the reasons most discretionary traders argue. The edge is in the loop, not in the chart pattern.
- Self-deception is the killer. Memory is unreliable. Notes are unreliable. Video — your own actual screen, with your own actual cursor — is hard to argue with.
What we refuse to build
- Trade signals. Ever.
- Auto-trading. We're a review tool.
- A public-by-default trade feed. The wrong incentive shape.
- Anything that tries to "predict the market." We're a record, not a forecast.