Trade Ideas Review 2026: Holly AI, Pricing and Who It's Really For

Trade Ideas is one of the few trading platforms where the "AI" label is doing real work. Its Holly AI engine flags stocks with an entry, a stop and a target, often before the move gets crowded. This Trade Ideas review answers the real question: whether that's worth up to $2,136 a year for you, and how to pay less if it is.

Is Trade Ideas worth it? Trade Ideas is worth it for active U.S. stock day traders who will use its real-time scanner or Holly AI signals most market days. TI Standard costs $89/month and TI Premium, the only plan with Holly AI, costs $178/month, both billed annually. Code DTT15 takes 15% off: $160.20 off TI Standard or $320.40 off TI Premium in the first year. It's not worth it for occasional traders, or for futures, forex or crypto traders, since it covers U.S. stocks and ETFs only.

Last verified: November 7, 2026, against Trade Ideas' pricing page, billing policy and feature pages. Holly AI records checked October 8, 2026.

Holly AI finds real, tradeable moves early, but it isn't right every time. Trade Ideas' public Holly AI records page listed 361 winning signals and 46 triple-digit wins when we checked it on October 8, 2026. Its biggest single win was +2,905% on BNAI on January 27, 2026.

Those are Trade Ideas' showcase picks, so we went one step further. We took four Holly signals and compared Holly's signal price with where each stock was trading weeks later, using Trade Ideas' own charts from early October 2026:

SDEV kept running far past the high Trade Ideas advertises, and QMCO and VNCE still held most of their gains weeks later. That's the strongest case for Holly: it tends to flag names before the crowd arrives, not after.

Keep two things in mind. These are selected winners, not a random sample, and the "signal to later price" figure isn't a trade result, because Holly's own exits and your fills will differ. To judge Holly's full record, losers included, look at its History view inside the platform (covered below).

If catching moves like these early is why you want Trade Ideas, TI Premium is the plan you need, and DTT15 takes $320.40 off its first year. See the TI Premium plan here, or check our Trade Ideas deals page first for a bigger seasonal sale.

Holly AI backtests its strategies every night, keeps the ones that fit current conditions, and issues real-time buy and short signals the next session. Each signal arrives already formed, with an entry price, a stop and a profit targetProfit TargetA profit target is a predetermined exit price where you plan to close a winning trade and lock in gains — defined before you enter the position based on the risk-reward ratio you require and the next significant resistance or support level,Read definition →, so there's nothing to build.

According to Trade Ideas' Holly guide, Holly backtests "all her over 60 strategies every night," and on average "enters between 5 and 25 trades per day." It runs both day-trade and swing-trade strategies, and the strategy mix changes as the market changes. That's what separates Holly from static, rules-only "AI" alerts.

Holly is a probability engine, not a crystal ball. A signal means today's setup resembles ones that have historically worked, not that this trade will. Position sizePosition SizePosition size is the number of shares, contracts, or dollar value you deploy in a single trade — determined by the relationship between your account risk percentage, your dollar risk per share (distance to stop), and your account size ratheRead definition → and the stop still decide whether you come out ahead. For the full mechanics, see our Holly AI explainer, and for what each signal includes, our AI Signals guide.

Inside the platform, yes; on its public website, no. Holly's History view in TI Pro lists every past signal, with filters for winners, losers and all signals, and exports them to a spreadsheet.

The public Holly AI records page is a highlight reel. Trade Ideas states that each figure is measured "from Holly AI's signal price to that session's high (buy signals) or low (short signals)" and represents moves subscribers "could have captured, not realized profits." It's useful for seeing the kind of setups Holly catches; the History view is where you judge its hit rate.

The Holly AI Assistant turns plain-English requests into working scans, and explains existing scans in plain English. Type or say "stocks under $20, up at least 4% today, on three times normal volumeVolumeVolume is the total number of shares (or contracts) traded during a given time period — it's the primary confirmation tool for all price action, because a price move accompanied by high volume indicates genuine market participation, while tRead definition →" and it builds a streaming alert window in seconds.

Inside a chart, the same Assistant also explains what's happening on the stock you have open, such as key levels and buying or selling pressure, in trader language. Despite the name, it doesn't generate trade signals; Holly's signal engine does that. The AI Assistant is included in TI Standard and TI Premium, not the free account. What the Assistant removed is the platform's oldest complaint: you no longer need to master 500+ filters before you start. That's why this review's Ease of Use score rose from 6.8 to 7.4. The full breakdown is in our AI Assistant guide.

Beyond Holly, Trade Ideas gives you tick-by-tick scanning, trendTrendA trend is a sustained directional movement in price over time — an uptrend is characterized by a sequence of higher highs and higher lows, a downtrend by lower highs and lower lows — and correctly identifying the current trend direction isRead definition → signals, backtestingBacktestingThe process of running a defined trading strategy against historical price data to evaluate how it would have performed before risking real capital. A well-constructed backtest gives you a statistical baseline — win rate, profit factor, maxRead definition →, paper trading, broker execution and, on TI Premium, automated trading. These are the parts most traders use every day:

New users can go from download to first scan in under an hour with our setup guide.