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About the TradeMade Dashboard

Time-sensitive market data and news, for every trader, at the most competitive cost there is.

TradeMade puts the things that actually move a trading day on one screen: a live risk-on / risk-off read built from the assets that matter, breaking news from primary sources the moment it lands, the options levels price has to get through, the day's scheduled risk, and a plain-English story for the instruments you trade. Every number shows its own age in seconds. Prices and headlines are live; the one exception is the options chain, CBOE's free data, which runs 15 minutes behind and says so on every card. None of the data or news is behind a paywall.

What is on it

The read

  • Risk-on / risk-off meter. Fourteen instruments, every one measured over the same past 24 hours so the agreement between them means something. The dial wears a single colour: whichever way it is actually pointing.
  • Money Flow — TradeMade's featured indicator. Designed and built in-house, from the way the owner actually trades, and not available anywhere else. It is the grid of assets the whole read is built on: green helps risk-on, red helps risk-off, yellow is going nowhere. The dollar is the exception and is judged purely on how hard it is moving against its own last three days, because a violent dollar in either direction is a warning.
  • The two checks. A snapshot at 9:30 and again at 10:00 ET. A read that leans risk-off into the open and flips risk-on by ten is stronger than two risk-on reads, and the page says so.
  • Mixed days are called out. When risk-on and risk-off assets are both moving at once the whole dial turns yellow and the page tells you plainly that it is probably not a day to trade.
  • Two windows, side by side. Money Flow over the past 24 hours, and the New York session's own last 30 minutes as a separate read. They are allowed to disagree, and when they do, that is the information.
  • Money Flow Visualizer. Our featured indicator, built in-house and drawn as money actually moving. The US dollar sits in the middle with every asset around it: dollars stream into whatever is rising and back out of whatever is falling, faster and thicker the harder it is moving against its normal size and the busier it is for that time of day. Green is money going into an asset, red is money leaving it, and yellow is a move still inside its normal range — one meaning for every colour on the map. It rides the same live feed as the rest of the page, so it is free to leave open all day.
  • Possible opportunities. On a day with no clear direction, the instruments actually moving are listed on their own, with how far they have gone against their normal size.

The numbers behind the read

  • Options levels. The gamma flip, call and put walls, max pain and the put/call ratio for the Nasdaq, S&P, gold, oil and bitcoin — the prices the market has to get through. Claude reads each chain at 9:30 and again at 10:00, once there is half an hour of order flow to work from: every level near the price gets a call on whether price should stall there or go through, the book and the flow are graded bullish or bearish only where they actually point somewhere, and each instrument gets every exploitable edge its chain holds, ranked most exploitable first — or an honest nothing. Every options term is explained in plain English where it appears, and the ? button carries a glossary.
  • Distribution & accumulation days. The institutional footprint: how many heavy-selling and heavy-buying days the S&P and Nasdaq have put in recently, counted on the real rule rather than the shorthand version, with an explanation of why our count and a published one can differ.
  • Volatility and tradeability. Every instrument carries a grade for how wide its range is today against its own normal, so a signal on a dead tape is not mistaken for a signal.

The day ahead

  • Calendar. Red-folder events, plus orange ones, for the economies you choose to follow — the US, the euro area, the UK and Japan to begin with — along with who is speaking.
  • Earnings. The day's biggest reports with their size and the estimate, and a worth watching mark on the ones already in the news.
  • FOMC days are flagged across the whole site, with the press conference streamed in and a plain recommendation not to trade.

The news

  • Headline analysis. The morning read, written the way the desk post has always been written: an all-caps line naming the day's two or three biggest stories, a dense TL;DR, sections named for whatever is actually in the news, and session opportunities last. It runs at 9:30 on the open and again at 10:00, and the second read is written knowing what the first one said, so it can tell you whether the morning held or turned. There is a tab per instrument, each carrying the same story elsewhere - the news that knocks the Nasdaq down is usually the same news bidding the dollar up, and that link is the thing worth clicking for.
  • Top headlines. The day's most market-moving stories, each rated 1 to 10 for significance and marked up or down across the dollar, oil, gold, Nasdaq, bitcoin, EURUSD and both yields. Claude does the reading, because deciding which headlines matter and which way each instrument goes is judgement, not word matching.
  • The wire. Market-sensitive news only, newest first, live. Routine conflict headlines with nothing priced in them never appear.
  • Trump's posts, from the source. Truth Social now blocks automated readers, so his posts can't appear here instantly. The site shows you how to get them straight from Truth Social the moment he posts: follow @realDonaldTrump, tap the bell, and allow notifications in your browser — or use the Truth Social phone app.
  • Terminal. The same flow with the brakes off: faster, wider, and sortable by newest, significance or source, for when you want to read everything yourself.
  • Alerts. Breaking news reaches everyone on the site wherever they are, with a tone you choose, a card that waits for you, and an email option for when the browser is shut. The last ten are waiting when you arrive. Only American and Japanese economic data is allowed to interrupt; everyone else's prints stay on the wire. When the risk-on / risk-off read changes, an alert says so, at most once every ten minutes.
  • US revisions. When a US release is revised — last month's figure restated, or a print corrected — an alert says what changed and by how much, so a revision that flips the story is not missed because the headline number looked fine.

Made yours

  • Your time zone. Pick a city and every clock on the site follows it, always in 12-hour time. Sessions and the two checks are still measured in New York, because the market is.
  • Your sky. Twelve backgrounds, from a spiral galaxy to a comet to ships crossing in the distance, and a separate text colour that no background is allowed to override.
  • Your assets. Pick what you trade and each becomes its own tab with its story, volatility grade, a good-day-to-trade meter, and a button that opens that asset's chart on TradingView.
  • Live Chat. Read it without an account, post with one.

Also on it

  • Streams and videos. One button: whoever is live right now from the channels the site watches, and everything those channels have posted recently. The live check is real — it reads the channel, it does not guess from a schedule.
  • Today's Editor's Notes. One person's read of the day, clearly labelled as opinion and kept separate from everything the site measures.
  • Feeds. Every source behind the site, grouped by how much it matters, showing how many in each group are answering right now.

What makes it different

Most free dashboards are a pipe. A feed goes in, it comes out sorted by time, and the reading is left to you — which means the loudest headline wins and a quiet line that actually matters scrolls past at 9:34. TradeMade does the reading first, and that is the whole difference.

Every headline is read, not scanned

Around twelve hundred headlines cross the wire on a session day. Every one of them is read by Claude before it is placed, and judged on the only questions that matter: does this move anything, which instruments does it move and in which direction, and is it worth interrupting you for right now?

The cheap way to build this is a list of alarming words. It costs nothing, and it marks every headline containing “surge”, “plunge” or “crisis” as urgent — including the ones where nothing is priced in. That is how you end up with a wire that cries wolf until you stop looking at it. Reading each story properly is the expensive choice and it is made deliberately.

Sorted, not just stacked

The same reading is what lets the site put a story where it belongs: on the instrument tabs you actually trade, into the top-headlines table with a significance score and a direction against each of nine instruments, and — only when it earns it — into an alert that chimes. Nothing gets to the front page by being loud.

The right model for each job

Deciding where a headline belongs is a sorting job with a fixed set of possible answers, done twelve hundred times a day. Writing the morning read — naming the day's two or three real stories and saying what they mean together — is judgement, done a handful of times. Those are not the same job and they do not run on the same model: the sorting goes to a small, fast one, and the writing to the most capable one available.

That split was measured, not assumed. Two models were tested on the same ninety headlines; the cheaper one was vaguer, dropped figures and got a fact wrong, so the written work stays where it is. Each job on the site has its own model setting for exactly this reason.

More models, at more steps

This is being extended rather than finished. The work moves through several stages before it reaches you — sorting, scoring, writing, and the options and calendar reads — and each stage is a separate decision about which model does it best. We are adding models at more of those steps, and pairing them where a second opinion is worth what it costs, so that no single reading is the only one a story gets.

But a model never decides a number

Prices, the risk-on / risk-off reading, the options levels and the distribution count are arithmetic on live data, and no model touches them. The models read, sort and explain. They are never asked what something is worth, and they are never allowed to invent a figure: if the analysis cannot run, the last completed one stays on screen with a note saying why, rather than a guess appearing in its place.

Built to keep getting better

TradeMade is not a finished product that slowly goes stale. It gets better in three ways, and none of them asks anything of you: the AI behind it keeps improving, new tools keep arriving, and the tools already here keep being sharpened.

It gets smarter as AI gets smarter

Every reading on the site that is written rather than calculated — the headline table, the morning and 10:00 reads, the options analysis, the Trump filter, and the decision about where each headline belongs — is done by an AI model. AI models are improving quickly. When a new one is released, it is tested against the one it would replace on the same real headlines and option chains, with the answers read blind, and it takes over only where it reads at least as well. Sometimes that means a sharper read; sometimes the same read, faster. Every one of those reads improves the day the switch is made, with nothing for you to install or pay for.

The numbers do not change with the model. Prices, the risk-on / risk-off reading and the options levels stay arithmetic on live data, so a better model can only make the explanations better. It can never move a figure.

New tools keep arriving

The site grows by adding the things traders actually ask for. Recent additions include the Money Flow Visualizer, our featured indicator drawn as money actually moving; a trade-by-trade options tape that catches real sweeps and block trades; and visual alerts that flash the screen for traders running several monitors.

The tools already here keep getting sharper

A tool is not left alone once it ships. Each one is measured against real market data and rebuilt when it falls short: news sources that were measured arriving late were taken off the front page, the options read now lists every tradable edge in the chain instead of one, and breaking news reaches you faster than it did. Every change is tested before it goes live.

How it stays honest

  • Never delayed, and honest where something is. Prices are live trades streamed over a socket, not a quote pulled every few minutes. News sources that were measured arriving late are kept off the front page and never raise an alert, and the options chain, the one delayed feed, is labelled as delayed. Where a futures contract has no free real-time feed, the closest liquid ETF stands in for it and the card says so. If a source stops answering, its assets drop out of the read entirely rather than showing you a stale number, and the age of every figure is on screen in seconds.
  • You can see the plumbing. The feeds button groups all two dozen sources behind the site and shows how many in each group are answering right now.
  • No guessing. The headline table is written by Claude or it is not written at all. If it cannot run, the last completed read stays on screen with a note saying why. A stale read is fine; a wrong one is not.
  • Paywalls are marked. Links that will stop you at a subscription wall carry a lock, so you know when to take the headline and look it up yourself.

What it costs

TradeMade is free. Everything described on this page costs nothing to use. It runs on free, real-time data sources and a very small server, and it is paid for by donations and by one small affiliate link in the corner of the dashboard, which does not track you.

Who built it

TradeMade is owned and designed by Jason, a futures trader and professional Bitcoin trader with more than six years and over 10,000 hours in the markets.

After years of paying for tool after tool, feed after feed, and still opening ten windows before the bell, he had had enough of the subscription pile. He wanted something that made trading simpler: a single place that gathers the data, the news, and the read of the day, and presents it the way he actually uses it. So he designed several ways to do that and combined all of them into one dashboard. That dashboard is TradeMade.

The read on this site is his own method, not a textbook one. The aggressive-dollar rule, the two checks at 9:30 and 10:00, bitcoin being allowed to trade as a haven some days and a risk asset on others, and calling a mixed day what it is rather than forcing a signal, are all how he actually trades.

Support the site

If TradeMade helps your trading and you would like to help cover the server costs, you can donate. It is entirely optional and it never unlocks a feature.