TradingWizard tradingwizard.ai

Can AI replace TradingWizard?

A personal version is a fair weekend build: watch a short list, calculate indicators, explain a setup, and journal simulated trades. Replacing the full service is different. Broad market coverage, current prices, filings and news, continuous bot jobs, stale-data guards, alerts, synced history, and a maintained proof trail are ongoing data and operations work.

Verdict: Half-bot · AI gets you partway; the hard part stays hardBuild time: weekend for one personal bot, multi-day for a reliable hosted service
Half-bot

01What it costs

$39/moPro, monthly
$468per year at that price

Checked Aug 13, 2026 · source: tradingwizard.ai.

PlanMonthlyBilled yearlyWhat you get
StarterFreeFree5 Wiz chats/day; 1 paper bot for 14 days; 3 price/indicator alerts; blurred signal previews; manual/on-open refresh
Pro$39—5 active bots; unlimited chat; 10 alerts; full signals; 8-second data refresh; 49 chat tools
Ultimate$99—Unlimited bots and alerts; 10 deep-research reports/month; 5-second refresh; deep thinking; position watch; priority support
Team——Ultimate seat for each desk member; one invoice; priority support

Hidden costs: Team is quote-based per headcount. Annual discounts are advertised as up to 25%, but exact annual prices could not be verified without an interactive checkout.

02Could AI build it for you?

The core job: Monitor a small watchlist, score transparent setups from current candles, explain the levels, and journal paper trades without connecting a broker.

What a working version needs:

  • Node 22
  • Twelve Data API key
  • OpenAI-compatible API key
  • local SQLite database
  • scheduled background process

A useful one-bot version is buildable. The maintained multi-market service is not a one-shot project.

03What you'd give up

  • maintained coverage across thousands of markets and data providers
  • always-on bot scans, stale-data guards, and reliable alert delivery
  • filings, news, sentiment, research, and broker-context integrations
  • synced history, mobile access, chat controls, and account security
  • the maintained bot proof trail and production operations

You can vibe-code one useful personal bot. People pay to avoid maintaining the data feeds, background scans, stale-data checks, alerts, history, and evidence trail across many markets every day.

04Free and cheaper alternatives

OpenBBopen-source

Open-source research terminal with real market-data integrations; analysis without the AI narrator or the paper-trade journal.

openbb.co →
Freqtradeopen-source

Crypto-only bot with backtesting and dry-run paper trading; strategies are Python files, not chat.

freqtrade.io →

05The build prompt

Paste this into an AI coding tool (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable or Replit) to build your own version.

prompt.txt
Build me a local personal market-analysis bot inspired by TradingWizard. Requirements:

- Node 22, TypeScript, Next.js App Router, better-sqlite3, technicalindicators,
  and node-cron. Bind to localhost only.
- watchlist.json holds up to 10 stock or crypto symbols plus a 15m, 1h, or 1d
  timeframe. Fetch candles from Twelve Data with the key in .env.local.
- Cache responses, respect provider limits, and show source plus last-updated time.
  Stale or missing candles must block a new setup.
- Calculate EMA 20/50, RSI 14, ATR 14, recent support and resistance, and volume
  change. Keep every setup rule in one documented rules.ts file.
- For each symbol return WAIT, LONG SETUP, or SHORT SETUP with entry zone, stop,
  target, invalidation, confidence, and the exact rule hits behind the result.
- Use an OpenAI-compatible API only to turn the calculated facts into two plain
  sentences. The model cannot change levels or invent facts. Work without it too.
- Add a paper journal. Confirm each simulated entry manually, size by a fixed risk
  percentage, and update open trades from fresh candles. Never connect a broker.
- Dashboard: watchlist state, latest setup, stale-data warning, open paper trades,
  closed results, and a per-symbol timeline. No profit promises.
- SQLite tables: candles, analyses, paper_trades, and scan_runs. Keep immutable scan
  facts so every result can be explained later.
- Add npm run scan and a configurable cron. One failed symbol must not stop the rest.
- No accounts, cloud sync, telemetry, payments, live orders, or investment advice.
  Do not scrape consumer websites.
- Include seeded fixtures and tests for stale-data blocking, rule calculations, risk
  sizing, manual confirmation, and duplicate-scan idempotency.
- README with setup, API limits, backup/restore, cron examples, and the exact limits
  of a personal build compared with a maintained multi-market service.

06Open-source starting points

  • OpenBB Platform: Open-source financial research platform with market-data integrations.
  • Freqtrade: Open-source crypto trading bot with backtesting and dry-run modes.
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App prices, verdicts, alternatives and build prompts are adapted from Can I Vibecode It? (MIT License, © 2026 Rob Hallam). Each price shows the date it was checked and its source. Prices change; confirm on the vendor's site before you decide.