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Welcome & How It Works
What TradeLabs is, how the app and the dashboard fit together, and the one rule that trips up new users.
You follow people who call out trades: a Discord options room, a Telegram group, your own TradingView alerts. The problem is speed. By the time you see the message and place the order, the move is half over. TradeLabs closes that gap by placing the call for you the instant it goes out.
It trades stocks, options, spreads, crypto, memecoins, prediction markets, and RSA, depending on your plan and brokers. It is not a signal provider: it executes the calls you choose to follow, it does not tell you what to trade.
What that looks like
A trader in a Discord room posts:
BTO SPY 540c 0dte @ 1.20
If you’ve set up a strategy that follows that room, the next second or two happen with no action from you:
- The app sees the message.
- Its AI reads it: buy to open, SPY, 540 call, expiring today, around $1.20.
- It places that order in every broker the strategy targets.
- If you set a stop or take-profit, it manages the exit too.
You were never at your keyboard. That’s the point.
The two parts
TradeLabs is a desktop app plus a website, and they do different jobs:
- The app is the engine. It runs on your Windows or Mac computer and does the real work: holds your broker logins (encrypted, on your machine, never uploaded), watches your signals, reads each call, and places the trades.
- The website is the remote control. At alpha.tradelabs.org, from any browser, you create, start, and stop strategies and watch your profit and loss while away from your computer.
They stay in sync automatically. Change a strategy in one place and the other picks it up within seconds.
The one rule new users miss
Your trades only happen while the Companion App is running. The website can start, stop, or change a strategy, but the app on your computer is the only thing that actually places orders. If the app is closed, or the computer is off or asleep, nothing trades, no matter what the website says. The website even knows this: when your app is offline it disables the strategy switches.
So: keep the app running on a computer that stays on. Many users run it on a home PC left on all day, or a small always-on Windows machine.
What you need
- A TradeLabs subscription and license key (emailed when you subscribe; check spam).
- A computer that can stay on. Windows is smoothest; macOS works.
- Google Chrome installed (some brokers and sources sign in through a Chrome window).
- At least one brokerage account, and a signal source to follow.
- For Discord signals, a Discord email and password to sign in with (a spare account is recommended; explained where you set it up).
- For RSA, the RSA+ plan and several broker accounts.
Ready? Install the app and sign in, then choose your path.