Thesis free accounts get live pattern detection, the full news and research feed, and AI signal previews — a real-time notification every time a pattern fires that the AI would have evaluated against your account. No simulated data. Same signals the paid tiers act on.
Thesis runs 16 candlestick patterns — hammer, engulfing, doji, shooting star, and more — against live 1-hour candles across your watchlist. Every detection shows up in your dashboard feed with the ticker, direction, and confidence score. Same detector the paid tiers use. No throttle on free.
Thesis scans market-moving news continuously and surfaces per-ticker sentiment signals in the research feed. You see the same news overlay paid users see — which stories are bullish, which are bearish, which have high enough conviction to influence a trade decision. Free accounts read this feed in full.
When a pattern fires and your account settings would have triggered an AI evaluation, you get a real-time notification: the ticker, direction, and a note that reads "AI would evaluate this against your account balance, risk settings, and open positions — upgrade to act." The AI has already decided the signal is worth a look. Free accounts see the flag; paid accounts let the AI pull the trigger.
Most trading tools give you a canned demo — a replay of historical signals on cherry-picked days. Thesis gives you the live feed, right now, against real market conditions. Signal previews mean you can watch the strategy operate on your actual watchlist, in real time, and judge whether the detections match your own read of the market.
That matters because the hardest part of trusting any trading system is building conviction. Seeing the pattern fire, cross-referencing the news overlay, and watching what the AI would have done — repeatedly, over days and weeks of real market behavior — is qualitatively different from a ten-minute sales demo.
When you upgrade, you're not handing control to a black box. You've already watched the box think. Copilot mode keeps you in the loop (AI recommends, you approve); autopilot runs the strategy hands-off if you want. Either way, the signal previews on the free tier are the on-ramp.
AI flags a candidate. You see it. Nothing executes.
AI evaluates the signal — factors in your account balance, current positions, news sentiment, risk settings — and surfaces a trade recommendation with a confidence score. You approve or skip. Live trading unlocked.
AI evaluates and acts, fully hands-off. Same evaluation as copilot — same signals you saw previewed on the free tier — but execution is automatic. You set the parameters; the strategy runs.
Signal previews are not AI trade decisions. The notification tells you a pattern fired and that AI would have evaluated it — it doesn't tell you what the AI would have decided, what position size it would have chosen, or whether the trade would have been taken. That reasoning runs on frontier models with your account-specific context, and it has a real cost per call. That's what the paid tiers pay for.
Free accounts are also limited to 2 active tickers and practice trading only. No real-money orders. See the full feature comparison →
No credit card. No time limit on free. The same signal feed the paid tiers run on.
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