How EdgeProof Works

EdgeProof is a trading copilot that follows options signal channels the way a disciplined trader would: it takes their entries, sizes them to your budget, guards every order with your rules, manages the exits, and keeps score of which sources actually earn their follow.

The whole system is one loop:

Signal channels → signal reading → your guardrails → your brokerage account → exit management → the scoreboard. From there it feeds back into sizing and exits, so the system adapts to each source's real record.

Following entries

Analysts post entries in plain chat language: "$ABC 55c 9/18 at 3.85". EdgeProof reads each message and turns it into a concrete trade: ticker, strike, expiry, and the price the author paid. Anything vague stays untraded: watchlist talk ("on dips I'll be hunting..."), gain updates, and portfolio recaps are recognized for what they are and skipped. A signal with no stated entry price is skipped too, because every price guardrail anchors to it.

Before any order is placed, your rules get a veto:

• Budget, not contract count, drives size. Each position gets a fixed dollar allocation; a cheap contract buys more lots, an expensive one fewer. Lotto calls and starter positions get deliberately smaller lanes.
• Never chase. If the market has already run past the author's entry by more than your tolerance, the trade is skipped rather than bought high.
• Caps hold the line. Limits on open positions, on exposure per ticker, on add-ons to an existing position, and an optional daily loss limit that halts new entries.
• Late signals don't trade. An entry that surfaces after your freshness window has passed is ignored: the moment it described is gone.
• Duplicates don't double up. The same contract isn't bought twice on a re-post.

Skipped or executed, every decision is reported to you with its reason. The exact rules and their settings live in Guardrails.

Following exits

Authors don't manage a position in one message; they narrate it: "taking a trim here", "leave a few to run", "all out". EdgeProof tracks each author's position as a story with stages (holding, trimming, down to runners, flat) and follows along (opt-in):

• Trims sell the fraction the author states, or your pre-chosen default when they don't state one. A trim never flattens a multi-lot position.
• Runners calls sell down to the runner count you keep.
• Closes exit the rest.
• The story only moves forward: a re-posted or repeated call never sells twice, and a missed message self-heals on the author's next update.

Two protections apply to every author-driven sale:

• Late exits still protect you. An exit call that arrives past the freshness window doesn't fire a market order; instead the position's stops tighten to lock in what's there, and you're alerted. If the author re-posts the same call while it's fresh, the sale then executes.
• No selling into the hole. When the author states the price they exited at and the market has since fallen well below it, EdgeProof declines to chase the exit down: stops tighten instead, and you decide.

Your own exit rules run underneath everything, always: take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop, and a maximum hold time. An author can get you out earlier than your rules would, never later, and never past your stop. See Guardrails for the full rules.

Keeping score, and learning from it

Every fill is attributed to the source that called it. The scoreboard tracks each channel's realized P&L, win rate, and closed round trips over a rolling window, so "is this channel worth following?" is answered by your own account, not the channel's marketing. See Tournament.

The record can also feed back into the trading, both opt-in:

• Source-weighted sizing scales position size up or down with a source's demonstrated win rate.
• Learned exit calibration notices where a source's winners actually peak and arms your trailing stop earlier for that source, tightening only, never loosening, and only once a source has enough history to be believed.

Paper first, live when ready

Everything above runs identically in paper trading, free, against a simulated account: that's the proving ground for whether a channel deserves real money. Live trading unlocks with a license and uses the same rules, the same guardrails, and the same scoreboard. Start with the Quickstart.