Trade Ideas Holly AI
https://www.trade-ideas.com/holly/
Holly AI is the trading-idea generation agent inside the Trade Ideas platform (founded 2003). Holly back-tests millions of strategies overnight + surfaces 'tradeable ideas' for retail/prosumer traders. Bootstrapped; long-running niche product pre-LLM wave.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 17 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- AI trading-idea generation agent vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Created
- 2009 (Holly AI launched) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Standard $89/mo billed annually ($1,068/yr; ~$127 month-to-month); Premium with AI signals $178/mo billed annually ($2,136/yr; ~$254 month-to-month) vendor fix
- Funding
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: AI-driven retail trading idea generation
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Long-running product (pre-LLM wave); thousands of paid retail subscribers; differentiated trading-specific use case.
Cons
More algorithmic-screen than LLM-agent; the 'AI' framing predates the 2023 LLM wave; retail-focused.
Claims & capabilities
Trade Ideas founded 2003; Holly AI launched 2009; tens of thousands of retail traders subscribed
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
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- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (16 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is AI trading-idea generation agent vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Holly AI is the trading-idea generation agent inside the Trade Ideas platform (founded 2… vendor
- Claims / benefits Trade Ideas founded 2003; Holly AI launched 2009; tens of thousands of retail traders su… vendor
- Created 2009 (Holly AI launched) vendor
- Customers / scale Retail / prosumer day-traders vendor
- Pricing Standard $89/mo billed annually ($1,068/yr; ~$127 month-to-month); Premium with AI signa… vendor
- HQ San Diego vendor
- Founders / pedigree Dan Mirkin + David Aferiat (Trade Ideas founders) vendor
- Optimised for AI-driven retail trading idea generation vendor
- Pros Long-running product (pre-LLM wave); thousands of paid retail subscribers; differentiate… vendor
- Cons More algorithmic-screen than LLM-agent; the 'AI' framing predates the 2023 LLM wave; ret… vendor
- Project & sources www.trade-ideas.com/holly/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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