A founder's note
I lost $32,000 in six months. Then I built MindGuard.
Not because the market beat me — because I kept making the same emotional mistake at the same hour every day, and nobody was watching.
What MindGuard is
An AI psychology coach for futures traders. Connects to Tradovate via OAuth, scores 8 cognitive biases against your own baseline, and speaks up — in your language — the moment a destructive pattern fires.
Connect
Tradovate via OAuth. Server-side capture — works even when the browser is closed.
Detect
8 biases: revenge, FOMO, ego, anchoring, loss aversion, averaging-down, confirmation, self-sabotage.
Coach
One voice nudge per pattern, streamed sentence-by-sentence. (Pro and Elite.)
7-day Pro trial · No card required to start
I know exactly how it starts.
It never feels like a spiral while you're inside it. It feels like discipline. Then it feels like conviction. Then it's already over.
9:34 AM — One winning trade
The first green of the morning
ES long, hit the runner, +$420. Standard plan, standard exit. I told myself: today's going to be a good day.
8.2 / 10 — Focused
Disciplined entry, planned exit. Baseline match.
9:51 AM — Euphoria
I doubled my size
Felt sharp. Felt like I was finally reading the tape right. Took the next setup at 4 contracts instead of 2. "I'm hot — let it ride."
Position size 2× your baseline
You normally trade 2 contracts here. This one is 4. After a single winner — classic overconfidence.
10:08 AM — Revenge
The trade went red. I added.
Stop was meant to be 6 ticks. I moved it. Then I added at the worse level. "It has to bounce here." It did not have to bounce here.
10s pause before you confirm
You moved your stop and added at a worse level — same pattern as your last 3 losing days. Breathe. Confirm?
10:47 AM — Cascade
Down $4,300 in 73 minutes
I closed out, swore I was done. Sat for nine minutes. Then I opened another position to "earn it back." That one lost too. The whole month evaporated before lunch.
Stop trading. Now.
3 consecutive losses, position size escalating, hold time collapsing. This is the loop. Walk away — the platform will be here tomorrow.
The line that changed it
“I didn't have a strategy problem. I had a self problem — and nothing in my trading platform could see it.”
Written in a journal entry, three days after the worst session of my career.
What's actually watching, while you trade.
Not a coach app you have to open. Not a chime that means nothing. A server-side engine that knows your baselines — and tells you, in real time, when you are no longer the trader you were at 9 AM.
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Fill → alert (p50)
From the moment a fill lands on the Tradovate socket to the bias-engine alert hitting your panel.
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Bias detectors
Revenge, FOMO, overconfidence, anchoring, loss aversion, averaging-down, confirmation, self-sabotage.
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Coach languages
English, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic — auto-detected from the way you speak.
Mental score · live
Composite of tilt, adherence, discipline and recovery. Computed every session, on a 0–10 scale.
How MindGuard mirrors the journey.
Four steps. The same four every session. Quiet when you're sharp. Loud — once — when you're not.
Step 1
Capture
Every fill from your Tradovate account, via OAuth — running server-side, on or off the browser.
Step 2
Detect
8 cognitive biases + a 5-stage cascade detector + emotional-state classifier — all scored against your own personal baselines.
Step 3
Intervene
One streaming voice nudge — sentence-by-sentence, in your language — when the pattern fires. Plus a 10-second friction pause before any revenge entry. (Pro and Elite.)
Step 4
Reflect
Post-trade debrief, end-of-day review, and a pre-commit ritual the next morning — built on top of your real psychological profile.
Sample · live voice coaching
“Hey — that's your second oversize entry after a winner. Same pattern as Tuesday. Breathe for ten.”
Get started
$39 a month. Seven days free.
Cancel anytime. Bring your own broker. Your data stays yours.
No card required · Cancel from your dashboard in one click
One last thing
“The best traders are no better than you at predicting the next move. They are better at protecting themselves from themselves.”
— Mark Douglas, Trading in the Zone
It takes about ninety seconds to set up.