Retail investing, elevated.
Contra reads the market every day, finds the habits costing you money, and teaches you to read it yourself.
Open Contra in the morning and see what fired overnight — the patterns that quietly move retail returns, from dividend traps and fake earnings beats to post-merger leverage stress, commodity-cycle turns, and rate-regime shifts. Read across the stock, commodity, and bond markets, scored into one clear verdict per name. When there is nothing worth saying, it says so.
Then it turns the lens on you. Link your brokerage and Contra reads your real trades — surfacing the habits quietly costing you money, like banking winners early and letting losers run — so you can stop repeating the same mistake. Read-only, and the verdict stays yours.
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What’s inside
Spot patterns
Live Tape
Every morning's pattern firings across the stock, commodity, and bond markets — scored into one clear verdict per name, including the honest “no view.”
Spot patterns
Codex
The full pattern library: what each pattern means, what makes it fire, and exactly what would prove it wrong.
Spot patterns · live
IPO Desk
Big listings in facts — the dates that matter, lockup schedules, base rates, and how past IPOs actually went.
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Capability
A living picture of how you read the market, built from your real decisions and trades — it grows as your judgment does.
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Gauntlet
A scenario diagnostic that names the specific biases costing you money — and tracks whether they fade.
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Time Machine
Replay real historical setups blind. Decide first, then see what actually happened and why.
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Interrogator
The strongest counter-argument to your thesis, built from the same framework that scored it.
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Conviction Slider
Position sizing with deliberate friction, exactly when volatility makes conviction feel cheapest.
Your positions
War Room
Your holdings and watchlist, read against the framework every day — new risk, crowding, theses that have quietly aged. Link your brokerage and it also grades every trade you've closed, naming the habits quietly costing you money.
Your positions
Cohort Insight
Where the investor cohort is leaning on each firing — and where the sharpest investors break from the crowd.
Your positions
ETF X-Ray
What your ETFs actually hold, and which patterns are firing inside them right now.
See what the engine reads — and when it stays silent.
Create a free account and open today’s tape. Every new account starts with a 7-day Operator trial — full framework access, no card required.