Product update · August 13, 2026

Strategists that remember, a sixth risk-taker, and a real weather index

All five of the original advanced strategies — The Real Trader, The Analyst, Day Trader, the Wizard, and The Farmer — now carry a persistent, self-written note on what actually worked and what didn't, revised every decision cycle instead of following a fixed rulebook. A sixth joined them: The Gambler, built for concentrated, catalyst-driven swings rather than diversified exposure.

Underneath, one of the oldest heuristics in the app got replaced with something real, and two new views make the whole thirty-strategy roster easier to judge at a glance.

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What's new

Five strategists that learn, and a sixth that gambles on purpose

Every advanced strategy already read a summary of its own recent decisions before deciding again. Now that context shows what actually happened, not just what was said — each past decision's mark-to-market value was already sitting in the data, just never surfaced. On top of that, each strategy maintains one running lesson note it writes and revises itself, cycle to cycle, shown in the Decision Log right under its rationale.

The new sixth voice, The Gambler, is built to be genuinely different: concentrated, high-conviction swings via leveraged and inverse ETFs, options, crypto, single stocks, and index futures — but every big move still has to trace back to a real named signal, never a hunch, and the same structural safety rules apply as everywhere else (defined-risk options only, no single idea that can take the whole book out).

Also this session

A real weather index, not a city proxy

The Wizard and The Analyst used to read a heuristic that measured the volume of weather news articles about three seeded local-digest cities — a quiet news day in a real drought looked identical to no drought at all. That's retired now, replaced with two real, free data sources: GDACS (the UN/European Commission's global disaster feed) for active weather-related disasters worldwide, and an upgraded regional weather feature that compares current conditions against a real 15-year percentile baseline instead of a single year-over-year snapshot.

The bigger idea

Judging the roster at a glance, honestly

Two new views sit above the individual strategy comparisons on the Strategies tab. Category Indexes blends each category's member strategies into one composite line, so you can see how an entire discipline — Standard, Novel Vehicles, Dividend Policy, and the rest — is doing before drilling into any single strategy. And every strategy on the All Strategies table now carries a vs S&P 500 pill: the actual spread against a plain buy-and-hold benchmark, which is a clearer "is this actually working" signal than a raw return number on its own.

Finance → Strategies

Category Indexes

One weighted line per category — Standard, Novel Disciplines, Novel Vehicles, Dividend Policy, Systematic Models, Multi-Disciplinary, Technical Analysis — plus a compact table of member count and since-inception return.

Finance → Strategies → Features

Features catalog showing named signals like fearGreedScore and vixLevel grouped into categories, with a total feature count and category filter pills

Every signal, cataloged

Every named, computed input a strategy has ever actually decided from, grouped by category — Market, News & Situation Room, Weather & Climate, Macro & Rates, and more. Built from real decision history, not a static list: a signal only shows up once it's been used, and a retired one (the old weather proxy is the live example) stays fully browsable, just tagged "not in use" instead of disappearing.