Alerts to Your Watch. Trades From Your Yard. Here's How It Works.

A walkthrough of the Stats Edge Pro Discord, what each channel does, and why beta testing matters more than backtesting.

I get trade alerts on my Apple Watch while I’m cutting down trees. That sentence either sounds ridiculous or exactly like what you’ve been looking for. Either way, here’s how it works.

Stats Edge Pro runs through Discord. Not because it’s flashy. Because it works on everything. iPhone, Android, iPad, Mac, PC, Linux, Chromebook, web browser, watch. If it has a screen, it runs Discord. That’s the whole reason I chose it.

Three channels matter:

Swing trading alerts. Entry, stop loss, exit criteria. That’s it. Formatted tight enough to read on a watch face. Example from yesterday: pullback algo triggered, entry at a specific price, stop below structure, time stop exits Monday. I saw it while I was outside, bought it on my phone, and went back to what I was doing.

Day trading alerts. Same format but includes direction. Long and short. Mean reversion, second-day plays. All outlined in the welcome email when you sign up.

Investment channel. Monthly rotation triggers. These fire less frequently but they’re the ones funding the retirement account.

Then there’s the beta channel. This is where new strategies live after they pass the backtest but before they go live. I’m not looking to confirm the backtest works in real markets. The way I test, across 25 years of data including bear markets and crashes with commissions and slippage modeled, I’m confident in that. What I’m checking is fills. Slippage. Whether the strategy fits into the portfolio we’re already running. Some beta strategies graduate to the live channels. Some don’t. You see the whole process.

And for the people who don’t want the community chat pinging all day, that’s fine. Right-click, mute channel. You can tailor notifications down to exactly which alerts you want. Swing only. Investing only. Whatever combination fits how you trade.

This is a small group on purpose. We’re not trying to build the biggest Discord on the internet. A handful of systematic traders who want alerts delivered to whatever device they’re carrying, wherever they are. That’s it.

The systems behind those alerts have been tested across 52,000+ trades since 2000. They have losing months. I publish those in The Drawdown Memo when they happen. If you want to see the testing methodology first, the free 25-Year Backtest PDF is at letters.statsedgetrading.com.

For the alerts themselves, delivered to your watch, phone, or desktop, that’s Stats Edge Pro at $149/month with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

— Michael Nauss, CMT, CAIA, CDMS