Questions people actually ask

1 · What is Trade Together?

A free social platform for people who follow the US stock market. It puts three things in one place: the market tools you would otherwise juggle across five tabs (charts, a heatmap, financials, an earnings calendar, news), a place to record and track the trades you would make, and a community where other people — including creators — open their portfolios and results so you can see what is actually working.

Trading on the platform is simulated. Prices are real; the money is not.

2 · Is it really free? What is the catch?

It is free, and there is no catch to disclose. No tiers, no trial that starts billing, no credit card, and no feature held back behind an upgrade. The charts, the heatmap, the financials, the earnings calendar, the news, the community and the creator portfolios are all open from the first click.

The honest version of "why": a community only works when everyone can get through the door. Paywalling the people you would learn from defeats the point.

3 · Is Trade Together a broker? Can I lose money?

No, and no. Trade Together is not a broker, is not connected to one, and cannot execute a real trade. When you place an order here, nothing is sent anywhere and no money moves — the only thing that changes is the list of holdings recorded on your own account. There is nothing to deposit and nothing to withdraw.

That also means you cannot make real money here. It is a place to learn, practise and compare ideas. What you do afterwards with a real broker is your own decision, and your own risk.

4 · Do I need a credit card to sign up?

No. An email address and a password. There is no payment step anywhere in the app.

5 · How do I know if a trading creator is actually any good?

You judge them on results you can inspect, over time — not on follower counts, not on confident posting. A large audience tells you someone is popular. It tells you nothing about whether their calls worked.

On Trade Together a creator's portfolio and profit-and-loss can be made public, and when it is, you see the whole thing: which positions they hold, how those positions have actually performed, and the trades that went badly alongside the ones that went well. A track record you can read over weeks is worth more than a screenshot of one winning trade.

Two things to look for: how someone handles a loss, and whether the whole portfolio holds up rather than just the highlights. And one caveat we will not skip — a strong past record is evidence, not a promise about the future.

6 · What does "verified" mean next to a portfolio?

Every position on Trade Together is one of two kinds, and the platform never mixes them:

• Verified — the position was opened through a command inside the app. The app supplied the price from its own live quote, stamped the time itself, and wrote a permanent record of the fill. These are the only positions that count towards the headline figures other people see.
• Not verified — the member typed it in themselves: any price, any past date. This exists so you can record the portfolio you already had before you joined. It is shown in full, always labelled, always in grey, and it counts towards nothing.

The boundary is the day you joined, which the server recorded and nobody can move.

7 · Can a creator quietly delete a trade that went badly?

No. Every executed trade is written to a permanent log that cannot be edited or deleted — not by the member, not by an administrator. The database refuses both operations outright.

Closing a position is itself recorded as a trade, so exiting a loser leaves a mark rather than erasing one. That is the whole point: a public track record is only worth reading if the losses are still in it.

8 · Who can see my portfolio?

Nobody, until you decide otherwise. A portfolio is private by default. One switch makes it public, and you can switch it back at any time — everything becomes invisible again immediately.

Worth knowing before you flip it: going public shares both your holdings and the trade log behind them. That pairing is deliberate — a public portfolio is only believable if the history behind it is one nobody could have tidied up — but it should not be a surprise. The app asks you to confirm.

9 · What are the password rules?

At least 6 characters, including a lowercase letter, an uppercase letter, a digit and a symbol. The sign-up form ticks each rule off as you type, so you are not guessing.

Two things that catch people out: a space does not count as a symbol, and passwords that have appeared in a known data breach are refused outright — that one is a safety check, not a complexity rule, and the message says so.

10 · I cannot sign up, or I never got the confirmation email.

Check the spam folder first; confirmation mail sometimes lands there. If the address is one you have used here before, it may still be registered — contact us and we will sort it out rather than leaving you locked out.

If the form rejects your email address as invalid even though it looks correct, try retyping it rather than pasting. Copying an address out of a right-to-left document can carry an invisible character along with it. The form strips those automatically now, but retyping is the fastest way past it.

If none of that solves it, you are welcome to write to support@tradetogether.biz and a person will pick it up.

11 · How do I delete my account?

Write to support@tradetogether.biz and we will remove it. Deleting an account removes the profile, the portfolio, the holdings, the watchlists and the messages that belong to it.

12 · What tools do I get?

Interactive stock charts with volume, moving averages and earnings and dividends marked on the price; a live market heatmap of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100; company financials; an earnings calendar; news; watchlists; price alerts; and a simulated portfolio to practise with. Plus the community — channels, direct messages, and creators whose portfolios are open.

13 · Which markets and symbols are covered?

US equities and ETFs. The heatmap covers the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 (QQQ), and you can chart, research and track any US-listed symbol the data providers cover.

14 · Is there a mobile app?

There is no app-store app. The site is built to work on a phone browser, and you can add it to your home screen — it then opens full-screen like an app. On iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen. On Android: the browser menu → Add to Home screen.

15 · Is Trade Together available in my country?

Yes — it is a website, it is free, and there is no account funding, so there is nothing to restrict by country. The market data and the community are in English, and the coverage is US-listed stocks and ETFs.

16 · Is any of this investment advice?

No. Nothing on Trade Together is investment advice, and nothing on it is tailored to you or your circumstances. That includes the figures that look like opinions — the technical score on a chart, analyst consensus ratings, and the AI-written market summaries. They are arithmetic and third-party data, not recommendations.

A public portfolio is one person's decisions, not a recommendation for yours.

17 · Is the site accessible?

That is the goal, and it is written down rather than assumed. Trade Together aims to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 in the US, and by the European Accessibility Act and EN 301 549 in the EU. Full detail, including what works from the keyboard, is in the accessibility statement.

18 · How do I get help or report a bug?

Send feedback in your user menu, or the feedback bar inside the user guide, both of which reach a person. There is also a #Bug Reporting channel in the community where posts get read and answered in public.