Investing is for everyone — the hardest part is starting. We make it easier by showing our work: every signal we publish, every fill, every exit, on the record and in real time. For about the price of a phone, you can follow along from day one.
* Personal trading records, Jan 2020 – present. Realised + open positions. Unaudited. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
We guide you through choosing the right broker and opening an account in under 30 minutes. No jargon, no confusion.
Choose from 5 independently tracked trading approaches, each fully documented with its real track record.
Use our calculator to study how a given trade is sized — based on account size, entry, and stop loss. Knowledge before action.
Every trade we publish includes the entry price, stop loss, and target. You read it, study the reasoning, and make your own independent decision.
People's Trades is run by a single person who has been actively trading his own capital in US equity markets since 2021. No team, no algorithm sold as a black box, no hidden track record. Every trade published on this site is a trade that was placed with real money — entry price, stop loss, and target included.
The idea is simple: the kind of structured, transparent investment process that institutional investors take for granted should be accessible to anyone. Not as advice — as a window. You read the reasoning, you study the setup, and you decide for yourself.
Everything a complete beginner needs to open a brokerage account, understand commissions, and start reading our trading journal — explained in plain language.
Your salary pays your bills. Your savings sit in a bank account earning close to nothing. The stock market is the most accessible tool available to ordinary people to make their money work — not for a bank, not for an institution, but for themselves. You don't need to be wealthy to start. You need to be informed, disciplined, and patient. That is exactly what People's Trades is built to help you achieve.
All strategies trade exclusively US-listed stocks on US markets. Orders are placed at the market open — on rare occasions at the close. There is no intraday trading: you place your order before the market opens, and you are done for the day. No need to watch charts or monitor positions during trading hours.
Think of a brokerage as a ticket office. You want to buy a seat at a concert (a share of a company). The ticket office is the only place where those tickets are sold. The brokerage is your ticket office to the stock market.
When you open a brokerage account, you deposit your own money — nobody else touches it. People's Trades never holds your money or executes trades for you. You always remain in full control. We publish our own trading activity as a journal — what you read, and whether you act on it, is entirely your decision.
Your brokerage account is protected by investor compensation schemes (up to €20,000 in the EU, $500,000 in the US via SIPC). Your money is completely separate from the broker's own assets.
A commission is the fee your broker charges every time you buy or sell a share. It sounds small — until you do the maths.
Example A — expensive broker: A $10,000 account, 20% position size = $2,000 per trade. At 1% commission: $2,000 × 1% = $20 per trade. 100 trades × $20 = $2,000/year — 20% of your account, before a single trade wins.
Example B — low-cost broker ($1 minimum per trade): Same account, same 20% position size = $2,000 per trade. At $0.005/share on a $2,000 position at $50/share = 40 shares → 40 × $0.005 = $0.20 → floor kicks in → you pay $1 per trade. 100 trades × $1 = $100/year — just 1% of your account.
⚠️ Note: the $1 minimum matters most on small positions. A $500 trade at IBKR still costs $1 — that's 0.2%. Size your positions correctly and the minimum becomes irrelevant.
Commission matters most for strategies that trade frequently — above all Daily MR. For the weekly and monthly strategies it is a minor cost. Use the calculator below with your broker's real fee to see your annual cost.
Plain answers to the questions people ask before they start.
Each approach is fully documented — real trades, real results. This is a trading journal, not a recommendation service.
Built to work from around $2,000 per strategy — enough to hold 5 positions at a sensible size. There is no hard minimum; a smaller account simply holds smaller positions.
[FILL IN: what the strategy scans for. e.g. "Liquid US stocks in a longer-term uptrend that have pulled back to a short-term oversold extreme — measured by RSI / distance from a moving average."]
Limit orders are submitted before the US market opens and are good for the day only. No intraday monitoring required. [FILL IN: limit price rule, e.g. "entry is set X% below the prior close."]
[FILL IN: exit rule. e.g. "Position is closed when price reverts to its mean (target) or after N days, whichever comes first."]
Equal-weight across a maximum of 5 concurrent positions, so no single trade dominates the book. [FILL IN: any stop-loss / max-loss rule.]
Short-term price overreactions tend to revert. The edge comes from buying statistically stretched pullbacks within healthy uptrends, then exiting quickly once the imbalance corrects.
[FILL IN: weekly scan criteria. e.g. "Stocks showing a structured swing setup at the weekly level — pullback within an uptrend, or a clean base."]
Trades are selected once per week (orders placed for the start of the week). One decision point per week — built for people who can't watch the market daily. [FILL IN: precise entry trigger.]
[FILL IN: exit logic. e.g. "Held through the week's development; exited on a weekly target, trailing stop, or time stop."]
Equal-weight across a maximum of 5 concurrent positions. [FILL IN: stop-loss / risk rule.]
[FILL IN: the edge. e.g. "Captures multi-day momentum continuation while keeping decision frequency low, which reduces overtrading and commission drag."]
[FILL IN: monthly ranking criteria. e.g. "Each month, ranks the universe by trailing relative strength and selects the strongest trending names."]
Rebalanced once a month — orders placed at the start of the month. The lowest-maintenance strategy: one decision point every 30 days. [FILL IN: exact ranking/filter rule.]
[FILL IN: exit/rotation rule. e.g. "A holding is sold at the monthly rebalance if it drops out of the top-ranked group, otherwise it's held."]
Equal-weight across a maximum of 5 positions for broad diversification. [FILL IN: trend filter / market-regime rule, e.g. "no new positions when the index is below its 200-day MA."]
Trends persist longer than most expect. Holding the strongest names and rotating monthly captures sustained moves while the calendar discipline prevents emotional exits.
[FILL IN: breakout criteria at the weekly level. e.g. "Stocks breaking out of a multi-week consolidation or base on expanding volume."]
Confirmed breakouts are traded at the weekly level — lower frequency, so each setup gets careful sizing. [FILL IN: exact breakout trigger, e.g. "close above an N-week high."]
[FILL IN: exit rule. e.g. "Trailing stop below the breakout level, or exit on a weekly close back inside the base."]
Equal-weight across a maximum of 5 positions. Lower trade frequency allows disciplined management of each setup. [FILL IN: stop placement.]
Breakouts from well-formed bases mark the start of new trends as supply is absorbed. Trading them at the weekly level filters out intraday noise and false starts.
[FILL IN: daily breakout criteria. e.g. "Stocks clearing a key daily level — a 200-day high or breakout from a tight daily range."]
Orders are inserted before the market opens and are good for the day. Focused on catching the very start of a trend. No intraday monitoring. [FILL IN: precise breakout trigger.]
[FILL IN: exit rule. e.g. "Trailing stop, or exit on a daily close below the breakout level."]
Equal-weight across a maximum of 5 positions. [FILL IN: stop / max-loss rule.]
Catching breakouts early at the daily timeframe puts you in trends before the crowd. Frequent, small, rules-based entries spread risk across many opportunities.
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Signals are published by the People's Trades team before each session and never edited after publication.
See every position currently held in the portfolio — ticker, strategy, entry date, entry price and live unrealised P&L. Updated daily.
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| Strategy | Style | Timeframe | Max positions | Price/mo | |
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| Daily MR | Mean Reversion | Daily | 5 | $19.90 | |
| Smart Fly Weekly | Trend-following | Weekly | 5 | $19.90 | |
| Smart Fly Monthly | Trend-following | Monthly | 5 | $19.90 | |
| Trend Rider Weekly | Breakout | Weekly | 5 | $19.90 | |
| Horizon Daily | Breakout | Daily | 5 | $19.90 |
Know exactly how many shares to buy before you place the order. Size by percentage of account — keep risk consistent across all positions.
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Log your own trades, deposits and withdrawals — then track your real personal performance.
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Last updated: 25 May 2026
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