Tradesea is a futures-focused trading platform that rose like a phoenix out of the ashes when the ProjectX fallout hit prop traders unexpectedly hard. Tradesea has built a tool ecosystem specifically designed for prop traders: execution tools, automated journaling, an AI assistant, and a sidebar AI co-pilot, all in one web and mobile app. Whether that’s brilliant or overwhelming depends entirely on what you actually need.
The platform is built by Tradium Inc., a U.S.-registered company. Their tech stack leans hard on Rithmic for market data and trade execution, TradingView for charting, AWS for infrastructure, and Groq for AI inferencing. That’s a serious list of backend partners. Rithmic is the gold standard for futures data latency, so starting there is the right call.
Station: The Trading Interface
The core trading experience lives in what Tradesea calls Station. Their documentation describes it as purpose-built for active traders who want professional execution without the clutter. TradingView charts are fully integrated with multi-timeframe, multi-symbol layouts. You can trade directly from the chart and drag Stop-Loss and Take-Profit markers around visually. That last bit matters more than people realise. If you’re scalping NQ during the open and need to adjust risk fast, clicking through menus is a liability.
The DOM is described as ultra-fast with real-time bid/ask updates and one-click order entry. Given that Rithmic is powering the data feed underneath, that’s plausible. Rithmic’s reputation in the futures prop world is exactly this: low latency, reliable, and widely used by serious trading infrastructure. Traders already familiar with Rithmic feeds will feel at home.
Workspaces are fully customisable. DOM-focused setups, scalper-oriented layouts, or full advanced workstations are all apparently supported. Built-in risk controls include daily loss limits and daily profit limits, which is useful for prop traders managing their drawdown rules. Bracket orders and position brackets are there too.
Compass: The Journaling Engine
Honestly, this might be the most interesting part of the whole platform. Compass is Tradesea’s automated trade journaling and analytics system. It syncs your fills automatically, tags them, and then computes a composite Compass Score using behavioural, statistical, and risk-adjusted metrics.
So instead of manually logging every ES trade into a spreadsheet at the end of a session (which nobody actually keeps up with, let’s be real), Compass does it for you. The dashboard shows headline metrics at the top: Net P&L, Win Rate, Profit Factor, Average Win/Loss ratio. There’s also a P&L performance calendar that marks profitable and unprofitable days visually, and a Compass Score chart that tracks drawdown, recovery factor, and win/loss trends over time.
The strategy-level tagging system is worth mentioning. You can tag trades by setup type, session, instrument or whatever else you track, then analyse performance across those tags. That’s the kind of thing traders normally cobble together in Edgewonk or a custom spreadsheet. Having it integrated directly into the execution platform is genuinely convenient.
You can also import historical data from other brokers and platforms, which means you don’t have to start from scratch if you’re switching over.
The shareable performance overview feature is interesting too. Their blog post mentions something called “Showcase” that lets you export your Compass Score and P&L data as a formatted card to share on X or Discord. Whether you find that useful or a bit unnecessary probably depends on whether you’re active in trading communities online.
Polaris: The AI Assistant
Polaris is their full AI chat panel. It’s currently in beta according to their documentation. The pitch is context-aware market analysis: you type a question, it reads live prices, current technicals, and recent news, and responds. Their help docs show example prompts like “Analyze ES”, “NQ outlook”, “RSI for Gold”, “Why is it moving?” and “What should I watch before the open?”
The live market data piece is what separates this from just chatting with a general AI about markets. If Polaris is genuinely pulling live Rithmic price feeds and current news into its analysis, that’s legitimately useful. If you’re heading into a session and want a quick multi-market scan before you pull up your charts, asking “What’s moving right now?” and getting a live-data response is a different experience than Googling it.
Polaris also has access to an economic calendar. Asking “Any events today?” before a session is something a lot of traders do manually. Having that in the same interface as your execution tools reduces friction.
That said, it’s in beta. And “beta” in trading software means you probably shouldn’t lean on it for actual execution decisions until it’s had more time. I’d use it for context and awareness, not as a signal generator.
pSpark: The Sidebar AI Co-Pilot
pSpark is a more compact version of AI analysis, designed to sit in a sidebar alongside your live chart. Think of it as the quick-hit version of Polaris. Their docs describe Polaris responses as 20+ lines, detailed and research-oriented. pSpark targets 5-15 lines, concise, designed for quick checks while you’re actually in a trade or managing positions.
The difference makes sense. If you’re in an ES position and want a fast RSI check or support/resistance level, you don’t want a paragraph. pSpark also includes order placement guidance, which is an interesting feature, essentially letting you describe a trade setup and having the AI clarify how to execute it. Useful for newer traders especially.
pSpark doesn’t have web search access, which is fine for what it’s designed for. Polaris handles the news and research side. The split between the two is actually sensible design thinking.
Prop Firm Integration
Tradesea has a partnerships section where they list supported prop firms. Currently live: BluSky, FundedSeat, Lucid Trading, and Tradeify. FundYourEdge is listed as coming soon.
So if you’re trading a funded account with one of those firms, you can connect it directly to Tradesea rather than using a separate platform. The documentation describes smooth onboarding to Rithmic’s OMS/RMS (order management and risk management systems) as part of the partnership offer. From a prop firm perspective, that means position limits and drawdown rules can be enforced at the infrastructure level, not just the UI level. That’s meaningful.
If you’re not on one of those 4 supported firms, that’s a real limitation right now. The prop firm ecosystem is large, and until they add more partners, some traders won’t be able to use Tradesea for their funded accounts regardless of how good the tools are.
Mobile App
Available on both iOS and Android. The documentation indicates the mobile app supports TradingView charts and Compass access. It’s web and mobile first, with a desktop app listed as “coming soon.” If you’re someone who monitors positions on a phone but executes on desktop, that’s a limitation to be aware of. Though to be honest, executing futures trades exclusively on mobile in volatile conditions is something most serious traders avoid anyway.
Overall
Tradesea is genuinely ambitious. They’re not just building another execution front-end on top of Rithmic. The integrated journaling, the AI layers, the prop firm connectivity, the mobile app, it’s all pointing toward something more like a complete trading operating system than a basic platform. Whether they execute on that ambition is the question. Right now, with limited prop firm support, a beta AI, and no desktop app yet, it’s promising but not finished. Worth watching, and probably worth exploring if you’re on one of the 4 supported firms. Yet, the branded search volume has already reached 74,000 searches globally for Tradesea, which is still below the 500,000 searches for ProjectX, but nonetheless impressive.