New Features at Freedom Trades
Behind the Scenes | Edition 60
The time has come to do a:
-review of what has changed in the community,
-and where this community is headed.
I haven’t done a post like this since December 2025, and a lot has changed since then.
Well, as of January 2026, I officially resigned, and I am a full-time swing trader.
Since then, the community has grown by another 600 people, and as I write this, we have 2,276 traders in Freedom Trades.
Community Improvements - what’s new
As a PRO member, here is what you currently have access to:
I want to talk a bit about the upgrades that have happened on the Discord server, because I believe that’s where the biggest leap has been made over the past few months.
In March 2026, I built and tested a Python bot that automatically captures my trades on IBKR and posts them instantly in the Signals channel on Discord, so you will receive them in real time, without waiting for me to post manually.
(That’s what I used to do before, and it would obviously take forever. By the time I was posting, the price had already moved. Now the delay is 5 seconds max.)
The bot is now live.
Here’s an example from April:
On top of that, the bot also sends a daily end-of-day recap of my positions, so you know exactly which ones I’m still in and which ones I’ve exited.
Then I took things to the next level.
Using Claude to code, I built a scanner based on a formula I created that detects price and volume contraction, along with other factors such as RS Rating, distance from the 50MA, Avg $Vol 20D, 52-Week High Proximity, ADR%, and more.
It even takes into account the market environment. For example, depending on the VIX level, it applies either a penalty or a boost to the score.
I had to come up with all these formulas myself, but the scanner is starting to think more and more like my own style.
The next step was to connect this scanner to the Discord server.
I built a bot that pulls the tickers and their charts and posts them in the Discord server every day after market close, so you have enough time to build your focus list for the next day.
Here’s an example:
and then the charts:
It’s incredible what we’ve managed to build together, with your feedback, in just 14 months.
It’s not perfect, but it will keep getting better as I continue investing money and time into research.
If you want to join us, you can do so right now.
Right now, the yearly plan is much cheaper than the monthly one.
We’re waiting for you inside!
Costs of running the business
Some of you might think I live off Substack revenue, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Over the past few months, I’ve been investing every single dollar back into building, growing, and improving the community.
For example, I purchased these monitors and a desktop computer.
Please don’t judge my cable management, I’ll get to it eventually, haha.
This setup has helped me enormously to improve my workflow, respond to your questions and messages faster, and be more efficient overall.
Before this, I was doing everything from a laptop.
The software side is another major expense category.
Here is what I currently use:
Discord Nitro to improve our Discord Server - $144 yearly
Sidestack for connecting PRO members to the private Discord - $468 yearly
Google Drive - $120 yearly
Domain name - $50 yearly
TradingView Premium plan - $600 yearly
Tradezella - $588 yearly
Massive (formerly Polygon) for Market Data - $348 yearly
Perplexity Max for building the FT Scanner / Platform - $2000 yearly
I’ve spent close to 60,000 credits on Claude Code, lol. That’s a lot of money.
These are just the fixed costs; there are also variable ones, such as purchasing a tool to edit a video.
For example, I paid for a Timebolt lifetime deal last month ($300).
Or back in January, when I was testing different AI coding tools and paid for both Lovable and Replit, and then for FMP to connect market data to the platform.
But these are just examples, I could go on forever, but that’s not the point of this post.
The point is that I don’t care about hoarding money just for the sake of it.
I want to build the best possible thing, and for that you need to invest both money and time.
I want this platform to truly help you, bring value, and serve you for the years to come.
This is not a one-time thing.
This community was built with the intention of lasting at least a decade.
Finally, I want to thank everyone for trusting me.
To those who write to me and spark meaningful conversations.
To those who gave me the opportunity to build this for you.
This has been a very rewarding journey so far, and I hope we can continue it for at least 9 more years.
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Vladislav
Vlad, you did what I was planning to do for a while, but didn’t stay focused to complete the job. Very happy to be your subscriber. I don’t copy your trades, but watch your methodology and performance. That gives me confidence to stay in the trade when I put real money on line.