What Wirerally is
Wirerally publishes trade ideas for a fixed list of well known, heavily traded US companies, and keeps a public scorecard of every one — including the ones that lost. You decide whether to act on any of them, you decide how many shares, and the trade happens in your own brokerage account, not ours.
Nothing about Wirerally is tailored to you. Everyone who opens the app sees the exact same signals, at the exact same prices, at the exact same time. That is a deliberate choice, not a limitation — it is what keeps this a service that publishes ideas rather than one that manages your money or tells you, personally, what to do with it.
How it works
- Wirerally publishes a signal. It names a company, a direction (buy, or sell short), a price to get in at, a price to take profit at, and a price to cut the loss at if it goes the other way.
- You review it. Every signal comes with a plain-English reason — what the price has been doing, what recent news says, if anything — not just a chart and a hunch.
- You decide, and you choose the size. Approve it, or pass. If you approve, you type in how many shares — Wirerally never suggests a number, because how much of your own money to risk is your decision and nobody else's.
- Your broker places the order. Wirerally sends the order using your own broker connection, in your own account. It never touches your money directly, and it cannot act without your say-so.
For the curious: what actually generates a signal
Each signal combines two kinds of evidence: how the share price has been trending against its own recent history, and what recent news about the company suggests. Neither is published as a bare number — the app translates both into plain sentences ("the price has moved far above its recent average, and it has been bought so hard that it looks stretched"), with the underlying figures shown underneath for anyone who wants to check the reading directly.
We do not publish the exact formula or the exact thresholds that decide when a signal fires. That is deliberate: those numbers are Wirerally's edge, and publishing them would make the free signals easy to reproduce and would not make anyone's trades better. What we do publish in full is the result — every signal, and what happened to it — which is the part that actually lets you judge whether this is worth following.
Awaiting you
This is the first screen you see: signals published recently that you have not answered yet. Tap one to open it, see the reasoning, choose how many shares, and approve or pass. A signal you do not answer in time simply expires — nothing is placed on your behalf by default, ever.
Nothing is placed unless you tap Approve. No answer means no trade. This is the one rule everything else in Wirerally is built around.
History
Every signal ever published, in one place, whether it worked out or not. This is the same list everyone sees — it does not change based on who is signed in, what you hold, or what you follow. Each signal shows the company name with a link to further research, the exact prices, the reasoning behind it, and — when there was one — a link to the news story it was based on.
Record
The scorecard. How many signals have been published, how many finished, and the win rate among those that did. What most services leave out is published here on purpose: how many never even reached the price to get in (nobody could have taken those, so they count as neither a win nor a loss), and how many touched both the profit price and the stop so close together that there is no honest way to say which came first.
Below the headline numbers is a chart of the strategy's performance over time, with filters for 1 month up to 10 years. Where the real track record is still short, the chart also shows a shaded estimate of how the very first positions would have done if held for a full year — clearly marked as an estimate, never presented as something that already happened.
For the curious: how "finished" and the categories are counted
A signal is finished once the price reaches either the profit target or the stop; until then it is still running and counts toward neither the wins nor the losses. The win rate is measured only across finished signals. Every percentage on this screen is how far the share price moved — not what you personally made, which also depends on how many shares you chose, and Wirerally never sees that figure.
Positions
What you actually hold right now, read live from your own broker account the moment you open this screen. It is split into what came from following a Wirerally signal and what you traded yourself — a brokerage statement cannot tell those apart, and this screen exists specifically to do that.
Wirerally never keeps a copy of your broker key, so it cannot watch your account while you are away. This screen shows what was true the moment you opened it, and says so — it is a checkup, not a live monitor.
For the curious: running more than one strategy in one account
If two strategies share the same brokerage account and both hold the same company, your broker merges the shares into one position and reports a single average cost. Wirerally can still tell you exactly how many shares each strategy accounts for — that comes from our own record of what was approved — but it cannot always divide the profit between them, because the broker itself no longer can either. When that happens, the screen says so plainly rather than guessing.
Giving each strategy its own account removes the ambiguity entirely, which is why the option exists (see "More than one strategy" below).
Your activity
Every signal you personally answered — approved or passed on — newest first, with a filter for which account it went to if you use more than one. Unlike Positions, this includes the ones you said no to, because knowing what you chose to skip is as useful as knowing what you took.
Account & alerts
Under Account you connect your broker, manage sign-in, and choose how you hear about new signals.
Your broker key
Paste your Alpaca API key here once. It is saved only on this device — see Security: your broker key for exactly what that means.
Telegram alerts
Connect a Telegram chat and Wirerally will message you the moment a new signal is published, so you are not relying on remembering to open the app. Tapping the alert opens the exact trade, ready for you to review — nothing is placed by tapping the message itself.
One thing worth knowing on a phone: Telegram usually opens links in its own built-in browser, which does not share anything you have saved in Safari or Chrome — including your broker key. If a link opens and asks you to add your key again, that is why. You can fix it once: in Telegram, go to Settings → Data and Storage → Web Browser → Open Links In, and choose your normal browser.
How many alerts a day
Set a daily ceiling on Telegram messages, from 1 to 10. This only changes how often you are interrupted — the feed above always shows every signal regardless, and everyone is offered the same ones.
More than one strategy
Wirerally can run more than one strategy at once — a fast-moving one and a slower one, say — each with its own independent scorecard, so a strategy held for months is never blended into the numbers for one held for days.
You choose which strategies to follow, which decides which ones send you alerts — it does not change what you can see. Every strategy's signals are always visible to everyone; following one just means you are told about it without having to check.
Each strategy can use the same broker account as the others, or its own separate one. Using separate accounts is what makes it possible to tell, with certainty, exactly how each strategy is doing with real money — see the note under Positions.
Keeping you in control
These rules do not bend, for anyone, on any strategy:
- Nothing is ever placed unless you personally approve it.
- You always choose the number of shares. Wirerally never suggests one.
- Every signal is identical for every subscriber — nobody gets a better or more personal version.
- You can disconnect your broker key or sign out at any time, instantly.
This is why Wirerally can publish a real, public track record without becoming an investment adviser: it never decides anything on your behalf, and it never sees or manages your money.
Security: your broker key
Your Alpaca API key is saved only in your browser, on your own device. There is no column for it in Wirerally's database, and nothing writes it down anywhere on our side.
When you approve a trade, the key travels with that one request so it can reach your broker — Alpaca does not accept an order straight from a web page, so it has to pass through our server on its way. It is used for that one order and then it is gone; we do not log it, store it, or reuse it for anything else.
To be precise about what this does and does not claim: your key does briefly pass through our server on the way to your broker, because that is the only path Alpaca allows. What we are confident saying is that we never keep it — which is a materially different, and much safer, claim than holding thousands of subscribers' keys at rest.
You can revoke a key at any time directly in Alpaca's own dashboard, which works immediately whether or not you have signed out of Wirerally first.
Security: your account & data
We keep this list short on purpose. Here is everything of substance:
- Your email, and a password if you chose one — passwords are stored as a one-way scramble, never as text anyone could read back.
- Which signals you approved or passed on, and when.
- The account number a trade went to, if you use more than one — the same number already on your own brokerage statement.
- That you accepted the Terms of Service, which version, and when.
That is the entire list. We do not hold, and have never asked for:
- Your broker balance or holdings at rest — Positions is read live and never saved.
- Your broker password, or any credential beyond the API key described above.
- Anything about your income, net worth, or financial goals.
Signing in and recovery
You can sign in with Google or with a password. Recovery codes, if you generate them, are stored the same way passwords are — as a one-way scramble we cannot reverse, which means we cannot show them to you again later, and neither could anyone who broke into our records. Recovering an account has a short waiting period and notifies you first, so a stolen code cannot take it over quietly.
Signing out removes your broker key from that device by default. You can choose to keep it on a device you trust, but that choice is yours and is off unless you turn it on.
How Wirerally compares
Most trade-alert services and automated trading tools ask you to trust a result you cannot fully check, or to hand over more control than the result has earned. Wirerally is built the other way round.
| Typical alert service | Wirerally | |
|---|---|---|
| Track record | Highlights the wins | Every signal published, wins and losses, including the awkward categories others drop |
| Who executes the trade | Often a shared or discretionary account | You, in your own brokerage account |
| Position sizing | Sometimes suggested or automated for you | Always your own decision, always your own number |
| Your broker credentials | Often stored on a server | Kept only on your device |
| Is the signal personalised to you | Sometimes, which is how it is sold | Never — identical for every subscriber, which is what keeps this publishing rather than advising |
We also expect, in time, to offer a version for people who want their approvals handled automatically rather than tapped one at a time. That is a bigger claim to make responsibly, so it will arrive deliberately and openly rather than quietly — not as a surprise change to how the free version behaves today.
Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Can Wirerally lose me money? | Any trade can. Wirerally publishes ideas and a public record of how they have done; it is not a guarantee, and every signal includes the price at which it cuts the loss if it goes the other way. |
| Will Wirerally ever place a trade without me? | No. Every trade needs your tap and your chosen size. If that ever changes for a given account, it will be a setting you turned on, not a default. |
| What happens if I do not answer a signal? | It expires. Nothing is placed. Silence always means no trade. |
| Can I use more than one brokerage account? | Yes — give a strategy its own account under Account, or let several strategies share one. See More than one strategy. |
| Do you sell or share my data? | No. The short list in Security: your account & data is the complete picture of what we hold. |