RadarPulse: a Tradytics alternative for options flow + AI research

Why AI and flow scoring work better together

AI research tools and flow scanners have historically lived in different products, which creates friction: you spot an unusual print in the scanner, switch to an AI tool to understand the company, switch again to check institutional ownership, then switch back to decide. Each context switch degrades the signal because the picture is never assembled in one place.

RadarPulse integrates all three layers: the scored feed surfaces the unusual print, Radar explains it in plain English on the spot, and Vera runs the fundamental check without you leaving the tool. The institutional and congressional trackers are a fourth layer, you can see what Congress and 13F funds own in the same name while the flow is live. For the conceptual foundation, our guide on unusual options flow explains the underlying signal.

What RadarPulse delivers

• A 0–100 unusualness score on every trade. Every options print is rated on volume-to-open-interest, premium size, days-to-expiry, and aggressor side, four disclosed factors visible per print. High-score prints surface automatically; you don't need to evaluate every number independently.
• A daily Top 25 with clear flags. The day's most unusual activity is collected into a ranked Top 25, each print tagged EXTREME, ELEVATED or NOTABLE so you can scan severity labels first and focus your deeper research on the strongest signals.
• Whale detection. Block and sweep orders moving real size are surfaced with the aggressor side flagged, buying or selling, at what aggression, so you're reading the positioning intent, not just the size.
• Congress, Trump and 13F trackers. See congressional stock trades, the Trump trades tracker, and 13F institutional holdings alongside the live flow. Unusual flow on a name that a major fund has been building a position in reads differently than an isolated print.
• Radar (AI chat). Ask about any ticker, any print, or any market event in plain English. Radar draws on market data and company context to explain the flow, the company, the catalyst backdrop, or the risk profile, immediately, inside the tool.
• Vera (AI equity research). An AI equity-research desk that generates a structured fundamental analysis on any stock: earnings, margins, valuation, sector dynamics, and key risks. Run a Vera analysis on a ticker showing extreme flow before you decide whether to act.
• Free $100K paper trading + Academy. Practise acting on flow signals in a $100K virtual wallet at zero cost, no card required. The built-in leaderboard tracks returns anonymously against other traders.
• Breaking news banner. Real-time market-moving headlines with a synthesised index-level market reading, so unusual flow always has a macro context backdrop.

A factual feature comparison

The table below describes RadarPulse's capabilities in detail. For the Tradytics column we only note what's widely and publicly known; verify current Tradytics features and pricing on their own site.

"See their site" means we're deliberately not stating another company's specifics, verify current Tradytics features and pricing on their own site.

RadarPulse pricing

Clear and flat. Two things are free forever; the scored scanner sits on paid tiers with a trial.

• Basic: $12/mo, with a 14-day free trial. Scored scanner, daily Top 25, whale detection, Congress and 13F trackers on 15-minute-delayed flow. Radar AI chat and Vera AI equity research included.
• Pro, $29/mo. More headroom for active users, saved filters, more alerts, cross-device sync.
• Elite, $59/mo. Adds the real-time tape for traders reacting inside the same minute.
• Free forever: $100K paper trading + Academy + leaderboard. No card required, practise and compete at zero cost.

Flow is 15-minute delayed on every tier except Elite. Full breakdown at the pricing page.

Which should you pick?

Tradytics is an established AI analytics platform with its own approach to flow and sentiment; compare it on its own terms. RadarPulse is worth evaluating if you want a transparent 0-100 per-trade score, a daily Top 25 with explicit severity flags, AI chat and equity research built directly into the flow tool (rather than as a separate module), Congress and 13F context in the same view, and a $12/mo entry point with a real trial. If the goal is to reduce the number of tools in your research stack while keeping strong AI and flow coverage, that combination is what RadarPulse is built for. Start at the Learn hub, or see our guide to the best free options flow scanner.

Tradytics: what it does and its AI approach

Tradytics is an AI-powered trading analytics platform that combines options flow analysis with machine learning-based predictions. The platform is designed for retail traders who want both raw flow data and AI-generated directional signals in a single product, rather than maintaining separate subscriptions for a flow scanner and an analytics layer.

Tradytics' core feature set includes an options flow scanner, AI-driven stock and options predictions, machine learning signals applied to price direction, technical analysis screeners, earnings prediction models, and sector-level analysis. The through-line across all of these is that the AI is doing interpretive work for you: it ingests the flow, the technicals, and the fundamentals and outputs a directional signal or probability estimate.

Tradytics differentiates primarily on its AI-powered predictive analytics. Rather than simply surfacing flow data and leaving interpretation to the user, their model attempts to predict where a stock's price might go by applying machine learning across flow data, technical indicators, and in some cases fundamental data. This positions Tradytics closer to a signal-generation tool than a raw data tool.

Pricing for Tradytics is approximately $49 to $100 per month depending on the tier selected. Tradytics targets technically sophisticated retail traders, people who are comfortable with AI-generated signals, want automated directional recommendations to guide their entries and exits, and prefer a platform that does more of the analytical heavy lifting on their behalf.

Understanding Tradytics' positioning is useful context for a fair comparison: it is making a different product bet than RadarPulse. Tradytics bets that traders want AI to generate directional guidance from flow data. RadarPulse bets that traders want a transparent score of how unusual the current activity is, and then want to form their own directional thesis, assisted by an AI research tool rather than an AI prediction engine. Both approaches have merit depending on what you want a flow tool to do for you.

It is also worth noting what Tradytics and RadarPulse share: both treat options flow as a primary data source, both apply technology to make that data more useful to retail traders, and both are aimed at traders who believe that unusual options activity carries information about where institutional money is positioning. The disagreement is downstream of that shared premise, it is about whether the technology's job is to generate a directional recommendation or to score and surface the raw signal for the trader to interpret.

Predictive AI vs. scored unusual activity: different questions

The most important distinction to understand when comparing Tradytics and RadarPulse is that the two platforms are answering different questions about the same underlying data.

Tradytics uses AI to predict where a stock might go. The input is options flow plus technicals and fundamentals; the output is a probability estimate or directional signal. This is a prediction task: the system is attempting to forecast future price direction.

RadarPulse uses scoring to tell you how unusual the current options activity is. The input is a single options print; the output is a 0-100 unusualness score. This is a characterization task: the system is describing the current state of the options tape relative to historical norms, without making a directional claim.

These are genuinely different questions. Prediction attempts to answer: "Is this stock likely to go up or down?" Unusualness scoring answers: "Is this print remarkable compared to what normally happens in this ticker?" The first is inherently uncertain, even excellent models are wrong a meaningful percentage of the time, and short-horizon prediction in options markets is notoriously hard. The second is more tractable: historical volume-to-open-interest ratios, premium sizes, and execution aggression patterns can be computed with precision, and a print scoring 94 out of 100 is objectively unusual relative to the dataset.

RadarPulse's 0-100 score is computed from six disclosed factors: Volume-to-Open-Interest (weighted 40%), premium size (30%), execution type (10%), aggressor side (10%), days-to-expiry (5%), and time of day (5%). Each factor has a defined weight, and the composite score tells you objectively how unusual a print is relative to historical norms for that ticker and contract type. You can see exactly why a print scored 88 or 62, it isn't a black-box output.

The practical implication for how you use each platform: a Tradytics signal is an input to a trade decision, where you're deciding whether to trust the model's directional forecast. A RadarPulse score is an input to a research process, where a high score tells you the print is worth investigating and you then apply your own analysis to decide what it means directionally.

These approaches are not mutually exclusive. A trader could use RadarPulse to identify unusual institutional positioning and then layer external predictive analysis, from Tradytics or any other source, on top. The scored flow from RadarPulse establishes that something unusual is happening; the predictive layer attempts to say where the price is likely to go next. Using both together gives you a richer picture than either alone.

Neither approach is objectively correct for every trader. If you want AI to generate directional signals and you're comfortable acting on model outputs, Tradytics' approach may suit you. If you want to build your own directional thesis from institutional flow data with full transparency into why each print scored as it did, RadarPulse's approach is better suited to that workflow.

There is also a question of trust calibration. When you use a transparent scoring system, you understand precisely what drove a high score: a print with a score of 91 might owe 40 points to a Vol/OI ratio ten times the historical average for that ticker, another 30 to a premium size in the top 5% of prints, and the remaining 21 to aggressive execution on the call side close to expiry. You can verify that logic, stress-test it, and decide whether you agree with the weighting. When you use a predictive black box, you cannot audit the factors that drove a given directional signal, you are making a meta-decision about whether to trust the model, not a first-order decision about the data. Both are legitimate approaches; the right choice depends on how much you value transparency in the analytical process versus the convenience of receiving a ready-made recommendation.

Radar: the AI assistant built for market questions

RadarPulse includes Radar, a built-in AI market assistant with live data access integrated directly into the platform. Radar is designed for the specific research questions that arise while you are working through unusual flow: what does this company do, when are earnings, what do analysts think the price target is, what recent news might explain this activity, and what does this specific options print tell us about positioning.

You can ask Radar about any ticker, earnings dates, analyst price targets, recent headlines, options context, short interest, sector dynamics, and Radar answers in plain English using real, live market data. Radar does not invent numbers. If it does not have data, it says so. The integration means you go from spotting an unusual print in the flow feed to understanding the company behind it without switching applications or opening a separate browser tab. Because Radar has live data access, the context it provides reflects today's market conditions rather than static training data, analyst targets are current, earnings dates are accurate, and recent news is real.

Radar also handles broader market questions: ask about the day's macro conditions, recent Fed commentary, sector rotation patterns, or how to interpret a specific type of options structure, sweep versus block, in-the-money versus out-of-the-money unusual activity, and so on. For traders still building fluency in options market microstructure, Radar functions as an always-available resource for explaining what they're looking at and for building the conceptual vocabulary to interpret flow data more accurately over time.

RadarPulse Elite subscribers also have access to Vera, an AI equity research assistant built for structured multi-lens stock analysis. While Radar is conversational and responsive to open-ended questions, Vera is designed for deeper, more structured analysis: she generates a multi-section equity research report covering earnings and revenue trends, valuation multiples relative to sector peers, competitive positioning, recent catalysts, and key risk factors. Running a Vera analysis on a ticker that is showing extreme flow gives you a fundamental grounding for the institutional positioning signal before you decide whether to act.

The key distinction from Tradytics' AI approach is architectural. Radar is an assistive research tool: it answers questions you bring to it, with real data, in real time. It does not generate autonomous directional signals or tell you to buy or sell. Tradytics' AI is a predictive system: it autonomously processes flow and technical data to generate directional probability estimates or recommendations. Both are AI-assisted workflows, but they require different mental models from the trader using them. With Radar you are still the analyst; with a predictive AI you are evaluating whether to follow the model's recommendation.

For traders who want to remain the decision-maker and use AI as a research accelerator rather than a signal generator, Radar's assistive design is a better fit. For traders who want the platform to process the data and output a directional recommendation, Tradytics' predictive approach is more aligned with that preference.

Congressional and political flow data

One capability where RadarPulse is clearly differentiated from Tradytics is political disclosure data. RadarPulse includes STOCK Act Congressional trading disclosures and the Trump trade tracker as native data layers integrated alongside the live options flow feed. Tradytics does not include political disclosure data.

The STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act) requires members of Congress and their spouses to disclose stock trades within 45 days. These disclosures are public record, but aggregating them, normalizing the data, and surfacing them alongside live options flow in a single interface requires dedicated infrastructure. RadarPulse maintains that infrastructure and makes the cross-reference immediate, you can see which members of Congress hold positions in a name while unusual flow is printing in that same name.

The Trump trade tracker surfaces publicly known trades associated with Trump family entities and Trump-linked entities, which have become an area of active market attention given the policy-to-market dynamics of the current political environment. This data layer is also integrated natively, not as a separate tool.

The practical value of these layers is highest for traders focused on policy-sensitive sectors. Defense, energy, healthcare, financial regulation, and technology are all sectors where Congressional positioning can provide signal about where legislative or regulatory priorities are heading. An unusual call sweep in a defense contractor reads differently if members of the Armed Services Committee have been accumulating that position over the past 90 days. A put sweep in a healthcare name is more informative if Congressional finance disclosures show unusual selling in the sector in recent months.

The cross-reference capability, unusual options activity plus Congressional positioning in the same name, is a compounding signal. Unusual options activity alone suggests institutional conviction about something. Congressional positioning alone suggests policy-adjacent information flow. Both together in the same name is a higher-conviction configuration than either signal in isolation, and it requires fewer additional subscriptions to access when both layers live inside a single tool.

For traders who follow macro and political dynamics as part of their research process, whether for sector rotation, event-driven trading around legislative calendars, or positioning around regulatory decisions, the political disclosure layer adds signal without requiring an additional tool in the stack. This is a native RadarPulse capability with no direct equivalent in Tradytics.

A concrete example illustrates the compounding value. Suppose an energy company is seeing an unusual call sweep scoring 88 out of 100, high premium, high volume relative to open interest, in-the-money, expiring in 21 days. That is already a notable signal. If the RadarPulse Congressional tracker simultaneously shows that three members of the Senate Energy Committee purchased shares in the same company within the last 30 days, the configuration becomes considerably more interesting than the options print alone would suggest. The political disclosure layer does not tell you what to do with that information, but it adds a dimension of context that purely technical or flow-based analysis cannot provide. That multi-layer cross-reference is available inside a single RadarPulse session without switching tools or manually searching disclosure databases.

Pricing and value comparison

Understanding the pricing structure of both platforms is useful for assessing which delivers more value at each price point.

Tradytics pricing sits at approximately $49 to $100 per month depending on the tier. This positions Tradytics in the mid-tier of options analytics tools, reflecting the cost of maintaining AI prediction infrastructure and a flow scanner in a single product.

RadarPulse pricing at launch is structured across three paid tiers and a permanent free tier:

• Basic, $12/mo with a 14-day free trial. Includes the scored flow scanner with 15-minute-delayed data, the daily Top 25 with EXTREME/ELEVATED/NOTABLE flags, whale detection, Congress tracker, Trump tracker, 13F institutional holdings tracker, push alerts, earnings calendar, and charts. Radar AI chat and Vera AI equity research are included at this tier. This is a broad feature set for a $12 entry point.
• Pro, $29/mo. Adds more headroom for active users, saved filters, more concurrent alerts, and cross-device sync. Includes everything in Basic plus the live streaming flow feed and the full Top 25 scored leaderboard. Congress and Trump trackers are included. Push alerts are included.
• Elite, $59/mo. Adds the real-time options tape for traders who need to react to prints inside the same minute rather than on a 15-minute delay. Real-time flow is gated here because the data infrastructure cost is substantially higher for real-time versus delayed feeds. Also includes the Radar AI assistant and Vera AI research at full depth.
• Free forever: Academy, $100K paper trading wallet, and leaderboard. No card required. The paper trading wallet lets you practise acting on flow signals and compete on the leaderboard against other traders without any financial commitment.

At the $29/mo Pro tier, RadarPulse includes live streaming flow, the Top 25 scored leaderboard, Congress and Trump trackers, push alerts, an earnings calendar, and charting. RadarPulse Elite at $59/mo adds real-time flow, the Radar AI assistant at full depth, and Vera AI research, a comprehensive feature set at a price point below Tradytics' upper tier.

The value calculus differs depending on what you're prioritizing. Tradytics' predictive AI signals may justify its pricing for traders who specifically want automated directional signals generated from ML models applied to flow and technical data, that is its core differentiating value. RadarPulse is better suited for traders who want transparent per-trade scoring, Congressional and political context alongside the flow, an AI research assistant (rather than a prediction engine), and a lower entry price with a free practice environment. If you are replacing multiple tools, a flow scanner, a congressional tracker, an AI research tool, with a single RadarPulse subscription, the value comparison shifts further in RadarPulse's favor.

To join the RadarPulse waitlist and be notified at launch, visit the waitlist page. Full pricing details are available on the pricing page.

Who each platform serves best

Neither platform is the right choice for every trader. The honest answer to "which should I use" depends heavily on how you prefer to interact with market data and what role you want AI to play in your research process.

Tradytics is likely the better fit if:

• You want AI-generated predictive signals to guide the direction of your trades, and you are comfortable acting on model-generated probability estimates rather than forming your own directional view.
• You prefer a platform that processes and interprets flow data for you, outputting directional recommendations rather than raw scored prints for you to interpret.
• You actively use machine learning technical analysis overlays as part of your trading process and want them integrated with the flow scanner in a single interface.
• You are comfortable with the inherent uncertainty in AI-driven directional predictions and have a framework for evaluating when to follow and when to override model signals.
• You do not use Congressional or political disclosure data as part of your research process and don't need that layer in your tool.

RadarPulse is likely the better fit if:

• You want transparent, scored unusual activity where you can see exactly why each print scored as it did, the six disclosed factors with their weights, rather than a black-box signal.
• You want to form your own directional thesis from institutional flow data, Congressional positioning, and political disclosure data, rather than receiving a model-generated directional recommendation.
• You want Congressional trading disclosures and Trump trade data natively alongside your options flow, with no additional subscription or tool-switching required.
• You want a conversational AI assistant (Radar) for research, explaining tickers, printing context, and answering market questions, rather than an autonomous AI prediction engine.
• You want structured AI equity research (Vera) on-demand alongside the flow, rather than having to switch to a separate fundamental research tool.
• You prefer to remain the analyst and use AI as a research accelerator rather than delegating directional decisions to a model.
• You want the free $100K paper trading wallet and Academy to practice acting on flow signals before committing capital.
• You want a lower entry price, $12/mo at Basic with a 14-day free trial versus Tradytics' higher floor.

Traders who want both predictive AI signals and transparent per-trade scoring do not have to choose between the two platforms. RadarPulse's scoring identifies unusual institutional positioning with full transparency into why each print is remarkable. A predictive AI layer, from Tradytics or any other source, can then be applied to the flagged names to generate directional guidance. Used together, the two approaches cover both the "what is unusual" question and the "which direction might this go" question, giving you a more complete analytical picture than either platform delivers alone.

If you are evaluating RadarPulse as your primary flow and research platform, the waitlist is the right starting point. For context on the broader landscape of flow tools, see our guide to the best free options flow scanner and the unusual options flow guide.

One additional consideration that rarely appears in tool comparison articles is the cost of tool-switching over a trading day. If your research workflow requires you to move between a flow scanner, a congressional disclosure database, an AI research assistant, and a fundamental screener, the friction accumulates: each context switch takes time, requires re-orienting to a new interface, and creates the risk of losing the thread of a specific setup you were researching. RadarPulse is designed to minimize that friction, the flow, the congressional data, the AI chat, and the equity research are all accessible from inside the same session, so a single unusual print can be researched end-to-end without a single application switch. For high-activity periods when multiple prints are moving simultaneously, that consolidation has practical value beyond what any individual feature comparison captures.

Finally, the free paper trading wallet deserves mention as a risk-free entry point. Before committing to any options flow tool subscription, testing your ability to identify and act on unusual flow signals in a zero-risk simulated environment gives you real feedback on whether the tool and your own process are working. RadarPulse's $100K paper wallet is free forever with no card required, which means you can evaluate the scored flow feed, practise your research workflow using Radar, and track your simulated performance on the leaderboard before making any paid commitment. That is a meaningful advantage for traders who are new to flow-based analysis or who want to validate a new workflow before risking real capital on it. To get started, join the waitlist.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good alternative to Tradytics?

Tradytics is an AI-driven options flow and dark pool analytics platform. RadarPulse is an alternative with a 0-100 unusualness score on every trade computed from four disclosed factors, a daily Top 25 with EXTREME/ELEVATED/NOTABLE flags, whale detection, Congress and 13F trackers, AI chat with Radar, AI equity research with Vera, and a free $100K paper-trading wallet with leaderboard. It generates its own real, 15-minute-delayed flow so no separate data subscription is required.

How does RadarPulse use AI for options research?

RadarPulse includes two AI tools. Radar is a built-in AI chat assistant that can explain any ticker, options print, or market event in plain English. Vera is an AI equity-research desk that generates structured fundamental analysis on any stock, earnings, valuation, sector context, and risks. Both are built into the platform alongside the scored flow feed, not separate modules.

How much does RadarPulse cost?

RadarPulse Basic is $12/mo with a 14-day free trial. Pro is $29/mo, Elite is $59/mo. The $100K paper-trading wallet, leaderboard, and Academy are free forever with no card required. Flow is 15-minute delayed on every tier except Elite, which adds the real-time tape.

Is RadarPulse's options flow real-time?

RadarPulse generates its own real options flow on a 15-minute delay on every paid tier, workable for studying unusual activity, building watchlists, and following institutional positioning. Real-time tape is available on the Elite tier for traders who need to react inside the same minute.

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