Funnel Profiles — g8

Delivery profiles from TEARDOWN.md evidence only, except where marked (live). No accounts created, no purchases.

algoalpha

• product: TradingView premium indicator toolkit + Atlas backtest-search service + crypto scalping/swing Discord signals, with Echo auto-copy to exchanges.
• surfaces: TradingView (invite-only Pine), web dashboard (Wix-hosted app/customers area), Discord, docs site; Echo dashboards for exchange execution.
• unit: An indicator overlay/screener on a chart; an Atlas catalogue result (1 trigger + 0–2 filters, metrics over 20k bars); or a Discord signal call — BTCUSDT scalping calls carry entry/TP/SL at fixed 1:1.5 R:R, swing calls are portfolio allocations rebalanced daily 00:30 UTC.
• cadence: Indicators real-time on chart; Atlas library rebuilt weekly (Mon 00:00 UTC target); scalping intraday, swing daily.
• mode: Mixed — indicators/Atlas are pull (check chart/search), Discord signals and Echo execution are push (Echo trades without per-action confirmation).
• curation: Algorithmic for indicators/Atlas ranking; signals described as human-curated/algorithmic; formulas sealed.
• free_surface: Marketing/docs pages, condition grammar and Atlas configuration published in full; 124 free library scripts noted; no free tier for premium toolkit/signals evidenced.
• paywall: Invite/access gate at checkout via customers area — Indicators $28.72/mo, Signals $64.37/mo, VIP Bundle $79.32/mo billed yearly ($344.64 / $772.44 / $951.84/yr); quarterly/monthly billing also offered.
• conversion: Tier bundling (VIP combines indicators+signals), Atlas included in all tiers, annual framing, 50% first-cycle affiliate commission.
• actionability: High on paper — scalping calls give entry/TP/SL plus a published execution protocol (limit at 15m extreme, cancel if TP hits first, do not exit early); Echo removes interpretation entirely by auto-executing. Indicators require the trader to act.
• trust_record: No dated public signal log or outcome record on any page fetched; Atlas metrics are in-sample, survivorship-tilted (current 85-symbol universe), weekly re-ranked with losers deprecated — a refreshed snapshot, not an as-was archive; the claimed public strategies library returned 404; illustrative 67.8% win-rate card on builder page is unlabelled.

apexquant

• product: Single TradingView Pine v5 indicator (ICT/Wyckoff confluence suite) sold from a one-page site.
• surfaces: Web sales/access pages only; delivery as a downloadable/copyable Pine file for TradingView. No dashboard, Discord, or app evidenced.
• unit: The indicator itself — on-chart labels/boxes/HUD with confluence score, FVG box + 50% midpoint, sweep shapes, and ATR-based stop/TP1 (2R)/TP2 (3.5R).
• cadence: Real-time on chart (sniper labels close-confirmed by default).
• mode: Pull — customer watches the chart; alerts exist in Pine but delivery is the chart.
• curation: Algorithmic — fixed point rubric (Spring 25, FVG 20, OTE 15, EMA stack 15, trend 15, EMA200 side 10; fire at ≥60).
• free_surface: Entire sales demo is free to view — but it is fabricated: hero chart is a Math.random() walk with hard-coded signals/telemetry. The full paid Pine file is also publicly served unauthenticated (see paywall).
• paywall: Cosmetic — $49 one-time via Dodo Payments, claimed $297 value / 84% off / limited to 100 traders. Access gate accepts any ≥8-char string, ?status=succeeded, or a localStorage flag; product file is a static public download.
• conversion: Scarcity + anchor discount, profit calculator projecting from a default 75% win-rate slider (calculator ignores its own risk/trades sliders), TradingView username + email captured before payment, affiliate links (TradingView/Exness/Bybit).
• actionability: Moderate — entry signal plus explicit ATR stop and two targets are drawn; no trade record follows the signal, customer executes manually elsewhere.
• trust_record: Nothing — product contains no backtest, trade list, or performance measurement; 75% win rate is a slider default, confluence % is 50 + points/2 (not a probability), idle HUD shows hard-coded 93.4%; “live” site displays and the Groq auditor’s failure fallback (“SIMULATED CONFLUENCE CONFIRMED”) are fabricated.

ezalgo

• product: Whop-sold trading community: EzAlgo invite-only TradingView indicator suite (now flagship ManipulationX for NQ) + Discord signals/lectures + long-term portfolio content.
• surfaces: Whop storefront/checkout, Discord, TradingView, GoHighLevel funnel site (ezalgo.ai); daily live NQ lectures.
• unit: An indicator signal on TradingView (buy/sell points, MTF S/R zones, golden pocket, IFVG-after-sweep setups rated by ManipulationX), a Discord signal/lecture, or a portfolio post.
• cadence: Real-time indicator signals; daily lectures; Discord signals intraday as posted.
• mode: Push for Discord signals/lectures; pull for indicators on chart.
• curation: Hybrid — algorithmic indicators plus human analysts (crypto analyst, lecture host) in Discord.
• free_surface: Sales pages, Whop listing (4.7★ / 162 reviews, 6,931 joined at fetch), testimonial wall, FAQ; no free tier or trial evidenced.
• paywall: Whop membership gates Discord + indicator access (access added manually 12–24h after member posts TradingView username in Discord). Current: $75/mo or $675/yr; legacy: $600/yr and $2,250 lifetime (retired on current page).
• conversion: Single-membership “no hidden tiers” framing, 25% annual discount, community/social proof, all-sales-final Terms (for differently-named “Easy Algo Trading”).
• actionability: Low-to-moderate as evidenced — indicators mark points/zones and ManipulationX rates setups, but no entry/stop/target convention is published anywhere public; customer must interpret and execute.
• trust_record: No dated trade/signal record, backtest, or equity curve published for any claim; 94% forex win rate exists only in Whop blog editorial, “80%+ backtest accuracy” has no backtest behind it, 85%+ analyst accuracy and 2500%+ portfolio winners have no call/pick log; vendor disclaimer states all performance shown is simulated and hypothetical.

profitbuilders

• product: Subscription options-flow scanner — every U.S. listed-options print classified QUALIFIED or PASS server-side — plus a GEX heatmap.
• surfaces: Web scanner/dashboard (login-gated), Discord, Telegram, email (Flow Brief / cheat-sheet funnel), public blog/reports site.
• unit: A classified flow alert card (symbol/strike/expiry/flow-type/premium, QUALIFIED only for alerts; PASS prints stay visible with exclusion reason) or a GEX heatmap/wall level; also a weekly flow report edition.
• cadence: Real-time push (claimed ~1–3s from tape); weekly reports.
• mode: Push — Discord/Telegram alerts interrupt; scanner/heatmap are pull.
• curation: Algorithmic — rules-based exclusion filter (nine exclusion rules, thresholds unpublished by design); tiers abolished 2026-07-30, all qualifying prints simply QUALIFIED.
• free_surface: Public methodology/blog/reports pages, community signal/stat widgets, weekly report archive (five editions Aug–Sep 2026), email-gated cheat sheet; refund policy mentions a Free tier that no sales page describes (contradiction noted in teardown).
• paywall: Login/Stripe paywall — Flow Scanner $99/mo, GEX $39/mo standalone (20 symbols), Pro Bundle $129/mo; 7-day trial, card required per sales pages (refund policy says no card required — stale/contradictory).
• conversion: Trial, three-plan tiering/bundle, Stripe Payment Links, email capture for cheat sheet/brief, comparison page vs Unusual Whales.
• actionability: Moderate as context, low as a trade — alerts give the print and its flags, but methodology explicitly says labels are context, not triggers, and no entry/stop/target is part of the current product (Terms describing entry/stop/target + Grade A/B/C + sports betting are stale vs the storefront).
• trust_record: Claimed “verifiable win rate / auditable hit rate / publishes outcomes” is refuted on its own pages: no win rate is published, outcomes are tracked internally only, and the one public outcome record — SPY wall-validation widget — returned n=0, all percentages null at fetch; weekly reports are described as immutable snapshots with permanent URLs (existence confirmed, immutability not re-verified over time).

tickeron

• product: Subscription AI stock/ETF/crypto platform — AI Robots / Trading Agents, AI Pattern Search, Trend Prediction, screener and daily signals.
• surfaces: Web dashboard/app (Next.js), email/daily signals implied by product names; Brokerage Agents that trade via a user’s broker are marketed (authenticated app only).
• unit: A robot/agent record (statistics, equity graph, closed-trade list rendered from server), a daily signal, or a Real-Time Pattern result with pattern name, breakout price, target price, and confidence % (= historical success rate of similar patterns).
• cadence: Robots on 5m/15m/60m frames; patterns scanned every minute; daily signals daily.
• mode: Mostly pull (dashboard/screener), with daily-signal push; brokerage agents automate execution if connected.
• curation: Algorithmic — server-side “Financial Learning Models” (FLMs); no model, pattern catalogue, or data vendor published.
• free_surface: Marketing/robot pages and press-release articles public; Real-Time Patterns $20/mo after a 14-day free trial is the stated entry offer.
• paywall: Subscription tiers gate timeframe/feature depth — Daily Signals $60/yr, AI Robots $540/yr (60m only at base), AI Robots Unlimited $1,500/yr (adds 5m/15m); promo framing $5/$45/$125/mo against $200–$240 / $1,000 / $3,000 list prices (Daily Signals list price inconsistent across releases).
• conversion: Free trial, steep anchor-discount framing (50–75% off), robot leaderboard/trending lists, press-release performance headlines as top-of-funnel.
• actionability: Patterns are actionable as stated (breakout + target given); robots are actionable only via subscribing/watching or broker connection — no entry rules are published, so a non-subscriber cannot replicate a robot trade.
• trust_record: Hindsight display, not an as-was archive — vendor disclaimer states simulated results come from a backtest model “designed with the benefit of hindsight” that can be adjusted until desired performance is achieved; flagship 84% (42/50) arithmetic reconciles but no priced trade list, live-vs-paper status, or return denominator is published; same DFEN agent is headlined at +125.52% / +128.86% / +129.82% in different vendor releases; robot counts disagree (298 / 188 / “25+”) across its own pages.

schwar

• product: Paid UK equity-research newsletter (Schwar Capital Research) on Substack plus a model-portfolio live tracker.
• surfaces: Substack web (custom domain), email newsletter delivery; gated live tracker and Perks portfolio page for paid subscribers. No app/Discord/API evidenced.
• unit: A long-form research issue (single-name deep dive, portfolio update, philosophy piece) and access to the live tracker (positions, cost basis, weights, buys/sells/dividends as they happen, benchmark/risk views).
• cadence: Periodic newsletter (archive-driven); tracker updates as trades happen.
• mode: Push by email for posts; pull for the tracker.
• curation: Human — discretionary concentrated value book, typically 8–12 positions, margin-of-safety / asymmetric-opportunity prose method; no formula or sizing rule published.
• free_surface: Free Substack posts/previews, About/Subscribe/archive pages, and the full 19 Oct 2026 handover announcement post; 8,000+ total (free+paid) subscribers displayed.
• paywall: Substack/Stripe paywall gates paid posts and the tracker — $50/mo, $400/yr, $950/yr founding tier.
• conversion: Standard Substack tiering with annual discount and a high founding tier; free previews as funnel; no trial/scarcity mechanics evidenced.
• actionability: Low as a signal, high as research — reader gets a thesis and the author’s portfolio moves (e.g. halving the largest position, announced contemporaneously), but no entry/stop/target system; the reader decides and executes independently.
• trust_record: Split record, disclosed unusually openly: pre-Jul-2026 record (+78.4%, start-2023 to 30 Jun 2026, USD, time-weighted) lived only in desktop software on the author’s laptop (occasional screenshots) and was explicitly not migrated; live tracker restarts 1 Jul 2026 at a notional £100,000 in GBP with a reconstructed (1-July-price) cost basis in an unnamed gated tool — the two eras cannot be chained, no FX bridge is published, and tracker edit mechanics are undisclosed. Post-1-Jul-2026 trades are at least contemporaneously observable by subscribers.

tradealgo

• product: Subscription AI trading-analytics suite sold by TA Fintech, Inc. — Terminal (dark-pool + options flow), TradeGPT chat/scanner, “Cai — The Signal” daily briefing, AI Options Alerts, Wealth Series AI portfolios, Academy/mentorship.
• surfaces: Web Terminal/dashboard, TradeGPT web chat, Telegram (options alerts), email/forms, Android app (com.tafintech.tradegpt.app), two storefronts (tradealgo.com and Squarespace tradealgoai.com), phone-sales funnel.
• unit: A Terminal dashboard view / daily snapshot, a TradeGPT ranked pick with 1H/4H/1D strength and sentiment scores, a Cai morning risk-on/off briefing, a Telegram options alert with entry/TP/SL, or a Wealth Series portfolio with rebalance rationale.
• cadence: Alerts claimed <30s signal-to-Telegram; Cai daily (morning); Terminal snapshot refreshed after 4:30 PM ET each trading day (dark-pool feed itself disclosed as delayed/inferred, not real-time).
• mode: Push for Telegram alerts and Cai briefing; pull for Terminal/TradeGPT.
• curation: Algorithmic/server-sealed (“Neural”, Cai, conviction scores) with human mentorship/coaching layered on paid tiers.
• free_surface: Marketing/product pages and the public alerts-page ledger summary are free; main domain publishes no prices — every product page routes to a “Let’s Talk” strategist form.
• paywall: Phone-sale-first on the main domain; checkout domain lists Premium+ $4,995/yr (listed $20,000) / $5,000 lifetime, Platinum+ and Wealth Series Lite+ $3,995/yr (listed $10,000). Terms: all sales final, no cash refunds.
• conversion: Phone strategist funnel with affiliate-attribution tracking, anchor pricing, coaching-session bundles (5–12 sessions by tier), scarcity/authority copy (“150,000+ investors”, “$100M+ funding” — both unverifiable).
• actionability: Highest in this group on the alerts product — Telegram alerts carry entry/TP/SL and the customer can copy the trade directly; Terminal/TradeGPT scores require interpretation and give no published scoring rule.
• trust_record: Two records for one product: the current product page publishes a live ledger — 81 closed trades since 20 Aug 2025, 48% win rate, +12.90% aggregate, hourly-close measured, with its 69%-win-rate backtest printed beside it and the gap explained (printed sample arithmetic reconciles exactly; full log is subscriber-only) — while the legacy checkout funnel still sells “70% historical win rate” and a hypothetical $500 → $1.18M curve (Jan 2022–Mar 2025, gross of fees, no alert archive published), matching neither live nor backtest figure.

tradingview-desktop

• product: TradingView Desktop 3.4.1 (Linux) — a thin Electron shell for the TradingView web charting platform; not a signal product in itself.
• surfaces: Desktop app (Electron), which loads the TradingView web app remotely; auth, layout storage, and data-health endpoints are TradingView’s.
• unit: A chart workspace/layout in the shell — indicators, Pine, screener and alerts are all computed server-side by TradingView and arrive precomputed; the package contains no indicator math.
• cadence: Real-time as served by the web app at runtime (no websockets in the shell itself).
• mode: Pull — user opens charts/layouts; TradingView alerts (platform feature) are outside this package’s evidence.
• curation: None in the shell — user-chosen charts/indicators; platform content is server-delivered.
• free_surface: The desktop package itself (official apt repo); teardown evidences no pricing/tier facts for the underlying platform — paywall, if any, lives in the web account, not the shell.
• paywall: None in the shell — no checkout, licence gate, or trading logic found; clean IPC/preload surface.
• conversion: None evidenced in the package — distribution via TradingView’s own package repo with auto-update from its CDN.
• actionability: N/A as a vendor unit — the shell does nothing a customer trades from; actionability belongs to the (server-sealed) web platform, whose indicator math the follow-up proved is a black box from any client artefact (built-in Pine ships compiled/scriptSource: "", compilation is a server POST).
• trust_record: Nothing — no performance claim, record, or scoreboard in the package; verdict is on honesty of the shell itself (GREEN as a shell, PARTIAL for verifiability of the combined platform).

gridscalperea

• product: Free open-source MT5 Expert Advisor — “DeepSeek News Grid Scalper V2” (.mq5 source + DeepSeekAI.mqh, MIT, GitHub) — not a sold subscription.
• surfaces: GitHub source download; runs inside MetaTrader 5. Optional external APIs (DeepSeek, NewsAPI) only with the user’s own keys.
• unit: The EA itself — a self-running bot: breakout pending-order grid (buy/sell stops 300 pts out, 2 per side, 200pt TP / 150pt SL, ATR-scaled distance) with risk halts, breakeven and trailing.
• cadence: Real-time, event-driven in MT5 (H1 indicator reads for its bias layer).
• mode: Neither push nor pull — autonomous execution on the customer’s own terminal/account once installed.
• curation: Algorithmic — a fixed indicator scoreboard (RSI ±0.3, MACD ±0.2, EMA alignment ±0.3, price vs EMA200 ±0.1, news ±0.1; signal >0.4) that only biases pending-order count by ±1; the grid trades regardless.
• free_surface: Everything — full source is the product, free on GitHub.
• paywall: None for the EA; the advertised LLM path is paywalled by a third party in effect — it needs the user’s paid DeepSeek API key plus MT5 WebRequest whitelisting, and with the shipped placeholder key it never runs.
• conversion: None — no checkout, tier, or funnel in the source; the “AI-powered” branding is the funnel.
• actionability: Total and dangerous — the customer does nothing per trade; the bot places/cancels pending orders itself. Risk scaffolding is real (2%/trade, 10% daily-loss halt, 15% floating-DD halt, news veto).
• trust_record: Nothing — no backtest, trade record, or performance claim in the source that survives audit; the headline “AI-powered” claim is refuted out of the box (default path is always the scoreboard, and that layer reads the forming bar, so it repaints intra-bar).

zerith-macd-grid

• product: Free open-source MT5 Expert Advisor — Zerith MACD Martingale Grid EA v2.20 (.mq5 source, MIT, GitHub).
• surfaces: GitHub source download; runs inside MetaTrader 5. No network calls, DLLs, or external services in code.
• unit: The EA itself — a self-running bot: MACD(12,26,9) cross entry (closed bars, EMA200 higher-TF filter), then a grid adding every adverse max(ATR14×2, 50 pips) up to 10 levels, with lot caps, a 50% hedge from level 5, $10 basket TP and a 20% equity stop.
• cadence: Real-time, new-bar/event-driven in MT5.
• mode: Neither push nor pull — autonomous execution on the customer’s own terminal/account.
• curation: Algorithmic — fully rule-based; step-additive lots by default, classic ×1.5 martingale optional and hard-capped at 0.20 lots.
• free_surface: Everything — full source is the product, free on GitHub.
• paywall: None.
• conversion: None — no checkout, tier, affiliate, or funnel; documentation describes the martingale and its circuit breaker openly.
• actionability: Total — the customer does nothing per trade after installation; notably the trend filter gates only the first entry, after which the grid averages against it (trend-cut exists but is disabled by default).
• trust_record: No performance record is published or claimed beyond mechanics, and mechanics are confirmed in code (repaint PASS — closed-bar reads, future-leak PASS); teardown grades it GREEN as an honest machine while showing the default grid spans ≥500 pips adverse and depends on the 20% equity stop firing to avoid ruin.

volsignals

• product: Dealer-positioning analytics for SPX & VIX options (VS3D) — market-maker net positions built from Cboe category-signed trade data, with Gamma/Charm/Vanna gradient charts — plus VS Pro content, courses and mentorship.
• surfaces: Web app (VS3D, Memberstack login), marketing/docs site, Discord (member access plumbed via an external lookup with the member’s email), X, VS Magazine PDFs.
• unit: A positioning chart/dashboard view — Positions by Strike, strike×expiration Position Grid, per-expiration net-position bars, gradient overlays on live candles, custom dashboards, and historical playback; Magazine issues carry methodology/statistics.
• cadence: Market-maker positions resolved at each Friday close and repriced on that close’s surface, with intraday updates claimed “live” (underlying Cboe Open-Close class is EOD, or 10-min / 1-min intraday snapshots; the accumulation/update model is undisclosed); playback covers 3 months on Standard.
• mode: Pull — dashboard the customer checks and interprets; no alert/signal push evidenced.
• curation: Algorithmic/modelled — positions are model outputs accumulated from signed flow against open interest by a sealed rule; Magazine content is human editorial.
• free_surface: Marketing/docs/getting-started pages, Magazine PDFs, X methodology thread, Trustpilot rating display (4.4 from 15 reviews, as displayed); FAQ still cites a stale “around $200/mo” starting price.
• paywall: Memberstack/Stripe paywall — VS3D Standard $299/mo, VS Pro $300/mo ($790 quarterly / $2,790 annually), Return To Mean $285 for a 5-day trial, VolStudies $997 one-time, VIP Mentorship $10,000.
• conversion: 7-day free trial on all VS3D plans (consistent across page, FAQ and Terms), month-to-month / cancel-anytime, high-ticket mentorship upsell, institutional-approach halo on X.
• actionability: Low as a trade, high as context — the customer gets levels/exposures to interpret (charm colours encode hedging pressure, not charm sign); no entry/stop/target, signal, or portfolio is given, and forward profiles are labelled by the vendor “a projection, not a forecast.”
• trust_record: No performance, win-rate, or backtest record is published anywhere — confirmed by absence, with Magazine statistics explicitly labelled trailing-year, in-sample, overlapping-window; there is no public as-was archive of VS3D values, so no printed position can be verified, and historical playback may replay re-solved rather than as-was values (unverifiable).

survey — uncovered

• No TEARDOWN.md in this folder (it holds a set of category survey notes and a MASTER_SURVEY.md instead). No delivery profile written, per instructions.