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Minneapolis, Minnesota · est. 2009

We built the desk
we wanted to
trade alongside.

Vtrade is a market analysis and signal desk in downtown Minneapolis. For years our gold, silver and forex calls went to some of the biggest hedge funds in the world. Today the same calls — entry, exit, take profit, stop loss — reach independent traders through our Telegram channel.

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2009

Founded

82.8%

TTM win rate

50K+

Independent traders

12

Instruments

Desk log · cumulative logging
2009201420192026

Analysts

12

Countries

80+

Calls / yr

1,040

Our story

From a hedge fund
mailing list to
your Telegram.

No launch plan, no funding round. A morning note honest about what we did not know — which is how it ended up on the desks of some of the world's largest funds, and why individual traders get it unchanged today.

  1. 2009

    Three traders, one spreadsheet

    Vtrade started in a two-room office in downtown Minneapolis, four months after the March low. Vimalnath Sekharan is the founder; he and two former colleagues were already writing a morning metals note for each other — entry, stop, target, and the reason. A spreadsheet tracked every call. That sheet was the first product.

  2. 2012

    The ledger rule

    A losing October made the format permanent: every call gets logged the minute it goes out, before the outcome is known, and losers stay on the sheet. It cost us the ability to market a perfect month. It is also the reason the institutions that came next were willing to sign.

  3. 2015

    The first fund mandate

    A macro fund asked for the morning note under contract rather than as a favour. Others followed, and for most of a decade the desk worked almost entirely for institutions — some of the biggest hedge fund firms in the world, from New York and London to Singapore and Hong Kong, reading our gold and FX calls before their own open.

  4. 2019

    Twelve instruments, funds on four continents

    Fund clients wanted the dollar read alongside the metals, so we hired FX coverage rather than guess. The desk grew from three instruments to twelve — the majors plus platinum — and the same note went out to eight institutional clients across four continents.

  5. 2022

    The same calls, opened to individuals

    None of the work was ever institution-only: an independent trader needs the same entry, exit, take profit and stop loss a fund does. We opened the desk to individual traders and moved delivery to our Telegram channel, so a call lands in seconds instead of sitting in an inbox through the London open. We opened the full history to independent verification at the same time — every call since 2009, amendments included.

  6. 2026

    Twelve analysts, 50,000 independent traders

    The desk runs the London and New York sessions with twelve analysts, and more than 50,000 independent traders in 80+ countries now take the calls our fund clients used to get first. Same note, same levels, same discipline — written by people who take the trades themselves.

What we do

Analysis you can act on in under a minute.

You keep your own broker, your own capital and your own final call. We do the work that takes hours a day — watching the sessions, reading the macro, and structuring the trade — then send the entry, the exit, the take profit and the stop loss straight to your Telegram, with the reasoning attached.

Up to 20 signals a week

Live signals on twelve instruments

Gold, silver and platinum alongside the major forex pairs. Each call arrives with instrument, direction, entry, exit, stop loss and take-profit — timestamped to the minute it triggered, pushed to our Telegram channel first, then email and the portal.

Daily desk note

The reasoning, not just the levels

Every signal carries the analysis behind it: the technical structure, and the macro read on rates, real yields and risk flows. You learn why a setup works, which is what lets you eventually judge your own.

Sizing on every trade

Risk sizing built into the call

Position sizing scaled to your account balance, not a copy-pasted lot size, plus the invalidation level for every trade. The stop is part of the signal, never an afterthought.

Independently verified

A track record you can audit

Signal History holds every published call since 2009, including the years the sheet went only to hedge fund clients — wins, losses and amendments, with a monthly performance report. Nothing is retro-edited, and nothing quietly disappears.

The problem

Signals with no stop, no exit plan, and no history

What we do about it

Every call ships with an entry, an exit, a take-profit target, a stop loss and the analysis — logged before the outcome is known.

The problem

Screen-watching from the London open to the New York close

What we do about it

Alerts follow the sessions and reach you in seconds, with a 6–9 hour typical hold window.

The problem

Desk-grade analysis priced like an institutional mandate

What we do about it

One plan at $99/month. The same note our fund clients paid mandate fees for, sent to every member at the same moment.

Our mission

To get a group of independent traders trading successfully — together, on the same information, with the same discipline.

Most traders do not fail for lack of effort. They fail alone, on thin information, sizing by instinct — while the funds we used to write for had none of those problems. Our job is to hand the individual trader what the institution always had: shared analysis, published results, and a risk framework on every call.

Our vision

A retail trading floor where the standard of proof matches the institutions.

We want an auditable ledger to be the minimum a trader accepts from anyone selling analysis — ours included. No individual trader should have to settle for a standard of proof a hedge fund would reject. The work between here and there is unglamorous: deeper coverage, longer verified history, and teaching members enough that they could eventually check our reasoning against their own.

  • Every call public, including the ones that go wrong
  • Coverage that grows only as fast as we can staff it properly
  • Members who understand the trade, not just the level

Why traders choose us

Five reasons members stay.

Seventeen years of calls, a decade of them under institutional mandate. Median membership length is now 14 months.

01

A track record that includes the bad months

A trailing-twelve-month average of 82.8%, with the best month at 88% and the worst at 76% — both published. Seventeen years of calls sit in the ledger, independently verified, losers included — the institutional years as well as the retail ones.

02

Written for funds, now written for you

Our analysts come from institutional metals and FX trading floors and spent years producing this note for hedge funds. Nothing in the process was diluted when we opened it up. What changed is who receives it, not the rigour.

03

One price, nothing held back

Every member sees every signal at the same moment in one Telegram channel, on one $99/month plan. No signal tiers, no VIP channel, no course to buy afterwards.

04

Risk comes before the entry

We would rather publish twelve well-structured calls in a quiet week than pad the count to twenty. Quiet days are a feature of the process, not a gap in it.

05

We take the trades we send

The desk trades its own analysis. That is the plainest accountability we can offer: a bad call costs us before it costs you.

Our values

How the desk operates

Six rules written down early, mostly after we broke them once.

Verified over persuasive

If a number cannot be traced to a logged, timestamped call, it does not go on the site.

Transparent by default

Losing trades, amended stops and corrected records stay visible. The full ledger is the pitch.

Risk first, always

No signal leaves the desk without an invalidation level and sizing guidance attached.

Plain language

Jargon hides weak reasoning. If we cannot explain a setup in a paragraph, it is not ready.

Members, not an audience

Support answers from the desk, and member questions shape what we cover next.

Patience over volume

We publish when the technical and macro pictures agree, and stay quiet when they do not.

Trade with the desk

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