Lab of Trades
Rule-based
trading
Lab of Trades runs finished, rule-based trading systems semi-automatically on your own broker account — plus tools that turn complex order entry into a single click, from your phone as well. The software watches the market and prepares everything. You release the trade.
Smart Entry in the Free Plan – free · no credit card · upgrade any time
The gap between knowing and doing
Still experimenting –
or do you follow a rule set?
You know what to do. Lab of Trades helps you do it at the right moment – with clear rule sets, prepared orders and fewer manual steps.
Who is Lab of Trades for?
For traders who keep asking themselves these questions
Five situations that often cost more energy than the decision itself.
Sample under the lens
01 / 05Orientation
What am I supposed to trade today?
Not the same search every morning. With Lab of Trades you subscribe to finished rule sets built by experienced traders. Titan trades stocks, Argon trades options. You follow a clear system – not your mood that day.
Analysing sample 01
02 / 05Discipline
Why do I keep drifting away from my own plan?
A set of rules is written quickly – and abandoned just as quickly in a live market. The order is already there with your settings. Deviating becomes a deliberate decision instead of a spontaneous reaction.
Analysing sample 02
03 / 05Speed
Why does the execution take longer than the decision?
While you assemble stop, target or an options combination, the entry is often gone. Smart Entry builds complex stock and options orders in seconds – precisely, and without unnecessary clicks.
Analysing sample 03
04 / 05Diversification
Why does everything I do hang on one single strategy?
Lab of Trades brings together different rule sets for stocks and options, with different approaches and holding periods. You combine strategies instead of betting everything on one idea.
Analysing sample 04
05 / 05Precision
How many mistakes happen at order entry alone?
A wrong leg, a swapped quantity, a forgotten bracket order – any of them can change a trade completely. Lab of Trades prepares the order according to the rule set. You check it – and decide about the execution yourself.
Analysing sample 05
How Lab of Trades works
We do the extracting, so you don’t have to
A trading system does not come from an idea. It comes from work nobody sees: screening markets, gathering data, sharpening rules, defining risk and back-testing over long periods.
Lab of Trades condenses that process into something you can actually use: tested rule sets, prepared orders and an execution that waits for your click.
From research to order
01
In the lab
Experienced traders build and test the systems they trade themselves. Market data, statistics and experience become a clear rule set that is back-tested over long periods.
02
On the shelf
What survives the process is available to you – equities through Titan, options through Argon, with different approaches and holding periods. You choose what fits you.
03
At the trading desk
You trigger the ready-made rule sets from the shelf in a few precise clicks – semi-automated, with your own settings. Your own strategies you place just as fast with Smart Entry. The order is prepared – nothing is submitted without your confirmation.
Research in the background. Clarity on your screen.
The elements
The periodic table of Lab of Trades
Titan and Argon bundle semi-automated trading systems and tools for stocks and options – Carbon is on the way. Semi-automated means: the software builds the order, you release it. Open an element and see what is inside.
Titan
Module · Stocks
Open Titan →
What is inside Titan
Ti · EGS Stock system Equity Growth System Rule-based – the rule set comes with it from $99 / month · three sizes learn more → Ti · SEE Stock tool Smart Entry Equity You set the criteria $9 / month · free on Mondays learn more →
Argon
Module · Options
Open Argon →
What is inside Argon
Ar · OP Options system Opening Put Rule-based – 0DTE at the open from $49 / month · three sizes learn more → Ar · SEO Options tool Smart Entry Options You set the criteria from $19 / month · 2 SPY free learn more →
Carbon
Module · Statistics
In preparation
What will be inside Carbon
The slot is already there. What goes into it, we will say once it stands – not before.
Prices in USD · monthly plans can be cancelled at any time, effective at the end of the billing period · Already with us? You manage your plans in the customer portal.
Who is behind Lab of Trades
Trading is our craft
Lab of Trades is built where trading experience and technology meet. Oliver Sparing has traded the markets actively since 2011 – from precious-metals trading in Hamburg through his training on a London trading floor to developing his own approaches and founding TradeNeon, The Home for Structured Trading.
That experience still shapes TradeNeon today: the trading logic comes first. Our developers turn it into software – Level of Interest, Futures Insights and Lab of Trades.
Trading. Education. Technology. Under one roof.
What Lab of Trades is – and what it isn’t
The software prepares.
You decide.
No automated trading
Every order waits for your confirmation. Without your click, no trade is executed.
Statistics, not gut feeling
Lab of Trades does not judge a single trade. What counts is the statistical edge of a rule set across many cleanly executed trades.
No substitute for your decision
Whether you execute a trade or not is your call – on every single trade.
Lab of Trades prepares the trade. The decision about the execution always stays with you.
The information, analyses and software functions provided on this website are for educational and informational purposes only. TradeNeon does not provide investment, financial or legal advice. Trading in financial markets involves substantial risk.
Requirements
What you need
Lab of Trades runs on your computer and on your own broker account. Check these four points before you start – the video walks you through the setup in three minutes.
A computer running Windows, Mac or Linux
You install Lab of Trades on it like any other program.
A broker account with the Trader Workstation (TWS)
With Interactive Brokers or one of its resellers.
API access enabled in the TWS
A checkbox in the Trader Workstation settings. The video shows where to find it.
During trading hours: computer on, TWS and Lab of Trades open
Without a running TWS the software cannot build an order. This also applies with Remote Control: it connects to exactly this computer.
More step-by-step guides are on the tutorials page.
Your next step
Download the lab –
and try it for free
The Free Plan costs nothing and needs no payment details. Connect Lab of Trades to your TWS and use both Smart Entries – Equity every Monday, Options daily with up to two contracts on the SPY – with your own ideas. The subscribable systems come on top, if and when you want them.
No credit card · Windows, Mac or Linux · broker account with a running TWS required
Does the software trade for me on its own?
No. Lab of Trades works semi-automatically: the software looks for the opportunity, calculates the position size and lays the order out ready – you fire it with a click. There is no mode in which the software trades on its own.
Is this a signal service?
No. You do not get messages with buy tips. You get software that makes a rule set executable on your own account – with your sizes, in your TWS, under your release.
Which broker do I need?
Lab of Trades connects to the Trader Workstation (TWS). That means any broker you use the TWS with works – Interactive Brokers itself as well as brokers that work with the TWS.
What does Lab of Trades cost?
The software itself is included in the Free Plan; there, Smart Entry Equity is free every Monday and Smart Entry Options is free daily with up to two contracts on the SPY. Beyond that, Smart Entry Equity costs $9 a month for every trading day, and Smart Entry Options $19 to $79 for the SPX. The trading systems are separate subscriptions from $49 a month. Remote Control complements a system you already subscribe to and costs $9 a month or $90 a year. The overview is in the pricing section.
Do I have to sit at the computer during the trading day?
The computer with a running TWS has to be switched on during the relevant trading hours so that Lab of Trades can watch the market. The trades are then prepared as a proposal. Whether and when you execute them is your decision.
With Argon’s Opening Put the proposal is ready about an hour after the US open. You confirm it at the computer or through Remote Control on your phone.
Remote Control is an optional paid add-on that lets you start, stop and monitor your systems while you are away.
How long am I committed?
All subscriptions run monthly and can be cancelled effective at the end of the billing period. Only Remote Control is also available as an annual plan.
Is this investment advice?
No. Lab of Trades is a tool for executing semi-automated trading strategies and for simplified entry of your own rule-based strategies. We provide neither investment advice nor personal investment recommendations. Every trading decision is yours.
Important notice: past performance and backtest results are not a reliable indicator of future results. Trading stocks and options involves risk, including the loss of the capital employed. Lab of Trades does not execute any order on its own and does not constitute investment advice.