Whether or not you have ever invested

Podd turns a sentence about something you noticed into a plan for buying and selling shares.

Then it shows you how that plan would have done, using years of real prices.

How an idea becomes a plan

You describe it in your own words. Podd does the rest, and shows you every choice it made.

Say what you noticed

A sentence or two, the way you would say it to a friend. Nothing to look up first.

Read the plan it drafts

Which company, when to buy, when to sell, when to stop — each one a plain sentence you can change.

Talk it over, then keep it

On your own, or with the people you invite into your pod. Your saved plan waits either way.

One idea, start to finish

“Nvidia always seems to jump when it reports good results. Can I trade that?”

Podd worked out what could actually be measured — the morning after a results announcement — and wrote five decisions you can open, question and change.

What it had to test on

41 results announcements since 2015, shown with the plan.

When Podd says it can't

Some ideas cannot be tested at all, and Podd will tell you so.

Sometimes nothing on the stock market moves for the reason you described. Podd says that, and says why.

You get

One sentence, not an error

You keep

The idea, to come back to

Not made

A plan, until something is testable

Ideas live in pods

A pod is a place you keep ideas, with a few people you actually know.

A handful of you — Podd calls them peas — looking at the same idea and the same evidence. Everyone reads the plan. Everyone can question it. That is a much better way to learn this than doing it alone at midnight.

And it stays optional — Continue alone is on every screen that mentions a pod.

Shared

The idea, the plan, and every result it ever got

Yours alone

Your money, your account, and what you choose to do next

Never

Pooled money, or anyone in your pod trading on your behalf

Real money comes last

Four steps, in this order. You choose when to take each one, and you can stop at any of them.

See how it went

Podd runs your plan over real past prices. Nothing is bought or sold.

Try it without real money

Pretend orders on a pretend balance. Nothing reaches a real market.

Watch it live, no money

Today's prices, your plan running alongside them, still sending nothing.

Use it with your account

Connect your own brokerage and real orders can use your own money — after you set how much and when to stop, and switch it on yourself.

Start with something you have already noticed.

You do not need to know what a share is, or pick a company, or connect anything. Say the thing you noticed and read what comes back.

Podd holds no money of yours. Real orders happen only through your own brokerage, once you switch them on.