TradeHouse · Integrity
ledger-IN audit72-instrument overfit battery9 phantom detectors

TradeHouse & Phantom Auditor vs TrendSpider, EdgeBuild, TradingView-MCP & QuantConnect

Charting tools and strategy builders help you make a backtest. None of them tell you the backtest is a lie. Phantom Auditor takes your finished results — from any tool — and runs the same overfit battery and phantom-PnL detectors our own trading desk uses to kill fake edges.

Feature comparison

The build-and-chart tools cluster at the top; the integrity layer (bottom three rows) is empty for everyone but us.

CapabilityTradeHouseTrendSpiderEdgeBuildTradingView-MCPQuantConnect / LEAN
Charting / auto technical analysis~~~
Visual / no-code strategy builder~··
Backtest engine·
Scanning / screening~~
AI / MCP agent integration~~
Prediction-market data + venues····
Walk-forward / robustness~~·~
Overfit stats (DSR / PBO / CPCV)···~
Phantom-fill / lookahead / survivorship detect····
Ledger-IN integrity audit (bring your own results)····

Moat verdict: REAL

No competitor sells a dedicated, market-aware, ledger-in backtest-integrity auditor. The closest things that exist are academic demos (LBNL's overfit tool), open-source libraries (mlfinlab), and DSR shown as a single number inside a walled platform. TrendSpider and EdgeBuild are chart-and-build tools; TradingView-MCP just makes chart data legible to an agent. Phantom Auditor is adversarial, not descriptive — it takes results from any tool and returns a per-market verdict, and it is prediction-market native (kalshi/polymarket phantom classes nobody else models). QuantConnect/LEAN is the most serious build-and-backtest platform in the group (free unlimited cloud backtesting, LEAN engine free open-source locally) — but overfit awareness there is a single PSR number on your own backtest inside their platform: it does not audit results produced anywhere else, and it has no prediction-market venue data.

Honest gaps vs the leaders

Pricing

Observer
$0
  • 1 ledger / month
  • Headline verdict + overfit-risk score
  • Phantom red-flags
Start free
Quant · popular
$49/mo
  • Full 72-instrument battery
  • All 9 phantom detectors + survivorship
  • 1 market pack included
  • Unlimited ledgers + per-instrument report
Get Quant
Desk
$199/mo
  • Everything in Quant
  • ALL market packs
  • API + CI gate (fail the build on a phantom)
  • Team seats
Get Desk

À-la-carte market packs $19/mo · PM-only traders: PM Validator $29. Competitor pricing (July 2026): TrendSpider $82–$349/mo (Sidekick AI add-on $49) · EdgeBuild $49/mo (1,000 AI credits) · TradingView-MCP free OSS (requires a paid TradingView data subscription) · QuantConnect free tier (unlimited cloud backtesting), Researcher $60/mo + compute nodes $24–$1,000/mo, LEAN engine free OSS (verified Aug 2026).

Elite AI Empire · comparison figures compiled from public competitor pricing/docs, July–Aug 2026, and may change — verify before quoting. All products ↗