Choose Trade Ideas if…
You are an active stock trader whose main bottleneck is discovering opportunities quickly. Its value proposition is closer to scanning, alerts and AI-assisted idea generation than hands-off portfolio automation.
Choose StockHero if…
You want to experiment with automated bot strategies and prefer a workflow focused on configuring, testing and deploying automation rather than continuously interpreting scanner output.
Control versus convenience
Both require user decisions. A scanner still needs a trading process around its ideas, while a bot requires sensible rules, position sizing and monitoring. Automation does not remove responsibility for risk.
How to compare them
Start with the task you want software to replace. If it is market discovery, Trade Ideas is the more natural comparison. If it is repeatable strategy execution, StockHero is closer to the target.