Tradesea
A Rithmic-based futures trading and analytics platform combining the Station workspace, Compass journal, and Polaris AI — traders connect prop firm accounts with firm-issued Rithmic credentials.
What is Tradesea?
Tradesea is a Rithmic-based futures trading and analytics platform built for prop firm traders. It is not a broker: it sits on top of Rithmic as a modern front-end, pulling in the accounts, balances, and risk limits from whatever prop firm or broker issued your Rithmic credentials. The stack has three parts — Station, the trading workspace; Compass, the performance journal and analytics engine; and Polaris, the AI layer that generates feedback from your actual trade history.
For prop firm traders the pitch is consolidation: trade on a fast Rithmic connection with a clean TradingView-style interface, and have every fill land in a structured journal automatically instead of duct-taping a platform, a separate journal subscription, and generic AI tools together.
How Tradesea works
Connecting: open Tradesea’s Account Center, pick your prop firm from the supported list, and enter the Rithmic username and password from your firm’s dashboard. Accounts, balances, positions, and risk limits sync in. Multiple Rithmic-linked accounts across multiple firms manage from one screen.
Station covers TradingView-style charting, DOM and ladder trading, bracket and OCO orders, trailing stops, and multi-account switching on web and mobile. Compass tracks net P&L, win rate, drawdown, equity curves, and strategy-level stats, with a 0-100 Compass score and imports for trades executed elsewhere. Polaris reads that data and surfaces which sessions, setups, and instruments you actually trade best.
Nine futures prop firms currently connect: Lucid Trading, Tradeify, BluSky, FundedSeat, Halcyon Trader Funding, EdgeProp, Onyx, Tradentry, and YRM Prop. If a firm offers Rithmic but is not listed, Tradesea encourages asking the firm to integrate.
Worked example
A trader running two Lucid evaluation accounts and a Tradeify funded account logs into Tradesea once with each firm’s Rithmic credentials. All three accounts appear in Station’s account selector; the trader scalps NQ from the DOM on the Lucid accounts in the morning, switches to the Tradeify account after lunch, and every fill lands in Compass automatically. At the end of the week, Polaris flags that the trader’s win rate in the first hour is nearly double their afternoon rate — a session-level pattern that a raw broker statement would never surface.
Tradesea vs related concepts
Side-by-side comparison of Tradesea against the most commonly confused alternatives.
| Concept | Definition | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Tradesea this term | A Rithmic-based futures trading and analytics platform combining the Station workspace, Compass journal, and Polaris AI — traders connect prop firm accounts with firm-issued Rithmic credentials. | Trading Platforms |
| Tradovate | A web and mobile-native futures brokerage and trading platform with simple flat-fee pricing — popular with prop firm traders for its mobile app, server-side bracket orders, and absence of platform-license fees. | Trading Platforms |
| NinjaTrader | The most popular full-featured futures trading platform among US prop firm traders — Windows-native (Mac via Parallels/Wine), free for charting and demo, paid tiers for live trading. | Trading Platforms |
| Rithmic | A market data and execution infrastructure provider behind most US futures brokers and prop firms — powers R|Trader Pro plus the back end of NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, and similar platforms. | Trading Platforms |
| Quantower | A multi-asset desktop trading platform known for its DOM and order-flow tools — futures prop firm traders connect it through Rithmic or dxFeed data feeds depending on the firm. | Trading Platforms |
| TradingView | A browser-based charting and analysis platform with Pine Script indicators and social features — prop firm traders use it for charts while executing through connected platforms or integrations. | Trading Platforms |
Why traders fail Tradesea
Treating Tradesea as a broker. It does not replace your prop firm or brokerage relationship — no firm account, no Tradesea trading. Judging execution off news windows. Like every Rithmic-routed setup, expect slippage on stops and brackets around major releases; test small across sessions first. Ignoring firm connection limits. Running Tradesea alongside other Rithmic front-ends is common, but firms cap simultaneous connections — check your firm’s login rules. Expecting a mature product. It is a newer platform; the common complaints are mobile-app lag and occasional order-entry friction, so keep a backup platform while you build confidence.
Frequently asked questions about Tradesea
What is Tradesea?
A Rithmic-based futures trading and analytics platform for prop firm traders. Station is the trading workspace, Compass is the automatic journal, and Polaris is the AI feedback layer. It connects with the Rithmic credentials your prop firm issues and is not itself a broker.
Which prop firms work with Tradesea?
Nine currently: Lucid Trading, Tradeify, BluSky, FundedSeat, Halcyon Trader Funding, EdgeProp, Onyx, Tradentry, and YRM Prop. Firms that offer Rithmic but are not yet listed can be asked to integrate.
Is Tradesea free?
Access depends on your prop firm -- some include it, others offer it as a paid platform add-on (FundedSeat, for example, charges a separate add-on fee). Check your firm's dashboard for current platform pricing.