Pre-Seed · Money 20/20 Europe · June 2026

Traders lose the
mind game, not the strategy.
We fix that.

A vertical-deep performance system for active retail traders - AI, biometrics, behavioural psychology, and live trading analytics, fused into the trading workflow.

01 / The Problem

Behaviour, not strategy, is the failure mode.

74–89% of retail traders lose money, and the cause is repeatable behavioural failure, not strategy.

74–89%
of EU CFD retail accounts lose money; average losses €2,700–€6,900
97%
of Brazilian futures day-traders past 300 days lose money
~80%
of Taiwan day-traders lose money over six months

The damage pattern is consistent: revenge entries after losses, FOMO at the open, oversizing on tilt, cutting winners short from fear. A single revenge-trade spiral turns a planned $500 loss into a $2,000–$3,000 hole inside 30 minutes. Traders know the right thing to do. They can't do it when their mental state gets in the way.

02 / The Gap

The category perfected the autopsy. Nobody built prevention.

Incumbents Journals

  • Log what already broke, after the loss.
  • No biometric integration, no behavioural framework.
  • No readiness gate. No execution layer.

TradeZella · Edgewonk · Tradervue · TraderSync

TradeZen Prevention

  • Blocks the next breach as it forms, before the loss.
  • Fuses behaviour, biometry, and execution in one workflow.
  • Readiness gate, live bias engine, rule-violation warning.

A readiness gate nobody else enforces.

03 / The Insight

Behavioural + live trading analytics + biometry, fused in one workflow.

The decisive moments happen in behaviour, not in P&L: the 30 seconds before a revenge trade, the 90 seconds before a FOMO entry, the moment a winner gets cut from fear.

HRV, sleep, and a 60-second cognitive fatigue test from Apple Watch, Oura, and Polar give a continuous behavioural-state signal at sub-minute latency, fast enough to gate the next order.

That signal is read through our psychology framework (the bias library, personalised fatigue thresholds, and decision maps authored by our cognitive-psychology PhD), then fused with live trading analytics (real-time P&L, position, and order flow from the broker) plus continuous biometry, so every reading is anchored to the exact trade context that produced it.

[ FIG. 3 - STATE MACHINE ] v0.9
From the wrist
HRV · Sleep · Fatigue
From the broker
P&L · Position · Orders
From the psychology framework
Bias library · Fatigue thresholds · Decision maps
TradeZen state-machine
Behavioural state, fused in real time
Readiness gate Live bias engine Rule-violation warning
04 / The Product

Pre-trade. During-trade. Post-trade.

Software for each handoff across the trading day: prevention, not journaling.

Pre-trade[ 01 ]

Readiness gate

A morning check fuses HRV, sleep, and a 60-second cognitive fatigue test. You don't trade until you're cleared.

During-trade[ 02 ]

Live bias engine

Detects tilt, FOMO, revenge, anchoring, loss aversion, and overconfidence as they form, and blocks the next breach.

Post-trade[ 03 ]

Weekly debrief

Session-level cognitive signatures show exactly which mental state cost you money, and when.

Apple WatchOuraPolar MT5 / MT4cTraderTradovate Interactive BrokersSnapTrade
05 / The Team

Three disciplines that rarely sit in the same room.

Operators across behavioural & cognitive science, quantitative trading, and product engineering, with 25+ years combined.

[ FOUNDER ]01
Aleksandar Protic

Aleksandar Protic

Founder & CEO

MSc Computational Finance. Active systematic futures/forex trader who has lived every broken handoff. Founder of Mir Media Group (2006 to present); trained at the Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme and Stanford's Psychology for High Performance.

[ PRODUCT ]02
Toni Biocic

Toni Biocic

Co-founder & CPO

Building on the web since 1996. Principal Product Manager, 8 years at Seven Bridges Genomics - shipped clinical-grade biometric-data infrastructure at scale, under some of the world's strictest data-privacy regimes. Founder with an exit. MSc IT, University of Belgrade.

[ SCIENCE ]03
Bojana Bozovic

Bojana Bozovic

Co-founder & Chief Behavioural Scientist

PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Author of the full behavioural-intervention framework powering every TradeZen handoff, the backbone that separates us from a wellness app with a trading skin.

The four assets required to build this

A quantitative trader who has personally lived every broken handoff.
A senior product leader with shipping discipline inside regulated healthcare.
A cognitive psychology PhD authoring the behavioural framework.
A workflow architecture documenting 40+ intervention points.
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