Tools for Traders

Built by traders,
for traders

CGTU builds trading tools designed for people who actually trade — practical, fast, and built around how markets really work.

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The problem

You have a plan. Then the market happens.

Every trader has rules. Position sizes, loss limits, exit points. Written down, rehearsed, believed in. And then a trade goes wrong, and those rules become suggestions.

It's not a strategy problem. It's a human problem. The same wiring that makes you competitive makes you want to fight back. One bad trade triggers another. Size goes up. Risk goes up. The hole gets deeper.

Most blown accounts aren't the result of bad strategy. They're the result of good strategy abandoned at exactly the wrong moment — when it cost real money to follow it.

Revenge trading

"I'll make it back on the next one."

Down $2,000 before noon. Instead of stopping, you double the size. The trade goes against you. Now you're down $6,000 and it's not even lunch. The logic felt sound in the moment — it never does from the outside.

Tilt spiral

One loss becomes five.

A losing trade triggers frustration. Frustration leads to a faster, sloppier entry. That trade loses too. Now you're chasing. Each loss makes the next one more likely. The account doesn't blow up on the first bad trade — it blows up on the sixth.

Sizing up to recover

"Just need one good trade."

Down on the day, you bump contracts from 5 to 20. It works — or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you've turned a manageable loss into a catastrophic one. If it does, you've trained yourself to do it again.

Can't walk away

The market closed you down. You didn't.

You knew by 11am it wasn't your day. But stopping felt like giving up. So you kept going. Three hours later, what could have been a $1,500 loss is now $12,000. The hardest trade to make is no trade at all.

Sentinel doesn't care how you feel.

Sentinel is a risk enforcement bot that connects directly to your Schwab account. It watches every position, every second the market is open. When something exceeds your limits — it acts. Not after you notice. Not after you decide. Immediately.

You set the rules when you're thinking clearly. Sentinel enforces them when you're not.

See how Sentinel works → Get started in the dashboard →
Can't be bypassed mid-session During market hours, Sentinel can't be stopped or unlinked. Your rules stay your rules, even when you want to break them.
Works wherever you trade Sentinel operates at the account level through the Schwab API. It doesn't matter if you're in thinkorswim, the mobile app, or anywhere else — it sees every position.
Daily kill switch — free, forever Even the free Guardian tier gives you a hard daily loss limit. When it's hit, everything closes. The day is done. No charge, no card required, ever.
Built by a trader, for traders Not a generic risk tool. Built specifically for Schwab options traders who know the rules — and need something that actually holds them to it.
Security & Trust

Your account.
Your access.
Your control.

Giving any third-party tool access to your brokerage account is a serious decision. We built Sentinel with that trust in mind — here is exactly how it works, with no vague reassurances.

✓ OAuth only

We never see your password

Connecting Sentinel uses Schwab's official OAuth flow — the same mechanism used by any trusted app. You log in directly on Schwab's own login page. Your username and password never touch Sentinel at any point.

✓ No withdrawals possible

Sentinel cannot move your money

The Schwab API does not permit fund transfers. Sentinel can open and close positions, but it is technically impossible for it to withdraw, transfer, or move funds out of your account. This is a hard constraint enforced by Schwab, not a policy.

✓ Per-user isolation

Your token is yours alone

Every user's Schwab connection is stored and handled independently. No other user's Sentinel instance has any access to your account — not read access, not trade access, nothing.

✓ Enterprise infrastructure

Hosted on enterprise-grade cloud

Sentinel runs on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure — no shared hosting, no cheap VPS, no shortcuts. Your credentials and account data are not stored beyond what is required to maintain the API connection.

✓ Fully revocable

You can disconnect anytime — from Schwab's side

You can revoke Sentinel's access directly from your Schwab account settings at any time, completely independently of Sentinel itself. You do not need to contact us or do anything on our end. Your access, your revocation.

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