Trader PhD vs Stratsheet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trader PhD
This app educates farmers, ranchers, and traders on marketing physical commodities and trading futures markets. It offers news, commentary, advisory, and educational resources, specializing in agricultural commodities but also covering a wide range of other markets.
- Commodity marketing education
- Futures market trading guidance
- Agricultural commodity specialization
- News and market analysis
- Proprietary algorithms for hedging
- Educational university sections
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GREETINGS ---------- Welcome to the Trader PhD Mobile App, where we provide data, analysis and educational resources for farmers and ranchers who market physical commodities. You don’t have time to watch the market all day, so we do it for you by bringing everything together about the markets in one place on your mobile phone. We specialize in agricultural commodities, including grains, oilseeds, livestock, cotton, biofuels and more. Offering news, charts, commentary, advisory, and educational components, this app is one you don’t want to miss! WHO WE ARE ---------- Trader PhD LLC out of West Des Moines, Iowa provides a Commodity Market Advisory Service for grain and livestock producers. Commodity futures market focus with a mix of education. With over 30 years of experience serving farmers and ranchers, we offer essential tools and market insights that help agricultural professionals make informed decisions, safeguard profitability, and manage commodity marketing efficiently. We invest in technology that delivers advice quickly so you can act on it right away — including audio, video and written articles sent via phone calls, texts, and push notifications for this mobile app. KEY DIFFERENCES AS AN AG MARKETING ADVISORY ---------- ● TOP 20% PERFORMANCE - With a distinguished track record spanning over three decades, our team brings an unparalleled level of expertise that serves as a testament to our deep understanding of market intricacies, enabling us to deliver strategic insights for informed decision-making. ● BACKTEST PROVEN - We don’t guess. We follow a system that has been historically proven by backtesting based on market data going back over 60 years. ● BUILT BY FARMERS, FOR FARMERS - Our tools are shaped by real-world experience, hard lessons learned in the field, and a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in agriculture. Every feature is designed with the realities of farming in mind, including volatile markets, tight margins, and the day-to-day decisions that impact your operation. MARKET INTELLIGENCE ---------- ● News ● Market Analysis ● Advisory ● Special Reports ● Trader PhD Surveys MARKETS COVERED ---------- ● Grains - Corn - Soybeans - Chicago Wheat - KC Wheat - MPLS Wheat - Soybean Meal - Soybean Oil - Canola - Rough Rice ● Livestock - Live Cattle - Feeder Cattle - Lean Hogs - Class III Milk ● Softs - Cotton ● Indices - Dow Jones 30 Industrial Average - S&P 500 - Bloomberg Commodity Index - Russell 2000 ● Energy - Crude Oil WTI - Crude Oil Brent - Heating Oil - Reformulated Blendstock (RBOB) - Ethanol - Natural Gas ● Metals - Gold - Silver - Copper - Platinum - Palladium Download our app today to start accessing the most unique advisory service. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy at https://traderphd.com/privacy-policy.
Stratsheet
This app helps you plan your financial future by creating a matrix of asset accounts and years. You can simulate withdrawals and growth rates to project how you'll fund your life. It offers detailed analysis and charting tools for strategic financial planning.
- Asset account and year matrix generation
- Simulate gains, losses, and withdrawals
- Annual financial projection
- Detailed analysis screen with data matrix
- Multiple charting options for accounts
- Editable historical data entry
- No sign-ins or data collection
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What’s your strategy to fund the rest of your life? The Stratsheet App can give you the insight needed to answer that question. Stratsheet lets you generate a matrix of asset accounts and years. You then withdraw money from your accounts to meet your budget for each year. This is accomplished by adjusting Gain (%G) and Withdrawal (%WD) values individually for each year. Values are updated by taking the previous end of year (EOY) numbers and applying the current year gains, losses and withdrawals, thus giving you a projection of how you will fund your financial future. The Analysis screen displays the data matrix. Clicking on any entry allows you to edit the values data until you (closely) match your budget (Delta = 0). Multiple charts are available to aid in analysis and you can also chart any of the individual accounts. The app is highly flexible as to the kind of accounts you create, but If you need to have an account called Lotto Winnings to meet your budget, you may want to rethink your finances. Here, having the ability/option to withdraw more than your budget is a good thing. You can also enter any historical data you have by initially choosing a start year prior to the current calendar year. Values only update from the current calendar year, meaning your historical data won’t change like the future years will when you click Update Values. Historical data is editable however. There are no sign-ins, no monthly or annual fees, no tracking, no data collection, and no in-app purchases. Your user data is yours and remains in Core Data, private on your device(s) for safety and security. It is never stored or transmitted elsewhere, except by you. No account number or bank information is needed so you can make the data generic for security purposes, e.g. Checking vs Your Bank Checking account #123456789. You alone can make that connection when you need to. StratSheet helps you with your financial planning. It is not a budgeting or checkbook app, although a budget is involved. It provides a more strategic annual look at what you have, how it may change and how you will fund your future. The resulting data are offered without any warranty as to their use. Seller is not responsible for any financial decisions made by using this App. INSTRUCTIONS: Values are EOY (12/31/XX). Let the start year = current year -1. Start with a dummy data set (a few accounts & years) to test & learn how the app functions. When comfortable, Click the RESET button and start fresh with real data. Enter & Save Project Info. ~10 years range. Beyond that is a SWAG anyway. Enter asset and income account names. Click Create Values Matrix, to generate matrix placeholders. Use Edit Values or Analysis, at least for the 1st few years of data. All data does not need to be entered at once. The last 3 summary accounts are calculated. Current WD = %WD (current year) x Value (previous year). Click Update Values to update/recalculate changes at any point. Check Analysis & Charts as you go, to see if your withdrawals match your budget. Data can be saved to the App sandbox, and a .csv file can be moved from there to the Apple Files App to open in a Spreadsheet. For a yearly salary entry with a 3% raise, you would enter 103%G and 100%WD. A total loss of salary would be a -100%G. See the website for more usage tips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stratsheet at 5.0 against Trader PhD's 4.5. Stratsheet also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4). Trader PhD's advantage is ratings volume (144 vs 2) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Trader PhD sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Stratsheet asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stratsheet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trader PhD has 144 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Trader PhD | Stratsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (144 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 144 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trader PhD LLC | Richard Loda |
Customer experience
Trader PhD
Stratsheet
In-app purchases
Trader PhD
- PhD Ag News$19.991 Month
- PhD News+ Monthly$39.991 Month
- PhD Ag News$199.991 Year
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- PhD News+ Yearly$349.991 Year
Stratsheet
No in-app purchases
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