Questions we hear a lot.

It depends on how you define “day trading.” In the regulatory sense, a day trade is buying and selling the same security within a single market day, and grid trading generally doesn't do that. You plant a plot on one day and may harvest it the next day, the next week, or next month, depending on how the price moves.

You'll check in on your garden daily to review tasks and plant fresh seeds, but that's closer to gardening than it is to scalping charts all afternoon.

We'll teach you. Every subscription includes our series of training videos, which walk through the strategy and how to set up your first garden at your own pace. If it still hasn't clicked after that, we'll get on a Zoom call and work through your questions until you're confident going it alone.

Whatever fits your situation. We have users starting at around $1,500 and others running gardens north of $500,000. The strategy scales with the account. Larger balances just mean larger plots or more plots, not a different approach.

You don't have to. Inside each homestead, you can earmark specific amounts for different strategies or set cash aside entirely. Only the balance you actually allocate to a garden is used by Harvest to calculate your plots.

Five to ten minutes, most days. Long enough to glance at the tasks Harvest generated, decide which ones you want to act on, and log what you did. Not a minute more.

Not at all. The garden metaphor makes the strategy easy to learn, but the mechanics are the same ones serious investors use. Families often use Harvest together (a parent and a kid tending gardens side-by-side), but plenty of adults run it solo on retirement and brokerage accounts.

Yes, that's the whole point. You choose every symbol, you set every grid spread, you decide which alerts fire and when. The app is a control panel for your strategy, not a recommendation engine.

A note on advice: Harvest is a trading tool, not a financial adviser. We don't tell you which stocks to pick or how to size your plots. Our users talk about what has and hasn't worked for them, but those conversations are shared experience, not personalized investment advice. Always evaluate any trade on your own before acting on it.

Yes. When you sign up you get our training video series, which walks you through the app, setting up your first garden, planting your first crops, and how the strategy works — watch it whenever you like and revisit any part of it later. If questions are still left over, we'll hop on a Zoom call and go through them with you. Either way we're always a message away. The goal is for you to feel confident running your own garden, not dependent on us.

Not strictly — you can log every trade manually from any broker: Schwab, Vanguard, Robinhood, whatever you already use. But we strongly recommend Fidelity, and it's what most gardeners run on. Fidelity is the only broker whose activity file Harvest can import, so bookkeeping is effectively one click instead of typing in every trade, and our browser extension fills Fidelity's order forms straight from your plots. If you're starting fresh, start there.