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Ivy & your account

Create an account, confirm your email, sign in

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You can use the builder without an account. An account adds syncing, the trackers and saved trades. There are three ways in: Continue with Google, Email me a magic link, or an email and a password. A password account has one extra step: you confirm the address from your inbox before it works.

Creating an account with a password

  1. On Sign in (or the save sheet in the builder), choose Create account, then type your email and a password of at least 8 characters.
  2. Press Create free account. You are not signed in yet. The screen says to check your inbox.
  3. Open the email Confirm your email for OptionTracker and press the button. That link confirms the address and signs you in, landing you where you started.
The sign-in screen with Create account selected, after submitting: a message saying check your inbox, a link was sent to the address, with Send it again and Use a different address below
After Create free account, the next step happens in your inbox.

Opening the link on another device or browser

Open the confirmation link in the same browser you created the account in, and the password you typed there is the one you use. Open it anywhere else (your phone’s mail app, a different browser, a private window) and the link still confirms the address and signs you in, but the password typed at sign-up is not kept. You land on Set a password on this device, where you choose the password you’ll use from now on. The same happens if the address was signed up more than once before anyone opened a link.

A screen titled Set a password on this device, with a note saying for your security, set a password on this device, a new-password field and a Save button
Opened in a different browser, the link signs you in and asks for a password for this device.

Why the extra step: anyone can type any address into a form. Until the owner of the inbox opens the link, the account cannot be used, and no password typed by someone else survives on it. The password check against the browser that signed up closes the last gap: a stranger who signed up with your address first cannot keep their password when you open the genuine link in your own inbox. It is also why the screen gives the same answer for every address. If the address already has an account, that owner gets an email saying so instead of a new link, and nobody learns from the page whether an address is registered.

If the email doesn’t arrive

  • Give it a minute, then check spam or promotions.
  • Press Send it again (it unlocks after 30 seconds), or choose Create account again with the same address. Either one sends a fresh link. Each link works once, and a new one replaces the old one.
  • Typed the address wrong? Use a different address starts over.
  • Still nothing? Continue with Google or Email me a magic link also prove the address, and they sign you in straight away.

“We’ve reached today’s limit on sign-up emails”

Confirmation emails come out of a small daily allowance that sign-in links and password resets share. So that a burst of sign-ups can never stop existing members from getting their sign-in and reset emails, password sign-ups stop for the rest of the day once that allowance is used. Everyone sees the same message. Try again after 00:00 UTC, or use Continue with Google, which needs no email from us.

The sign-in screen with the Create account toggle selected, an email and password entered and a red message: We've reached today's limit on sign-up emails. Try again after 00:00 UTC, or continue with Google
When the day’s sign-up emails are used up, the form says so and when to come back.

“Confirm your email first”

If you try to sign in with the password before opening the link, sign-in stops and says so. Open the confirmation email, or create the account again with the same address for a fresh link.

The sign-in screen with Sign in selected, an email and password entered and a red message: Confirm your email first, open the link we sent when you created the account
A password account signs in only after its email link has been opened.

Trades you saved before signing up

Trades saved without an account live on this device. When you create the account from the save sheet, the trade you have open is kept on the device too. After you open the link they move into your account on the Trades page. If there are more than the free account holds, the rest stay on the device, listed and never deleted. Open the link in the same browser you saved them in: device saves do not travel between browsers.

Changing your password

Account → Security changes your password (it asks for the current one) or sets one if you sign in with a magic link. Forgot it? Forgot password? on the sign-in screen emails a reset link. For extra protection, the change may ask for a verification code we email you; type it into the field that appears and save again.

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