Built by a trader.
For traders.

From security assessments
to market structure

Sarid Harper studied Computer Science at the School of Business and Economics in Aarhus, Denmark, specialising in offensive IT security — reverse engineering, malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, and secure coding. He went on to work for leading security consultancies including F-Secure Corporation, spending nearly two decades performing security assessments for banks, pharmaceutical companies, insurance groups, and major technology firms across Europe.

It was through those security assessments — evaluating trading infrastructure for some of the world's largest banks — that he was first exposed to the mechanics of institutional market participation. He saw how price was constructed. How orders were managed. Where liquidity was manufactured and consumed. The patterns were not random. They were engineered.

In 2011, he founded Pipnotic — initially focused on price action tools built around currency strength and liquidity — and began the work of translating institutional market mechanics into tools that independent traders could actually use.

What began as a single indicator became a fifteen-year obsession. Price Action Pro, XRay, the Buy & Sell Zones algo, and the BASZ detection engine were followed by COT and insider confluence layers, a currency strength engine, regime classification, algorithmic signals, a full charting suite, bar-by-bar backtesting, and — most recently — live, risk-sized order execution straight from the chart to a connected broker. Every line of it designed, coded, tested, and traded by one person. No outside dev team, no venture money, no shortcuts — just years of relentless iteration in pursuit of a platform that finally does everything a serious trader needs in one place.