How to block E*TRADE — and actually stay off it

E*TRADE is an online brokerage app for trading stocks, options, futures, and ETFs. You can install a blocker, but you hold the keys — and at the wrong hour you’ll use them. Electric Nipple Clamps takes a different route: instead of a wall, a witness.

The market opens before you’re fully awake and the after-hours quotes are still there at midnight. A wall you can take down by yourself is a wall you eventually take down — usually right when you shouldn’t.

So add a person instead. Put E*TRADE on your watch list, name your Clamp, and the next open shows up as a number they can see — by category, every week, nothing on your screen. A witness, not a lockout.

Common questions

How do I block E*TRADE on my phone?

You can hide E*TRADE with Screen Time or a blocker, but you're the administrator, so the block lasts only as long as you let it. Electric Nipple Clamps instead puts E*TRADE on a watch list one trusted person can see — a weekly count of time spent you can't silently reverse.

How do I stop checking my portfolio all day?

Compulsive trading thrives on being unseen. Naming one person who sees a weekly count breaks the privacy that feeds the loop, and turning off price alerts removes the trigger. The witness is the part willpower alone keeps failing to provide.

Will an accountability app see my E*TRADE positions?

No. It's content-blind — the person you name sees category-level counts only, never your trades, balances, or screen.