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STEP 1.1

What your plan includes

There are four AI Auto Pilots. AI Pro gets all of them, plus alerts the moment any of them trades.

Swing Trader
AI Auto PilotsEvery trade, the moment it happens
PortfoliosOne summary after each close
STEP 1.2

Turn on alerts

Every page that has alerts has a Get Alerts button. Tap it and pick push, email or both. Alerts come with AI Pro.

Try it: tap Get Alerts and switch one on.
📈
Market dataOptions flow, prices, news
🤖
AI Auto PilotReads it all
✅
DecisionBuy, add, trim, sell
👀
Your screenEvery move, with why
$100,000 each · simulated · never your money
STEP 2.1

An AI that trades in the open

Each AI Auto Pilot runs its own $100,000 portfolio and makes every decision on its own. You see every trade and the reason for it.

Simulated paper trading. It never touches your money.

STEP 2.2

Meet the four

Four styles, four separate portfolios. Pick the one that trades the way you do.

Try it: tap each card to see what it trades.
Read the marketflow, prices, news
Call the regimeBull to Crisis
Review positionshold, add, trim, exit
Log itwith the reason
Learnsfrom every closed trade
STEP 2.3

The loop, and how it learns

Every run follows the same loop. When a trade closes, win or lose, the bot reviews what worked and carries it into its next decisions.

How often it runs and how it learns stay proprietary.

$100,000 portfolio
InvestedCash
Illustration. The labels and meanings are each bot's own; the exact amounts are not shown.
STEP 2.4

Each bot's read on the market

Every bot starts by labeling conditions on its own four step scale. The label decides how much of its portfolio it puts to work.

Try it: pick a bot, then tap its four labels. Lots of cash at the bottom of the scale is the plan working.
Swing Trader🔔 Get Alerts
PortfolioREGIME: BULL
Value
Day P&L
Total P&L
Cash
Positions
Performance vs S&P 500
Open positions
Equity
Call Sprd
Long Put
Trade updates
Watchlist
Trade history
Tap the numbers to explore the page.
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STEP 2.5

Read a bot's page

All four bots share one layout. Learn it once and you can read any of them.

Try it: tap all seven numbers. Number 4 is the one to know.
STEP 2.6

Read an options trade

Swing Trader and Earnings Trader also trade options. Here is what three of their most common positions do.

Try it: drag the slider to move the stock, and watch where each one makes or loses money.

Example numbers, per share, at expiry.

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STEP 2.7

Get told the moment it trades

Push or email, every time a bot opens, adds to, trims or closes a position. Start with one or two bots.

Try it: switch a bot on and watch what you would get.
STEP 2.8

Use it in your own trading

A bot's move is an idea, not an order. Four quick checks turn it into your own decision.

Try it: tick through the routine.
The botS&P 500
Illustration, not real results.
STEP 2.9

Judge a bot fairly

One week is noise. Compare a bot with the S&P 500 over months, and read its losing trades too.

Try it: switch between 1 week and 3 months.
STEP 3.1

Rules, not AI

Portfolios like Congress Big Buys and Night Shift follow a fixed recipe. No judgment, no AI: the same rules every time, and the rules are on the page.

Try it: switch between the two to see how they differ.
Week 1
Illustration: bubble size is how much members of Congress spent on each stock.
STEP 3.2

Congress Big Buys

Owns the stocks members of Congress bought in the last 60 days. The bigger the purchase, the bigger the position. It rebalances every week.

Try it: run a few weekly rebalances and watch the weights shift.
Day: in cash
Night: owns small companies
OpenCloseNext open
Buys at the close, sells at the next open. Every trading night.
STEP 3.3

Night Shift

Owns a fund of small US companies only overnight: bought at the close, sold at the next open. It sits in cash when the market is in a downtrend.

Try it: switch on a downtrend, then the boosted night.
How it's doing
BACKTESTLIVE
Read this before following it
The exact rules
Holding now
Every change
Tap the numbers to explore the page.
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STEP 3.4

Read a portfolio page

Every portfolio page shows how it's doing, the exact rules, what it holds and every change. AI Pro gets one summary alert after each close.

Try it: tap all five. Number 1 shows where the backtest ends and the live record begins.
1 · The rules
5 minute barsVWAP and the opening rangeSetup foundEntry, target, invalidation, time limit
2 · The AI weighs it against
Daily trendPrice actionOptions flowBlock tradesNews
Send a setup through to see the decision.
STEP 4.1

The rules find it. The AI decides.

Code does the mechanical work: it builds 5 minute bars, spots setups and sets every call's entry, target, invalidation and time limit. The AI only makes the decision: take it or pass.

On a rules only day the AI is switched off and every setup becomes a call. The page and the scorecard mark those days.

Try it: send four setups through and see which ones it takes.
🔔 Real time call alerts on
STEP 4.2

Five tickers, every day

SPY, QQQ and IWM every trading day, plus two stock picks drawn before the open and logged with a timestamp. How much you see depends on your plan.

Try it: switch plans and watch the tickers unlock.
STEP 4.3

Six strategies, fixed rules

Six well known day trading setups. Each has fixed rules, so the same setup is always treated the same way, and each keeps its own record.

Try it: tap each strategy and watch its setup draw.
LONGSPYOpening range breakout
TargetEntryInvalidationTime limit
STEP 4.4

Every call has a plan

The entry, target, invalidation and time limit are fixed the moment a call is logged, and they never move. The AI can close a call early if things change, and the page keeps tracking what it would have done if held to plan.

Try it: play out all four endings.
IWM
STEP 4.5

Passes count too

A pass is a setup the rules found and the AI chose not to take. It is logged with a one sentence reason, then graded once it plays out, so you can see whether passing helped or cost.

Try it: let each pass play out. On the page, tap Show passes in the feed.
SPY +0.4%QQQIWMXYZABC● Live
▲◆
Open calls
Today's feed
Scorecard
AI resultWithout AI
Live and Replay
LiveReplay
Tap the numbers to explore the page.
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STEP 4.6

Read the live page

Tickers on top, the chart with every call, pass and exit, the options flow under it, then the open calls, the feed and the scorecard. Prices refresh about every 15 seconds.

Try it: tap all seven. On the real page, How to read this plays a one minute tour.
AI result
Without AI
AI edge
STEP 4.7

The honest test: AI edge

Without AI is what the rules return taking every setup they find. AI edge is the AI's result minus that: positive when its choices helped, negative when they cost. Every call counts the same size, with a small allowance taken off for the spread.

Try it: these are the AI's picks. Flip any of them and watch the edge change.
SPYReplay of a past session9:30 ET
STEP 4.8

Replay any day. Nothing is edited.

Each call is stored with a timestamp and a fingerprint of its entry, target and invalidation, so it can't be changed later. Replay plays a past day back and shows only what had happened up to that moment.

A free account opens replays for SPY and one daily pick. Members replay every day and every ticker.

Try it: drag through the day and watch each call appear before its outcome.
NEGATIVE GAMMAExample levels for SPY
Tap a level to see what it means.
STEP 5.1 · 8:00 AM

Before the open

The Morning Market Brief gives you the day's setup in two minutes: the gamma regime, SPY's key levels and three scenarios.

Try it: tap each level, and tap the gamma badge.
A session on AI Day Trader · Eastern time
Tap a time to see what happens then.
STEP 5.2 · 8:30 AM

At the open: AI Day Trader

Keep it open through the session. Calls, passes and exits land on the chart and in the feed as they happen, and AI Pro gets an alert for each call.

Try it: tap through the day. Part 4 covers it step by step.
Big money placed this order. Which way is it betting?
STEP 5.3 · Midday

Follow the money

Whale Alerts shows the day's biggest options orders. Whether it was a call or a put, and bought or sold, tells you which way the money leans.

Try it: call three orders bullish or bearish.
STEP 5.4

Find setups

Chart Patterns spots classic daily patterns for you, each with the line that confirms it, a target, and where it fails.

Try it: watch each pattern draw itself.
Example tickers.
STEP 5.5

Scan for momentum

The Momentum Scanner runs thirteen ready made scans. Each one says how it did in our testing, so you know which lists have an edge and which are only context, or a warning.

Try it: tap through the scans and watch the testing badge change.
$XYZ+2.4% today
Key stats
Technical analysis
News tone and price
Whale options flow
Earnings
AI Auto Pilots
Swing TraderMomentum Quant
Tap the numbers to explore a stock page.
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STEP 5.6

Check a stock before you trade it

One page per stock brings it all together: the move, the chart read, news tone, whale flow, earnings, and which bots own it.

Try it: tap all six. Then search any ticker from the menu.
STEP 5.7 · Afternoon

Read the news tone

News Tone scores how a stock's headlines lean, weighting the ones that matter most. It describes how the news reads; it is not a forecast.

Try it: drop in headlines and watch the tone move.
Before the reportEarnings Trader opens a position, with a known maximum loss
The reportThe company reports, and the stock reacts
Next morningTake the gain, or hold for the day
Out by the closeNo holding past the event
STEP 5.8

Earnings season

The Earnings Calendar shows who reports and when. Earnings Trader plays the reports it rates highest, and gets out the next day.

Try it: play the trade from start to finish.
STEP 6.1

Set up push once

Turn on push once per device, then pick what you want. Email needs no setup. On iPhone, Apple requires StreetAlpha on your home screen first.

Try it: pick your device and walk through it.
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STEP 6.2

Every alert, in one place

Your account page lists every alert on the site, each with its own Push and Email switch. Each feature also has a Get alerts button on its own page.

Alerts come with AI Pro. With a free account you can still get the AI Day Trader daily recap by email.

Try it: switch alerts on and see what each one sends.
9:30 AM ETMarket open
During the sessionAfter the close
STEP 6.3

When alerts arrive

Trades and calls arrive the moment they happen. Summaries arrive once, after the close, so your phone stays quiet in between.

Try it: drag through the day and watch your alerts land.
Filters saved with each scan
STEP 6.4

Momentum Scanner: new on your scans

Pick the scans you care about. After each close you get one summary of the stocks new on them, using the filters you saved for each scan.

Try it: pick a few scans, set a filter, and watch the summary build.
XYZBull flag · forming
Tap the bell to follow this pattern.
STEP 6.5

Chart Patterns: filters and follows

Two kinds. Save up to 5 filter sets and get one summary after each close of new patterns and breakouts on them. Or follow a single pattern with its bell, and hear when it breaks out, reaches its target or fails.

Try it: follow the pattern and play the next sessions. Then save a filter set.
Or follow a single fund from its page
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STEP 6.6

13F filings: see what the big funds did

Big funds report their holdings each quarter in a 13F filing. Get an alert the moment a superinvestor files, with what they bought and sold. Follow any other fund from its Hedge Fund Holdings page.

Try it: switch a few on and watch the phone. Fund names here are examples.

Important. StreetAlpha is for information and education only. Nothing on this page or on StreetAlpha is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, option or other investment. StreetAlpha is not a broker or a registered investment adviser and does not know your finances or goals. Talk to a licensed professional before you make investment decisions.

Hypothetical results. The AI Auto Pilots are simulated paper trading with $100,000 portfolios. No real money is traded. The AI Day Trader publishes calls and tracks how they would have done; it places no trades. The rule-based portfolios show backtested results, which are built with hindsight, followed by a live record. All results are hypothetical, assume equal sizes and fixed costs, and do not reflect real fills, slippage, taxes or fees. Past results, simulated or real, do not predict future results.

Examples on this page. Every chart, price level, ticker, fund name, notification and result in this guide is an illustration made up to explain how a feature works. None of it is real data or a real trade, and the examples are not trade ideas.

Tools, not signals. Scanner lists, chart patterns, options flow, regime labels, news tone and filings describe the market; they do not forecast it. Patterns can fail, labels can change, and data can be delayed, incomplete or wrong.

Alerts. Alerts can be delayed, arrive out of order or not arrive at all because of your device, browser, email provider or network. Do not rely on them for time sensitive decisions.

Risk. Trading stocks and options involves substantial risk and is not suitable for everyone. You can lose some or all of your investment, and options can lose their entire value quickly. Day trading carries extra risk. Any decision you make is your own. StreetAlpha and its operators may hold positions in securities shown on the site. Using StreetAlpha means you accept our Terms of Use.