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What your plan includes
There are four AI Auto Pilots. AI Pro gets all of them, plus alerts the moment any of them trades.
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.
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.
Meet the four
Four styles, four separate portfolios. Pick the one that trades the way you do.
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.
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.
Read a bot's page
All four bots share one layout. Learn it once and you can read any of them.
Read an options trade
Swing Trader and Earnings Trader also trade options. Here is what three of their most common positions do.
Example numbers, per share, at expiry.
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.
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.
Judge a bot fairly
One week is noise. Compare a bot with the S&P 500 over months, and read its losing trades too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Find setups
Chart Patterns spots classic daily patterns for you, each with the line that confirms it, a target, and where it fails.
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.
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.
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.
Earnings season
The Earnings Calendar shows who reports and when. Earnings Trader plays the reports it rates highest, and gets out the next day.
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.
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.
When alerts arrive
Trades and calls arrive the moment they happen. Summaries arrive once, after the close, so your phone stays quiet in between.
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.
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.
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.
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.