AutoTrader
Paper Paper-first · US equities & crypto on your own Alpaca account

Every trade argued by an AI committee before it reaches the market.

AutoTrader assembles a desk of specialist AI agents that debate bull versus bear, size the position and hand you a guard-railed decision — to research, backtest, approve or automate.

  • Paper by default
  • Bring your own keys
  • Every order risk-checked

The platform

Research, test and execute in one disciplined workflow.

Built for teams that want AI leverage without giving up process: explainable decisions, measured risk and a full audit trail.

AI investment committee

Analyst agents on the models you choose research technicals, news, sentiment, fundamentals and macro, argue bull versus bear, and pass the trade through a risk committee. You get one decision — with the full transcript behind it.

Strategy builder

Compose rule-based, conditional and AI-gated strategies from a library of indicators in a visual builder, or write a quick rule such as “RSI below 20 → go long”.

Backtesting lab

Event-driven backtests with institutional tearsheets — Sharpe, Sortino, drawdown, exposure — plus parameter sweeps, walk-forward and Monte Carlo before capital is at risk.

Pre-trade risk engine

Every order — manual, strategy or AI — passes position, exposure, daily-loss and drawdown limits first. A single control engages the kill switch across accounts.

Automations

Schedules, price, indicator and news triggers drive actions with approvals by default. Choose signal-only, approval-required or fully automated, per deployment.

Real-time desk

Streaming candles, quotes, positions and fills over private channels, with every Alpaca order type for US equities and crypto in one keyboard-first terminal.

How it works

From idea to order, with a human in the loop.

  1. 01

    Connect

    Add your Alpaca paper keys and the AI providers you trust — or start keyless with the built-in simulated provider.

  2. 02

    Research & test

    Run committee debates, build strategies and backtest them against years of history before deploying anything.

  3. 03

    Execute with guardrails

    Approve or automate decisions; the risk engine and kill switch stand between every signal and the market.

Paper

Paper-first, by design.

Everything starts in paper mode with simulated money. Moving a single account to live trading is a deliberate, multi-step decision — and live mode is impossible to mistake on screen.

  • Paper trading is the default for every account and every new automation.
  • Live trading requires an explicit opt-in, typed confirmation and an administrator switch.
  • Every order passes the pre-trade risk engine — AI agents never get order-placing tools.
  • Your broker and model keys are encrypted at rest and never sent to the browser.
  • AI usage is metered in credits with budgets, hard limits and alerts.

Convene your first committee.

Set up takes minutes. No live money until you decide otherwise.