How it works
Five steps from curious to hands-off. You keep your money where it is, and you decide every limit along the way.
- 1
Connect your own account
You already have (or open) a Coinbase account — that's the company that actually holds your money. Inside it you create a key: a permission slip that lets our software place trades for you. Coinbase is the only exchange we support today.
The key is set to trade only. It cannot move money out of your account, to us or to anyone else. You can cancel it from Coinbase at any moment, and everything stops.
- 2
Tell it how careful to be
You choose three numbers: the most one trade can be, the most it can spend in a day, and how far something can fall before it sells to stop the bleeding.
Pick a ready-made setting — very careful, balanced, or bolder — or set each number yourself. A separate part of the software checks every trade against these before it goes out, and blocks anything that doesn't fit.
- 3
Watch it in practice mode
Everyone starts here. The software follows the real market and makes real decisions, but with pretend money. Nothing is at risk.
Stay in practice for a week or a year, whatever it takes for you to trust it. Turning on real trading is a separate switch that only you can flip.
- 4
Approve each trade — or don't
By default, trades line up in a list with a short explanation, and nothing happens until you tap approve. If you'd rather not be involved, you can let it run on its own.
Even running on its own, it still has to obey every limit you set, and the stop button halts everything instantly.
- 5
Read the daily summary
Once a day you get a short note: what the market looked like, what it did, what it's watching, and why. Written in normal English, not chart-speak.
You'll always be able to answer the question "why do I own this?" — because the reason is written down at the moment the decision was made.
The part people ask about most
What actually decides a trade?
Ordinary, written-down rules — not a mysterious black box. Things like: this has fallen a lot but has stopped falling, the trend is still healthy, and it fits inside your limits. The reasoning for every trade is shown in plain words.
Does it trade all day?
It watches all day and night, because crypto never closes. But watching is not trading. Most days it does very little — doing nothing is usually the right answer, and it's happy to say so.
What if the internet or the software goes down?
Your money is unaffected: it sits in your Coinbase account, where it always was, and nothing can be bought or sold while we're down. But be clear about the trade-off: your protective stops are watched by our software, not held at Coinbase, so while we're offline they aren't being watched either. Our own money runs on the same setup, which is the strongest promise we can make about keeping it up.