If the question is whether it prints while you sleep, the answer is no. If it is whether it opens covered at your broker, with your yes, you are in the right place.
The course stays yours
Who executes the order — and who is liable?
The broker on your account is the final executor. Helmsman is middleware: it translates, vetoes, forwards. The LLM (Claude or other) can be wrong; you hold the yes and the keys. We are not advisers, not the model, not the venue. If the order exists, it exists after your yes — and capital risk stays yours.
Which skills are live?
Five long-only: ATR-BREAKOUT (trend), CONNORS-MR (buy the dip), VOL-SQUEEZE (compression), QUALITY-DIP (oversold megacaps), AVWAP-RETEST (institutional reclaim). The catalog is moving fast: more in the queue, validated on liquid reference markets before they ship. Not tips: yes/no bools on the tape.
Which tickers does it scan?
A curated universe of 52 liquid names and ETFs — tech, blue chips, sectors, indexes and metals. It will not screen ten thousand symbols: skills work where the book exists. Detail on the Universe page.
Do I need to code?
No. Helmsman is for traders, not bot authors. You see proposals, read size and stop, say yes or no. The stack stays under the hood.
Does it trade without me?
No. You get a preview (symbol, side, size, stop, target). The order goes out only if you confirm. You hold the helm: this is not autopilot.
What is a «covered» position?
Every entry ships with protection: a stop, and a target when the rule calls for one. No naked market orders with a promise to add the stop later. If the broker or the rule cannot cover, Helmsman does not open.
Does the AI pick position size?
No. A model can help you read context; size and stops come from the risk engine, with fixed rules on your account. No quantities invented in chat.
Which brokers?
In code today: Alpaca (paper), Tradier (sandbox), IG (demo) and IBKR (mock, live pending), plus a local PaperSim bench. Saxo, OANDA, lemon.markets and the other retail APIs are to build. Fineco, DEGIRO, Robinhood have no official trading API: they stay off the slide. A new adapter brings its own rules, not an Alpaca copy.
Is this live money already?
We are in early access. When a client is in, they operate in paper: it is not self-serve. Live comes when the bridge, the covers, and the engagement rules are ready. We do not sell magic on real capital.
Which markets does it scan?
Liquid names and ETFs, where getting in and out is realistic. If a rule does not apply — price under the average, dead tape, stale data — it skips the trade. It does not invent one.
What does it cost?
We are in early access. Skills and broker adapters are moving fast. You can pre-register: leave email and venue, we write if and when there is a seat. No fake price list, no credit card to «try it».
Does it manage the position after entry?
No. Helmsman opens covered and stops. Managing the position is your discipline. We do not sell automatic trailing or an overnight bot.
Are the broker logos a partnership?
No. The marks name venues with an API the model can speak. Gold on the tile = adapter already in code (Alpaca, Tradier, IG, IBKR). Grey = to build. Venues without an official retail trading API stay off the slide.
Do I need a new account?
No. The account stays yours. The bridge lengthens toward the broker you already use. On the pre-registration, name which one: that is the queue, not a pitch.
Even straighter
Who executes — and whose risk? The broker. Helmsman is the pipe. The LLM can hallucinate. You confirm. We are not the final executor. See Disclaimer and Terms.
Does it manage the position after entry? No. It opened covered. The rest is your discipline. We do not sell overnight trailing.
Can I wire Directa or IBKR today? IBKR has a mock-tested adapter; live is pending. Directa is integrable, but via Darwin on the machine — not today. Alpaca, Tradier and IG already have the bridge (paper/sandbox/demo). Fineco and DEGIRO have no retail trading API: they stay off the slide.
Are the logos on the slide a partnership? No. The marks name venues with an API that can be spoken. Gold = bridge already in code. Grey = to build. No official API, no marquee.
Do I need a new account? No. The account stays yours. The bridge lengthens toward who you already use.
A
Alpaca
Paper adapter
T
Tradier
Sandbox adapter
IG
IG
Demo adapter
IB
Interactive Brokers
Mock adapter
SX
Saxo ★
Next
OA
OANDA ★
Next
Lm
lemon.markets ★
Next
cT
cTrader
To build
TB
Tiger Brokers
To build
TV
Tradovate
To build
Q
Questrade
To build
MA
MetaApi
To build
S
Charles Schwab
To build
TS
TradeStation
To build
tt
tastytrade
To build
W
Webull
To build
E
E*TRADE
To build
212
Trading 212
With friction
eT
eToro
With friction
D
Directa
With friction
m
moomoo
With friction
A
Alpaca
Paper adapter
T
Tradier
Sandbox adapter
IG
IG
Demo adapter
IB
Interactive Brokers
Mock adapter
SX
Saxo ★
Next
OA
OANDA ★
Next
Lm
lemon.markets ★
Next
cT
cTrader
To build
TB
Tiger Brokers
To build
TV
Tradovate
To build
Q
Questrade
To build
MA
MetaApi
To build
S
Charles Schwab
To build
TS
TradeStation
To build
tt
tastytrade
To build
W
Webull
To build
E
E*TRADE
To build
212
Trading 212
With friction
eT
eToro
With friction
D
Directa
With friction
m
moomoo
With friction
More questions? Write them with the pre-registration.
Broker you use, what weighs on you, what you expect from the scan. Skills and adapters are moving fast.
