The LLM
Not us
Claude or another third-party model can hallucinate, botch the numbers, invent a name. That call is not Helmsman.
Scan
The setups you care about live in liquid markets: names and ETFs with a real tape, a spread that does not eat you, a book you can leave. Helmsman scans there. If a rule does not fire, it skips. It does not pad the list for vanity.
The course stays yours
The radar is not a screensaver. It is the right metaphor: it turns on liquid names and lights only what deserves a line. A name under the rule’s average stays dark. Data older than the session threshold: skipped, the rest proceed. A dead weekend tape does not become a «signal» to keep you awake.
The live rules — ATR-BREAKOUT, CONNORS-MR, VOL-SQUEEZE, QUALITY-DIP, AVWAP-RETEST — watch the market, not your account. The account arrives later, when size is computed. The scan does not propose a long because «you have buying power». It proposes one if the tape says yes. The book: 52 liquid tickers.
Candles that move, a spread that does not humiliate you, volume that exists. The scan is an honest pass: applicable / not applicable, reasons in the open. WMT under the SMA does not become a trade because «Walmart is solid». It becomes a skip. That honesty is the product.
Not a signal channel. Not an influencer ranking. Not a 90-slide backtest. Not a feed that must «find something» every morning to justify a subscription.
If the day is empty, the day is empty. Helmsman prefers three true proposals to a list that keeps you glued. FOMO is not a feature. It is how accounts empty with a smile.
Getting in is easy. Getting out is the job. Helmsman does not hunt the penny name that «blows up tonight». It goes where the book still exists when you want to close — the curated universe. If the data is stale, the scan stops — it does not invent a price to keep you in the conversation.
Then, only on the names that stay lit, the risk engine does the numbers on your account. The scan does not size. The engine does. The AI, if present, does neither.
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Helmsman is middleware: it translates, vetoes, forwards. The LLM proposes. You confirm. The broker — on your account — is the final executor.
Not us
Claude or another third-party model can hallucinate, botch the numbers, invent a name. That call is not Helmsman.
This is us
Routing, rules, covers. If the stop is missing, if size moved, if you did not say yes — the pipe closes. We do not hold your book.
Final executor
Alpaca, Tradier, or the venue you connect. If an order exists, it exists on their book. Helmsman is not your intermediary and not your bank.
If the order exists, it exists on your account, after your yes. Helmsman is the pipe. Not the captain. Not the till.
We are in early access. Skills and broker adapters are moving fast. You can pre-register: not a self-serve paper switch.
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