Skills
A Helmsman skill is a deterministic rule on the tape: applicable or not. Not a tip. Not a ranking. Not a chat that feels good about SLV. Five today. The catalog is moving fast: more in the queue, all validated on liquid reference markets.
The course stays yours
The LLM can propose. The skill decides if the thesis exists. The engine numbers. You hold the yes. The broker executes.
Markets are not short of opinions. They are short of filters. You have a model that tells a story, a channel that dumps ten tickers, a sheet that «should» size the trade. Then the entry leaves naked. Then the stop is «later». Then the account knows.
Helmsman reverses the order. First the scan walks the liquid universe. Then each skill answers with a bool: yes or no. Only if yes does a preview appear with size and stop. Only if you confirm does the order reach the broker — already covered.
We are not selling «five magic strategies». We are selling five honest vetoes. If the day is empty, the day is empty. FOMO is not a feature.
Live catalog
Each skill has a horizon, an entry logic, a stop and a target. Size stays with the risk engine on your account. The LLM does not write it. You see it before the yes.
Trend + momentum
Not a textbook high-of-range breakout. The sober thesis: price above the primary average, RSI in a healthy zone, primary trend not against you. Stop from ATR. Target at 1:2 R:R. If the name bounces inside a downtrend, the skill says no — even if the chat «feels it hard».
Mean reversion · buy the dip
When the tape is still above the medium average but ultra-short RSI has flushed, the skill hunts the bounce — not a knife with no floor. Wide stop on purpose: mean reversion hates tight stops. Target on the bounce, not «double in a week».
Compression · long bias
Bollinger inside Keltner: the market is holding its breath. Helmsman does not wait for the screenshot «fire». It enters during compression if the MACD histogram is already positive. Tight stop: if the thesis dies, it dies early. Wider target: catch the expansion when it comes.
Contrarian · oversold megacaps
The opposite of the trend skill. Buys a quality name deeply oversold, even under the long average. Not «any name on sale»: a curated whitelist — fundamentals do not come from OHLCV. Wide stop, small size: falling knife with an institutional floor, not a lottery ticket.
Institutional setup · reclaim + retest
Anchored VWAP from the quarter’s low: the average price paid by those who accumulated from the base. If the name reclaimed that line and is retesting from above — without already running too far — the skill lights. It works where institutional flow dominates. On thin names it does not: hence the ultra-liquid whitelist only.
1. Scan. Helmsman walks the universe. For each name, skills answer applicable / not. Reasons in the open. No padding.
2. Preview. Only where a skill said yes does a line appear: symbol, side, size, stop, target. No order has left. If size moved or the rule died, it stops.
3. Your yes. Without a human confirm there is no order. Helmsman is middleware, not captain.
4. Covered entry. The order goes to the broker you connect — OTO or bracket — already with the stop. Then the position is your discipline.
Validation
A skill does not enter the catalog because it «sounds good in chat». It enters if it makes sense on the liquid book Helmsman actually scans: megacaps, blue chips, ETFs where the spread does not humiliate you and the exit exists. Live rules were built and validated on those reference markets — the same tickers in the universe, not a vanity dataset.
We are not selling a 90-slide backtest with brochure CAGR. We are selling operational honesty: a bool on the tape, numbers from the engine, your yes, execution at your broker. Past performance does not predict the future. Risk stays yours. Helmsman stays the bridge.
The catalog is not closed. In the queue: session VWAP setups — fade and bounce — aimed at the most liquid names (indexes, high-beta megacaps). Same gate into the product: they must hold on reference markets, with the same cover vetoes and the same human at the helm.
When a new skill earns its place, it ships. When it does not, it stays out. We prefer a short honest catalog to a storefront that must «find something» every morning to justify a subscription. If you have a rule that is not on this list: propose it.
What skills are not. Not advice. Not a ranking. Not the LLM. Not the broker. They are rules. Helmsman applies them; you confirm; the venue executes.
Propose a skill
If the thesis is deterministic — enters / does not, stop, target, which liquid names — send it. Helmsman will test it on the reference markets. If it earns a place in the catalog, the person who wrote it uses it free.
Skills and broker adapters are moving fast. You can pre-register: name the venue.
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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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