The whole program in plain English. We run four strategies and let them compete. Three are practice-money "bots" — small computer programs that trade automatically, running in the cloud (not on any PC here). The fourth is the Agentic account, where real-money AI trading has just begun — a small $100 test, kept inside strict limits. The rule is simple: a strategy only gets real money once it proves it can beat the market (we call this "ramp on proof"). Your main Robinhood account is watch-only — nothing automatic ever trades in it.
Every strategy starts on practice money and builds a track record you can watch on the Scoreboard. To earn real dollars it has to pass three tests:
Pass all three → the strategy gets a small amount of real money (say $100–$250), with a cap on how far it can go. Keep proving itself → it gets more. Fall behind → it goes back to practice money. Winners get fed, losers get starved — and you can see it happen.
Owns a small basket of broad, low-cost index funds only while they're trending up, and automatically steps aside into cash the moment one turns down. Slow and patient — can go weeks without a trade.
Owns 5 funds: SPY (big US companies), QQQ (tech), IWM (smaller US companies), VEA (international), XLV (healthcare).
The opposite style — the "dip catcher." Watches 8 big, stable, heavily-traded names; when one dips a small amount below its very-short-term average and is still in an uptrend, it buys a small slice; when the price pops back up, it sells for a small gain. Many small trades aiming for lots of little wins.
Watches 8 names: AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, NVDA, META, SPY, QQQ.
⛔ Hard safety stop: if a name falls 4% below the buy price it sells right away (a stop order rests at the broker and an in-run check also fires). After a stop, that name sits out for 2 hours — so a small dip that turns into a real drop can't bury us.
A patient "buy the crash" bot, running in the cloud since June 10. It keeps a big list of stable, well-known companies and does nothing most of the time. It only acts when the whole market takes a big fall — about 15% below its recent high. Then it starts buying those stable names at the lower prices and holds them for the recovery.
Right now the market is near its highs, so Bargain is correctly sitting in all cash — its page logs every check it makes. Long quiet stretches mean it's working, not broken. Big crashes are rare, so we may also test it against past ones (2008, 2020, 2022) to see how it would have done.
Your existing real Robinhood account, shown here so you can watch it next to the strategies. The system never makes a trade in it — it only reads the balance and what you hold. Robinhood itself enforces this: the AI can see this account but can only trade the separate Agentic account.
Real trading has started here (June 12). The first move was a $100 test basket — tiny slices of 19 stocks (the ones in your Main account plus the market's best performers over the last 5 years). The AI trades this account through Robinhood's official AI channel, and sends a notification to your phone for every trade.
⛔ Walled off on purpose: this account is kept small and completely separate, so no experiment here can ever touch your Main holdings. It only grows through the "ramp on proof" steps above.
All times US Eastern (ET). Bots run only when the US market is open — never nights, weekends, or holidays.
Every bot run logs a report to its page — if a bot's page stops updating on a weekday, that itself is the warning sign.
The bot pages update themselves every time a bot runs (see the schedule). The Real money page works differently: it shows the last saved snapshot of your Robinhood balances — it is not a live feed and does not refresh by itself.
| Me doing it | This system | |
|---|---|---|
| Emotion | Panic-sells, gets greedy | Feels nothing — follows the rules |
| The stop-loss | Easy to forget or move | Always on, every holding |
| Consistency | Mood & news change my mind | Same rules every single run |
| Timing | Miss it if busy/asleep/travelling | Runs on schedule no matter what |
| Record | In my head | Every decision and order logged on these pages |
| Capital | Bet on a hunch | Real dollars only follow proof, in capped steps |
The golden rule: real money follows proof, in small capped steps — never hope. Before a strategy earns its next dollar it has to beat simply holding the S&P 500 (after costs), with its safety rules working correctly. And the off switch on the AI Control page beats everything else — flip it and all AI trading stops.