Getting started

AI Trader is a news-driven autonomous trading agent. Three times a day — at the Asia, EU and US opens — it reads every fresh news item and scheduled event, asks an AI to score each one, and produces a portfolio brief: which positions to hold, which to trim or close, and which new positions to open. It then executes those decisions on eToro.

1. Stay in demo mode first

Every signal, brief and trade is stamped with a mode (demo or live). In demo, trades are simulated against eToro's demo environment — no real capital moves. Watch at least one full session cycle (typically 8 hours) in demo before you flip to live.

2. Where to look

• Dashboard — agent status, last cycle summary, what needs your attention.
• Briefs — the AI's reasoning. This is the single most useful page to understand what the agent is doing.
• Signals — every news item scored, including the ones it skipped and why.
• Trades — execution log with P&L.
• Jobs — proof the agent is actually running.

3. Verify it's wired up

• Open Config and click Place test trade. It opens a $50 BTC long in your current mode — confirms eToro credentials.
• Open Jobs and confirm at least one cron job has run in the last 30 minutes.
• Open Signals — you should see fresh entries from the last few hours.

4. Tune the risk knobs

Defaults are conservative. The settings to know first:

• min_confidence_to_trade — raise it for fewer, higher-quality trades.
• capital_per_trade — keep this 1–5% of starting_capital.
• max_simultaneous_positions — caps concentration risk.
• max_drawdown_pct — when equity drops this far from peak, the agent auto-pauses.