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Getting started

What Bellwether is and isn't, your first day, and how a trading day unfolds.

10 articles

Start here if you are new. Ten minutes of reading covers what the system does on its own, what it will never do, and what it needs from you on day one.

  1. What Bellwether is (and isn't)A desk of Claude agents that research, propose and argue, a plain program that alone touches the broker, and you in charge. Paper money until you say otherwise; it never moves money.New to Bellwether4 min read
  2. How do I get it to trade?A new book's path to its first order, the four ways to make something happen sooner, and what a blocked step on the Overview is telling you.New to Bellwether4 min read
  3. How Bellwether worksThe day's rhythm, who places trades (not you), posture vs autonomy in one line, why a new book is paused and how to start it, and what day one looks like.New to Bellwether4 min read
  4. What's the point of Bellwether?Why a staffed desk that reads, argues, sizes, explains and reviews itself is a different thing from a buy button, and what it honestly does not do.New to Bellwether5 min read
  5. Your first dayFrom the setup link to the first morning: sign in, connect Alpaca paper, pick a posture and an autonomy level, and what to do the first time a card appears.New to Bellwether5 min read
  6. Starting with $1,000What a book of about a thousand dollars looks like here. The core is bought in fractions of a share, a handful of picks fit beside it, every order is sized in dollars, and the limits follow the size of the book on their own.New to Bellwether5 min read
  7. The trading dayHour by hour in Central time: the brief, the premarket session, the order window, the check-ins, the close, the journal and the day report, plus what runs when the market is shut.New to Bellwether6 min read
  8. Where do I…?The twelve things operators do most, each with its click path from Overview and the one word to type into the search.New to Bellwether1 min read
  9. Posture vs autonomyPosture is how hard the desk pushes. Autonomy is whether it asks you first. Every limit applies in every mode; the mode only decides who clicks.New to Bellwether3 min read
  10. SearchThe search field at the top of every screen finds symbols, settings and screens, help articles and the research feed, takes you to the exact place, and only ever shows what your access allows.New to Bellwether5 min read