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Search finds articles about how Bellwether works. Consult answers about your own book: positions, orders, and why it did or didn’t trade.

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16 topics · 76 articles

Getting started

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

All 8 articles

Connect your broker

Linking an Alpaca paper account, what your keys can and cannot do, and how money gets in.

All 3 articles

Your desk

The agents that work for you. What each one owns, what it reads, and which model runs it.

ResearcherPMTrader (coming soon)CriticQuant (coming soon)ConsultExecutorScheduler

All 15 articles

Portfolio

What the book holds, why the desk holds it, what would make it sell, orders that have not filled, and the last month of closed trades.

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Shape how it trades

Posture, autonomy and allocation; the Playbook versus day-to-day Steering; the hard constraints.

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Inbox & approvals

Reading a card, what Approve and Reject actually do, thesis windows and the re-quote on approve.

All 3 articles

Risk & safety model

Limits, halts, the kill switch, why the Executor cannot be talked out of a rule, and the paper-to-live ceremony.

All 6 articles

Algorithms & the Quant

The blend and the bench, on versus off, and how the Quant proposes changes.

All 4 articles

Research & briefs

The morning and midday briefs, scored calls and the hit rate, pins and the feed.

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Bellwether's mind

Reading the mind card on the Overview: headline, desk note, trigger cards with gauges and action pills, what the next session intends, constraints in play.

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Place a trade yourself

Operator orders: entering an order of your own through the same checks. Coming soon.

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Books & sharing

Running more than one book, inviting a viewer, the isolation promise, and your account's security.

All 5 articles

Lab & evidence

Backtests versus the track record, and what does and does not count as proof.

All 4 articles

Notifications & reports

Email and phone notifications, the day report, and the feedback log.

All 2 articles

Troubleshooting & FAQ

No trades today, a rejected order and its check numbers, a failed session, a disconnected broker, and the questions people ask most.

All 7 articles

Reference

The glossary: every Bellwether word, in one sentence each.

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  1. 01How 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.Getting started
  2. 02Your 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.Getting started
  3. 03Posture 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.Getting started
  4. 04Approve or reject an orderWhat Approve actually sends, what Reject tells the PM, what happens if you wait, and how it works on a phone.Inbox & approvals
  5. 05The kill switchHalt is one click from every screen and never asks for a code; the three kinds of halt the banner tells apart, what a halt blocks and still lets out, where its history lives, what Resume does, and what Flatten does.Risk & safety model
  6. 06No trades todayThe honest list of reasons a day ends with no orders, most common first, with where to look and what to do about each.Troubleshooting & FAQ

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