How Bellwether worksGetting startedThe 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.
Your first dayGetting startedFrom 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.
Posture vs autonomyGetting startedPosture 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.
Approve or reject an orderInbox & approvalsWhat Approve actually sends, how to take a mis-tap back, what Reject tells the PM, what happens if you wait, and how it works on a phone.
The kill switchRisk & safety modelPause trading is one click from every screen and never asks for a code; the three kinds of stop the banner tells apart, what a stop blocks and still lets out, where its history lives, what Resume trading does, and what Flatten does.
No trades todayTroubleshooting & FAQThe honest list of reasons a day ends with no orders, most common first, with where to look and what to do about each.
The twelve things operators do most, each with its click path from Overview and the one word to type into the search.
Who it is for
New to Bellwether
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Every one of these is a couple of clicks from Overview or one word away in the search at the top of every (the magnifier icon on a tablet or phone). Type a plain word such as loss, , , prompt, jim or email and pick the result. Safe destinations open straight away; anything that loosens a rule still asks for your on the screen it takes you to. If you cannot find something, ask Consult "where is…": it answers with the same link this list uses.
Where things live. The navigation on the left is one short list in four groups, each separated by a thin line: your book (Overview, Inbox, Portfolio, Desk, Performance, and for now Activity), the rules (Strategy and Risk side by side, then Signals), the market (Markets, Research, Lab) and your account (Accounts, Settings). Consult and Help are pinned under them, and every screen's row is on screen at once on a laptop. On a phone the bottom bar holds Overview, Inbox, Portfolio, Desk and More; More is a grid of every other screen with first, and the Consult button also sits beside the book's name at the top of each page. Strategy and Risk are neighbours on purpose: the posture (one preset that sets every headline limit at once) is chosen on Strategy › Posture, and Risk › Limits is where those limits are fine-tuned one by one and enforced. "Posture" or "change posture" in the search lands on Strategy › Posture.