Auto-pilot
Auto-pilot places and manages trades on your own broker account, following the same rules the app shows you — inside limits you set before it starts, and only for as long as you let it run.
Paper mode needs no broker and no card. Live trading is on the Auto plan.
Before it starts
A session is deliberately time-boxed. You decide how long it runs, how much it may risk on any one trade, and how much it may risk in total. When any limit is reached, it stops — it doesn't ask for more.
| Run for | 4 hours |
| Risk per trade | £25 |
| Session risk cap | £100 |
| Stop after consecutive losses | 3 |
| Daily loss limit | £150 |
| Minimum backtested win rate | 45% |
| Pause around high-impact news | On · ±2h |
| Platform | IG · live account |
Nothing here is a default you have to accept — every line is yours to set, and the session won't start until you do.
Because "set it and forget it" is how people wake up to a week they didn't authorise. A session that expires on its own means the default state is off, and turning it back on is a decision you make while awake.
They keep being managed. The session stops opening new positions, but stops still trail, targets still extend, and reversals still close — right through to the end of the trade. An expired session never abandons money in the market.
While a trade is running
A trade that moves your way shouldn't be allowed to hand it all back. Auto-pilot climbs this ladder automatically — each rung only ever moves the stop in your favour, never against you.
Once the trade has moved one full risk-unit in your favour, the stop moves up to your entry price. From this point the worst realistic outcome is roughly scratch rather than a full loss.
The stop follows the best price the trade has seen, holding one stop-distance behind it. As the move extends, so does the floor underneath it.
When the trade reaches three quarters of its target, the stop jumps to hold a fixed share of the best price seen — a much tighter floor than the trail alone would give.
Rather than closing into a trend that's still running, the target extends and the ratchet re-arms behind it. This can repeat while the move continues.
An honest note on the ratchet. We backtested it properly and it is roughly expectancy-neutral — it does not make more money on average. What it changes is the shape of your results: fewer trades that were well up and finished flat, slightly more that close early. We left it on by default because that trade is easier to live with, not because it earns more. You can turn it off.
Guard rails
Most of the engineering here isn't in placing trades. It's in the cases where auto-pilot decides not to.
Hit your consecutive-loss count or your daily loss limit and the circuit breaker shuts the session down. It does not try to win it back.
High-impact events are known in advance. Auto-pilot stands aside for a window either side rather than being on the wrong end of a spike.
If the backtested win rate for that pair and strategy is below your floor, the signal is skipped — however good it looks right now.
Correlated pairs are sized together, so three "different" trades that are really one bet on the dollar don't quietly become triple risk.
It will add to a winning position in a continuing trend — but only in the same direction, and only once every existing position already has its stop protected.
Per-trade risk, session risk and duration are hard limits, checked before every order rather than totted up afterwards.
| Time | Pair | Action | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:02 | GBP/USD | Opened | Long · £0.45/pip · stop 1.33977 |
| 15:18 | GBP/USD | Stop moved | To breakeven at 1.34533 · +1R reached |
| 16:40 | USD/JPY | Skipped | High-impact news in 38 minutes |
| 17:05 | GBP/USD | Ratchet armed | Stop 1.35012 · holds +18 pips |
| 17:05 | GBP/USD | Target extended | 1.35368 → 1.35592 |
| 18:22 | EUR/USD | Skipped | Win rate 41% below your 45% floor |
The activity log. Every decision, including the ones where it chose to do nothing.
Accountability
You should never have to guess what a piece of software did with your money. Auto-pilot records what it did, when, and the reason — including the trades it declined and why.
Closed trades reconcile themselves against your broker's own record, so the journal matches reality rather than what the app assumed happened.
See what gets recorded →Auto-pilot runs on paper with live prices, free and without a broker connected. Same logic, same guard rails, simulated money — for as long as you want before anything real is at stake.
Live trading is on the Auto plan. Prices include VAT, cancel any time, and new subscriptions can be cancelled within 14 days for a refund. Compare the plans.