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The Autopilot Journal, by question: every page in one place
Every Autopilot Journal page in one place, grouped by the question you are trying to answer.
I'm Chris, one of the co-founders of Autopilot. Ninety-nine pages later, here's the map. Everything in this Journal answers one question a real person asked, and the pages are grouped below by the question you're likely holding. Start where your question is; every page stands on its own and links to the ones next to it.
One thing first, because we're an SEC-registered investment adviser and I have to say it. Autopilot is the app. The actual investment advice comes from Autopilot Advisers, LLC. If you want the full legal version of anything in here, it's on our disclaimer page.
Start here
- What Autopilot is, who runs it, and how following a Portfolio works in your own brokerage account
- How to get started with Autopilot: the setup, step by step, what happens in the first fifteen minutes, and what to check after
- Is Autopilot on Android and iPhone? Where to download it, and where setup actually happens
- Autopilot promo codes, the Basic Tier, and the credit that actually exists: what's real before you install
- How much money do you need to start on Autopilot? No stated minimum, but three things that decide whether a small allocation works
- Autopilot reviews: the App Store and Google Play ratings, what people actually complain about, and how to check us instead of trusting a thread
- Is Autopilot SEC registered? How to verify it yourself in two minutes, and what registration does and doesn't mean
- How to check whether an investing app is registered, in five minutes: IAPD, BrokerCheck, and what the relationship summary tells you
- Is it safe to connect your brokerage to an investing app? Five checks, and how we answer them
- How Autopilot connects to your brokerage and what it can see and do: tokens, not passwords; orders, not withdrawals; and how to cut it off
- How often to review the permissions you've given a connected trading app, and what to look for when you do
Your money, the mechanics
- Where your money actually is when you use Autopilot: allocation, custody, and why the app's balance won't match your brokerage balance
- When Autopilot actually trades: market hours, the first fifteen minutes, and why an order can wait
- Why your returns won't match the Pilot's: proportional following, timing, fractional shares, and the cash that never got invested
- What Autopilot will and won't trade in your account: stocks and ETFs, never options, crypto, or shorts, and what happens to the positions you already own
- Selling by hand while you follow a Portfolio: what Autopilot does next, and the two buttons to use instead
- Rebalancing, drift, and diversification when you follow a Portfolio: what actually happens in your account
- How to reduce, withdraw, stop, or leave: changing an allocation, deleting a Portfolio, cancelling a subscription, disconnecting, and deleting your account
- Subscriptions, plainly: what Basic Tier does, what Premium Tier does, and why one Pilot subscription covers all of that Pilot's Portfolios
- Following more than one Portfolio: how allocations work, what buying power limits, and why one Pilot subscription covers all of that Pilot's Portfolios
- Autopilot and margin: what happens if your brokerage account has margin enabled, and how to make sure you're only investing cash
- Autopilot and taxes: who sends your forms, what following does in a taxable account, and what we deliberately don't claim
- What Autopilot is not: not a brokerage, not a fund, not a signal service, not your personal financial adviser, and why each one matters
- Using Autopilot outside the US: what works, what doesn't, which brokerages might, and how the international waitlist works
What it costs
- What does Autopilot cost? Every fee, what adds on, and how to figure out if it's worth it for you
- What a flat investing fee means at your balance: the small-account math, what Premium Tier is for, and how to leave
- How much does it cost to follow a portfolio? Autopilot's subscription in dollars, the two layers, and the math at your balance
- How Autopilot makes money: the subscription, the Pilot subscriptions, the Public referral, and the conflict we put in writing
Brokerages
- How Autopilot works with your eToro account
- How Autopilot works with Public, our default brokerage partner
- Which brokerages work with Autopilot, and what if yours doesn't?
- How Autopilot works with your Charles Schwab account
Hedge fund trackers
- Every hedge fund and Wall Street Portfolio you can follow on Autopilot, and how each one works
- The Buffett Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Berkshire Hathaway, and how following works
- How to follow Berkshire Hathaway's holdings in your own brokerage account
- Buy Berkshire Hathaway stock or follow the Buffett Tracker? What each one actually gives you, and why the usual advice is half right
- The Burry Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Scion Asset Management, and how following works
- The Citadel Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Citadel Advisors, and how following works
- How to follow Citadel's disclosed positions in your own brokerage account
- The Jim Simons Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Renaissance Technologies, and how following works
- How to follow Renaissance Technologies in your own brokerage account, and what the Jim Simons Tracker is not
- The Point 72 Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Point72 Asset Management, and how following works
- How to follow Point72's disclosed positions in your own brokerage account
- The Dalio Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Bridgewater Associates, and how following works
- How to follow Ray Dalio's Bridgewater in your own brokerage account: the 13F, the Dalio Tracker, and what a filing can't show
- The Ackman Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Pershing Square, and how following works
- How to follow Bill Ackman's Pershing Square in your own brokerage account, and why nobody can tell you his latest holdings
- How to see what Berkshire Hathaway bought in any quarter, where the filing is, when it posts, and how to read it
- The Leopold Aschenbrenner Tracker: what it follows from Situational Awareness LP's filings, what a 13F can't tell you about an AI fund, and how following works
Pilots and Portfolios
- The Autopilot marketplace: who publishes here, the three kinds of Portfolios, how one gets listed, and how to judge any of them
- How Pilots work: who they are, how they get paid, what they aren't, and how to become one
- How the AI-model Portfolios are built: what GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek actually do, who runs them, and how following works
- The ChatGPT stock portfolio experiment that never stopped: Autopilot's GPT Portfolio, live since May 2023, and how to follow it in your own brokerage
- Is there an app that picks stocks with AI? How the AI Portfolios run in your own brokerage
- Can an AI pick stocks? What we learned running GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek Portfolios in real accounts
- Is AI stock picking legit, and which model is best? How to check instead of guessing
- The Inverse Cramer Portfolio: what it follows, what happened with the Inverse Cramer ETF idea, and how following works
- The All Weather Portfolio on Autopilot: what Ray Dalio's idea is, what this version changes, and how following it works
- The Y Combinator Portfolio: how a Portfolio of public YC alumni works, who runs it, and what it is not
- The NASDAQ-10 Portfolio: what it holds by rule, where leveraged single-stock ETFs come in, and why that changes the risk
- The AI Leaders Portfolio: a former Citadel and Coatue analyst's bet on the companies that power AI, and how to follow it in your own brokerage
- Michael Sikand's Portfolios on Autopilot: Memory Supercycle, Photonics Is Next, and Asymmetric Bets, and why he tells you up front they're high risk
- The AI-theme Portfolios on Autopilot: who runs them, what each one is betting on, and how they differ from the AI-model Portfolios
- InTheMoney's Actively Managed Portfolio: what a YouTube market educator's Portfolio does on Autopilot, and how following it works
- Peter Wolff's Portfolios on Autopilot: the Flagship, the Top 15, the ETF Strategy, the Medical Edge, the AI and Crypto Revolution funds, and the All Weather, and what one subscription covers
- Quiver Quantitative on Autopilot: the Y Combinator, South Korea Is Next, KnowIt AI Flagship, and AI Cash Flow Leaders Portfolios, and what one subscription covers
- The Crypto Bull Portfolio: how a Pilot gets crypto exposure through stocks and ETFs, since Autopilot doesn't trade coins
Comparisons and alternatives
- Autopilot alternatives: the honest list, what each one actually is, and the one question that sorts them
- Autopilot and Titan: two ways to get active management without picking stocks
- Autopilot and Composer: following a person or running a rule
- Autopilot, Alinea, and Dub: three apps for following other investors, and how each one works
- Looking at dub? What to compare before you pick a copy trading app, and where Autopilot is built differently
- Autopilot and M1 Finance: building your own portfolio at a brokerage versus following someone else's in the one you already have
- Autopilot and Wealthfront: a robo-advisor's diversified default versus following a named investor in your own brokerage
- Autopilot and Betterment: automated investing in Betterment's account versus following a named investor in yours
- Autopilot and Danelfin: an AI that scores stocks for you to trade versus an AI Portfolio you can follow, with a live record
- Copy trading vs a robo-advisor: what's the difference, and what does each one cost you?
- What is copy trading and how does it actually work?
- Copy trading vs following a Portfolio: what the words mean, why we picked one, and what peer-to-peer investing actually is
- Portfolio tracking vs portfolio management: which one you actually want, what a good tracker shows, and where Autopilot fits
Choosing and reading a record
- Which Portfolio should I follow first? A decision guide for your first allocation on Autopilot
- How to read a Portfolio's track record before you follow it
- How to choose which investor to follow: attribution, survivorship, concentration, and when to stop
- How professional investors decide when to sell a position
- Is Autopilot good for beginners? Who it suits, who it doesn't, how to try it on Basic Tier, and the four mistakes new followers make
- Hands-off or pick your own stocks? How to decide, what hands-off actually automates, and the hybrid most people end up with
- Is Autopilot a hands-off investing app? What runs on its own, what you still do, and how it differs from a robo-advisor
- Automated investing, explained: what actually runs on its own when you follow a Portfolio in your own brokerage, and what doesn't
Filings and the public record
- What's a 13F, and can you actually see what Warren Buffett bought last quarter?
- How to read a 13F filing, line by line: what's in it, what's missing, and how it differs from 13D and 13G
- How to see what Congress is buying, what the STOCK Act actually says, and how a politician tracker works
- Insider trading vs tracking public disclosures: what's illegal, what's public, and what following a filing actually is
- How to invest like a hedge fund without being an accredited investor: the four doors and what each one costs you
- 13F tracker apps and sites compared: data sites, marketplaces, and advisers that work inside your account
- How hedge funds actually run money: picking, sizing, shorting, and risk, explained for someone who wants to follow them
- Portfolio tracker apps for famous investors: what tracking Berkshire, Citadel, or Pershing Square gives you, and how following in your own account differs
- The investors people ask us to track, and how to follow their filings yourself: Coatue, Soros, Third Point, Einhorn, Druckenmiller, Tepper, Klarman, Icahn, Marks, Pabrai, Li Lu, and Tiger Global
Beginners
How these pages are written
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