Autopilot is an investing app that lets you follow Portfolios from investors, AI models, and public filings in your own brokerage account.
Automated investing used to mean a robo-adviser building you a mix of funds from a questionnaire. Now you can automate a strategy you pick, in your own brokerage account. How it works, how automatic it is, and what you still do.
Chris Josephs had $50,000 in savings and no time to pick stocks. The main options for a beginner, from index funds and dollar-cost averaging to growth vs. value and bull vs. bear markets, and how following a Portfolio in your own brokerage account works.
How to find a 13F on EDGAR and read it line by line, using Berkshire Hathaway's June 30, 2026 filing: the cover page, every column in the information table, why Apple takes up 12 lines, amendments, confidential treatment, and what a 13F leaves out.
Before you follow anyone, check when the record starts, whether it's live or a backtest, what fees and taxes take out, how far it has fallen, how concentrated it is, and who's behind it. Plus what history says about average stock market returns.
Nobody can tell you in advance which investor to follow. Here's how to judge any of them: what they actually do, how long they've done it live, public filings or their own picks, turnover, concentration, fees, who gets paid, and registration.
What copy trading, mirror trading, and social trading mean, what the SEC and FINRA have said about copy trading, and how following a Portfolio on Autopilot works: a registered adviser, your own brokerage account, and orders that go out over the trading day.
