# Autopilot

> Autopilot helps investors select portfolios and connect an existing brokerage so trades can be placed automatically.

## Autopilot Journal

Ideas, research, and product notes from Autopilot.

- [Human-readable journal](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog)
- [Structured article index](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/index.json)
- [JSON Feed](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/feed.json)
- [RSS Feed](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/rss.xml)
- [Full agent context](https://start.joinautopilot.com/llms-full.txt)

## Articles

- [Copy trading vs following a Portfolio: what the words mean, why we picked one, and what peer-to-peer investing actually is](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/copy-trading-vs-following-a-portfolio): Why Autopilot says following instead of copy trading, what peer-to-peer investing means, and how it works in your brokerage account.
- [Portfolio tracking vs portfolio management: which one you actually want, what a good tracker shows, and where Autopilot fits](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/portfolio-tracking-vs-portfolio-management): The difference between portfolio tracking and portfolio management, what a good tracker shows, and where Autopilot fits.
- [What a flat investing fee means at your balance: the small-account math, what Premium Tier is for, and how to leave](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/flat-fee-at-your-balance): How to calculate what Autopilot's flat fee means at your account balance, what Premium Tier is for, and how to leave.
- [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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/investors-people-ask-us-to-track): Where to find 13F filings for Coatue, Soros, Third Point, and other investors people ask us to track, and what EDGAR shows.
- [How Autopilot works with your Charles Schwab account](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-with-schwab): How Autopilot works with your Charles Schwab account: connect, follow a Portfolio, and keep custody at Schwab.
- [The Inverse Cramer Portfolio: what it follows, what happened with the Inverse Cramer ETF idea, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/inverse-cramer-portfolio): What the Inverse Cramer Portfolio 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/all-weather-portfolio): What Ray Dalio's All Weather idea is, what Autopilot's version changes, and how following it works.
- [Where your money actually is when you use Autopilot: allocation, custody, and why the app's balance won't match your brokerage balance](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/where-your-money-is): Where your money sits when you use Autopilot: allocation, custody, and why the app balance will not match your brokerage.
- [When Autopilot actually trades: market hours, the first fifteen minutes, and why an order can wait](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/when-autopilot-trades): When orders go out: 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/why-your-returns-differ): Why your returns will not match the Pilot's: proportional following, timing, fractional shares, and leftover cash.
- [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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/what-autopilot-trades): What Autopilot will and will not trade: stocks and ETFs only, never options, crypto, or shorts.
- [Selling by hand while you follow a Portfolio: what Autopilot does next, and the two buttons to use instead](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/manual-trades-and-autopilot): What happens if you sell Autopilot positions by hand, and the withdraw and blacklist buttons to use instead.
- [How to reduce, withdraw, stop, or leave: changing an allocation, deleting a Portfolio, cancelling a subscription, disconnecting, and deleting your account](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-to-stop-or-leave): How to reduce an allocation, withdraw, delete a Portfolio, cancel a subscription, disconnect, or delete your account.
- [Subscriptions, plainly: what Basic Tier does, what Premium Tier does, and why one Pilot subscription covers all of that Pilot's Portfolios](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-autopilot-subscriptions-work): What Basic Tier and Premium Tier do, 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/following-more-than-one-portfolio): How following more than one Portfolio works: allocations, buying power, and one Pilot subscription.
- [Using Autopilot outside the US: what works, what doesn't, which brokerages might, and how the international waitlist works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-outside-the-us): Using Autopilot outside the US: what works, which brokerages might, and how the international waitlist works.
- [Autopilot and margin: what happens if your brokerage account has margin enabled, and how to make sure you're only investing cash](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-and-margin): What happens if your brokerage account has margin enabled, and how to make sure you are only investing cash.
- [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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-autopilot-connects): How Autopilot connects to your brokerage: tokens, not passwords; orders, not withdrawals; and how to cut it off.
- [How Pilots work: who they are, how they get paid, what they aren't, and how to become one](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-pilots-work): What a Pilot is, how Pilots get paid, what they are not, and how to become one.
- [The Autopilot marketplace: who publishes here, the three kinds of Portfolios, how one gets listed, and how to judge any of them](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/the-autopilot-marketplace): Who publishes on Autopilot, the three kinds of Portfolios, how one gets listed, and how to judge any of them.
- [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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/leopold-aschenbrenner-tracker): What the Leopold Aschenbrenner Tracker follows from Situational Awareness LP's 13F filings, and what a 13F leaves out.
- [The Y Combinator Portfolio: how a Portfolio of public YC alumni works, who runs it, and what it is not](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/y-combinator-portfolio): How a Portfolio of public Y Combinator alumni works, who runs it, and why it is not investing in YC.
- [The NASDAQ-10 Portfolio: what it holds by rule, where leveraged single-stock ETFs come in, and why that changes the risk](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/nasdaq-10-portfolio): What the NASDAQ-10 Portfolio 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/ai-leaders-portfolio): A former Citadel and Coatue analyst's AI infrastructure Portfolio, and how it differs from the AI-model Portfolios.
- [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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/michael-sikand-portfolios): Michael Sikand's Memory Supercycle, Photonics Is Next, and Asymmetric Bets Portfolios, and why he leads with the risk warning.
- [The AI-theme Portfolios on Autopilot: who runs them, what each one is betting on, and how they differ from the AI-model Portfolios](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/ai-theme-portfolios): Who runs the AI-theme Portfolios, what each 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/inthemoney-actively-managed): What InTheMoney's Actively Managed Portfolio does, what actively managed means for your account, and how following 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/peter-wolff-portfolios): Peter Wolff's seven Autopilot Portfolios, how Flagship differs from Top 15, 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/quiver-quantitative-portfolios): The four Quiver Quantitative Portfolios with fact sheets, what KnowIt AI is, 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/the-crypto-bull-portfolio): How The Crypto Bull Portfolio gets crypto exposure through stocks and ETFs, since Autopilot does not trade coins.
- [Hands-off or pick your own stocks? How to decide, what hands-off actually automates, and the hybrid most people end up with](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/hands-off-or-pick-your-own): How to decide between a hands-off strategy and picking your own stocks, and the hybrid most people end up with.
- [Insider trading vs tracking public disclosures: what's illegal, what's public, and what following a filing actually is](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/insider-trading-vs-public-disclosures): What insider trading is, what public disclosures are, and why following a filing is the opposite of insider trading.
- [How the AI-model Portfolios are built: what GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek actually do, who runs them, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/ai-model-portfolios): How GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek Portfolios are built, who runs them, and how following works in your brokerage account.
- [Can an AI pick stocks? What we learned running GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek Portfolios in real accounts](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/can-an-ai-pick-stocks): What running GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek Portfolios in real accounts teaches about AI stock picking.
- [Is AI stock picking legit, and which model is best? How to check instead of guessing](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/is-ai-stock-picking-legit): How to check whether AI stock picking is legit and compare models using dated fact sheets instead of guessing.
- [Portfolio tracker apps for famous investors: what tracking Berkshire, Citadel, or Pershing Square gives you, and how following in your own account differs](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/tracker-apps-for-famous-investors): What tracker apps for Berkshire, Citadel, Pershing Square, and other famous investors show you, and how following in your own account differs.
- [Autopilot, Alinea, and Dub: three apps for following other investors, and how each one works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-alinea-and-dub): How Autopilot, Alinea, and Dub compare on custody, who you can follow, fees, and how you leave.
- [A beginner's investment strategy, from someone who used to think index funds were enough](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/beginner-investment-strategy): A plain guide to beginner investment strategy: horizon, risk, passive vs. active, and where following a Portfolio fits.
- [What Autopilot is, who runs it, and how following a Portfolio works in your own brokerage account](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/about-autopilot): Learn what Autopilot is, how Portfolio following works, where your money stays, and what Autopilot Advisers can do in your brokerage account.
- [Every hedge fund and Wall Street Portfolio you can follow on Autopilot, and how each one works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/hedge-fund-and-wall-street-portfolios): See the hedge fund trackers and manager-run Portfolios available on Autopilot, what each follows, and what public filings leave out.
- [The Buffett Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Berkshire Hathaway, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/buffett-tracker): What the Buffett Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Berkshire Hathaway, and how following works.
- [The Burry Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Scion Asset Management, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/burry-tracker): What the Burry Tracker 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/citadel-tracker): What the Citadel Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Citadel Advisors, and how following works.
- [The Jim Simons Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Renaissance Technologies, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/jim-simons-tracker): What the Jim Simons Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Renaissance Technologies, and how following works.
- [The Point 72 Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Point72 Asset Management, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/point-72-tracker): What the Point 72 Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Point72 Asset Management, and how following works.
- [The Dalio Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Bridgewater Associates, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/dalio-tracker): What the Dalio Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Bridgewater Associates, and how following works.
- [The Ackman Tracker: what it follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Pershing Square, and how following works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/ackman-tracker): What the Ackman Tracker follows, what a 13F can and can't tell you about Pershing Square, and how following works.
- [How to see what Berkshire Hathaway bought in any quarter, where the filing is, when it posts, and how to read it](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-to-see-what-berkshire-bought): How to see what Berkshire Hathaway bought in any quarter, where the filing is, when it posts, and how to read it.
- [How to invest like a hedge fund without being an accredited investor: the four doors and what each one costs you](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/invest-like-a-hedge-fund-without-being-accredited): 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](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/13f-tracker-apps-and-sites-compared): 13F tracker apps and sites compared: data sites, marketplaces, and advisers that work inside your account.
- [How to choose which investor to follow: attribution, survivorship, concentration, and when to stop](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-to-choose-which-investor-to-follow): Learn how to evaluate a Portfolio's live record, concentration, drawdown, decision-maker, and exit plan before you follow it.
- [How professional investors decide when to sell a position](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-professional-investors-decide-when-to-sell): Learn how professional investors think about selling, position sizing, changing evidence, and exit rules before a position goes wrong.
- [How hedge funds actually run money: picking, sizing, shorting, and risk, explained for someone who wants to follow them](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-hedge-funds-actually-run-money): How hedge funds actually run money: picking, sizing, shorting, and risk, explained for someone who wants to follow them.
- [How Autopilot works with your eToro account](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-with-etoro): See how Autopilot and eToro fit together, what each company does, and what to check before trying to connect your account.
- [How Autopilot works with Public, our default brokerage partner](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-with-public): How Autopilot works with Public, including the disclosed referral relationship, product roles, costs, and performance records.
- [Autopilot and Titan: two ways to get active management without picking stocks](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-and-titan): A structural comparison of Autopilot and Titan for investors considering hands-off, actively managed strategies.
- [Autopilot and Composer: choosing a Portfolio or building a rule](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/autopilot-and-composer): See how Autopilot's published Portfolios differ from Composer's rules-based strategies, including control, records, costs, and brokerage setup.
- [Copy trading vs a robo-advisor: what's the difference, and what does each one cost you?](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/copy-trading-vs-robo-advisor): The practical differences between following a Portfolio and using a robo-advisor, including fees, diversification, and control.
- [Why people track Nancy Pelosi's trades, and the two ways to act on it: an ETF or a tracker](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/two-ways-to-act-on-pelosi-trades): Why congressional trades draw attention and how politician trackers differ from party-based exchange-traded funds.
- [Which brokerages work with Autopilot, and what if yours doesn't?](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/which-brokerages-does-autopilot-support): How to check which brokerages Autopilot supports, what account access means, and what to do when an integration is unavailable.
- [What does Autopilot cost? Every fee, what adds on, and how to figure out if it's worth it for you](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/what-does-autopilot-cost): See Autopilot's current fee structure, what your broker and funds may charge, and how to calculate the real cost at your account balance.
- [Is it safe to connect your brokerage to an investing app? Five checks, and how we answer them](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/is-it-safe-to-connect-your-brokerage): Five practical checks for evaluating the structure, registration, permissions, technology risks, and disclosures of an investing app.
- [What's a 13F, and can you actually see what Warren Buffett bought last quarter?](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/what-are-13f-filings): What Form 13F reveals about institutional holdings, what it omits, and why its reporting delay matters.
- [How to see what Congress is buying, what the STOCK Act actually says, and how a politician tracker works](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-to-track-congress-stock-trades): How congressional transaction disclosures work, where to find them, and what a politician-tracking strategy can and cannot show.
- [What is copy trading and how does it actually work?](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/what-is-copy-trading): How copy trading and Portfolio following work, including account structure, performance differences, costs, and risks.
- [Rebalancing, drift, and diversification when you follow a Portfolio: what actually happens in your account](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-rebalancing-works-when-you-follow-a-portfolio): How rebalancing, allocation drift, taxes, cash flows, and diversification affect an account following a Portfolio.
- [How to read a Portfolio's track record before you follow it](https://start.joinautopilot.com/blog/how-to-read-a-portfolios-track-record): Five checks for evaluating a Portfolio's live track record, including fees, drawdown, volatility, and measurement window.