Algorithmic Precision,
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No. Your funds stay in your brokerage account under your control. AutoPilot Trader sends trade signals through a secure third-party execution provider to your connected broker. You can disconnect at any time and you always retain full access to your account.

Micro contracts put the system within reach of a modest account. The honest answer to what you specifically need is on the performance page, where you enter your balance and your drawdown limit and it tells you what a configuration would have done to that account.

This matters more than most people expect. Dollar results scale directly with contract count, so a smaller account produces proportionally smaller results than a larger one running the identical system. That's arithmetic rather than a difference in the strategy.

That depends on your account size, your contract count, and the conditions during the period you trade. Rather than quote a headline figure that ages, we publish the entire record on its own page: every month, the drawdowns beside the returns, and the raw daily files free to download.

Read it before you buy. If the reporting doesn't satisfy you, don't purchase. That is exactly what it is there for.

They run off one engine. Core takes every qualifying setup the framework finds. Shield adds two filters that pass on some of those setups, which costs it profit when conditions are good and protects it when they aren't.

Choose from how your account is structured. A cash account with room to sit through a normal drawdown runs Core. An account with a hard floor, whether that's a prop evaluation, a trailing limit or a small balance, runs Shield. We set the choice with you on the call, and both records are published side by side.

Pick one and review it quarterly. Switching builds because the one you're running just had a bad month is the most reliable way to capture the worst of both.

Position size determines the exit structure, because the system splits its exits across the contracts you run. At three contracts it takes a first target, a second target, and holds a runner for the extended part of a move. At two there is no runner. At one there is no first target either, so the position runs to the second target or stops out.

This is why three contracts is the recommended size and why every figure we publish is quoted at the size the strategy is designed around. A "one contract" number derived by dividing a three-contract result would describe a trade with a runner the holder never carries. The performance page runs each size as its own record rather than dividing.

Tradovate, TradeStation, NinjaTrader, TopstepX, and TastyTrade. If you don't have an account yet, we'll help you open one during setup.

Yes, with caveats worth understanding before you commit. Prop firms enforce hard drawdown limits, usually intraday and on a trailing basis, so an open position can breach a limit that end-of-day figures never show. A normal red day can close an account that would have recovered within a week.

If you go that route: run Shield, use micro contracts, take a Straight2Funded or instant-funded account to skip the eval churn, and size below what the tool allows rather than at it. Check your firm's rules on automated strategies first. We recommend funded cash accounts where you have the choice.

Most of our users did. Running an automated strategy doesn't mean abandoning your manual trading. Many members run APT alongside their own discretionary trading, on separate accounts or the same one.

Your annual license includes every future update, and the system is under continuous research rather than sitting frozen. When testing shows a rule has stopped earning its place, it gets replaced and the new build ships to existing licenses at no additional cost. That has already happened more than once, and the current generation replaced a mechanic that had survived years of audits before the evidence turned against it.

That said, no strategy works in every market condition and we won't claim otherwise. Some months are red. We publish those too.

Market capacity. Beyond roughly 250 simultaneous users, order flow impact begins to degrade fill quality for everyone running the system. Limiting total licenses protects the results, which is why pricing rises as we approach capacity.

All sales are final. This is an annual license for a professional trading system, not a consumer product.

What we give you instead is a genuine way to evaluate it first. The full performance record, the raw data files, the sizing tool and the monthly reviews are all public before you spend anything.

If you want to go further than reading, trade the framework yourself. The Trader's Thinktank includes THT Signals, the same entry logic APT executes, plotted live on your charts as a TradingView indicator. You see the entries fire in real market conditions, take the trades manually, and judge the framework on your own screen before automating it. Most of our APT members came through exactly that path.

You renew at the rate you joined at. We don't raise pricing on existing members, so increases apply to new licenses only as we approach the 250 cap.

Yes, and running strategies that don't lose money on the same days is how you lower the drawdown your account carries without giving up the same share of return. There are two things to get right.

Each strategy needs its own book at the broker, because two running on the same contract in one account net against each other and both then believe they still hold a position. And on a funded account, two strategies that can hold opposite positions at the same time counts as hedging, which most firms treat as terminable. Multi-strategy setups belong on a personal account. The sizing tool on the performance page works all of this out for whatever combination you pick, and we configure it with you on the call.