The dashboard
Everything it did,
and why it did it.
Positions, orders, trade log, screener output, risk status and the reasoning behind every entry — on your own server, reachable from anywhere.
A trading automation engine that monitors positions, rotates sectors, detects early movers and enforces risk limits — continuously, on your own server, through your own brokerage account.
Positions, orders, trade log, screener output, risk status and the reasoning behind every entry — on your own server, reachable from anywhere.
Each runs on its own schedule and places real orders through your brokerage. Nothing waits for you to be at a screen.
They are not thirty five separate bots. An early-mover entry, a momentum trade and an options spread all pass through the same risk ceiling, the same monitoring layer, and the same nightly calibration — the strategies differ, the discipline underneath does not.
Every liquid U.S. equity is scanned nightly on momentum, RSI positioning and 30-day return. The shortlist that comes out is the only thing the rest of the system is allowed to act on — sizing, sector weighting and every stop below all trace back to this list, not a hunch.
Positions are re-checked every fifteen minutes — stops, trailing rules, sell orders placed immediately on a trigger. Options Greeks and credit-spread structure run on that same clock during market hours. Crypto is checked every thirty minutes, day and night, because that market never closes. Each position type has the monitor built for it — none of them share a blind spot.
Twice a week the macro regime is rebuilt from a dozen-plus economic series — inflation, the yield curve, credit spreads, manufacturing, housing, the dollar. When a theme clears the bar, the entry is staged: a partial position on the macro signal, the rest only once price actually confirms it. The system is early, not first — it waits for the market to start agreeing with the data before it commits in full.
Daily loss limit reached, the system halts. Drawdown exceeded, the system halts. Position too concentrated, the entry is blocked before it is placed. These are enforced limits, not reminders you are free to ignore.
The models trade every session, and every session is fed back in. Entries, sizing and exit rules are re-evaluated against both the historical record and the current day's fills — so the system is tuned against live conditions rather than fixed at install and left to drift.
Where protecting the account and pursuing a position conflict, the system protects the account. That is not a setting you switch on — it is the order the rules are written in.
Position sizing, stop placement, concentration limits and the daily loss ceiling all derive from that priority. Growth is what the engine pursues once the account is defended, never before.
“The secondary market for U.S.-listed equity securities is now primarily automated… manual handling of institutional orders is increasingly rare, and has been replaced by sophisticated institutional order execution algorithms.”U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets
In a single year, adoption went from a minority experiment to something close to half the industry. A further 30% report they are actively investigating it.
Not back-office assistance — decision-making itself. Across 150 managers representing roughly $788bn in assets, the expectation nearly tripled in two years.
Institutions finished this transition years ago. The individual trader is the last participant still watching a screen, still deciding under pressure, still away from the desk at 9:15 in the morning. That asymmetry is not about intelligence. It is about attention, and attention does not scale.
Apex closes it by running the same way institutions do — continuously, and tuned against what actually happened. The difference is that every rule the engine follows remains visible, readable and yours to change. Automation is the advantage. Opacity never had to be part of it.
Starter, Pro or Elite. Pay by card. The licence key arrives immediately — no waiting, no manual approval.
A $12/month droplet, Ubuntu 22.04, 2 GB RAM. Every step is documented with annotated screenshots. Three minutes.
The installer handles the runtime, database, reverse proxy, service and SSL. Your brokerage keys are the only input.
The system is already running — screener armed, monitor active, risk rules enforced. Nothing further is required.
$ curl -fsSL https://setup.apexaitrade.com/install.sh | bashCopyAPI credentials never leave your droplet. We hold no access to your brokerage account — not limited access, none. We are structurally unable to move your money.
Your system runs in isolation on hardware you provision. One server, one trader. No multi-tenant exposure, and no other account's failure reaching yours.
We sell automation software. We are not registered as an investment advisor with the SEC or any other body. Every trading decision remains yours.
No automation can. Trading carries a substantial risk of loss, and a system that executes your rules faithfully can still lose money. Anyone in this category telling you otherwise is selling something else.
You choose the risk profile and the modules you run. The engine executes that choice consistently — it does not decide what your appetite should be.
Apex is not registered as an investment advisor with the SEC or any other body. Nothing the software or this site produces is a recommendation to buy or sell.
No custody, no pooled accounts, no transfers. Your brokerage credentials stay on your server and the funds never leave your own account.