AI trading software that runs on your computer.
Nearly every tool in this category is a website. You log in, their servers hold your broker connection, and their servers decide when to trade. blank is a desktop application. It installs on your Windows or macOS machine, keeps its configuration on your disk, and talks to your broker from your machine rather than from a data centre you have never seen.
Why it matters where it runs.
It sounds like an implementation detail. It is not. Three reasons, each of which only shows up when something goes wrong.
The decisions are made on your machine
A cloud tool decides and trades from its own servers, whether or not you are there. blank does the research, the reasoning and the order placement from the application on your desk. Your Trading 212 key is held on our servers, encrypted at rest, so you connect it once and the app you sign into can use it, and that key only carries the permissions you grant it, cannot withdraw funds, and can be revoked in Trading 212 at any time.
No shared queue
When a cloud service decides to act on news, it acts for everyone at once, and you are somewhere in that queue. Running locally, your instance is reacting for one account.
You can watch it think
The reasoning is written to a log on your own disk as it happens, not summarised for you afterwards through someone else's interface. If you want to know what it did at 14:32, the answer is on your computer.
The trade-offs.
Local is not better in every way.
Your computer has to be on and connected for the advisor to run. A cloud service does not have that problem, which is a genuine advantage if you want something trading while your laptop is shut. blank's answer is the iPhone app, which acts as a live remote so you can see and control a running session from anywhere, but the session itself is still running on your machine.
You also carry the setup. Installing an application is more friction than opening a browser tab, and updates arrive as new builds rather than silently. Cloud hosting was built for blank and then deliberately shelved for launch, because a hosted instance means running customer trading sessions unattended on our own machines and that is a responsibility worth earning first.
What you install.
A single desktop application for Windows or macOS. It contains the advisor, the research pipeline, the risk engine and the chat panel. On first run you sign in, choose practice or live, and paste a Trading 212 API key if you want live trading. Nothing else is required.
The market research it performs happens from your machine: news feeds, filings, social chatter and market data are pulled by the application on your desk rather than by a shared server farm. The reasoning runs on a hosted AI model, so your questions and the market context around them travel to that provider and back. Your trades and your advisor conversations sync to your blank account so the iPhone app and the dashboard can show them, and your settings stay on your disk. The privacy page sets out exactly what is stored where.
Common questions.
Which AI trading software runs on my own computer?
blank is a desktop application for Windows and macOS that runs the advisor locally rather than in a vendor cloud. Most alternatives in this category are web applications where the vendor's servers hold your broker connection and make the decisions.
Does my computer need to stay on?
Yes. The advisor, and the stop-losses and take-profits on your open positions, only run while the blank app is open and your computer is awake and online. That is the trade-off against a cloud service, and keeping it running while you hold positions is your responsibility. The blank iPhone app acts as a live remote so you can watch and control a running session from anywhere, but the session itself runs on your machine.
Where is my broker API key stored?
On blank's servers, encrypted at rest, so you connect it once and the desktop app you sign into can use it to place trades on your account. Trading 212 keys carry only the permissions you grant, cannot withdraw funds, and can be revoked in Trading 212 at any time.
Is there a cloud version?
It was built and then deliberately shelved for launch. Hosting means running customer trading sessions unattended on our own machines, which is a responsibility worth earning before taking on.
Does it work on Linux?
The desktop builds are Windows and macOS. There is no supported Linux build at launch.
Your machine, your account, your journal.
Install it, run practice mode, and read the reasoning on your own disk.
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