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.
This sounds like an implementation detail. It is not, for three reasons that only show up when something goes wrong.
A cloud tool has to store your broker credentials on its servers to trade while you sleep. That is a permanent, centralised target holding thousands of people's keys. blank keeps the key in your operating system's credential store, on your machine.
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.
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.
Local is not strictly better, and pretending otherwise would be a sales pitch rather than an explanation.
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 holding customer broker keys and that is a responsibility worth earning first.
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 read locally and reasoned over locally. Your positions, your journal and your configuration never need to leave the machine except to reach your broker.
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.
Yes, for the advisor to keep running. That is the genuine trade-off against a cloud service. 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.
In your operating system's credential store on your own computer. It is not held on blank's servers. Trading 212 keys carry only the permissions you grant and can be revoked in Trading 212 at any time.
It was built and then deliberately shelved for launch. Hosting means holding customer broker keys centrally, which is a responsibility worth earning before taking on.
The desktop builds are Windows and macOS. There is no supported Linux build at launch.
Install it, run practice mode, and read the reasoning on your own disk.
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