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Trade with a process, not a guess.
Nelkins helps you understand a setup, challenge it, control the risk, practice it on paper, and learn from the result.
NELKINS AI TRADING MENTOR
Beginner Mode · Learn first. Paper trade second.
Your job is not to find a trade every day. Your job is to understand the setup, wait for evidence, define where the idea is wrong, size the risk, simulate it, and review your process.
Paper only1× max leverage0.5% max risk/trade1.5% daily stopNo short selling
MENTOR STATUSAI provider requiredThe deterministic safety and teaching layer remains active even without an AI provider.Live execution remains locked.
EVIDENCE READINESS
Nelkins will not invent a trade to keep you busy
WAIT — evidence stack is incomplete.A real setup still requires evidence, risk checks and sufficient specialist agreement. System readiness is not itself a buy signal.
WHAT DO I DO NEXT?
Your six-step trading workflow
Learn the setup in plain English before looking at an order ticket.
Only surface evidence-backed setups; weak conditions may produce no trade.
Technical, macro, news, sentiment and risk views can disagree or abstain.
Protective stop, size, exposure, drawdown and cash rules are enforced server-side.
Practice execution without putting real capital at risk.
Grade whether you followed the process, not whether one trade happened to win.
DECISION LANGUAGE
What Nelkins can tell you
STRONG BUY SETUPHigh-confidence evidence with low disagreement. Still paper-only and risk-checked.
BUY SETUPA valid idea to study and simulate after the risk engine passes it.
WATCHInteresting, but one or more confirmations are still missing.
WAITNo new directional risk. Let the evidence improve.
AVOIDRisk or uncertainty is too high for Beginner Mode.
EXIT / REVIEWReview an existing position; never treated as permission to open a beginner short.
NO TRADE is a successful decision.The AI council is explicitly allowed to abstain when agreement, evidence, coverage or confidence is insufficient.
EXPLAIN LIKE I'M NEW
Learn the language of a setup
Why can WAIT be the best decision?
You do not have to be in the market. If evidence conflicts, confidence is weak, volatility is unsuitable, or risk rules fail, doing nothing protects both capital and decision quality.
AI EXPERT COUNCIL
One model does not get the final word
Trend, structure, momentum and invalidation.
Rates, regime, liquidity and cross-market context.
Verified event risk and time-sensitive catalysts.
Crowding and behavioral pressure without treating popularity as truth.
Asks whether the setup deserves any capital at all.
Specialist conflict can force an abstention. AI output is evidence-bound and cannot override deterministic risk controls or unlock live execution.
POST-TRADE COACH
Grade your process, then learn your patterns
Review history is stored locally on this device. It never changes server-owned risk limits or execution permissions.
PROCESS GRADE—Complete the checklist after a simulated trade to start your learning profile.
Complete a paper-trade review to start building your learning profile.
PROGRESSION
Complexity is earned, not dumped on you
1LearnPlain-English concepts + paper only
2PracticeStructured paper portfolio
3ProveConsistent rule adherence
4AdvancedMore instruments and strategies
×LiveSeparately certified and explicitly enabled
VIDEO-LEARNED BEGINNER PLAYBOOK
Context → confirmation → risk → evidence
A rules-first study workflow distilled from the supplied day-trading tutorials. It is a checklist and research model, not a signal service.
Current decisionWAIT
Rule completeness0%
6 conditions still missing. No trade is a correct outcome.
Setup checklist
What the app now teaches
- 15m → 1m, not 1m alone.Use the larger chart to define location before looking for a trigger.
- Confirmation beats prediction.A structure shift must be observed; the system should not invent one.
- Confluence is a filter.Fibonacci and FVG are only useful as rule components, never guarantees.
- Risk is chosen first.Beginner sizing remains capped by the server risk engine at 0.5% maximum risk per trade.
- One outcome proves nothing.Judge the playbook over a sample and journal process separately from P&L.
EXPECTANCY LAB
Stop chasing win rate by itself
A lower win rate can still have positive expectancy when average winners are meaningfully larger than average losses. These are research statistics, not forecasts.
Expectancy0.80R / trade
Breakeven win rate20.0%
Evidence stageLearn the rules
1ObserveFind the repeatable pattern
2RulebookMake every condition explicit
3Backtest30 = preliminary · 100+ preferred
4Paper tradeUse unchanged rules
5ReviewTrack R and process
6ProveConsistency before complexity
Creator-specific claims about daily profits, leverage or guaranteed results are not imported into Beginner Mode. Nelkins keeps equities/ETFs, no new shorts, 1× leverage, protective stops, capped risk and paper-only execution as the controlling rules.
BEGINNER PRE-TRADE CONTROL
Safe position-size & R-multiple lab
Paper onlyMax 0.5% riskProtective stop requiredNo short selling
Maximum planned loss$25
Maximum units12
Order notional$1,200
Reward / risk1 : 3.00
Study-target profit$72
What does R mean?1R is the amount you planned to lose if the setup is invalidated. A 3R target means the possible reward is three times that planned risk. It does not mean the trade has a 3× higher chance of winning.
This calculator teaches sizing; it does not authorize a trade. The server risk engine independently revalidates the order, stop, portfolio exposure, drawdown, velocity and cash buffer before any paper execution.
ADVANCED OPERATOR VIEW
System detail stays available without overwhelming Beginner Mode.
These controls expose research, infrastructure and audit information. They do not relax the beginner safety policy.
AI DECISION ENGINE
Evidence-bound intelligence
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Expert provider awaiting configuration
Conclusions remain evidence-bound, confidence-gated and unable to place or approve trades. Low-confidence outputs must abstain.
Review beginner councilFULL PLATFORM COVERAGE
Markets
EquitiesAvailable to Beginner Mode after data certification
ForexAdvanced access / certification required
CryptoAdvanced access / certification required
IndicesAdvanced access / certification required
CommoditiesAdvanced access / certification required
DerivativesAdvanced access / certification required
RESEARCH REGISTRY
Available strategies
RESEARCH
Backtest integrity
- Next-bar execution prevents same-bar lookahead
- Fees and adverse slippage included
- Win rate and profit factor use net trade P&L
- Ordered OHLC validation enforced
ACCOUNTING
Paper portfolio ledger
- Server-owned portfolio and risk state
- Atomic order claims and duplicate suppression
- Paper fills update positions and cash
- Reconciliation jobs retry and dead-letter
TRUST LAYER
Security and audit controls
Signed requestsHMAC-SHA256 · timestamp · nonce · replay denial
Audit integrityCanonical payloads · SHA-256 hash chain
Beginner safeguardsStop required · risk capped · no shorts · paper only
Live executionDisabled · kill switch engaged · zero certified adapters