Trade manager, not stock picker
The product is the life of a trade — how much to risk, safety sells, selling most later, and a trailing safety sell — not a portfolio that trades in secret.
Trade manager · Your brokerage · You confirm every buy
You approve the entry. Software keeps the exit honest.
Compound OS is software that picks a small risk size, places a safety sell at your broker, and follows written exit rules on your own Alpaca account. Approving means you tap Yes in the app before any buy happens — nothing buys itself. It is not a hands-off auto-investor, not a secret black-box fund, and not a promise to beat the market.
Approve = you tap Yes before any buy
Buys pause in a mild market dip
About 2% of the account at risk per trade
Safety sells checked and turned back on each morning
Clear job
What Compound OS is
A trade idea arrives — from the system or from you — and Compound OS manages it after you say yes: a safety sell while you wait, then a planned exit when the market climbs back.
In plain EnglishYou decide to get in. The software figures a small risk size, puts a safety sell at the broker, and keeps that protection on. Your money stays in your brokerage account.
You confirm every buy
Approving means you tap Yes in the app before anything buys. After the buy goes through, safety sells and trailing exits run so you do not have to watch every tick.
Your Alpaca account
Live trading uses your keys at Alpaca. The dashboard stays private on a home computer; this site is the public explanation.
What it is not
Not day-trading software, not a hands-off auto-investor, and not a performance claim.
Today’s playbook
The dip-buy plan (momentum, in plain words)
Internally we call this “Compound Mom” — Mom means momentum: buy solid stocks after the broad market dips, then take most profits when it climbs back. It watches the S&P 500 ETF (ticker SPY) versus about the last month’s average price. In a mild dip, new buys stay paused / in review. In a deeper dip, it can offer a buy for you to Approve. When SPY settles back on or above that average, sell about three-quarters and keep about one-quarter on a trailing safety sell.
In plain EnglishWhen the broad market is only a little soft, Compound holds cash on purpose and does not push new buys — that state is “paused / in review.” When the dip is deep enough, it can show a buy card. Approving still means you tap Yes. When the market climbs back, the plan is to sell about three-quarters and keep about one-quarter on a trailing safety sell — if the reason to own it still makes sense.
Market condition for new buys
Mild dip under the month average: no new Approves — buys paused. About −5%: start smaller. About −10%: buy a bit more on the deeper dip if the reason to own it still holds. Back above the average: ride what’s open; new names only if that reason still holds.
Approve only when ready
Approving means you confirm a buy in the app. Cards are meant to appear when the full entry is ready — dip context settled, then a small pullback that holds above the month average — not “unlocked early, then wait.”
Safety sells & climbing back
Under the month average: a protective safety sell. After the market settles back above that line: sell about 75%, keep about 25% on a trailing safety sell that follows how jumpy the stock has been (volatility), if the reason to own it still holds.
Kept separate
A separate weekly buy habit in one fund is not this plan. Other bounce-back strategies and other brokerage accounts are not this product.
From the live app
Real screens from the app
Screens captured from Compound OS on Oct 2, 2026 — Morning Brief, Watchlist, and Portfolio. Not marketing mockups.
Honest noteThat day the market was only in a mild dip, so new buys were paused / in review and no open Approve card was available to photograph. Approving would mean tapping Yes before a buy. Portfolio shows safety sells, Sell most / Exit, and how much you could lose if a safety sell triggers. An Approve-card photo still needs a live card day.
How a day works
How it works day to day
Pick a small slice of risk, wait for you to Approve (tap Yes), place a safety sell, then keep that protection honest overnight and through the session.
1. About 2% of the account at risk
Only a small slice of the account is put at risk on one trade.
2. Approve, then place
Approving means you confirm before anything buys. After the buy goes through, a resting safety sell anchors the trade at the broker.
3. Whole shares vs fractional shares
Whole shares use a longer-lived good-’til-canceled safety sell at the broker. Fractional shares use a same-day safety sell that renews each morning.
4. Check & turn protection back on
If a safety sell is missing, the system resets it — puts protection back on.
Trust
How we talk about results
This site does not invent performance.
Results will go here later
System vs manual outcomes will sit here when the sample is large enough to be fair.
Not populated yetRules stay fixed when measuring
When the playbook earns a measurement window, rules stay fixed so results are comparable.
Process note · not a testimonialSoftware tool only
Not investment advice. Approving means you confirm trades on your own brokerage account.
Legal noteQuestions about Compound OS
Public site: compoundtrader.io. Dashboard and bots stay on a private home computer.