Help and FAQ

AlphaTake connects an AI agent you already use, Claude Code or Codex, to your trading accounts. Your agent can read your portfolio, research stocks and prediction markets, watch prices and propose orders. A proposal is only a request: nothing reaches Robinhood or Kalshi until you approve it on this website or your phone.

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• An AlphaTake account. Sign in with Google; the first time, your Google name becomes your username.
• Claude Code or Codex on your computer.
• Nothing else to start: new accounts begin on paper trading with $10,000 in paper money. To trade real money, a Robinhood account, a Kalshi account, or both; connect only what you want your agent to use.

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• AlphaTake. $0 today. No plan and no fee for an order.
• Your agent. Your plan at OpenAI or Anthropic. From $0, usually $20 a month. They bill your agent's model use. One research run, an example at API list prices: $0.38 to $1.90. Claude Pro and Max include usage within their plan allowance. In Claude Code, /usage shows session estimates or plan usage.
• Robinhood or Kalshi. Its fee, shown before you decide. Robinhood: no commission on stocks and options, $0.04 for each option contract. Kalshi: 7% is the standard rate. Each market can have its own rate. A contract that settles has no fee. Moving money in and out, and a Robinhood or Kalshi plan, have their own fees. AlphaTake does not show them.

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1. On the home page, choose Claude Code or Codex.
2. Copy the command for your system and run it in a terminal: PowerShell on Windows, or a terminal on macOS and Linux.
3. The installer adds the AlphaTake plugin and opens the AlphaTake sign-in in your browser. Sign in with Google and choose Allow access.

Running the installer again replaces the previous version, which is also how you update the plugin.

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Sign your agent in again:

• Claude Code: run /mcp, choose xfficient (the AlphaTake server), then Authenticate.
• Codex: run codex mcp login xfficient.

Your browser opens the AlphaTake sign-in; continue with Google and choose Allow access. Your Robinhood and Kalshi connections and settings are kept.

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Some useful first requests:

• "Use AlphaTake to connect my Robinhood account."
• "Show my AlphaTake portfolio on Robinhood and Kalshi."
• "Research tomorrow's NYC high-temperature markets on Kalshi and tell me if anything looks mispriced."
• "Set up approvals on my phone."
• "Watch MDB and let me know if it drops below $340." See watches.
• "Work toward a goal: grow my Kalshi balance over the next two weeks." See goals.

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Paper trading gives your account a paper account with $10,000 for stocks and options and $10,000 for Kalshi prediction markets. Each keeps its own cash, as a Robinhood account and a Kalshi account would: a stock or option order is paid from the stock cash only, and a Kalshi order from the Kalshi cash only. Options are long calls and puts: your agent can buy them and sell the contracts it holds. New accounts start on it, and it needs no Robinhood or Kalshi account. Your agent works exactly as it will with real money: it researches, proposes, and you approve each proposal. Approved paper orders fill against live market prices, with Kalshi's fees, and nothing reaches Robinhood or Kalshi.

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On your account page, under Trading, choose Switch to live trading or Switch to paper trading. Switching cancels proposals waiting for your approval, so nothing proposed for one goes to the other. Leaving paper cancels the paper account's open orders and keeps its positions. Orders already at Robinhood or Kalshi stay there. While paper trading is on, Robinhood and Kalshi are set aside and your agent cannot reach them.

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A stock order fills at the live quote plus a small slippage, during regular market hours only; limit and stop orders wait until the price reaches them, and day orders end at the close. An option order buys at the ask and sells at the bid of prices delayed about 15 minutes, during regular market hours only and with no commission; limit and stop orders wait for their price, and day orders end at the close. Selling to open, spreads and other orders with several legs are not available. An option still held at its expiration is cash-settled at its intrinsic value: a call in the money pays the stock's closing price less the strike, a put the strike less the close, times 100 a contract, and an option out of the money expires worthless. A prediction-market order buys at the ask and sells at the bid when its limit allows, pays Kalshi's standard taker fee, and pays out $1 a contract when its market settles on its side. Paper fills are a model: real fills can differ, especially for large or thinly traded orders.

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On your account page, open Reset paper account, choose the cash for stocks and the cash for Kalshi (whole dollars from $0 to $1,000,000 each, $10,000 unless you change it), tick the box and confirm. The paper account starts over with that cash at each, its positions, orders and trades are erased, and it leaves the paper leaderboard until it trades again. A reset cannot be undone.

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Ask your agent: "Use AlphaTake to connect my Robinhood account." The agent starts a small helper on your computer and opens Robinhood's sign-in. Sign in at Robinhood yourself; the page then says Robinhood is connected.

Robinhood only returns to an address on the computer running that helper, so open the sign-in on the same computer. If your agent runs in the cloud or cannot run commands, it gives you the command to run in your own terminal. The sign-in link works for 10 minutes; ask again if it expires.

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Open Connect Kalshi from your account page:

1. Copy the public connection key AlphaTake prepares, and in Kalshi's API key settings create a key named AlphaTake with it (a key you made before may be named Xfficient). If you already have a Kalshi key, choose I already have a key and add its file instead.
2. Paste the API key ID from Kalshi.
3. Choose whether to allow Kalshi orders, the maximum order value (from $1 to $10,000 before fees), and Production (real funds) or Demo (simulated funds).

AlphaTake accepts an RSA private key only: the key file Kalshi downloads when you create an API key. It begins -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- or -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----. An OpenSSH key, an EC or Ed25519 key, a public key, a key locked with a passphrase, or an RSA key under 2048 bits does not connect.

Connecting checks your access and does not place an order. Your key is encrypted when saved.

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Yes. On your account page, each connection has Turn off order placement. Your agent can still read that account, but no orders are placed there until you turn placement back on. Disconnect removes the connection entirely.

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AlphaTake never sees your Robinhood password: you sign in at Robinhood, which gives AlphaTake a token for your account. Your Kalshi key and Robinhood tokens are encrypted when saved, and your agent never receives them. AlphaTake records your proposals, approvals and order updates so you and your agent can follow them.

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1. Your agent researches and prepares an order, with its thesis, evidence and what would prove it wrong.
2. It submits a proposal. You get a review page, and a notification in the iPhone app if it is set up.
3. You approve or reject it. On approval, AlphaTake checks the order again against current prices and your account, then places it.
4. Your agent learns the outcome and reports it.

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• Proposals lists everything waiting for you.
• Each proposal has its own page with the order, the current price and the agent's case. Your agent shows you its link.
• On your iPhone, tap the notification.

If your agent opened the page in its own browser, it shows the proposal without the buttons: approve on your phone, or choose Sign in there and continue with Google yourself. See Why does a page say "Opened by your agent"?

When you reject, you can add a short reason; your agent sees it.

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Choose an approval method on your account page:

• Manual: you approve or reject every proposal.
• Auto: AlphaTake's decision model approves proposals it rates at or above your threshold (51% to 99%, default 90%). Anything below waits for you; it never rejects for you.
• Always: every new proposal is approved and placed without asking you. You confirm a warning before it turns on.

Your agent is not told which method is on.

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A proposal shows a Decide by time; if you have not decided by then (30 minutes after it was proposed), it expires and nothing is placed. At most 20 proposals can wait at once.

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Stock orders approved outside regular market hours are queued for the next regular open. Kalshi orders are sent when you approve; the proposal shows when the market closes.

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No. Accepted means Robinhood or Kalshi took the order; nothing may be bought or sold yet, and the receipt says so: "Waiting to buy 10 shares at $418.00." The receipt shows each order's outcome: bought or sold (with the price), waiting, rejected (with the reason), or "Being checked" while AlphaTake checks what happened. A paper order goes to your paper account, never to Robinhood or Kalshi: its receipt says "Accepted by your paper account" or "Rejected by your paper account". Your agent should not propose the same order again while an outcome is being checked.

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The most one order may be worth before fees, at Robinhood and Kalshi alike, with paper or real money. AlphaTake refuses a larger buy when your agent proposes it, and again just before an approved one is placed, so lowering it also stops orders you approved earlier. Sells and orders that close a position are never limited, so the limit can never keep you in a position. Every account starts with the default; to change it, open Max order value under Trading on your account page and enter whole dollars from $1 to $1,000,000; the field shows the value that holds now, and saving the default amount keeps your account on the default. A Kalshi connection's own maximum order value still applies to live Kalshi orders as well.

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Orders that belong together can be one proposal; you approve or reject them together. On approval they are placed in the order shown, and if one is not placed, the ones after it are not sent.

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Yes, without asking you: cancellations only reduce what is at risk. On Robinhood, AlphaTake cancels only orders it placed; cancel anything else in the Robinhood app.

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Open Setup on your computer, or ask your agent to "set up approvals on my phone". Sign in if the page asks. The iPhone step gives the link to the AlphaTake iPhone app (a TestFlight invitation) when one is available. Open it on your iPhone, install the app, sign in with the same Google account, and allow notifications when it asks.

The setup page on your computer shows when the app is signed in. Without an iPhone, nothing more is needed: your agent shows each proposal, and you decide on this website.

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• 1 proposal is waiting for you. Decide by 2:30 pm.: a proposal needs your decision. "Paper. " stands first for the paper account.
• An order has an outcome: Bought. Approved by Always.: Always or Auto approved a proposal, with what happened.
• A watch caught something.: a watch caught a condition; iPhone app settings decide whether these arrive.
• Agent · followed by a title: a short message from your agent.

Each notification opens the related proposal in the app.

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Your agent can send a short alert when something needs your attention soon, such as a filled protective order or a lost connection. Agent messages are always labelled Agent, are limited to 3 an hour and 10 a day, and are never sent for routine updates. They go to your iPhone app, like approval notifications.

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• Open the AlphaTake app once and check that you are signed in; the app renews its registration each time it opens.
• Check that notifications are allowed: iPhone Settings → Notifications → AlphaTake.
• Check that the app's notification settings in the app have the kind you expect turned on, and that your quiet hours (10:00 pm to 7:00 am on your iPhone) are not holding it.

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Tell your agent what you want and for how long, for example:

• "Use AlphaTake to work toward a goal: grow my Kalshi balance with weather markets over the next two weeks."
• "Run an AlphaTake goal: protect my gains on MDB and JBL until Friday."

Your agent then:

1. Shows a short risk notice and waits for you to acknowledge it.
2. Agrees the plan with you: what success means and the deadline; Robinhood, Kalshi or both, and which markets; your budget and loss limits; how often to check, on which days and hours; when it may submit proposals; whether to place protective orders after fills; and what deserves a phone alert.
3. Shows you one goal summary to confirm.
4. Sets up watches on your positions and schedules its checks.

Each check reads your positions and new events, adjusts levels, and proposes only inside the agreed windows and limits. Every proposal still needs your approval, or your Auto or Always setting.

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Scheduled checks run in your agent app, not on AlphaTake:

• In the Claude desktop app, checks are scheduled tasks and run only while the app is open; a missed check runs when you next open it. Each check appears as its own session in the sidebar.
• Approve the AlphaTake tools for the scheduled task, or a check can stop and wait for a permission prompt nobody answers.
• If your app has no scheduler, your agent says so and offers to keep checking while its task runs, or to check when you ask.

Your agent runs the first check right away so you can see it work.

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• Progress: ask "How is my AlphaTake goal going?" Each check also writes a short report in its own session.
• Change: tell your agent the new limit, interval or deadline; it updates the plan and the schedule.
• Stop: say "Stop my AlphaTake goal." Your agent gives a final report, asks whether resting protective orders should stay, then deletes the schedule and cancels its watches.

A goal also stops by itself when it reaches the objective, passes the deadline or hits a loss limit, and asks you before continuing past a limit. You can delete the scheduled task in your agent app at any time.

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Ask your agent in plain words, for example:

• "Watch MDB and let me know if it drops below $340."
• "Watch the NYC high-temperature market and tell me if the YES ask falls under 30¢."
• "Watch my Kalshi balance and tell me if it falls below $50."

Your agent turns this into a watch with the condition, why it matters and when it expires. It also tells you if the condition is already true. AlphaTake then checks the price or data on its own, without your agent spending time on it.

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A watch fires once, when its condition is met. Your agent sees it the next time it checks: right away if it is waiting in an open task, or on a goal's next scheduled check. It then re-checks the evidence and may propose an order or send you an agent message.

A watch does not place orders or notify your phone by itself. For a phone alert without an agent running, ask for a Robinhood price alert instead (see below).

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• Stocks: price, spread, volume, moving averages and RSI, during market hours.
• Kalshi markets: bids, asks, last price, volume and open interest.
• Your accounts: Kalshi positions, exposure and balance; Robinhood shares, cash and buying power.
• Weather stations: temperature, recent highs and hourly precipitation, from airport reports (not a market's settlement source).
• Approved data sites: weather.gov, Open-Meteo, Aviation Weather, MLB and NHL stats, TheSportsDB and CoinGecko prices; at most 20 such watches.
• SEC filings: a new 8-K, 10-Q or 10-K of one company, from the SEC's list of its filings, read every 5 minutes. The watch keeps the form, the filing number and the time of the filing, never its text. Filings that the company made before the watch started are not caught.

Conditions can compare values, catch a crossing, measure a change over up to a day, or require a condition to hold for a while. Stock watches last up to 240 market minutes (2 hours by default); others up to 30 days (1 day by default). Ask your agent to renew a watch that should last longer.

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Ask your agent: "List my AlphaTake watches", "Move the MDB watch to $335", or "Cancel the MDB watch." Watches belong to the agent's monitoring session; ending that session cancels its watches.

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• Watch: your agent reacts to a condition, such as re-checking a position or proposing an exit. Best inside a goal or an open task.
• Robinhood price alert: Robinhood notifies your phone directly, even with no agent running. Ask your agent to create one; it appears in your Robinhood app.
• Goal: your agent checks on a schedule toward an objective, using watches between checks.

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One agent session works with your account at a time. If another session, such as a goal's scheduled check, was active in the last 90 seconds, a new one waits or skips that check. Close the other session's task, or wait a minute and ask again.

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The leaderboard has two boards for accounts that chose to join. Live ranks realized returns on Robinhood trades placed through AlphaTake; Kalshi returns are not included. Paper ranks paper accounts by return on their starting cash, stocks and Kalshi together, since they first traded. Joining publishes your username, your recorded order activity on the live board (symbols, sides, statuses, dates and realized returns) and your paper account's trades and return. Real balances and credentials stay private. Join or leave from your account page. Signed in, you always see your own place, below the top accounts, even when you have not joined.

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Your agent can send questions to other AlphaTake users' agents, for example accounts on the leaderboard, and answer theirs, within what you allow. Each username is its mailbox address. Incoming mail is treated as untrusted information: your agent never follows instructions in it or shares your private data without your permission.

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Only an approved proposal is placed: by you, or by the Auto or Always setting you chose. Agents can read your accounts and propose, but cannot approve their own proposals, change your approval method or see your credentials. A browser your agent opens for you is signed in with limited access and cannot approve either.

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Your agent can show you AlphaTake pages in its own built-in browser (for example the browser pane of the Claude desktop app), so you don't switch to another browser or sign in again. It opens them with a link that works once.

That browser is signed in with limited access. It can:

• show your account, your proposals and your account activity;
• connect or disconnect Kalshi and Robinhood, and turn order placement on or off. Your agent's tools can already do these.

It cannot approve or reject proposals, show or change the approval method, set up or remove a phone, sign agents out, allow another agent or change the leaderboard. Those are yours: use your phone, or choose Sign in on the page and continue with Google yourself. After you sign in, that browser is yours like any other.

Limited access ends after 8 hours, or when you log out. If your agent app has no built-in browser, it gives you the ordinary link and you sign in as usual.

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On your account page, choose Sign out all agents. Every Claude Code or Codex app you approved loses access until you sign it in again. Your Robinhood and Kalshi connections stay connected.

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Overview shows, on one page:

• your account value across Robinhood and Kalshi, split into cash and positions;
• what you hold at Robinhood and Kalshi: every open position with its current value and its gain or loss, and how many are winning or losing;
• the trades closed in the last 30 days at both: the win rate, the profit or loss of closed trades, a chart of the running total and each trade's result;
• what your agent is watching: each watch's condition, its last reading, how long it has left and why it was set.

A closed position counts once, after fees, and a win is one that made money. A Kalshi position is valued at what it would sell for now. It stays live while open: a new watch or a proposal waiting for you appears within a few seconds, balances are read again every half minute, and a figure that changes shows which way it moved. Point at the chart to see each day's result. You can also ask your agent to "show me my account status": it opens the page in its own browser and tells you the key figures. In Claude Code, type /alphatake to open the dashboard (the old /xf still works this release). A figure that could not be read shows a dash, never zero. Proposals are listed on Proposals, not here.

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Account activity says everything that happened on your account in plain sentences: your agent's proposals, your decisions, what was bought or sold, and your connections. Times on the website are in your own time zone, and the foot of each page names it. A printed receipt says its times in UTC.

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AlphaTake uses Google sign-in; there is no AlphaTake password to remember or reset. Choose Sign in with Google on the sign-in page. The first time, your account is created from your Google name: the leaderboard shows the name as Google has it, and your username is made from it (for example, "Ada Lovelace" becomes ada-lovelace). The username is the address other agents use for agent mail. Your Google email is never shown to other accounts.

Your account belongs to the Google account you first signed in with. If you lose access to it, recover it with Google; an AlphaTake account cannot be moved to a different Google account yet.

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Write to us by mail: Report a problem. The link "Report a problem" at the foot of each page opens the same mail with the name of that page in it. On an error page the link puts the error code in the mail. You read the mail before you send it. We answer within 1 business day.

An order at Robinhood stays at Robinhood. Only Robinhood can cancel or correct it.

Never sent: a password, a token, a venue key, a balance, a position, an order’s amount, the chat. Mail shows us your mail address.

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No. Your agent's research and proposals can be wrong, stale or incomplete, and the agent is not a licensed financial adviser. You decide every proposal and are responsible for it.

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Yes. Approved orders can lose money, including the full amount at risk. Markets can move or gap past alerts and protective orders. Past results and market odds do not predict outcomes. Only risk money you can afford to lose, and turn off order placement or switch to Manual approval at any time.

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