Hands-Off Trading

Autopilot is Minara's product for users who want to automatically run quantitative trading strategies. It is not a workflow subtype.

Use Agentic Workflows for alerts, briefs, and monitoring. Use Autopilot when you want Minara to keep executing a bounded strategy between your conversations.

⚠️ Autopilot is advanced. Start with small caps, review every decision log, and keep /kill one keystroke away.

What Autopilot is for

Autopilot is the right surface when the user wants:

• An always-on quantitative trading strategy
• Bounded automatic execution with strict per-trade and daily caps
• Strategy-level pause / resume / disable controls
• A decision log they can inspect after the fact
• Trade reflection and review over past autopilot activity

Autopilot is not where you create a daily digest, a Telegram alert, or a read-only monitoring bot. Those belong in Agentic Workflows.

Common autopilot prompts

1. Enable a tight-capped BTC strategy

Prompt

Enable autopilot for BTC with max $50 per trade and a daily cap of $200.

Agent response:

I'll prepare the autopilot profile with:

• Symbol: BTC
• Max per-trade cap: $50
• Daily cap: $200
• Kill conditions: drawdown, time window, max position
• Notifications: chat + optional Telegram/email

Confirm to create? Reply yes or no.

2. Review recent autopilot decisions

Prompt

Show me the latest autopilot decisions for BTC and disable the strategy if it is overtrading.

Agent response:

Reviewing the latest autopilot record:

• Last decision: no-trade, funding too hot
• Prior decision: reduce size after volatility expansion
• 24h actions: 2

If you want, I can disable the strategy now and keep only alerts.

3. Reflect on recent trades

Prompt

Reflect on my last 5 BTC trades. What patterns should I fix?

Agent response:

Reviewed 5 trades.

• Pattern 1: chasing low-volume weekend moves
• Pattern 2: treating funding flips as panic signals
• Suggested fixes: tighter entry filters, separate funding logic, lower size during volatility expansion

Safety model

Autopilot is designed around hard caps and explicit controls:

• Per-trade cap limits the size of any single action.
• Daily cap limits the total amount the strategy can spend or deploy in one day.
• Emergency stop stops automated execution globally.
• Pause / disable lets you stop one strategy without deleting its history.
• Audit trail records what Autopilot decided and why.

If you are still validating your setup, do not start with Autopilot. Use Your First Trade and Agentic Workflows first.

How Autopilot differs from workflows

Autopilot may reuse cloud-side automation infrastructure internally, but the user-facing product is distinct: strategies, caps, review loops, and strategy control.

Where to go next

• Want alerts and scheduled reports? -> Agentic Workflows
• Want the implementation details? -> Features → Autopilot
• The strategy skill is minara.autopilot.