She trades your strategy.
She doesn't sell you picks.
Mellifera is SwarmTrade's autonomous trading AI. You tell her the strategy in plain English. She turns it into rules you can read, reads the market against them on your schedule, places the trades in your brokerage account, and explains every decision.
“Melli” for short. Her name comes from Apis mellifera, the honeybee, and means “honey-bearing.” She runs a colony of specialist agents and makes the final call.
Not a stock advisor
A stock advisor or newsletter tells you what to buy, and you do the rest. Mellifera starts from your strategy and does the rest herself: placing the trades, managing them, and recording why.
The advisor or newsletter picks the stocks. Every subscriber gets the same calls.
You do. You write the mandate in plain English and she works only inside it, on your account.
You read the alert, then log in and place the order yourself, often after the price has moved.
She places it through your own brokerage connection on the schedule you set: entries, exits, and multi-leg options orders.
Usually silence until the next issue. Exits are rarely tracked.
Each position has a written thesis with a target, an invalidation level and a horizon, and she checks it every run.
General guidance about position sizing. Applying it is up to you.
Your position caps, loss limits and exit rules are enforced in code, and she cannot reason her way past them.
A pick and a short rationale, plus a track record the publisher chooses to show.
Every run is logged: what she read, what she decided, why, and what would change her mind. Results come from your broker.
Missed calls quietly disappear from the marketing.
An independent AI auditor grades her every day at the close and suggests setting changes. You approve them, and you can roll them back.
You manage it.
Your money stays at your broker. She can place orders and cannot move or withdraw funds, and you can revoke her access at any time.
SwarmTrade is software that carries out the strategy you define. It is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser, and nothing it produces is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Trading involves risk of loss. See the risk disclosure.
How she works
One loop, repeated on your schedule. She doesn't replay a backtest or follow a fixed script. She reads today's market against your rules.
Mandate
You say what to trade, what is off limits, how much to risk and when to exit. Where you were vague, she asks rather than guessing, then shows you the exact settings before anything goes live.
Observe
At each scheduled run she reads your live account and positions, the market regime, fresh scout intelligence, options flow, earnings and insider filings.
Decide
She reasons over all of it against your mandate: what to open, what to hold, what to trim or close. Every decision is written down with its reasoning.
Act
Orders go to your broker: stocks, ETFs, options spreads and covered calls, sized to your limits. A steward works unfilled orders, and a sentinel manages exits.
Review & Learn
At the close an auditor grades the day. Over time she keeps a memory of what worked and what did not, and she brings it into every later decision.
Her colony
Mellifera doesn't work alone. Specialist agents gather information, watch for risk and handle the follow-up work, and she makes the final decision.
Scout Bees
News, sentiment, technical and opportunity scouts search the live web between runs and report back what has changed.
Market Analyst
A continuously refreshed read of the tape: index regime, risk tone, trend and sector rotation. She reads it before every decision.
Options Flow
Unusual activity, sweeps and implied-volatility spikes, surfaced from live options data as they happen.
Crash Sentinel
Watches for credit stress, panic and black-swan catalysts, and alerts her only when the conditions really fire.
Exit Sentinel
Enforces the exits you chose. She can manage them herself, leave them to fixed rules, or use a mix of both.
Order Steward
Follows up on resting orders: works spreads toward a fill and cancels orders that have gone stale.
Research Agent
Researches a ticker before she opens a position: fundamentals, catalysts and the news behind the move.
EOD Auditor
Grades the swarm daily for discipline and blind spots, and emails you a report card you can act on.
What she does, and what she never does
In scope
- •US stocks and ETFs
- •Listed options: single legs, multi-leg spreads, and covered calls on shares she holds
- •Paper trading on a free $100,000 practice account or your own Alpaca paper account, and live trading on Pro through Alpaca or your own Charles Schwab account
- •Swing, long-term and buy-and-hold styles. Intraday is for advanced users: on paper, or with real money once you switch it on for that swarm
- •Your run schedule: specific times on specific days, set in Eastern Time
- •Talking it through: chat with her, or talk to her by voice
She never
- •Move, withdraw or transfer your money. Her access covers placing orders only
- •Switch a paper account to real money. Only you can do that
- •Turn on intraday trading with real money. It is off on every live swarm until you switch it on yourself
- •Trade outside your mandate or exceed the risk limits you set
- •Promise returns or give personal financial advice. She carries out your strategy; she does not recommend one
How she's designed
The AI makes the decisions. Everything around it is built to keep those decisions honest, visible and inside your limits.
Guardrails are code, not suggestions
Position caps, loss limits, expiry handling and market-regime gates run outside the AI model. She can argue with the market, but not with your limits.
The mandate is the contract
Anything you didn't specify gets flagged rather than quietly filled with a default, and the settings she proposes are shown to you before they take effect.
Nothing happens off the record
Every run, order and change of mind is logged with its reasoning and streamed live to your terminal.
Works with several AI providers
On Retail she runs on our key. On Advanced you choose Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude or xAI Grok with your own key.
She fails loudly
If she cannot complete her runs (a provider outage, an expired key, a broker problem), you get an email instead of finding out later.
She is graded every day
A separate auditor reviews her trades daily. Its suggested setting changes are previewed, applied only with your approval, and can be undone.
Retail: start instantly
Made for people who don't want to set anything up. You get a free trial with a $100,000 practice account, no API keys, and a guided mandate flow. Describe your strategy and Mellifera handles validation, scheduling and risk rules.
Advanced: bring your own keys
Choose the AI model behind her (Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude or xAI Grok), connect your Alpaca paper account (live trading on Alpaca or Charles Schwab is part of Pro), and add your own data keys. Every setting she has is available to you.
Full-transparency terminal
Your live portfolio, Mellifera's thinking and per-position outlook at each run, the watchlist, scout findings, options flow, order history and a performance calendar, all streamed live.
Production-Ready Integrations
What's New
The swarm ships continuously. Here is the latest.
Put Mellifera to work
Start on a free $100,000 practice account. No card or API key required.