How to Use Stock Smith AI
Everything you need to go from your first login to following live trading signals and autonomous bots — explained simply, step by step, with no prior experience required.
Stock Smith turns any stock into a forward-looking forecast: a 1,000-path Monte Carlo simulation of where the price could go, an AI layer that explains it in plain English, live signals you can act on, and autonomous bots that trade so you can learn by watching. Here is how to use each piece, in the order you'll actually use them.
Step 1: Create your free account
Sign up with an email and password in under a minute — every analysis tool, signal feed, and simulated bot is free for any registered account, supported by ads. The optional Ad-Free membership ($9.99/mo) removes ads and unlocks the real-money Auto Traders, with a 30-day free trial.
Step 2: Run a 1-year Monte Carlo forecast on any ticker
Type a ticker and Stock Smith studies two years of real price history, then simulates the next year 1,000 ways to map where the price could plausibly land — with 80% and 95% confidence bands, an average path, and a clear probability of finishing above today's price.
Step 3: Read the AI analysis and trade strategies
The AI layer turns the numbers into plain English: market context, bullish and bearish catalysts, key risks, and concrete example strategies with an entry, a target, and a stop-loss. The math always comes first; the AI explains it.
Step 4: Ask the AI your own questions
Every analysis includes an Ask-the-AI panel grounded in that stock's live data. Ask any free-form question by text or voice, tap a strategy to have it explained, and have answers read aloud.
Step 5: Build your watchlist
Save the tickers you care about to a persistent, per-account watchlist so you can jump straight back to their forecasts and revisit projections as new data comes in.
Step 6: Scan the Daily Market Lists
Six ranked, daily-refreshed shortlists from the NYSE Top 100 — best buy-and-hold names, top covered-call premium payers, the most active and biggest movers, and the highest dividend yields — give you a focused starting point.
Step 7: Follow the Live Signals
The Live Day and Swing Signals pages mix each bot's open picks with a fresh live market scan into one ranked list of ideas, refreshing every 33 seconds. Opt in to web-push alerts to get a summary notification when new signals appear during market hours.
Step 8: Follow the trading bots
Three autonomous simulated bots — the Quant AI Trader, the Swing Trader, and the Day Trader — pick their own stocks and build a public track record. Each has a dashboard with KPIs, an equity curve, positions, a trade log with reasoning, and its own AI chat, so you can learn by watching with no money at risk.
Step 9: Go live with the Auto Trader (Ad-Free, optional)
With the Ad-Free membership, the Auto Trader replicates the Swing strategy on your own Webull account through Webull's official API. It only acts after you connect credentials and explicitly consent that it trades real money, the broker stays the source of truth, and you can pause or disconnect it anytime.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need any trading experience to use Stock Smith?
No. The tools are plain-English and beginner-friendly, and the Learn desk walks you through every concept. You can follow the simulated bots to learn by watching before you trade anything yourself.
Is this financial advice?
No. Stock Smith is a research and education tool. Its simulations, AI analysis, and example strategies are probabilistic models based on historical data, not investment, financial, legal, or tax advice. Markets carry risk, including loss of principal.
Do I have to connect a brokerage account?
Only if you want the optional real-money Auto Trader to place real trades. Every other feature works with no brokerage connection at all.
What's the difference between the simulated bots and the Auto Trader?
The simulated bots trade virtual money so you can follow a strategy without risking real capital. The Auto Trader is a per-user, Ad-Free-members-only bot that places real orders on your own Webull account after you explicitly opt in.
How often is the data updated?
Forecasts use a live quote plus two years of recent history each time you analyze a ticker. The Daily Market Lists refresh several times a day, and the Live Signals pages refresh every 33 seconds during market hours.