You know good companies. That is enough to start.
You have never bought a stock, and your feed is full of people who say they got rich. Ignore them. Name a few companies you believe in, and Stax turns that into a plan it can prove. It practices with fake cash until you say otherwise.
I have £500 and no idea what I am doing. I like Apple and Nike.
Both are fair places to start. They make real profit and neither one is buried in debt. Holding only two is the fragile part: one bad week at either company hits your whole £500. Shall I add three steady companies beside them?
Ok do that, but nothing risky.
Careful starter plan
practice only, no real cash- Holds 5 stocks: AAPL, NKE, KO, PG and JNJ
- Reviews the list once a month
- Sells a stock once its loss reaches 10%
- Splits your £500 evenly across the five
What Stax does for someone starting from zero
It turns names into a plan
You give it Apple, Costco, Nike, companies whose products you already trust. Stax checks their financial health, suggests similar solid companies, and writes the full set of rules: when to buy, when to sell, how much of your account any one stock can take.
It shows you the evidence first
Before anything runs, the plan is replayed over five or more years of real market prices. You see the account grow and dip, week by week, and you can open any trade to read why it happened. No trust required, just reading.
It practices before it ever asks for a dollar
The plan runs in a free practice slot with simulated cash. It buys and sells on real market prices while you watch from your phone. Connecting real money is a separate, deliberate step, and nothing about the free tier pushes you toward it.
Nobody can promise you the market. Here is what can be promised.
Any app that promises returns is lying to you, and the ones shouting loudest are lying hardest. What Stax can promise is how it works: your plan is tested against real history with fees counted, its worst stretch is shown to you in dollars, and every trade it ever makes carries its reason.
That means the day the plan sells something, you will not be left staring at your phone wondering why. You can open the trade and read it: which rule fired, at what price, and what it did for your account.
You type three companies you know: Apple, Costco, Nike.
Stax checks their health and adds five similar solid companies to consider.
You answer two questions about how careful you want to be.
Stax builds a full trading plan: when it buys, when it sells, how it protects you.
You tap "Prove it."
Stax replays the plan over five real years and shows every trade it would have made.
You put the plan in a free practice slot.
It starts trading simulated cash. Not one real dollar is involved.
Starting costs nothing and risks nothing
- $0
- to build, test, and practice, with no card asked
- 6
- free practice slots, each trading simulated cash
- 20 min
- from naming companies to a plan running on paper
Practice results come from simulated cash on real prices. They are for learning how the plan behaves, not proof of what real money would earn.
Questions people ask
I have literally never invested. Where do I start?
Type the names of a few companies you know and believe in. That is genuinely the whole starting requirement. Stax handles the parts that scare people: the rules, the testing, and the discipline of sticking to them.
Can I lose real money using Stax?
Not by default. Your plans trade simulated cash in practice slots. Real money only enters if you deliberately connect a brokerage account later, on the highest tier, as its own separate decision.
What if my plan turns out to be bad?
Then you find out on paper instead of with your savings, which is the point. The history test usually reveals a weak plan in seconds, and the practice slot reveals the rest over weeks. Fixing it costs nothing.
How much time does this take once it is running?
A few minutes when you feel like checking in. The plan does the daily work. You look at what it bought and sold, read the reasons, and learn how investing behaves without having to live inside a chart.
Three short reads before your first plan
Name three companies and see what a tested plan looks like.
The first full run is free: build, test, and practice without anyone asking for a card.