It runs your plan. You keep your evenings.
You have a job, a life, and no interest in watching charts at lunch. Stax takes a plan that already survived a test on real market history and runs it for you, and any time you glance at the monitor, every move it made is sitting there with its reason.
I do not want to think about this more than once a month.
Then it reviews your stocks on the first trading day of each month and leaves them alone in between. The only thing it does between reviews is sell a stock whose loss reaches 10%.
What happens if something crashes while I am at work?
It does not wait for you. If your whole account falls past the limit you set, it sells everything and pauses until you decide what happens next. You get a message the moment it does.
Monthly plan, running
practice only, no real cash- Next review: first trading day of March
- Your limit: sells everything if the account falls 20%
- In between: sells one stock if its loss reaches 10%
What handled looks like when nothing is hidden
It does the daily work
Once your plan is running, it watches prices, follows its rules, and places the trades in its practice account. There is no homework waiting for you and no streak to maintain. The plan does not need you to show up.
It keeps a diary in plain sentences
Open the monitor whenever you like. Each trade appears as one plain sentence: what was bought or sold, at what price, and which rule made it happen. A normal check-in takes about two minutes, and skipping a week costs you nothing.
It respects the limits you set
Your plan carries limits you chose in setup: how much of the account one stock can hold, and the loss level at which a stock gets sold. Those limits are rules the engine enforces, not suggestions, and the diary shows each time one fires.
Steady large caps
your plan, running on its own
This week, while you were busy
2 trades, both explained
Latest move
Sold PG on Tuesday at $161.20. Its loss reached the 10% limit you set, so the rule sold it and the cash is waiting for the next buy.
A full check-in reads like this and takes about two minutes.
The difference between handled and hidden.
Plenty of apps will manage your account without showing you a single decision, then send a summary every three months. Stax works the other way around: before your plan runs a single day, you watch it rehearse years of real market history, and once it starts, every move it makes comes with the reason attached.
If the plan begins to struggle, you will not learn about it months later. The monitor shows the dip, the sells that happened on the way, and the rule behind each one, so you can pause the plan or change it the same afternoon.
Low effort, on purpose
- 2 min
- is a full check-in: what traded, and why
- 6
- plans can practice at once without paying anything
- 100%
- of moves carry a reason you can open and read
A plan that behaved well in rehearsal can still struggle when conditions shift. The monitor exists so you notice early, while it is still practice.
Questions people ask
How often do I have to look at it?
As often as you feel like, including rarely. The plan follows its rules whether or not you are watching, and the diary keeps everything it did. People who check weekly and people who check daily see the same record.
What if it starts doing badly while I am not paying attention?
The monitor makes a bad stretch visible the moment you open it: the account line dips, and the sells that happened along the way are listed with their reasons. You can pause the plan with one tap, adjust it, and re-test it. Nothing locks you in.
Is this the same as a robo-advisor?
No. A robo-advisor sorts you into a standard portfolio and asks you to trust it. Stax runs a plan you chose, one you watched rehearse on real history, and it explains itself trade by trade. You do not have to trust it, because you can read it.
When would I pay for this?
The free tier runs up to six practice plans, which is plenty to start. Pro at $19.99 a month adds room for twenty, useful once you want a few versions of your plan competing to be the one you keep.
Short reads before you hand it over
Set it up once. Read the diary when you feel like it.
Build a plan tonight, let it rehearse the past, and let it practice on paper while your week goes on.