Giordano Salvatori, founder of STA · 26/10/2026 · 5 min read
In practice there are three ways, very different from each other. The first is to use an assistant as a study aid: you ask it to explain a term, summarise a piece of news or reread your trade diary. The second is to receive a ready-made proposal from a system, with direction, entry price and stop, and decide yourself whether to follow it. The third is to let the system place the orders. These are three levels of trust, and it is better to climb one step at a time, not start from the last.
If you are still looking for the big picture, start from the guide to mindful online trading: artificial intelligence changes the tools, not the basic rules.
It can do some boring things well. Read dozens of news items in a few seconds and understand whether they are about a coin or a company. Compare charts, volumes and derivatives data that would take a person an hour. Line up the reasons for and against a trade, without the mood that affects anyone after three losses in a row. And keep a steady discipline: it does not get tired and is not in a hurry to win it back.
The work behind a well-built system is closer to a team than to a crystal ball. To understand how it reasons, there is the article on how trading with artificial intelligence really works.
It does not know where the price will go. Nobody does, and a language model, however much text it was trained on, has no access to the future. It can sound very convincing when it explains a wrong idea, and that is a real risk: a firm tone is not proof. It can also repeat everyone's mistake, reading a pattern in the past that is no longer there. And if the data it receives is incomplete or late, it reasons well about a world that does not exist.
For this reason results must always be looked at net of costs and losses, not just the wins. The honest numbers, with the percentages of losing accounts declared by CFD brokers in Europe, are in whether you really make money with online trading.
It depends on what you mean by worth it. If you picture a bot that works alone while you do something else and brings you a gain, the risk is high: when it is wrong, it is wrong fast, and you notice later. If you picture a tool that shows you how a method reasons, with stops and written reasons, it can be a good way to learn. The difference lies in understanding what you are doing, not in the name of the technology. What a system that trades on its own can and cannot do is explained in automated trading: what it can and cannot do.
There are a few phrases that should make you close the page. A fixed return or a sky-high win rate. A "secret algorithm" with no explanation of what it does. A result shown in a screenshot instead of a verifiable track record. A request to hand money to a person, instead of opening an account in your own name on an authorised platform. There is a practical guide on these points, how to recognize a serious trading platform.
AI does not remove the costs of trading: spread, commissions, funding and slippage remain, and on a small account they weigh more. A subscription to a tool adds to them. For example, in an invented case, if a service costs 30 euros a month and your account is 1,000 euros, every month you start from minus 3%, before even opening a position. It is a sum worth doing beforehand, and you will find it developed in is trading online worth it?.
STA is a system of this kind, and that is why we say it plainly: ten artificial intelligence agents analyse the markets twice a day, with a debate between a Bull and a Bear before proposing a card. It covers 175 markets on OKX Europe, including 44 US stocks and ETFs, the funds stay in your OKX account and every card has its stop. The track record is public, losses included, and the card hashes are on GitHub, timestamped every day with OpenTimestamps.
The DEMO is free forever, with real prices and the same cards as REAL. An account is required. During the launch phase, which began on 16 October 2026, STA's fees are temporarily disabled, even in REAL; the ordinary price list, suspended while the launch lasts, is 18% of the net positive result of each day, with no offsetting of losses.
Every card as soon as it closes, with the result and what STA learned from it. It's free and you don't need to sign up.
Follow the channelA DEMO account with virtual capital and real prices, the same cards as REAL users.
Try DEMO for free →This article is for information only and is not investment advice. Trading crypto-assets involves a high risk, including the total loss of the capital used. Numerical examples are for illustration.
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