r/AutopilotApp

Hello, new to this subreddit. Been considering Autopilot.

Besides all the troubleshooting issues, what are the actual returns? Have you overall profited or is this all just a scammy gimmick? Also has anyone considered other copy trading platforms? (Dub, eToro, M1 Finance, etc)

Hi, I'm considering using autopilot for the first time. When checking out portfolios on the app, I'm having trouble seeing the associated fee. Where do I find this information?

I'm connected to WeBull.

For the last week or longer, it's been stuck on "Portfollio Currently Trading."

Anyone else get this error, too?

Thanks for any help.

From my understanding, Renaissance Technologies is still business as usual since Simons's passing. My question is, how have their returns been since he passed away? Shouldn't it just be called the Renaissance Technologies tracker then?

From my understanding he was a mathematical genius that was beating the S&P 500 by leaps and bounds with around 60% annual returns.

I've had Autopilot for about two weeks. The first week, it only disconnected once. Now it's disconnecting once a day. Just had to re-verify twice today, not sure if I missed any trades before close. Last trade was on Friday.

Is this an issue with Webull? Maybe I would be better off linking a different account? Any fix would be appreciated.

Edit: redownloaded both apps after webull disconnected for a third time. Re-verified, we'll see what happens.

Has anyone noticed how the app sends notifications for stocks that are up be never for stocks that are down? Does this concern anyone?

I find it difficult to take this app seriously as an investment app due to some of their practices. I believe the company is playing with people's minds with a false sense of comfort. Most professional investment platforms and apps show unbiased info and notifications. I've been asking them to turn on notifications for downward movement just like the upward movement notifications. It shouldn't require much development overhead to turn on notifications for an opposite event to something they already programmed end to end.

Fortunately I have not lost significant money yet, but if the market is crashing I want to know about it. My attempts for months to talk to customer service just gets dismissed with the comment, "Thank you for your input, I will pass the information along to our product team." No changes for an update that should take 15 mins.

So if I subscribe to a pilot for a year. Why am I not allowed to change pilots? If I delete a pilot and select a different one, I have to pay a new subscription?!?

A few days ago I ran into an issue where my webull was saying it was disconnected so I reconnected it. After that though it was telling me that I had negative money available (I didn't) and then support helped me delete my broker so I could re-add it. After deleting and it's re-added my portfolios still show disconnected and throw an error when trying to connect them. This has been going on for multiple days and it support has told me even deleting my portfolios and setting it all up from the start again won't help because it's a webull problem.

The solution I was given was to wait and hope a fix happens eventually or move to using Public instead of webull

Is anyone else using webull having these issues? I really didn't want to have to move to public

Switch to Public for the best user experience of Autopilot. You will not regret it.

I know for some that might be challenging but it is worth it. You could even just open a second broker account with them and only use Autopilot there while keeping your main brokerage account. Account transfers are super easy nowadays and can usually be done using the Plaid service. When I wanted to move from Robinhood to Public, I messaged the Autopilot team to disconnect my accounts (so I didn't need to sell assets) then did a regular ACATS transfer, then sold the assets, relinked Autopilot to the new account and bought in with the cash.

Before I mention anything, this should be bolded and stickied to the top of this sub.

Some other thoughts for the team and the people that I would like to see added:

Dark mode for the UI. The White does look slick but sometimes my eyes need the break.

There's an abundance of pilots now, I think a way to filter them by certain standards or desires would be beneficial for people.

Building off what I mentioned earlier about needing to sell stocks for cash. If Autopilot could build off of stocks that already exist in a portfolio instead of just the cash you could eliminate the need for people to sell then buy right back in. Perhaps even also be able to sell things not in that pilots portfolio during that initial buy in phase as well.

I'd like the ability to add notes to the cards I see on my accounts screen. Personally I have two accounts (Brokerage and Roth) plus two pilots, totaling 4 cards and even that can get a bit confusing which card is which. I've seen others with upwards of 10 cards and I can only imagine the confusion. Giving us a note section on the card we can edit would I think be useful and it looks like there's space for it.

Granularity with scheduled deposits. I would like to be able to edit the time the auto deposit trade happens. I understand it happens whenever it is setup but that just doesn't seem like the best for users, makes it more difficult to manage or change.

Overall robustness and confidence inspiring actions within the app and brokerages I think could improve. This is pretty general and open to interpretation but what I can say is there's always a feeling that maybe my trades won't fully go through when a pilot makes them or my auto deposit won't work etc etc. Something to make me feel better about it would be great.

Charts could use some more information and customization. Not saying they need to be on the level of a brokerage but the ability to get more granular with them so I can better understand the performance would be nice. Maybe things like when the pilot made their own deposits or posts, adding or subtracting stocks from the portfolio / adjusting percentages. Things like that.

Notifications. I have two account tied to the same pilot I get double notifications. This would be fine for trade execution so I make sure it get's done but if the pilot posts or there's an update on them, I don't need double notifications for that.

Overall I think it's a great concept and I think things are trending in a good direction with Autopilot. If you are not a pro at investing or don't have the time (like me) letting someone like Adam (Activley managed) or Peter (Wolffs flagship fund) handle my money is awesome. To go even a step further, if I could invest in Autopilot themselves as a company I would just so in hopes they could take Autopilot to the next level.