iii. How it works
Most companies wave their hand at the mechanics of what their product does. We thought we would just write it down properly instead. Read what you would like to.
Most companies wave their hand at the mechanics of what their product does. We thought we would just write it down properly instead. Read what you would like to.
Before anything else happens, you open a brokerage account in your own name. This is the foundation of the whole system. Aureus does not hold money, ever, and the account through which the software trades belongs entirely to you.
Broker partnerships are work in progress. We are in conversations with a small number of brokers about formal integrations, and the list of supported brokers will appear on this page as those conversations conclude. We have taken our time here on purpose. The broker is the company that actually holds your money, and choosing a reliable, well-regulated one is part of the work we have committed to doing on your behalf.
If we are not able to integrate directly, we will recommend a broker we trust and explain why. Either way, the principle is the same. The broker is yours to choose, the account is yours to open, and the relationship is one you can leave at any time.
You open the account directly with the broker. They handle the verification, the regulatory checks, and the deposit. Your funds sit in your name with them, under the protection of whatever investor compensation scheme applies in their jurisdiction.
This is significant. If Aureus ceased to exist tomorrow, your account would continue to exist exactly as it does today, under your control, with the broker.
The bridge between your account and our software is something called an API. It is the means by which our system can read what is happening in the market and, when the conditions are right, place a trade on your behalf.
The broker provides a secure mechanism for granting trading access to third-party software. You log in to your account, navigate to the relevant settings, and grant Aureus permission to place trades on your behalf.
This permission is limited. We can place trades. We cannot withdraw funds, cannot transfer funds out of the account, and cannot change your account settings. You can revoke this permission at any moment, from inside your broker's account, without going through us.
Subscription is monthly, paid directly to us. Once active, the system can begin operating. There is no separate configuration step after that. The strategy is fixed, built by us, with the risk management baked in. You do not pick markets, set position sizes, or define drawdown limits. We have made those decisions on your behalf.
The opportunity to break a well-designed system through bad configuration is much larger than most companies admit. We would rather the system work the same way for everyone, and let the results speak for themselves.
Once setup and connection are done, the software is live. From this point forward, it operates on its own schedule, reading the markets and making decisions according to its rules.
The system reads price data, volume, volatility, and a defined set of technical signals during market hours. It does this constantly. It is not interpreting the news, watching social media, or reacting to commentary. It is doing one thing: looking for the specific conditions that the strategy is designed to act on.
When the conditions are met, the system places a trade. The size of the trade, the entry, the stop-loss, and the take-profit are all calculated according to the rules of the strategy. These are not user settings. The trade is then visible in your broker account, like any other trade.
The Aureus dashboard, accessible from your account on this site, shows you what the system has done. Some of that data comes from us directly. The rest, the position-level detail, the account balance, and the trade history, lives with your broker and is accessible through their platform. We are clear about this because we think transparency about where information lives is part of building trust.
You cannot adjust the rules of the system from the dashboard. There are no dials or settings to tune. The strategy is part of the design, not a configuration menu. Your control is binary: it runs, or it does not.
Any honest description of an investment system has to deal with this, so we will. The system will lose money sometimes. Individual trades will lose. There will be sequences of trades that lose, periods we call drawdowns. This is a feature of every investment approach in existence. The honest question is what happens when it does.
Stop-losses are part of the strategy. Every trade the system opens has a defined exit point at which a loss is taken and the position is closed. The system does not move stop-losses to give a losing trade "more room". It does not double down. It takes the loss, closes the trade, and moves on. This is built into the rules, not configured per user.
The system can also halt itself. Under certain conditions, drawdown thresholds, technical failures, or other defined states, the software stops trading on its own. These thresholds are not user-configurable, because they are part of the strategy's design rather than the customer's responsibility. We have built them in deliberately so that the system protects itself when something is wrong.
And you have the off switch. If the performance of the system is no longer something you want to be exposed to, you turn it off. That decision is yours, and it is binary. We would rather be plain about this than dress it up in language that suggests more safety than is actually there.
