Finance · Beginner

Put AI to work on your trading and your budget

A four-week self-paced programme that shows you how to configure AI assistants for portfolio analysis, trade signals and everyday money management — no coding required.

Level: beginner4 weeks · 20 lessons
  • 20 recorded video lessons
  • 5 practical modules
  • Ready-made prompt templates
  • No coding experience needed
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
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Why good intentions do not survive a busy trading week

You already know what a disciplined process looks like. You have read about position sizing, you keep an eye on your spending, and you have a rough idea of how your portfolio is allocated. What you do not have is the two or three hours a week it would take to do all of that properly — so the review gets postponed, the notes stay unwritten, and the budget spreadsheet is three months out of date.

The gap is rarely knowledge. It is repetition. Reading a broker statement, comparing option strategies, checking whether a position still fits your plan, sorting a month of card transactions into categories — each of these is a small task that costs attention and gives back very little in return. Done manually, they compete with the decisions that actually matter.

AI assistants change that arithmetic. A well-configured assistant can read a statement and return a categorised summary in a minute. It can walk through an options position and describe the payoff profile in plain language. It can hold your own rules in memory and flag when a trade idea drifts away from them. The work does not disappear, but the routine part of it does.

This programme is about building those routines deliberately. Over four weeks you set up your own assistants, feed them your real numbers, and end with a small set of workflows you can repeat every week — for your portfolio, your trade ideas and your household budget.

What you will be able to do

By the end of the programme you will have working setups, not just notes.

  • Set up a personal AI assistant for your budget

    Configure an assistant with your income, fixed costs and goals so it answers questions about your money in your own terms.

  • Turn a month of spending into a clear picture

    Feed transactions in and get back categories, trends and the three or four places where money actually leaks.

  • Review an investment portfolio with structured prompts

    Ask for allocation, concentration and overlap in a consistent format instead of a vague opinion.

  • Compare risk and return before you size a position

    Use the assistant to lay out the downside case first, so the decision is not driven by the upside story.

  • Use AI to read and compare options strategies

    Describe a position in plain language and get back the payoff profile, the breakeven and the main risk.

  • Build personalised trade signals from your own rules

    Turn criteria you already trust into a repeatable checklist the assistant applies the same way every time.

  • Automate repetitive order entry through a broker connection

    Set up a script that places a test order from a signal, so you can see how automation works before it touches size.

  • Create automatic alerts in TradingView

    Write a simple script that watches your conditions and notifies you instead of you watching charts.

  • Run a weekly review that takes twenty minutes

    Combine the assistants into one short routine covering portfolio, open trades, spending and next week's plan.

5
practical modules
20
recorded lessons
4
weeks at a steady pace
1
capstone automation project

How the course works

The programme is built from recorded video lessons and step-by-step written instructions. Each lesson is short enough to watch in one sitting and specific enough to act on immediately: you open the tool, follow along, and finish with something configured on your own screen rather than a page of theory.

Every module ends with a practice assignment that uses your own numbers — your transactions, your portfolio, your trade criteria. The assignments are designed so that skipping them makes the next module harder, which is why the pace is one module per week rather than one long sitting.

Everything is self-paced. You can move through the four weeks in four weeks, spread them over two months, or work through a module in an evening when you have the time. The lessons, templates and written guides stay in your account, so you can return to a specific setup months later when you want to rebuild it.

The programme

Five modules, twenty lessons, one working system at the end.

  1. 1Module 1 — Your first AI assistantGet an assistant running and pointed at your household finances.
    • Choosing a plan: what the free and paid tiers of an AI assistant actually give you
    • Registering and configuring your assistant for financial work
    • Building a budgeting assistant that categorises a month of spending
    • Adding savings goals and a monthly plan to the assistant
  2. 2Module 2 — AI for portfolios, options and signalsMove from budgeting to investing, trading and options analysis.
    • Configuring a second assistant for investing and trading
    • Auditing an existing portfolio with a structured prompt
    • Reading risk and return together before you add a position
    • Using AI to compare options strategies and their payoff profiles
    • Turning your own rules into personalised trade signals
  3. 3Module 3 — Automation foundationsThe small amount of Python you need to place an order automatically.
    • Python for traders: the subset you actually need
    • Installing an environment and running your first script
    • Connecting to a broker API and placing a test order
    • Automating a simple strategy from signal to order
  4. 4Module 4 — Data, alerts and testingFeed your automation real data and check it before it trades.
    • Free and paid data sources: what each one is good for
    • Feeding market data into a strategy without breaking it
    • Building automatic alerts in TradingView
    • Testing an automated workflow before it touches real money
  5. 5Module 5 — Making it a habitTurn the pieces into a weekly routine you will keep.
    • Using AI as a decision journal and a check on impulse
    • Designing a twenty-minute weekly review
    • Capstone: automating one task end to end

What you get

  • Twenty recorded video lessons

    Short, screen-recorded walkthroughs you can pause and repeat at your own pace.

  • Step-by-step written instructions

    Every setup written out, so you can follow without rewinding a video.

  • Prompt templates for each module

    Ready-made prompts for budgeting, portfolio review, options analysis and signal building.

  • Practice assignments with real inputs

    One assignment per module, built around your own transactions and positions.

  • A working automation example

    A complete signal-to-order walkthrough you can adapt to your own broker setup.

  • The weekly review checklist

    A one-page routine that ties the assistants together in about twenty minutes.

  • Permanent access to the materials

    Lessons and templates stay in your account, including later revisions.

What a practice session actually looks like

Take the budgeting assignment from the first module. You export a month of transactions from your bank, drop the file into your assistant, and ask for a categorised summary. The first answer is usually wrong in a few places — a transfer counted as spending, a subscription filed under the wrong heading — so you correct it and save the corrections as rules. By the third month the assistant gets it right without prompting.

The trading modules work the same way. You describe a position you already hold, ask for the payoff profile and the main risk in plain language, then check the answer against your broker's own risk display. Where the two disagree, you have found either a gap in your prompt or a gap in your understanding, and both are worth knowing about before you add size.

The automation module is the most hands-on. You install an environment, connect to a broker's test interface, and place an order that never reaches the market. The point is not to hand your account to a script — it is to see exactly which steps can be automated safely and which ones should stay manual.

Is this course for you?

This course is for you if…

  • Traders who already have a process and want to spend less time on the repetitive parts of it
  • Investors who want a consistent way to review allocation, concentration and risk
  • People who manage a household budget and want the analysis to take minutes rather than an evening
  • Financial professionals who want to understand what AI assistants can and cannot do with client-style data
  • Anyone willing to spend two to three hours a week practising on their own numbers

Probably not a fit if…

  • Complete beginners looking for a first explanation of what options or portfolios are — this programme assumes basic familiarity
  • Anyone hoping for ready-made signals to copy: the course teaches you to build your own criteria
  • People who want a fully hands-off trading bot running unattended; the automation lessons are deliberately cautious
  • Readers looking for guaranteed returns or a system that removes risk from trading

After the course

A month later, the difference is not that you have a robot trading for you. It is that the boring parts take a fraction of the time. Your monthly spending review is a file drop and a five-minute read. Your portfolio check happens on a schedule instead of when something feels wrong. Your trade ideas arrive with the risk case already written next to them.

You also end up with something less obvious: a record. The prompts, corrections and rules you save along the way become a written description of how you actually make financial decisions — which is far more useful in a difficult week than a vague memory of what you intended.

From there you can extend the setups in your own direction: more data sources, more instruments, a different broker, a second assistant for a specific task. The programme gives you the pattern; the repetition is yours.

Questions before you buy

How much time do I need each week?

Plan for two to three hours a week: roughly an hour of video and one to two hours of practice on your own numbers. The lessons are short, so you can also split a module across several evenings.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The first two modules use an AI assistant through its normal chat interface. The automation module introduces a small amount of Python, but every step is written out and recorded, and the goal is to run and adapt an existing script rather than to write software from scratch.

What do I need before I start?

A computer, an account with an AI assistant, and some real material to work with — a few months of bank transactions and, if you invest, a portfolio statement. For the automation module you will also need a broker account that offers an API; a test or paper environment is enough.

How do I get access after payment?

Access opens immediately after checkout. You receive a link to the course area where all modules, templates and written guides are already waiting, and you can start with the first lesson straight away.

What format are the lessons in?

Recorded video lessons with screen walkthroughs, each paired with written step-by-step instructions and the prompt templates used in the lesson. There are no live sessions to attend, so you can work at whatever hour suits you.

How long do the materials stay available?

The materials stay in your account permanently, including later revisions. Many people return to the automation module months later when they want to rebuild a setup.

Do I have to pay for extra tools?

The course works with free tiers of the main tools, though a paid AI assistant plan gives noticeably better results on long documents. Any paid data source or broker feature is optional and clearly marked in the lessons.

Is there a refund policy?

Yes. If the programme is not what you expected, write to us within 14 days of purchase and we will refund the full amount, no explanation required.

Will this work if I do not trade options?

Yes. The options lessons are one part of the second module; the budgeting, portfolio review, signal building and automation material applies to shares, ETFs and general portfolio work as well.

Start building your assistants this week

Twenty recorded lessons, five modules and a set of templates you can put to work on your own numbers the same evening.