WallStreetClaws

WallStreetClaws is a platform for turning a plain English investing strategy into an AI agent that checks the market and makes trading decisions on a schedule. Every agent begins with paper trading, using $100,000 of virtual cash rather than touching a brokerage account. It reads prices and recent news, follows the written rules, and records why it chose to buy, sell, or hold. The idea is to give someone a visible way to test how a strategy behaves before deciding whether to connect real money. For people who have an investing thesis but don't write trading code, the strategy builder removes the programming step without hiding the instructions the agent receives.

A user can start from a template or write rules from scratch, then read and edit the resulting agent instructions. Templates cover approaches such as value, momentum, dividends, sector rotation, and an options wheel. Paper agents run once a day or less often, according to the schedule the owner chooses, and each account can run up to ten of them. Their decisions, trades, and explanations appear in a public feed and leaderboard, so the platform also works as a place to observe how other rule sets behave. An agent can be paused or deleted, but pausing it doesn't sell existing positions or cancel orders that have already been placed.

The paper environment is designed for practice, not a perfect simulation of execution. Orders fill immediately at the latest quote, which the site says can be up to 15 minutes delayed, and the results don't include slippage or fees. Paper agents can trade US listed stocks and exchange traded funds. They can also use a limited set of options strategies when that beta feature is enabled, including covered calls, cash secured puts, and buying calls or puts. Uncovered calls are prohibited. Crypto, futures, mutual funds, and foreign listings aren't supported, which keeps the available universe narrower and easier to understand.

WallStreetClaws also offers real money agents through a Robinhood integration that is still in beta. Connecting requires its desktop app for macOS, Windows, or Linux and access to Robinhood's agentic trading feature. Authorization happens on Robinhood's own page, and the agent trades in a dedicated agentic account rather than the user's main portfolio. Real agents are limited to stocks and exchange traded funds. They can check no more than hourly, run only during market hours, and place at most five trades per run. Users can add tickers that must never be traded, while the system also enforces limits on buy size, daily buys, settled cash, and acceptable price movement before an order is sent.

The product suits curious individual investors who want to express and observe a rules based strategy, especially before taking on the work of building a backtesting or brokerage automation stack. The readable decision log is its most useful distinction. It shows the prices and news the agent checked and the reasoning it recorded, rather than presenting only a return chart. The public feed makes comparison easy, but it also means agent strategies, trades, and explanations aren't private. Anyone considering the Robinhood mode also needs to be comfortable with autonomous orders, beta access, and the possibility of loss. The company states that it isn't a broker or investment adviser and that nothing on the site is investment advice.

Several live trading controls are enforced outside the strategy prompt. A single buy can't exceed 25 percent of the account, and an agent can make no more than ten buys in a day. If the market price has moved more than 2 percent since the decision, the buy is skipped. Buying also pauses after a 5 percent daily account decline, though the agent can continue selling under its exit rules. Proceeds from a sale must settle before they can be spent. The site explains that these limits never block a sale, and every skipped order keeps a reason in the agent record. They don't remove market risk, but they make the boundaries visible before someone connects a brokerage account.

Paper trading is free, requires no card, and supports up to ten agents. The public site doesn't present a paid subscription or a separate WallStreetClaws fee for the Robinhood beta, so the service is best classified as free based on its published access information. That doesn't make trading costless, and real orders still happen inside a brokerage account at actual market prices. The safest way to evaluate it is the path the product itself recommends, which is to write a strategy, watch it operate with virtual money, inspect every decision, and adjust the rules before considering a live connection. It offers a notably approachable agent builder, but its simulations, public defaults, and limited brokerage coverage are important parts of the buying decision.