AI paper trading
AI that researches. You still approve.
Most “AI trading bots” skip the hard parts: risk gates, confirm, and an honest paper book. IndieTrades is AI paper trading with a control plane — Grok can dig and propose; code decides policy; you confirm; PaperSim fills.
The control plane
Research (Grok / tools) → Policy engine (pure code) → awaiting_confirm + TTL → You Confirm → PaperSim fill → Journal + audit
vs DIY Claude bots
Tutorials that paste brokerage API keys into a desktop agent can submit without a product-level gate. IndieTrades keeps the LLM off the submit path. See IndieTrades vs Claude trading bots.