Everything, written down

Get a license, download the installer from the customer portal, verify it, and install TigerTradeBot on macOS, Windows, or Linux.

What happens the first time TigerTradeBot opens: the seeded admin sign-in, two-factor setup, a new password, license activation, and the main areas of the app.

Run a bot instance in Paper mode against TigerTradeBot's built-in simulator, set a paper balance, understand where prices come from, and how simulation differs from live trading.

How TigerTradeBot connects to brokers: direct API connections, where credentials are stored, the built-in simulator, and which broker each bot instance trades through.

Connect a Charles Schwab account: create your own Schwab developer app, enter its App Key and Secret, authorize with OAuth, and reconnect when Schwab's weekly token expires.

Connect Alpaca with API keys, choose between Alpaca's paper and live endpoints, and pick a data feed.

Connect Webull through the Webull OpenAPI: app key and secret, the test and production environments, and the switches for options, crypto and event contracts.

Connect Polymarket with your wallet's private key, understand what holding that key on your computer means, and how prediction markets differ from securities trading.

Interactive Brokers isn't supported for trading yet. What exists today, and what to use instead.

Backtest a strategy, optimize its parameters, compare presets, and check the result with walk-forward, multi-symbol and sensitivity validation before it trades on paper.

Set up the AI Copilot with a local OpenAI-compatible server or your own cloud API key, and understand what the AI can and cannot do, including the optional trade confirmation gate.

Trade journals, performance reports, tax exports including a Form 8949-style CSV, and CSV, PDF and XLSX exports, all generated on your computer.

The circuit breaker and daily loss limits, stop-loss and take-profit exits, position sizing, portfolio-wide limits, trading guards, and the account-level kill switch.