> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://guida-2.gitbook.io/guida-docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://guida-2.gitbook.io/guida-docs/readme.md). # Introduction ## What is Guida? Guida is an **autonomous AI trading agent** for crypto and tokenized real-world assets. In plain terms: it's like having a professional portfolio manager who never sleeps. You tell it — in ordinary language — what you want your money to do. It translates that into a precise, rules-based strategy, lets you test that strategy against real market history and live prices before you risk anything, and then executes it for you automatically, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You don't need to write code. You don't need to watch charts at 3 a.m. You don't need to understand the plumbing of exchanges and order books. You describe the outcome you're after, set the limits you're comfortable with, and Guida does the rest — always inside the boundaries you define. > **The one-sentence version:** Guida puts a disciplined, tireless trading strategist on autopilot for your portfolio — and lets you prove it works before a single real dollar is on the line. ## The problem Guida solves Markets are relentless. Crypto never closes, and increasingly neither do the tokenized versions of stocks, commodities, and other real-world assets. That creates a painful gap for almost everyone: * **Professionals** have tools, teams, and automated systems that watch the market around the clock and act on rules without hesitation or emotion. * **Everyone else** has a phone, a day job, and the very human tendencies to panic-sell at the bottom, buy the top out of FOMO, and miss the moves that happen while they're asleep. The result is that the average investor is playing a 24/7 game with part-time attention and full-time emotions. Most trading "bots" that promise to fix this either demand that you write code, bury you in configuration, or operate as opaque black boxes you can't understand or trust. Guida is built to close that gap: the discipline and availability of an automated system, wrapped in an interface as simple as describing what you want out loud. ## What makes Guida different Plenty of tools can automate a crypto trade. Guida is built around three ideas that set it apart: ### 1. You speak; Guida builds Instead of scripting logic or wrestling with a trading terminal, you express your intent in natural language: > *"Dollar-cost average $100 into ETH every week, and if it drops more than 15% in a single day, buy an extra $200. Take profit in stages once I'm up 30%."* Guida turns that into a structured, multi-condition strategy — with explicit triggers, position sizing, stop-losses, take-profits, and spending caps — that you can review, tweak, and understand. ### 2. Prove it before you trust it Guida treats testing as a first-class part of the workflow, not an afterthought. Every strategy can be **backtested** against historical data and **paper-traded** on live prices with simulated funds. You get to see how an idea would have behaved — and how it behaves *right now* — before you commit real capital. Confidence should be earned, not assumed. ### 3. Built to understand *what* it's trading Most automated tools treat every asset as an interchangeable ticker. Guida is being built to understand that a tokenized share of a company doesn't behave like a memecoin — that real-world assets have market hours, corporate events, and rhythms of their own. As these assets move on-chain, Guida aims to trade them with an agent that speaks each asset's language, not a one-size-fits-all crypto bot pointed at something it doesn't comprehend. ## Who Guida is for * **The busy investor** who believes in a strategy but can't babysit the market all day. * **The disciplined trader** who wants to remove emotion and hesitation from execution. * **The strategy tinkerer** who loves to design, test, and refine ideas — and wants a place to prove them. * **The newcomer** who wants to participate thoughtfully without learning to code or read candlestick charts first. If you've ever thought *"I know roughly what I want to do — I just can't be awake for all of it,"* Guida is built for you. ## The core loop Everything in Guida revolves around a single, repeatable loop: | Step | What happens | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **1. Describe** | You express your strategy in plain English or with simple visual rules. | | **2. Test** | You backtest it against history and paper-trade it on live prices — risk-free. | | **3. Deploy** | You set your risk limits and activate the strategy. | | **4. Automate** | Guida monitors the market and executes 24/7, keeping you informed. | Master that loop once and you can build, prove, and run any strategy Guida supports. ## A note on where we are Guida is being built and released in focused stages. Today, the experience centers on **crypto** and is **paper-trading first** — a deliberately safe way to build, test, and run strategies on live market data with simulated funds. Live trading and tokenized real-world assets arrive in later releases. You can follow the full plan on the [Roadmap](/guida-docs/reference/roadmap.md). *** **Ready to build your first strategy?** Head to the [Quickstart](/guida-docs/getting-started/getting-started.md). > Guida is a tool for executing strategies that you define and control. Nothing in this documentation is financial advice, a solicitation, or a guarantee of performance. Markets involve risk, including the risk of loss. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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