Frequently Asked Questions

DipSkip is an automated trading platform that allows you to create and execute trading strategies using DipScript, a plain-English programming language designed specifically for trading. You can automate buy and sell decisions based on market conditions, profit targets, stop losses, and custom logic—all without writing complex code.

No! DipScript is designed to be readable and intuitive. If you can write "IF my profit is greater than $200 THEN sell all shares", you can write DipScript. Our platform includes an AI assistant to help you write and debug strategies, plus comprehensive documentation with examples.

Getting started is easy:

• Choose a subscription plan that fits your needs
• Connect your Tradier brokerage account (or use paper trading)
• Write your first DipScript strategy or use one of our templates
• Test in paper trading mode to validate your strategy
• Go live when you're ready

Absolutely! All DipSkip plans include paper trading mode, which simulates trades using real market data without risking actual capital. You can also backtest strategies against historical data to see how they would have performed in the past.

DipScript allows you to create sophisticated trading strategies including:

• Profit targets and stop losses
• Position averaging (buying the dip)
• Trailing stops based on peak profit
• Time-based conditions
• Multi-condition logic using AND/OR operators
• Dynamic position sizing
• Scalping and momentum strategies

DipScript has 5 core commands:

• TICKER - Specify which stock to trade
• IF/THEN - Create conditional logic
• OBTAIN - Reach a target position (only buys what's needed)
• SELL - Sell shares at market or limit price
• EXIT - Immediately halt script execution

These simple commands can be combined to create complex trading strategies.

DipScript provides 20+ built-in variables that automatically track your trading activity:

• $PROFIT, $TOTAL_PROFIT, $PEAK_PROFIT - Track your profits
• $ALL, $HALF, $MAX - Position sizing
• $MARKET_PRICE, $LAST_BUY_PRICE, $LAST_SELL_PRICE - Price tracking
• $ACCOUNT_EQUITY, $BUYING_POWER - Account information
• $BUY_TRADE_COUNT, $SELL_TRADE_COUNT - Trade counting
• And more for comprehensive strategy automation

Currently, DipScript focuses on price-action and profit-based strategies using the 19 built-in variables. While you can't directly calculate indicators like moving averages within DipScript, you can implement price-based logic that achieves similar results. We're constantly working on expanding DipScript's capabilities based on user feedback.

We offer three subscription tiers:

• Basic ($39/month) — Set & Forget: checks every 5 minutes, 3 active strategies, 200 AI credits/month
• Professional ($69/month) — Active Trader: checks every 30 seconds, 10 active strategies, 600 AI credits/month, unlimited backtesting
• Premium ($99/month) — Full Throttle: checks every 5 seconds, 25 active strategies, 2,000 AI credits/month, unlimited backtesting

Every plan includes every feature — scripts, AI prompts, Skipper, Clone Trader, all four AI models, paper trading, real-time market data, and email support. Plans differ by reaction speed, concurrent strategies, and included AI credits. Annual billing saves up to 20%. You can switch between plans at any time with prorated billing.

All plans include full access to paper trading mode, allowing you to test the platform risk-free. You can create and run strategies with simulated money before committing to live trading.

Yes! There are no lock-in contracts or cancellation fees. You can cancel your subscription at any time, and you'll retain access until the end of your billing period.

DipSkip uses prorated billing so you only pay for what you use. When you upgrade or downgrade, we calculate the unused portion of your current plan, credit it back to you, and charge you the difference for the new plan.

Example: If you're 10 days into a $39/month Basic plan and upgrade to Professional ($69/month), you'd get a credit of about $26 for your unused Basic time, and pay $43 today for the immediate upgrade. Your billing date stays the same.

Upgrades take effect immediately — you get the higher plan's features (more scripts, faster execution, more AI credits) right away.

Downgrades also take effect immediately, and the credit for your unused time is applied to your next invoice.

You can switch between monthly and annual billing the same way. All proration is automatic and handled through Stripe.

AI credits from your monthly plan allotment don't get refunded or transferred — credits you've already used are gone, and your next monthly refresh will match your new plan.

Purchased credits (bought through the AI Credits store) work differently — they never expire and stay with your account no matter how many times you change plans.

If you downgrade and have purchased extra credits, they remain usable until consumed.

When you cancel, you retain full access through the end of the billing period you've already paid for, but we don't issue refunds for unused days within a paid period. Annual plans are non-refundable after the first 7 days.

If you switch plans mid-period, the prorated credit from your old plan is applied to the new plan's cost rather than refunded as cash.

If you believe you were charged in error, contact support and we'll review your case.

Execution intervals determine how frequently your script evaluates market conditions and executes trades. A 5-second interval (Premium) is ideal for scalping and high-frequency strategies, while 5-minute intervals (Basic) work well for swing trading and less active strategies. Choose based on your trading style and how quickly you need to react to market movements.

DipSkip never holds your funds. We integrate directly with Tradier, a regulated brokerage, where your money stays in your own account. DipSkip only executes trades based on your strategies—you maintain full control and ownership of your assets.

DipSkip provides multiple safety features:

• Test strategies in paper trading mode first
• Backtest against historical data to validate performance
• Set position limits and max investment amounts
• Use stop loss conditions in your scripts
• Start with small positions and scale up gradually
• Real-time script validation catches errors before execution

Yes! You can stop any running script instantly, and you always have direct access to your brokerage account to manually close positions if needed. DipSkip provides real-time logs so you can monitor exactly what your strategies are doing.

Clone Trader lets you automatically mirror the trades of U.S. politicians, corporate insiders (officers, directors, 10%+ owners), and institutional fund managers. You pick a figure, set an allocation, and DipSkip places mirror orders in your Tradier account whenever they file a new disclosure with the SEC, the U.S. House Clerk, or the U.S. Senate.

Entirely from public U.S. government filings:

• SEC EDGAR — Form 4 (insider transactions) and Form 13F (institutional holdings)
• clerk.house.gov — Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) for House members
• efdsearch.senate.gov — Periodic Transaction Reports for Senators

DipSkip does not have a private feed, advance notice, or any non-public relationship with any politician, insider, fund, or filer. Everything we mirror was already publicly disclosed by the time we ingested it.

They are our best-effort reconstruction of public filings — not authoritative records. Filings can be late, amended, retracted, missing, or misclassified at the source. Many congressional PTRs are scanned PDFs that our pipeline extracts with a Haiku LLM call. That pipeline can produce errors.

To protect you, when a PTR can't be parsed cleanly from its embedded text — the model has to read a scanned or column-shredded PDF image directly, where misreads are most likely — we run a second independent extraction pass with a stricter prompt that includes only unambiguous transactions, and we persist and mirror only the intersection: transactions both passes confirm, so single-pass hallucinations get dropped. PTRs that parse cleanly from embedded text are mirrored on a single pass. Either way, every transaction is run through deterministic checks and any low-confidence one is held for manual review. SEC Form 4 is a structured XML filing, so we read its values directly from named fields — no LLM guesswork — and validate them with those same deterministic checks.

No — and you shouldn't expect to. There are several structural reasons your outcomes will differ:

• Disclosure lag. The STOCK Act allows politicians up to 30–45 days to disclose. Form 13F is filed quarterly + 45 days. By the time DipSkip mirrors a trade, the price and the filer's actual position may have moved significantly.
• Cost basis. Many insider acquisitions are compensation events (RSUs, option exercises, grants) priced near zero. You pay full market price.
• Sizing. Congressional PTRs disclose dollar ranges, not exact amounts. You pick low / midpoint / high of the range; the actual amount is not knowable.
• Execution. Slippage, commissions, partial fills, and your broker's routing will all alter your execution.

Mirroring is about following their disclosed activity — not about reproducing their outcomes.

You have two options:

• Dollar-anchored (recommended). You set a fixed dollar amount (e.g., $10,000). DipSkip snapshots the figure's current holdings, scales them proportionally to fit your dollar amount, places initial BUY orders, and freezes the scaling ratio. All forward trades use that same ratio. This matches the "copy-trader / scale to BP" mental model most people expect.
• Per-trade percentage. You set a percentage. Every filing is sized to that percentage of the figure's disclosed share count, with no initial snapshot. Good if you only want to follow their marginal trading from this day forward.

Yes. Clone subscriptions can run in paper-trading mode using the Tradier paper environment. The same filings, the same pipeline, the same allocation logic — just no real money. We recommend running any new clone in paper for a couple of weeks before promoting it to your live account.

Anytime. From the Clone tab you can pause auto-trade, close out the open mirror positions, or fully unsubscribe. Unsubscribing stops new filings from being mirrored; existing positions remain in your brokerage account until you close them.

Yes — a clone costs 1 AI credit per execution, drawn from the same monthly credit pool as the rest of DipSkip. An "execution" is one check: each time the clone compares the figure's current snapshot against your positions and places any mirror trades needed. You're charged once per check (not per ticker and not per individual trade), only during market hours, and only when a check actually runs. How often your clone checks is up to you — checking more often uses more credits.

If you have no credits left when a clone execution is due, that execution is skipped entirely — the clone does not check the snapshot or place any trades, and no trade alerts are sent for it. Your existing positions are untouched; nothing is sold. We email you that the execution was skipped (up to 5 times per outage, so we don't flood your inbox), and the clone resumes automatically the moment you have credits again — either when your monthly credits reset or when you top up in the Credit Store. Enabling Auto-Refill avoids the gap entirely.

No. DipSkip is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or partnered with any politician, fund, insider, regulator, or filer. The use of any individual's name or identifier on the platform is solely for the purpose of identifying their publicly filed activity. The availability of a figure on DipSkip is not a recommendation by DipSkip to follow them.

Currently, DipSkip integrates with Tradier Brokerage for live trading. Tradier offers competitive pricing and robust API access. We're working on adding support for additional brokerages based on user demand.

Yes! Basic allows 3 active strategies, Professional allows 10, and Premium allows up to 25. You can run different strategies on different stocks simultaneously, each with its own execution schedule.

Backtesting (available on Professional and Premium plans) allows you to test your strategy against historical market data. You can upload custom datasets or generate synthetic data to see how your strategy would have performed over different time periods and market conditions.

DipSkip currently supports US stock markets (NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.) through Tradier. You can trade individual stocks during regular market hours. Options and cryptocurrency support may be added in future updates.

DipSkip respects regular market hours (9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET). You can configure execution windows for your scripts. While your scripts won't execute trades when markets are closed, they'll resume automatically when markets reopen.