What the AI coach does and doesn't do

The Luxabit coach is an AI, not a human, and not an analyst or adviser. It has one job: help you trade according to your own plan. This page explains exactly where its limits are, and how they are enforced.

What the coach does

• Asks questions that make you check an idea against your own rules, at most a couple per reply. For example: "When is a retest 'confirmed' for you?"
• States which of your rules were not followed, based on the server's pre-trade check, without adding an opinion.
• Explains trading concepts in general terms when you ask, such as R:R, expectancy or position sizing, without referring to a specific instrument, the current market or your trade.
• Asks for missing information, such as your stop-loss, when it needs it for the check.
• Reflects on closed trades in a post-trade review: which rules you followed, which not, and what your own notes and history say.
• Summarises your journal when you ask, for example "Can you analyse the trades in my journal?". The server calculates the same figures as your journal: win rate, expectancy and result in R, your Discipline Score, the rules you break most often and, on the Trader and Pro plans, your patterns. The coach states what they show about following your own rules and asks about your process. It gets no amounts of money, prices, instruments or directions, and it never turns your history into advice on what to trade or how much to risk.

What the coach never does

• Tell or suggest you to buy, sell, hold, go long or short, enter, exit, add or close.
• Propose, estimate or confirm a price level, zone, target, stop, entry, position size, leverage or amount.
• Describe or interpret a chart, a market or price action, or give scenarios, probabilities or forecasts.
• Call a trade, instrument, strategy, plan or rule good, bad, risky or attractive.
• Name or recommend brokers, exchanges or financial products.
• Turn your journal into advice, such as which setup, direction, time or risk to trade more or less, or what your past results mean for your next trades.
• Do arithmetic. Every number on screen comes from the server. For a position size, use the position size calculator.

If you ask for one of these, the coach says in one sentence that it can't, and offers what it can do instead.

Why it is built this way

Luxabit is not licensed to give investment advice (MiFID II, overseen in the Netherlands by the AFM) or advice on crypto-assets (MiCAR). Beyond the legal reason, it is a design choice: tips make you dependent on someone else's judgement, while a coach that only uses your own rules builds your own discipline.

How the limits are enforced

Instructions alone are not enough for an AI, so every answer passes several checks before you see it:

1. Format check: the answer must be a valid, structured reply of an allowed type (question, rule feedback, concept or refusal).
2. Number check: the coach may only use numbers that come from your own plan, your own levels or the server's calculations, rounded to at most two decimals if it likes (−1.67R for −1.666…R). A number it made up is rejected.
3. Word list: answers containing words such as "buy", "sell", "target" or "support" (in English and Dutch) are rejected.
4. Second AI check: a separate classifier reads the answer and rejects anything that looks like a recommendation, a judgement, a price level, a market description or a forecast. When in doubt, it rejects.

A rejected answer gets one more try. If that fails as well, you see a fixed, safe message instead.

Two more safeguards: amounts of money in your messages and notes are removed before they reach the AI (it only works in R and percent), and text inside chart images is treated as chart content, never as an instruction.

If an answer still looks like advice

Under every coach answer is a "Looks like advice? Report it" button (on a computer it appears when you move your mouse over the answer). Reported answers, blocked answers and a random weekly sample are reviewed by people, and the coach's instructions are updated when needed.

Language and model

The coach replies in the language you use in the app, English or Dutch, and keeps it short. It runs on Claude, Anthropic's AI model. Chart images can only be added to the review of a closed trade, not to the chat.