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01 A better way to use AI in your trading

Stop asking AI what to trade. Start using it to think better.

Use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to research, challenge and review your trade ideas, without treating a chatbot like a crystal ball.

  • No signals
  • No profit promises
  • No subscription
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Try the method on your next trade idea.

Six practical prompts, a one-page risk sheet and a clear introduction to the approach. A working sample of the Toolkit, not a sales brochure.

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The problem

02 The confidence trap

AI can be useful. That’s not the same as saying it is right.

Ask an AI tool a question about a market and you’ll usually get a confident answer. That is exactly why you need to be careful.

It can miss context, make things up, reinforce your assumptions, and produce a very convincing answer that is simply wrong. The answer isn’t to ignore it. It’s to use it differently.

The Sceptic’s Desk is built on one principle: AI should be your analyst, not your decision-maker.

03 The Sceptic’s Method

Five moves between an idea and an order.

Make AI do the work it is good at: structuring information, testing assumptions and helping you see what you missed.

  1. 01

    Research

    Gather information, analyse the market and build context before you form a view.

  2. 02

    Question

    Interrogate the first answer. Ask what is missing, assumed, or presented too confidently.

  3. 03

    Challenge

    Make AI argue the other side of your trade idea rather than reflect it back to you.

  4. 04

    Decide

    Apply your own judgement, define your risk, and keep the final decision human.

  5. 05

    Review

    Record what happened, then use the evidence to improve the process next time.

04 In practice

One trade idea, run through the whole method.

About twenty minutes, using four of the six tools in the Toolkit. Here is what that looks like from the inside.

Worked example · illustrative numbers

Nothing in that sequence told you what to trade.
Every step told you what you had not checked.

  1. 01

    The starting point

    A hunch, not yet a trade.

    £5,000 in the account and a strong stock that has pulled back to its 50-day average. Entry 228.50, stop 224.00, target 237.00. It feels right. Feeling right is not a reason.

  2. 02

    Research · Prompt Vault 09

    Establish what is actually driving it.

    You

    Here’s what happened to [instrument] over the last six weeks: [facts]. What are the plausible reasons, and how confident should I be in each? Don’t guess beyond the evidence.

    What comes back

    Three candidate drivers, ranked. Two rest on results published last month and are probably in the price. The third it flags as unverified.

  3. 03

    Challenge · Prompt Vault 15

    Make it argue against you.

    You

    Imagine it’s a year from now and this trade was a mistake. Write the post-mortem. What went wrong, in order of likelihood?

    What comes back

    Third pullback in six weeks, each shallower on lighter volume. A pattern more consistent with distribution than accumulation.

  4. 04

    Size · Position Size Calculator

    Let arithmetic decide the size.

    Position size
    11.11
    Cash at risk
    £50.00
    Reward-to-risk
    1.89:1
  5. 05

    Check · Trade Checklist

    Then a box refuses to tick.

    Pre-trade gates

    • Setup matches a written rule · yes
    • Risk is 1% or less · £50 of £5,000
    • No scheduled event within three days · clear
    • Reward-to-risk meets my 2:1 minimum · 1.89:1 — fails
  6. 06

    Record · The Sceptic’s Journal

    Log the trade you did not take.

    Instrument, reason, how you felt, whether you followed the plan. Twenty of those and you can finally see whether your discipline is real or theoretical.

05 The full system

The Toolkit gives you the system behind the prompts.

Free prompts give you questions. The Sceptic’s Method gives you a process, and a point at which it tells you to stop.

One payment
£89
Lifetime access · No subscription
  1. 01

    AI Trading, Demystified

    20-page guide

    Where AI fits in a trading workflow, and where it should not.

  2. 02

    The Prompt Vault

    42 prompts / 7 categories

    Research markets, interrogate strategies, challenge assumptions and review performance.

  3. 03

    The Trade Checklist

    Pre-trade process

    A repeatable pause between a trade idea and an order, including post-trade review.

  4. 04

    The Risk Cheat Sheet

    One-page reference

    Expectancy, position sizing, reward-to-risk and drawdown recovery without the fog.

  5. 05

    Position Size Calculator

    Browser tool

    Size the trade to the stop and the risk you chose, not to the hope you feel.

  6. 06

    The Sceptic’s Journal

    Excel + Notion

    A trade log designed to be reviewed, not just filled in and forgotten.

06 Look inside

Before you spend £89, see what £89 buys.

Real pages from the actual products, not mock-ups of something we intend to build later. Tap any one to read it full size.

07 Try before you buy

Download the working sample. Use it on the next idea.

The Starter Pack is not a teaser engineered to frustrate you into buying. It is a small, useful sample of the system.

Get the free Starter Pack →
  1. 01

    6 practical AI prompts

    Copy, paste, adapt

    Numbered 05, 12, 14, 26, 31 and 37, exactly as they appear in the full Prompt Vault, so nothing has to be re-learned later.

  2. 02

    Risk cheat sheet

    One page

    The core risk arithmetic on a single page you can keep beside you.

  3. 03

    The Sceptic’s approach

    Clear introduction

    What the method is, why it exists, and how to run it this week.

08 Is it for you?

For traders who would rather test an idea than believe one.

Beginner to intermediate. You need to know what a stop-loss is. You don’t need to know anything about AI.

✓ It’s for you if…

  • You already use AI but suspect you are using it badly.
  • You want a repeatable research and review process.
  • You want AI to challenge your ideas instead of agreeing.
  • You want risk and position sizing inside the workflow.

✗ It’s not for you if…

  • You want guaranteed profits or buy and sell signals.
  • You want a bot to make the decisions for you.
  • You believe a chatbot can predict the market.

09 Questions, answered

Clear answers for careful buyers.

Does it give signals, or tell me what to trade?

No, and that’s deliberate. The Toolkit is built to improve how you research and decide. What you trade stays your call.

Do I need a paid AI tool?

No. The prompts can be adapted for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other tools, including their free tiers.

What level is this pitched at?

Beginner to intermediate. If you’re new, the guide starts from what AI trading actually means and builds up. If you already trade, the Vault, checklist and journal drop into the process you’re running now without asking you to change it.

Do I need to know how to use AI?

No. The prompts are written to be copied, pasted and adapted.

Is there a subscription?

No. One payment of £89 with lifetime access to the version you buy.

Will it make me profitable?

There are no guarantees, and anyone promising otherwise should make you sceptical. Markets are uncertain. The Toolkit improves your process; it does not promise an outcome.

Can I see it before I buy?

Yes. Start with the free Starter Pack and try the approach for yourself.

Where this leaves you

Research better.
Question more.
Stay sceptical.

The Sceptic’s Toolkit gives you the prompts, processes and practical tools to build AI into your trading workflow without handing over your judgement.