# Introduction

## Your intelligent assistant for trading and investing

**Obside Chat** is the central interface of Obside. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, an investor or an active trader, it guides you, informs you, and helps you make the best decisions possible — all in natural language.

It's also where **you create your agents**: simply describe what you want to achieve, and Obside turns your intent into a ready-to-use automation.

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## Three families of use cases

Everything you can do with Obside Chat falls into three main families:

### 1. Automate your trading

Turn your ideas into concrete actions on the markets.

* [**Schedule a trade**](/obside-chat/automate-your-trading/schedule-a-trade.md) — execute a specific operation at a given time or under a specific condition.
* [**Create a trading bot**](/obside-chat/automate-your-trading/create-a-trading-bot.md) — an agent that follows defined rules, with no human intervention.
* [**Deploy an AI trader**](/obside-chat/automate-your-trading/deploy-an-ai-trader.md) — an autonomous agent powered by a large language model.

### 2. Get alerted

Stay informed in real time about the events that matter to you.

* [**Create a smart alert**](/obside-chat/get-alerted/create-a-smart-alert.md) — triggered by your conditions on prices, indicators, news or tweets.
* [**Monitor your portfolio**](/obside-chat/get-alerted/monitor-your-portfolio.md) — track performance, risk and events affecting your positions.
* [**Spot opportunities**](/obside-chat/get-alerted/spot-opportunities.md) — identify assets matching your criteria.

### 3. Understand the market

Get clear analyses and learn how to read the markets.

* [**Decode the news**](/obside-chat/understand-the-market/decode-the-news.md) — summaries and impact of economic events.
* [**Read the market**](/obside-chat/understand-the-market/read-the-market.md) — directional reads and macro overviews.
* [**Learn the basics**](/obside-chat/understand-the-market/learn-the-basics.md) — pedagogical explanations on trading and investing.

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## How does Obside Chat work?

You write (or dictate) your request in the chat. To frame the conversation, you can **enrich your message** with:

* **Assets** — e.g. Bitcoin, AAPL, EURUSD — selected from 10,000+ instruments.
* **Technical indicators** — RSI, MACD, EMA, etc. — with your custom parameters.
* **Files** — images, PDFs, chart screenshots, datasets.
* **Connected platforms** — so it can read your balances or rely on the assets available at your broker.

Obside Chat rephrases your request, asks for clarifications if needed, and then executes the action or creates the corresponding agent.

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The credit cost of each message is shown in the message details (info icon). A simple conversation costs about 1 credit; creating or optimizing an agent costs more.
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## Why use Obside Chat?

* Available for any strategic, technical or methodological question.
* Boosts your efficiency in creating, analyzing and improving your agents.
* Saves you time on platform configuration.
* Supports decision-making with market data and your own history.

A simple question is all it takes to get started.


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# Agent Instructions: 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.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.obside.com/obside-chat/introduction.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.