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From zero to your first live card in seven steps. You link your Robinhood Agentic Account, check your gates, and tap Do it when a card clears.

5 min read · Live mode · Updated 26 Sep 2026

01

Open GAUGE

Go to [APP_URL] and sign in with [AUTH_METHOD]. You land on Home: the active card, the four gates, and the live gap board for every name you watch.

02

Link your Agentic Account

Open Settings → Mode & account and choose Link via Trading MCP. GAUGE connects through the official Robinhood Trading MCP.

REQUIRED

Agentic Account only. Live orders go through a Robinhood Agentic Account, and only during regular trading hours (09:30–16:00 ET). GAUGE never holds your funds.

When the link works, the account row reads Linked via Robinhood Trading MCP · live orders RTH only.

03

Switch to Live

Use the Paper · Live toggle in the top bar. In Live, a lime strip stays under the top bar so you always know what a tap does:

TIP

Want to practice first? Paper runs the same gates and the same card. It fills at the confirm mid and moves no money.

04

Check your gates

A card only appears when every gate passes. The defaults are strict on purpose. Change them in Settings → Gates.

GateDefaultFails as
Max quote age2.0 sSTALE
SessionRTHCLOSED
Min depth$100kTHIN
Net floor after fees 3.5, slippage, buffer 2.02.0 bpsDUST
Daily cap3 cardsno 4th card
05

Read your first card

When a name clears, you get a card. It lives for 75 seconds.

  • Countdown. 75 s, then it's gone.
  • Net. What's left of the gap after every cost.
  • Do it. The only way an order is ever placed.
  • Skip. Nothing happens. The card still counts toward the cap.

For the math behind the net number, read How a card is made.

06

Tap Do it

A tap doesn't send the card as-is. GAUGE checks again first:

  • The countdown holds while GAUGE confirms.
  • Both legs are re-quoted at fresh prices.
  • All four gates are re-checked on the new prices.

If everything still clears, GAUGE places one cash-equity order on your Agentic Account. If not, nothing happens.

RULE

The model does not place. GAUGE never trades the token, never hedges both legs, and never places without your tap.

07

Review it in History

Every card lands in History with its net at card, its net at confirm, the outcome, and a full audit trail. You can export the ledger as CSV.

DEVStream cards yourselfDRAFT

Cards and reasons are pushed over Server-Sent Events. The endpoint and payload below are drafts until the API is published.

shellDRAFT
# subscribe to your card and reason events
curl -N "[API_BASE]/v1/stream" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer [TOKEN]" \
  -H "Accept: text/event-stream"
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