Getting Started with MAX: Your First Five Minutes

From sign-up to your first verdict. A quick tour of the chat home, the composer, and the two fastest ways to get an answer out of MAX on day one.

MAX is the analyst at the center of Market Agent X. You talk to it the way you'd talk to a desk strategist who never sleeps, watches every market at once, and only speaks in numbers it can source. There's no dashboard to configure before you get value and no manual to read first. You sign in, you ask, you get a grounded answer.

This guide walks the first five minutes: what you see when you land, how the composer works, and the two fastest paths to a real answer.

Step 1 — Start your trial and sign in

Every account starts with a 7-day trial. A card is required up front, and you can cancel any time from Settings before the trial ends. Once you're in, the app opens straight into the chat home — no onboarding maze.

What you'll see

A single prompt: "What's MAX got for you today?" with one big input box and a handful of starter pills underneath. That input box — the composer — is where everything happens.

Step 2 — Understand the composer

The composer is a normal text box with two superpowers built in. You can type a full question in plain English, or you can trigger structured actions with two keys:

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Type "/" to run a command

A menu pops up with MAX's built-in actions — analyze a symbol, find a trade, compose a dashboard, pull levels, and more. Pick one and MAX runs that exact workflow.

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Type "@" to pull up a symbol

Start typing a ticker or pair — AAPL, BTC, EUR/USD, /ES — and a picker filters as you go, across stocks, crypto, forex, and futures. Select it and MAX knows exactly which asset you mean.

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Or just ask

"Long or short BTC right now?" works perfectly. The slash and @ shortcuts are for speed, not a requirement.

Step 3 — Get your first answer (two fast paths)

You don't need to know what to ask. The starter panel under the composer gives you two one-click on-ramps.

Have a symbol in mind
Click Analyze a symbol
Type or tap a ticker (BTC, NVDA, SPY…)
MAX runs the full pipeline and returns a verdict
Don't have one yet
Click Find me a trade
Pick a market and a style
MAX scans and ranks the best setups it sees

Either way, within a few seconds you'll watch MAX work through its pipeline live, then land on a verdict: a direction, a confidence score, trade levels, and a written thesis that cites the data behind every claim.

Good first questions

"What is the market actually telling me today?" · "What's smart money doing that retail isn't?" · "What's the biggest risk forming today?" · "Long or short BTC right now?"

Step 4 — Know where things live

The left sidebar is your map. Chats holds your conversation history, Dashboards holds live market overviews you can build on, Monitors is where you set alerts, and Strategies holds trade playbooks. We cover each of these in its own How-To guide.

That's the whole first five minutes. Ask a question, read the verdict, and let the rest unfold from there.

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Cross-asset, regime-aware intelligence across crypto, stocks, forex, and futures — grounded in real data, not vibes. Start your 7-day trial and ask your first question.

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