What the machines can and cannot do for your money.
Using AI tools to research companies faster, what SEBI allows retail algo traders to do, and the honest limits of asking a chatbot which stock to buy.
A step-by-step workflow for letting a language model do the page-turning on a 300-page annual report: the prompts, the extraction table, the verification pass that catches invented numbers, and the questions a model cannot answer for you.
Until 2025, automating your own trades through a broker's API lived in a grey zone. SEBI's February 2025 framework made it legal with conditions: registered algos, an order-rate threshold, broker accountability, and a line between strategies you can see inside and ones you cannot.
Ask a chatbot which share to buy and it will answer, confidently and badly. What language models actually do, why their numbers cannot be trusted without a source, where they genuinely save hours, and what SEBI's rules say about advice from anyone, human or machine.
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