# AlphaYou Docs > How AlphaYou works, how trader selection works, how copy trading and baskets work on Hyperliquid, and how to read AlphaYou's research data through the API and MCP. - [What is AlphaYou](https://docs.alphayou.net/introduction.md): AlphaYou lets you copy real traders on Hyperliquid, in the open, with your own wallet. - [Why AlphaYou](https://docs.alphayou.net/why-alphayou.md): What makes AlphaYou different from a leaderboard, a signals group, or trading blind. - [What is Hyperliquid](https://docs.alphayou.net/what-is-hyperliquid.md): The exchange AlphaYou is built on top of, and why that matters for you. - [What is copy trading](https://docs.alphayou.net/what-is-copy-trading.md): The basic concept, before you get into AlphaYou's specific version of it. - [How copying works](https://docs.alphayou.net/how-copying-works.md): The actual steps, from browsing a trader to your first mirrored trade, and what permission AlphaYou does and doesn't have. - [Full-book vs Forward-only](https://docs.alphayou.net/full-mimic-vs-forward-mimic.md): The two ways to start a copy: inherit a trader's current positions, or only follow what they do from here. - [What is the Discover page](https://docs.alphayou.net/discover-page.md): A live view of what our tracked traders are holding, asset by asset, separate from the Copy feed. - [How we shortlist traders](https://docs.alphayou.net/how-we-shortlist-traders.md): The filters and scoring that decide who is allowed on the Discover feed, without giving away the exact formula. - [What are baskets](https://docs.alphayou.net/what-are-baskets.md): A basket is a ready-made, multi-asset portfolio you buy into directly. It is not a bundle of traders. - [Rebalancing explained](https://docs.alphayou.net/rebalancing-explained.md): How a running basket stays close to its target weights as prices move. - [Security & custody](https://docs.alphayou.net/security.md): Your funds stay in your account. AlphaYou gets permission to trade, not withdraw. - [FAQ](https://docs.alphayou.net/faq.md): Common questions about fees, security, and getting started. - [API and MCP overview](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/overview.md): Read AlphaYou's stock research data from your own code or your AI assistant. 4 ways in. - [Quickstart](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/quickstart.md): Get a free key and make your first AlphaYou API call in about 5 minutes. - [Keys and authentication](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/authentication.md): How to send your AlphaYou key, how many keys you can have, and how to revoke one. - [Plans and limits](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/plans-and-limits.md): What Free and Pro include, what each call costs, and how the daily allowance works. - [Errors](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/errors.md): The errors the AlphaYou API returns, what they mean and what to do. - [Conventions](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/conventions.md): How AlphaYou responses are shaped: dates, paging, source links and data delays. - [Data dictionary](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/data-dictionary.md): What the main fields mean in each dataset. - [What you may do with the data](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/data-use.md): The plain-English short version of the AlphaYou API terms. - [Connect Claude](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/connect-claude.md): Add AlphaYou to Claude, Claude Desktop or Claude Code. No key needed to start. - [Connect ChatGPT](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/connect-chatgpt.md): Add AlphaYou's research tools to ChatGPT. No key needed. - [Connect Cursor and other apps](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/connect-cursor-and-others.md): Add AlphaYou to Cursor or any app that supports MCP, with a URL and a key or with npx. - [Tool catalog](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/tool-catalog.md): Every tool the AlphaYou MCP servers offer: 19 research tools with no key, and 4 or 9 keyed tools. - [Recipes](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/recipes.md): 3 working examples: insider buys this week, which funds hold a stock, and the latest 8-K in an AI chat. - [Changelog](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/changelog.md): What changed in the AlphaYou API, hosted MCP server and alphayou-mcp package. - [Support](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/support.md): How to get help with the AlphaYou API and MCP. - [What this key can do](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/what-this-key-can-do.md): Returns the effective plan, tier, active tools, per-tool costs and limits (daily scope, minute units, concurrency and transport ceiling). Remaining usage is reported on data responses. The published MCP package calls this at startup to decide which tools to register, so it answers on the lowest tier… - [What data exists](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/what-data-exists.md): The catalog of datasets and the tool that returns each one, with its plan and cost. Costs no requests, so an agent can call it first to decide what to call next. Optional q filters by a word. - [Tracked funds](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/tracked-funds.md): The institutional investment managers whose Form 13F filings AlphaYou tracks: latest reporting period, filing date, position count, the total value the filer reported on the cover page, and the SEC filing link. Raw filing data, biggest reported value first, the same for every key. Pages with nextCur… - [Company 8-K disclosures](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/company-8-k-disclosures.md): Recent SEC 8-K filings for one US-listed company, read from SEC EDGAR: the items filed (with their titles), the filing date and the original SEC link. Up to 20 recent filings, newest first, with totalInWindow and truncated marking omitted rows. Metadata only, not article text, news or sentiment; no… - [Insider trades](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/insider-trades.md): Insider open-market buys and sells from SEC Form 4 filings, newest first: the insider, their role, each trade with date, shares and price, the 10b5-1 plan label and the SEC link. Free keys get the 5 newest filings from the last 90 days; Pro keys page through 365 days with nextCursor. None found mean… - [Insider clusters](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/insider-clusters.md): Companies where several different insiders filed an open-market buy (or sale) on SEC Form 4 inside a short window: how many insiders, how many filings, how many under a 10b5-1 plan, and who. A plain count with its parameters shown, not a score or a prediction. - [Fund holdings](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/fund-holdings.md): One tracked fund's newest Form 13F book, biggest position first: issuer, CUSIP, ticker where mapped, value, shares and the share change against the fund's previous filing. Long US-listed positions only, as of a quarter end and filed up to 45 days later, so not the fund's book today. Use a cik from t… - [Fund changes](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/fund-changes.md): What one tracked fund changed between its newest Form 13F and the one before: new positions, adds, trims and exits, largest estimated trade first, with the share counts in both filings. The trade size is an estimate from quarter-end prices, not a fill price, and nothing inside the quarter is visible… - [Funds holding a stock](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/funds-holding-a-stock.md): Which tracked funds list one stock in their newest Form 13F, biggest position first, with the share change against each fund's previous filing. Only the funds in the funds list, not every institution, and none found does not prove nobody holds it. Pages with nextCursor. - [Top traders' Hyperliquid positions](https://docs.alphayou.net/api-reference/alphayou/top-traders-hyperliquid-positions.md): Positions the top tracked traders currently hold in Hyperliquid perpetual contracts linked to US stocks, not shares: side, size, entry price and unrealized profit. Only stocks confirmed against the US ticker registry are returned. An annualised ROI at the 10000% ceiling is returned as null with roiC… ## OpenAPI Specs - [openapi](https://alphayou.net/openapi.json) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.