Observations from a new user
I've seen many ask questions and get little in the way of response to some things I wondered when planning to sign up. I've put $10k in to test the functionality and performance before I move IRA funds in next year. I've only been using a week or so, but here are some things I can confirm after this short period of time (great timing to get in btw lol).
-Signed up for Public (I have Schwab, E-Trade and Robinhood but want to fully test the seamless, no-approval needed auto trading and be able to buy fractional shares) and deposited funds. A portion of funds were available immediately, the remainder were made available after a few days. Just don't expect everything to be there immediately. I'm not going to comment on or review their interface/tools. There are better, but thats not what this account is for. I can see my portfolio easily enough and the app is quite easy to use. Emails documenting each trade are clear, concise and quick to arrive.
-With initial funds made available instantaneously I subscribed to Actively Managed. Autopilot walks you through connecting your Public account, asks how much you want to invest in that Pilot and then initiates the purchases in your Public account. THEN, it asks you how you want to pay for your Pilot (quarterly or yearly). Significant discount for yearly. You pay by credit card.
-When remaining funds were made available I bought in to Wolff and Sikand (Asymmetric Bets & Memory Supercycle). Again, amount allocation and subscription was easy and fast. Purchases began immediately in Public (no confirmation needed). Once you subscribe to a Pilot you can see all of the Pilots managed by that person (as noted in another thread today you can also click of the name of the person in the pilot you have subscribed to in order to see their other pilots [to which you now also have access without additional $]).
-Today was the first rebalance of one of the funds. Truly 'hands free'. I was working on a project and when I later checked my email I had 6 separate emails from Public, one for each stock bought/sold and one from Autopilot (7 minutes later) telling me about the rebalance.
-One of my unanswered questions going in was 'What if two different pilots have the same stock, will that confuse later rebalancing within each?'. Today I got my answer. Wolff rebalanced 6 stocks today in his Flagship Fund, 5 of which are also in his Top 15 (these funds overlap a LOT, but I wanted to feel all of this out.. I'd do some deep thinking before I put significant $ into both of these instead of just one). It seems quite clear that the 'pots' allocated to each pilot are properly tracked and, for example, my stake in IREN increased just enough to take my stake from 7% to 8% within that pool of $ allocated to WFF. Likewise I sold just enough SGOV to hit the new ~6% (rather than ~7.37%) target for the WFF while also maintaining the proper allocation for the W15.
-Part of this test of mine is to see how my realized returns compare to those posted in the app 1M, 3M, etc. and I'll report those here at that time.