Asking a question from Home
The box under the greeting creates a real conversation before it takes you to Intelligence.
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There is one field under the greeting, and it is a doorway rather than a chat. Nothing is answered on Home. You type a question, Alltra creates the conversation, and Intelligence opens on it with the answer already being written — so a question that occurs to you on the way in does not cost you a navigation first.
What happens when you press send
- The conversation is created first — your message and the thread exist on the server before the page changes. Close the tab mid-navigation and you have still asked; the old behaviour left the question in a URL and nowhere else.
- You land on the conversation’s own address — the URL names the thread, not the question — so it can be reloaded, shared and reached again with the Back button.
- The answer arrives there — Intelligence reads your own records to answer, and shows the step where it does it.
If the conversation cannot be created — a dropped connection is the usual reason — you are still taken to Intelligence carrying what you wrote, and it runs the question there instead. A short note tells you the chat could not be started. That fallback exists because the box has already cleared by the time the create fails, so refusing to move would be a question typed and then quietly dropped. It carries the message in the address, which is why a very long paste arrives without it: a mutilated question answered in earnest is worse than an empty box you can see is empty.
This box always starts a NEW conversation. To carry on one you already have, open Intelligence and pick it out of the history there — typing here will not add to it.
The box has one control, deliberately
A field and a send button, and nothing else. No attachments, no mode controls, no speed dial — those belong to Intelligence’s own composer, on the turns after this one, and a control here that only meant "go there" would be a link wearing a button’s clothes. Enter sends; Shift+Enter starts a new line.
The placeholder rotates through example questions rather than sitting on one hint. That is the field teaching you what it takes: sentences, not search terms. The first line of the rotation mentions typing a slash for commands, and that menu belongs to the composer in Intelligence — there is none in this box, so what you type here travels as the message.
What it can answer
The same thing it answers anywhere else: questions about your own trading record. It reads the trades, journals and accounts you have imported, and it cannot see a week you have not. Asking what the market will do next has nothing behind it — nothing in your history says that, and it will tell you so rather than guess.
Pressing the Intelligence card instead of sending opens the AI home rather than starting a conversation, even if there is text in the box. If you have typed a question, send it.
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