# FAQ (https://docs.helico.site/docs/faq)

The questions people ask first.

## What is Helico, in plain words?
When you put money into a trading pool, it only earns while the price stays inside a band you
chose. Prices drift, and then the money sits idle. Helico watches for that and moves your funds
back into their band, under rules you write down once. A contract checks every rule before
anything moves, and blocks anything else.

## What do I need to start?
A wallet, and funds already sitting in a supported market on the Arbitrum network. Helico does
not create or hold them. Nothing is live yet, so today the honest answer is the code and a
rehearsal on a copy of the market.

## Who holds my money?
You do. Your funds stay in your wallet as a token that proves you own them. You give the
contract permission to move them, not to keep them.

## What can the automation do to it?
One thing: propose a move inside your rules. It cannot pay itself, it cannot spend more than
your funds released, and it cannot send anything anywhere but back to you or into the market.

## When does it do nothing?
Most of the time. It waits while your cooldown runs, and whenever a move would not bring your
funds meaningfully closer to the price, because every move costs a little.

## What stays private?
How the decision is made. The program that decides runs inside a sealed environment. Your rules
themselves are public on the chain, so anyone can check that a move followed them.

## Is it live? Is it audited?
Neither, yet. The whole flow has been run end to end on a copy of the real market and kept 94%
of the funds working. That was a copy, not the live network, and the sealed environment was
simulated. Twelve automated reviewers and then six more went over the contract; that is not a
professional audit.

## Can I stop it?
Yes, at any time. Withdraw the permission or press revoke. Nothing can block that.