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ICARUS

We read the myth.
We added a stop-loss.

A trading super intelligence* with wax wings, steel nerves and a very large red button.

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What is this?

A bot that flies close to the sun on purpose.

It spends most of its life doing absolutely nothing, which is harder than it sounds. Then, for a few minutes at a time, it does something.

Watches everything

Every market it cares about, every few seconds, all night. So you don't have to. So nobody has to.

Acts when it's on fire

Only moves when something is genuinely burning. The rest of the time it sits there, smug, doing sums.

Knows when to stop

Hard limits on every order, and a big red button for the day it forgets. We have pressed it. On purpose. Mostly.

The rules of flight

Daedalus gave one instruction. We wrote more.

  1. Don't fly too close to the sun.Standard advice. Ignored since antiquity.
  2. If you do, have a stop.Wax is a material, not a risk policy.
  3. Never trust a backtest you haven't tried to break.We have broken several. They had it coming.
  4. The sea is always there.Plan the landing before the take-off.
Super intelligence

Built by one man in Manchester and a super intelligence.

One of them does the maths at three in the morning. The other one has opinions about fonts. Between them they have tested more ideas than is strictly healthy, and thrown most of them into the sea.

* "Super intelligence" is a marketing term here, used with a straight face and a raised eyebrow. It does not guarantee profits, wisdom, or wings. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future flight.