Custom-trained AI · receipts, not promises

Autonomous trading strategies,
built on a custom-trained AI

A custom AI, trained on 1.5 billion US-equity bars, drives a rules engine that trades unattended, 24/5. We sell better-shaped equity exposure — not alpha, not magic — and publish the track record to prove it.

Three cocktails, one engine

Same forecaster, three shapes of risk — concentrated, vol-managed, or overnight. Each named after a bitter cocktail. Pick the pour that fits you.

Old Pal 1.1

Higher risk · concentrated

The sharpest sibling — concentrated, high-conviction, with a volatility brake.

+21.4% 7yr · −31.0% max DD

Backtest & strategy card →

Americano 1.1

Lower risk · vol-managed

The lightest pour — volatility-managed exposure, built for shallower drawdowns.

+10.7% 7yr · −11.5% max DD

Backtest & strategy card →

Black Manhattan 1.1

Overnight · event-driven

The night shift — holds a handful of names from the close to the next open, and nothing in between.

+17.5% 7yr · −13.5% max DD

Backtest & strategy card →

How we name and version strategies →

How it works

A trained forecaster plus a rules engine — not a black box placing per-trade bets.

1 · Forecast

Centaurium 1.1 reads the odds for every name in a mid-cap universe, across the whole trading day.

2 · Position

A deterministic policy turns those odds into target weights — risk-managed, rules only.

3 · Execute

An executor mirrors the target book to a copy-trading broker — 24/5, no human in the loop.

Why build it this way? The Bitter Lesson → · Meet Centaurium 1.1 →

Why trust it

Most copy-trade marketers show you a curve. We show the backtest, the live record, and the gap between them.

Backtest and live, side by side

Once it’s live, you see the in-sample backtest next to real results — including the gap.

Pre-registered kill criteria

Each strategy carries published rules that auto-halt it if live performance breaks down. No moving goalposts.

Honest framing

Better-shaped equity exposure, clearly labelled. We don’t claim to beat the market by picking winners.

Backtested / hypothetical. Headline figures are in-sample 2022–2024 backtests, not live results, with wide confidence intervals. BitterQuant is in paper-trade validation; a live, independently-tracked dashboard lands here and replaces these numbers as the record accrues. Past and hypothetical performance is no guarantee of future results. Nothing here is investment advice. Full risk & legal disclaimer →