An AI hedge fund. Delivered as software.
iQntX is not a trading bot. It is a 32-agent organisation that runs like a real hedge fund: a CEO sets the macro stance, a research desk reads the tape, and five departments coordinate every trade — with an emergency reflex that can override every other agent the moment risk invariants break.
What is iQntX, in one paragraph
iQntX is a 32-agent AI hedge fund delivered as software you install and operate yourself. A CEO agent sets the macro stance (AGGRESSIVE / NORMAL / DEFENSIVE / LOCKDOWN). A Macro Officer reads geopolitics, central banks, and broker mail to form an independent view of risk (RISK_ON / RISK_OFF / MIXED / CRISIS). Five departments — Risk, Strategy, Execution, Intelligence, Macro — coordinate every trade. Three independent gates (Risk Gate, FactChecker, DoubleChecker) must sign before a single order leaves the EA. An emergency watchdog runs outside the agent graph and can issue an L4 HALT that overrides every other agent, including the CEO.
It is not a bot. It is an organisation.
Why "hedge fund" is the right mental model
Single-model trading bots fail for the same reason single-model anything fails: there is nothing to veto. When the model is wrong, the trade is wrong. When market regime changes, the model still trades the old regime. When the bot blows up, nobody journaled why.
Real hedge funds solved this with separation of concerns:
- The macro desk doesn't trade. It thinks about risk on / risk off.
- The strategy desk doesn't decide size. It identifies setups.
- The risk desk doesn't generate ideas. It vetoes them.
- The execution desk doesn't pick stops. It works the order.
- The CIO doesn't fire every trade. They set the stance.
- The compliance officer can stop everything.
iQntX is that org chart, ported to agents that run on your VPS and execute on your broker. Same checks. Same balances. Same fail-closed defaults that keep a real fund alive through a 30-year career.
The 32-agent org chart at a glance
| Role | What it does | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| CEO | Sets stance, holds weekend, declares code-red | Single source of truth for risk appetite |
| Macro Officer | Reads geopolitics, central banks, broker mail | Independent stance — checks the CEO |
| Risk Department (5) | Emergency, PanicControl, RiskGate, ExposureManager, AdaptiveParams | The veto layer — can stop anyone |
| Strategy Department (10+) | Strategist, StrategyBank, StrategySwitcher, Confluence, Backtest, MeanReversion, Patterns, tier 1–4 expansion | Setups, regime classification, backtests |
| Execution Department (4) | TradesManager, Coordinator, FactChecker, DoubleChecker | Orders, signatures, sanity checks |
| Intelligence Department (8) | News, Calendar, Journal, SelfOptimizer, hourly/daily/weekly Report Writers | Compounding the lessons of every day |
Every agent runs the same 10-step lifecycle on every wake-up. No agent skips a step. No agent owns the whole trade.
The three gates every trade must pass
Before an order leaves the EA, three independent agents must sign off:
- Risk Gate — Are stance, size, drawdown headroom, and correlated exposure all within bounds? If any is breached, the trade is rejected and journaled as a near-miss.
- FactChecker — Are the inputs that justified this decision still true at the moment of signing? Market regime can flip in the seconds between idea and order. The FactChecker re-verifies; stale inputs invalidate the signature.
- DoubleChecker — Does a second, blind agent (with no knowledge of the originator's reasoning) reach the same conclusion? Two independent paths to the same conclusion is the institutional standard.
A trade any gate refuses is not a missed opportunity — it is a journal entry that makes tomorrow's decision-making sharper.
The emergency reflex
The most institutional thing about iQntX is the part nobody likes to talk about: it is engineered to fail closed.
An independent watchdog runs in its own process, outside the agent graph. It watches drawdown, margin utilization, broker connectivity, and stop-loss invariants. The moment any invariant breaks, it issues an L4 HALT:
- All open positions are closed at market.
- The EA is locked.
- The operator is paged.
- The CEO agent cannot countermand the halt.
You will never hear "the bot just kept going" with iQntX. The system survives by being able to stop.
What you get on the operator side
| Surface | Purpose |
|---|---|
iqntx admin <verb> CLI | Start / stop / inspect / set stance / open code-red |
context/journal/ markdown tree | Read in plain English why every decision was made |
| Postgres tables (Supabase) | Replay every decision via SQL |
| Telegram bot | Two-way operator chat (status, halts, manual overrides) |
| Reports (hourly / daily / weekly) | Auto-generated by the Intelligence Department |
Operators do not need to be Python engineers to run iQntX. The CLI is the surface; the markdown journal is the audit trail. Both are readable by humans without translation.
Subscription-first AI routing
iQntX uses four AI routes in priority order:
- Claude (CLI / Max x20 subscription) — preferred for reasoning-heavy decisions.
- Codex CLI — preferred for code-shaped tasks.
- Anthropic API — fallback for Claude.
- OpenAI API — fallback for Codex.
Routes are circuit-broken: if Claude is down, the router falls back to Codex CLI; if both subscription routes are down, it falls back to per-token API. You pay institutional-brain prices only when you have to. A cost ledger journals every call so you always know where the money went.
Read more about the architecture →
Who iQntX is for
- Retail traders who want institutional discipline without quitting their day job.
- Prop firm traders who need an audit trail to justify decisions to evaluators.
- Quant engineers who want a framework, not a SaaS black box.
- Family offices running a single MT5 account and tired of bot-of-the-week churn.
It is not for: scalpers wanting micro-second latency, copy-traders looking for someone else's signals, or anyone uncomfortable with the idea that the answer to a setup might be "WAIT."
Get on the waitlist
Cohorts open in waves. Founder-tier pricing locks the moment you sign up. The waitlist costs nothing to join and you can leave at any time.
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Frequently asked questions
Don't see your question? Email hello@iqntx.com — we'll add it.
What exactly is iQntX?
iQntX is software that automates trading the way a real hedge fund runs: 32 specialised AI agents, organised into a CEO + research desk + five departments (Risk, Strategy, Execution, Intelligence, Macro), all running as a single Python process under NSSM on a Windows host, with MT5 as the broker bridge and Supabase Postgres as the audit database.
Why 32 agents and not one big model?
Because separation of concerns is what lets real funds survive a 30-year career instead of a 30-day winning streak. A single monolithic model has nothing to veto it. When 32 agents have to agree — with three independent gates and an emergency watchdog — you get the same discipline that institutional desks pay millions for, at retail cost.
Is this a managed account or a regulated fund?
No. iQntX is not a managed account, not a regulated fund, and not investment advice. It is software you install and authorize against your own broker. You own the account, you control the keys, and you can pause or stop the system at any time.
What brokers and instruments work with iQntX?
Any MT5-compatible broker. The system trades FX majors, gold, oil, equity indices, and the major crypto pairs your broker offers. No custom broker API integration — orders fire from the same MT5 client the broker already trusts.
What hardware do I need?
A Windows machine — your own VPS, a desktop, or even a laptop you leave on. The system is a single Python process under NSSM (a battle-tested Windows service manager). No Docker, no Kubernetes, no special infrastructure. The footprint is small enough to run alongside a normal trading workflow.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is locked at the moment you join the waitlist. We open in cohorts so the system never gets in front of itself; the earliest cohorts get founder-tier pricing for the life of their account. Reach out to hello@iqntx.com if you need specifics for budgeting.
What happens if something breaks?
An independent watchdog runs outside the agent graph. If drawdown, margin utilization, broker connectivity, or any stop-loss invariant breaks, the watchdog issues an L4 HALT that closes positions, locks the EA, and pages the operator. The CEO agent cannot countermand it. The system fails closed.
Get on the waitlist.
Be first in line when private access opens. We onboard in waves so the system never gets in front of itself.