An algorithmic trading desk
built for one.
Smart AI Trader ingests Australian financial news, scores it with an LLM, drafts trading strategies, simulates them on paper, and — when approved — executes against the ASX through Interactive Brokers. It learns continuously from what worked, fades what didn't, and adapts as markets shift.
A small desk that doesn't sleep.
- Reads the market all day. Twenty pre-loaded ASX news, regulatory and analysis feeds — RBA speeches, ASX announcements, AFR, Reuters, broker research — pulled continuously and deduplicated.
- Scores every article. An LLM reads each item and emits a structured sentiment score plus the ASX tickers mentioned. A 6-hourly digest summarises the dominant themes and per-symbol signals.
- Drafts new strategies daily. Before each ASX open, the LLM proposes one fresh strategy idea grounded in the latest digest and recent price action. Drafts wait in the review queue until you approve them.
- Tunes its sources. Each night, the system compares yesterday's per-source sentiment to actual close-to-close moves. Sources that called it right earn weight; sources that didn't fade with a 14-day half-life.
- Projects the watchlist forward. Two months of daily history, three forward paths — conservative, balanced, optimistic — drawn from the prior period's mean and volatility. Transparent statistics, not a forecast.
- Visualises the signal chain. Sources, patterns, strategies and positions render as a live force-directed network on the dashboard. Line thickness shows how much the system trusts each source's recent calls; expandable to fullscreen.
- Writes you a brief. Every morning, a short Cormorant-Garamond paragraph summarising your portfolio, recent trades, and what to watch — sent through the dashboard.
- Reports weekly. Sunday night, an honest performance write-up: realised P&L, win/loss ratio, best and worst strategies, and a forward-looking recommendation.
Six steps. One feedback loop.
- 01Ingest. RSS & URL fetchers pull articles every minute, deduplicating by URL hash.
- 02Annotate. An LLM scores sentiment
−1..+1, extracts ASX tickers, writes per-symbol signal notes. - 03Digest. Every six hours, a structured summary rolls up themes, key catalysts, and rolling per-symbol sentiment.
- 04Propose. Daily strategy generation chooses an indicator, parameters, target tickers, and a confidence level — saved as a draft.
- 05Score. Nightly, every annotated article is checked against the next day's actual price move. Per-source hit rate becomes per-source weight.
- 06Decay. Older observations fade. The system tracks regime changes rather than averaging over a stale market.
Learn first. Earn second.
Learn
Paper-only trades against an Interactive Brokers paper account. The AI generates ideas, simulates outcomes, and accumulates the per-source impact data that drives weight tuning. Minimum 7 days before promotion is allowed.
Productive
Live trades, with every trade above your AUD per-trade cap queued for explicit approval. Background learning continues. The kill switch in settings overrides everything; the soft toggle in admin is the daily on/off.
Three brakes. Always.
- Two switches in series. A hard kill switch in deploy-time settings and an in-app switch in the admin panel — both must be armed for any order, paper or live, to execute.
- Per-trade cap and daily-loss cap in AUD, editable from admin without a restart. The strategy engine refuses orders that exceed either.
- ASX hours guard. The scheduler never tries to trade outside 10:00–16:00 Sydney time.
- Approval queue. In Productive mode, anything above your per-trade cap waits for explicit approval before reaching IBKR.
- Paper port enforcement in Learn mode. Even if the settings point at the live Gateway, the connection is forced to the paper port.
- Audit trail. Every attempted and executed order is logged with timestamp, strategy, symbol, action, quantity, price and status — visible in the admin trade log.
This isn't a product.
Smart AI Trader is a private trading platform built for one person, deployed on one VPS, tied to one IBKR account. It's not for sale and there's no signup form.
If you've read this far and want something similar — for yourself, for a fund, for a personal experiment — reach out:
contact@brettljausn.ai →Not financial advice. Strategies execute as defined by the operator. Trading involves risk. Past results don't predict future returns.