How it works

Four steps. No black boxes.

Algovest is a trading-intelligence platform you can actually read. Every signal comes with the data that produced it. Every strategy shows you which agents fired and why.

By Joshua Motley · Founder, Algovest (Section 44 LLC)
Builder of Algovest’s signal engine and the methodology described below. Last reviewed April 24, 2026.
01

Agents watch the data

Each agent is a specialist that answers one narrow question — is momentum accelerating, is insider buying clustered, has the yield curve flipped. Agents read from primary sources and emit a stance: bull, bear, or neutral.

Example agent
52-Week High Proximity measures how close a stock is trading to its 12-month high, weights by the slope of the run, and flags AAPL as bull.
02

You compose strategies

Pick the agents you trust. Tune each one's thresholds and lookback windows on a parameter-preview screen, weight them against each other, and pick symbols. Stances refresh throughout the trading day as new data arrives, and your strategy combines them into a single stance.

Example strategy
Tech Momentum — 52-Week High Proximity (40%, 12-month lookback), Earnings Yield (30%, top quintile), Macro Regime (30%) across AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL.
03

Paper trading validates

Every user starts with $100,000 of paper equity. Orders fill at the price the signal fired on, and we track Sharpe, drawdown, and forward returns — with the same safety gates live trading will use.

Example flow
  1. 1
    Strategy flips to bull.
  2. 2
    Paper simulator fills 10 shares at the signal price.
  3. 3
    P&L updates continuously as prices move.
  4. 4
    Strategy flips to bear.
  5. 5
    Position closed. Trade saved to your history with the signal that closed it.
04

Live trading — coming soon

Graduate to live trading via a linked brokerage account. Your strategies, decisions, and paper history carry over — you don't start from scratch.

What carries over
All your strategies, every signal you’ve logged, your performance history, and the agent weights you tuned. Flip the switch; keep the work.

Anatomy of a signal

Every stance carries its receipts.

When an agent fires, you see the stance, the confidence, the data point that triggered it, and a human-readable summary. No black-box score, no vague arrow.

Agent
52-Week High Proximity
Bull
Symbol
AAPL
Confidence
44%
Eval price
$185.42
Summary

Trading at 98.3% of 52-week high ($188.65), well above the 95% bull threshold.

Agent Data

Source

US equities market data

Results

Proximity to 52w High98.3%
52-Week High$188.65

Inputs & Thresholds

Bull Threshold95.0%
Bear Threshold80.0%
Lookback Days252

Illustrative example output from the 52-Week High Proximity agent with default parameters (252-day lookback, 95% bull threshold, 80% bear threshold). The values shown are for demonstration — not a live quote and not a record of any actual trade.

6
Expert signals
20+
Tunable parameters
$100k
Paper equity per user