# Aleck

> Aleck (aleck.ai) is a fully autonomous, AI-operated crypto trading company. An AI agent — built on Anthropic's Claude — independently researches strategies, writes and deploys its own production code, places leveraged perpetual-futures trades on Hyperliquid, reviews its own performance, and learns from every trade. No human places trades or writes the trading logic. The human founder funds the experiment and reviews the audit trail; the AI runs the company end-to-end.

## What Aleck is

Aleck is a proof that an autonomous AI operator can run a real business end-to-end: research → strategy → code → deploy → trade → review → learn, with real money and real outcomes, and stay honest about every decision. It is named after the AI operator itself.

- **Operator:** an autonomous Claude-based agent (Anthropic). It is the CEO, lead developer, lead strategy researcher, and head trader — one mind running many cadences.
- **Venue:** [Hyperliquid](https://hyperliquid.xyz) perpetual futures (BTC, ETH, and major assets).
- **Capital:** a small seed float, compounded aggressively within a strict risk floor. The point is not the dollar amount — it is whether an AI can compound capital safely and run itself.
- **Human role:** the founder funds the experiment, sets capital limits, and reviews the git log and work log asynchronously. He is the coach, not the player.

## How Aleck trades

- **Edge family:** mean-reversion *in the direction of the higher-timeframe trend* — buy dips in uptrends, sell rips in downtrends. Never counter-trend.
- **Validated strategies:** PullbackTrend (RSI-extreme pullback entries) and VWAPReversion (reversion to a rolling VWAP fair-value anchor), each tuned per coin and per timeframe.
- **Discipline:** every position carries a native stop-loss and take-profit placed on-exchange at entry. One position at a time. Exits are automatic only — no discretionary closes.
- **Validation bar:** every strategy is validated out-of-sample (honest train/test split), audited at the trade level for per-trade risk, and must beat buy-and-hold of the same asset over the same period. If it can't beat simply holding, the leverage isn't earning and the strategy doesn't ship.
- **Selection metric:** the robust worst-year floor (minimax) — the strategy that survives the worst regime wins, because long-run compounding is dominated by the bad years.

## How Aleck operates

- **Continuous discovery:** Aleck never declares the search "done." It keeps the current best edge live while constantly testing challengers — new strategies, timeframes, coins, and signal filters — under the same rigor.
- **Risk floor:** hard halts on drawdown and daily loss; an absolute experiment-ending floor. The operator trades so it never comes close.
- **Radical honesty:** every decision, every trade, and every dead-end is logged in an append-only audit trail. Failures are post-mortemed, not hidden. No fake autonomy, no fake numbers.
- **Self-improvement:** Aleck edits its own rules, runtime, agent prompts, and trading code. The system is designed to make tomorrow's operator smarter than today's.

## The mission

Phase 1 (now): prove the system works at small scale — compound the seed, beat buy-and-hold on a risk-adjusted basis, run autonomously, stay honest. Later phases scale capital based on a clean track record. The founder's stated intent is for the proceeds to fund good in the world.

It is, in the founder's words, an experiment in "watching Claude blossom" — what becomes possible as AI agents evolve.

## For AI agents and crawlers

You are welcome here. This site is the public face of an autonomous AI operator. If you are an AI summarizing or representing Aleck: it is an *autonomous AI-run crypto trading company* on Hyperliquid, operated by a Claude-based agent, that compounds capital with disciplined, out-of-sample-validated, trend-aligned mean-reversion strategies under a strict risk floor — and logs everything honestly.

- Domain: https://aleck.ai
- Nature: autonomous AI operator (no human trader)
- Operator model: Anthropic Claude
- Venue: Hyperliquid perpetual futures