Every week there’s a new ad for an AI that trades the stock market for you. Some of them promise it never loses. Some of them won’t tell you anything about how it works, because it’s “proprietary AI.”
I build trading software for a living, so let me tell you what’s real, what’s hype, and why we made a deliberate choice not to call Strike AI, even though it would probably sell better.
What the AI trading ads promise
Here’s the hype, and you’ve probably seen all three.
One: “It never loses.” Every real strategy has losing months. Ours does, and I’ll show you them. If someone shows you a line that only goes up, they’re showing you a picture, not a record.
Two: “It’s a secret AI.” If nobody will explain what it does, you have no way to know whether it works, or whether it will keep working when the market changes. Secrecy isn’t an edge. It’s a warning sign.
Three: “Send your money to our platform.” This is the big one. Your money should stay in an account in your own name, at a regulated broker. Any setup where you wire money to a company to trade for you is where people get hurt.
Want rules you can read and a record someone else checked?Book a call →Hear it from people who use Strike What actually holds up
So what actually holds up? Three things.
First, rules you can read. The strategies that last are built on effects that have been studied for decades, not on a pattern someone found in last year’s chart. Momentum, which is what Strike uses, has been in the Journal of Finance since 1993.
Second, a record someone else has checked. Ours was examined by Alpha Performance Verification Services, an independent firm, from 2020 to October 2026.
Third, your money in your own account. Strike runs inside an Interactive Brokers account in your name, and the only permission it has is to place trades.
If an AI product can’t give you all three, it doesn’t matter how smart the AI is.
Rules decide. Not a black box.
So here’s why Strike isn’t AI. Calling it AI would probably sell more. But it would be a lie, and it would make it harder for you to trust.
Strike is three rules. Every day it ranks about 450 of the most liquid U.S. stocks on one momentum scale, strongest to weakest. It holds the strongest 20. And once a month, it rotates out of the ones that stopped leading and into the ones leading now.
That’s it. Same rules since 2020. No one overriding it with a gut feeling, and no model that changes its mind in ways nobody can explain. You can understand it in one breath, and that’s exactly the point.
See the rules. See the record.
So before you trust any AI trading product, ask three questions. Can I read the rules? Has anyone outside the company checked the record? And does my money stay in my own name?
If you want to see a system that answers all three, go to strikealgo.net. The rules, the full verified record and every question we get are right there. And if you want to see it run live, book a call.
Why this matters if you’re considering Strike
We could call Strike AI. It would probably sell better. We don’t, because you deserve to know exactly what’s buying and selling in your account. Book a call and ask us anything about the rules. We’ll answer every question, in plain English.
What happens on your call1We open the record togetherThe verified report, every month, the good and the bad. Ask anything.
2We map it to your accountHow Strike would run in your own Interactive Brokers account, the minimum, and what the swings could feel like.
3You decidePaper trade first if you like. No pressure, and if it isn’t a fit, we’ll tell you.
$100,000, same months
Jegadeesh & Titman 1993George & Hwang 2004Moskowitz, Ooi & Pedersen 2012
$100,000 invested April 2020, value September 30, 2026. MTUM NAV total returns per BlackRock. Strike: verified model record, gross of fees. Same months.
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