An AI trading agent that cannot run away with your money
How Evident's AI agent decides, why every proposal passes a deterministic risk engine first, and why it trades only on decentralised venues with keys that cannot withdraw.
Giving a language model your trading account is a bad idea. Models are confident when they are wrong, they misread numbers, and they have no sense of how much you can afford to lose. Evident's AI agent is built around that fact: the model proposes, and a piece of ordinary, deterministic code decides whether the proposal is allowed.
What the agent sees
The agent manages one position on one market, on 1-hour, 4-hour or daily candles. At every closed candle it receives a compact picture of the market: price and recent candles, the indicators you chose, Evident's chart reading (trend, support and resistance levels, formations), recent candlestick patterns with their measured history, and important scored news for that asset. It answers with one of three actions — open, close or hold — plus a stop, an optional target, a size and a confidence.
What the risk engine does
Before anything happens, the proposal passes a risk engine that does not use AI at all:
- A stop is mandatory. A missing stop gets a default one; a stop on the wrong side of the price, too tight or too wide (in ATR) is corrected or the trade is refused.
- Size is set by risk, not by enthusiasm. The position is cut so that hitting the stop loses at most your per-trade risk (1% of capital by default, never more than 5%).
- Leverage is capped (2× by default, never more than 10×) and cut further if the liquidation price would sit inside the stop.
- Daily limits. After a daily loss (3% by default, at most 20%) or a number of trades (4 by default, at most 12), no new position opens that day.
- Shorts are off unless you turn them on; low-confidence proposals and trades right after a close (cool-down) are blocked.
Every decision — including the blocked ones and the reason — is written to a journal you can read.
Why decentralised venues only, for now
The agent trades only on decentralised venues. On Hyperliquid and Aster it uses an agent wallet or API key that can place orders but cannot withdraw. On wallet venues such as Jupiter and KyberSwap it never trades by itself at all: it prepares the swap, and you confirm it in your own wallet. Evident never holds your funds — keys with withdrawal permission are refused.
Paper first
Every agent starts on paper with a virtual balance, so you can watch it decide for days before any real order exists. Switching to real orders is a separate, deliberate step. To be clear about where we are: the real-money order paths are implemented, but they have not yet been verified with real keys on every venue — start small, and start on paper.
An AI agent is a tool, not an adviser. Nothing on Evident is investment advice.
Evident does not give investment advice. Past performance does not indicate future returns. Leveraged and automated trading carries the risk of losing capital.