Atlas Trader
Risk has veto power over the strategy
- Who it's for
- Individual traders and portfolio operators running systematic strategies — typically someone who has already watched an unattended bot lose money faster than they could log in.
- The problem it solves
- Automated trading fails on the downside, not the upside. A strategy that backtests beautifully has no exposure cap, no circuit breaker, and nothing that halts it when data goes stale or the market turns — and by the time you notice, the loss is already booked.
An operator console for algorithmic trading built around the assumption that the strategy will eventually be wrong. No price prediction — regimes classify backward-looking volatility and allocation reacts. Exposure caps, circuit breakers, a kill switch, and stale-data blocks can all halt trading independently. Live orders can be held for human approval above a notional threshold, and every decision is written to a structured audit log.
Latest release 0.9·August 5, 2026
What it does
Atlas Trader treats risk as the primary system, not a setting. Volatility regimes drive defensive or aggressive allocation, risk rules hold veto power over every order, and a decision log explains each action the system took.
Why it's different
- Paper-first — live money needs several deliberate, separate unlocks
- No price prediction; volatility regimes drive defensive allocation
- Kill switch, circuit breakers, and stale-data blocks halt independently
Core capabilities
Each capability maps to a concrete screen in the app.
Regime detection
Backward-looking volatility classification, not forecasting.
Hard risk vetoes
Exposure caps and circuit breakers can stop any order, regardless of signal.
Human approval queue
Orders above a notional threshold wait for a person.
Decision log
A structured audit record explaining why every action happened.
Access
Paper trading by default. Live orders require explicit environment flags, a vaulted broker connection, and a passing broker certification.
What you need
Any modern browser. Broker connection optional and off by default.
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