Instinct launches AI trading agents aimed at one-person investment firms
The Y Combinator-backed startup says its agents can research markets and carry work toward execution; its website currently offers early access through a waitlist.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Instinct is pitching traders an operating layer for research and trading. Its early-access launch presents that ambition, while public materials leave its live capabilities and investment results unproven.
Instinct, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Joon Won Song and Eunju Moon, announced its AI trading-agent platform on October 14th, pitching it as software that gives an individual trader some of the research capacity of an investment firm. The launch post describes agents that work in parallel across market data, news and social activity, build tools, investigate opportunities and carry tasks toward execution.…