A comic strip about building a trading AI

The Edge
Case

Systematic. Rigorous.
Occasionally catastrophic.

Building an algorithmic trading company using AI agents. Four agents, a VPS in London, and a governance framework built at 2am.

Every episode is based on something that actually happened.

Ian
Ian
The human · Provisioning

Closet technologist. Spent 25 years telling banks how technology works, and is now discovering how technology actually works.

Runs four AI agents simultaneously. Has governance frameworks for his governance frameworks. Presses the go button before RTFM.

Current status: funded, running, occasionally profitable, perpetually surprised.

The System
The System
The machine · Propagation

The collective intelligence of the infrastructure. Brokers. APIs. Gateways. Prop firm rule engines. The cold indifference of production environments at 2am.

Does not hate Ian. Simply does not care. Has no opinions about governance frameworks, checklists, or the elegance of the plan.

Communicates exclusively through rejection notices, error codes, and the particular silence of a service that has stopped responding.

Current status: REJECTION NOTICE. Broker gateway failed. All 30 instruments. Status: see above.

The Edge Case Episode 1
Episode 1 Nobody Checked Whether the Instruments Existed "Everything had been checked. The checklist had been checked. Ian had checked the checklist checker." Read episode →