Nous Ergon: Building an Autonomous Alpha Engine with AI
The Thesis Can AI generate sustained market alpha — not through a single model making predictions, but through a system of specialized components, each contributing what it does best? That’s the question behind Nous Ergon: Alpha Engine (νοῦς ἔργον — “intelligence at work”), a fully autonomous trading system I’ve been building that combines AI-driven research, quantitative prediction, and rule-based execution. Quantitative finance — using mathematical models and statistical analysis to make investment decisions — has traditionally been the domain of institutional hedge funds with massive engineering teams. Large language models and modern machine learning tooling are changing that equation. ...