ai-hedge-fund

# AI Hedge Fund

This is a proof of concept for an AI-powered hedge fund. The goal of this project is to explore the use of AI to make trading decisions. This project is for **educational** purposes only and is not intended for real trading or investment.

<img width="2400" height="1460" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e3985623-c226-4c1a-a587-e03fb4eca31e" />


Note: the system does not actually make any trades.

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## Disclaimer

This project is for **educational and research purposes only**.

- Not intended for real trading or investment
- No investment advice or guarantees provided
- Creator assumes no liability for financial losses
- Consult a financial advisor for investment decisions
- Past performance does not indicate future results

By using this software, you agree to use it solely for learning purposes.

## How to Install

```bash
pipx install aihf
```

(or `uv tool install aihf`, or `pip install aihf` into an environment of your choice)

Then run it from anywhere:

```bash
aihf
```

### API keys

The app asks for keys the first time it needs them and saves them to `~/.hedge-fund/.env` — nothing to configure up front. It needs:

- A [Financial Datasets](https://financialdatasets.ai) API key, for prices, fundamentals, and earnings. Or, instead of a key, the private key of a Base wallet holding USDC: every call then pays for itself with [x402](https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/x402) (`pip install 'aihf[x402]'`; last 365 days of data, non-professional use).
- One model API key for the investor agents. Supported providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, xAI, Kimi, TypeSafe (Jev).

Keys exported in your shell always win over the saved file.

## How to Run

### Interactive app

```bash
aihf
```

With no arguments, this launches the interactive terminal app. It has two modes:

- **Paper trading** — your funds, each with a ledger of real market days and fake money. Highlight a fund to see what its next run will do; press enter to run it through the next completed session (an approval step shows the exact decision about to execute before anything trades), `s` for its full session history, `h`/`r` for the kill switch. Build a new fund from the same list: strategies, capital, cadence, tickers, and it is live. Every session is appended to a hash-chained ledger in `~/.hedge-fund/paper/<name>/`, so NAV is a track record, not a reset.
- **Backtesting** — replay a fund over history and watch its equity curve draw against its benchmark. Results are saved to `~/.hedge-fund/research/`. Fund definitions live in `~/.hedge-fund/mandates/` and carry no tickers; you pick the universe per backtest.



## Development

```bash
git clone https://github.com/virattt/ai-hedge-fund.git
cd ai-hedge-fund
poetry install
poetry run aihf
poetry run pytest hedge_fund
```

## How to Contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a featur