STRATxAI is proud to celebrate one year since publicly launching in August 2021.

Our founders set out with an ambitious goal; to remove the barriers to quantitative investing, and make it accessible to everyone. STRATxAI now provides a powerful data driven platform under the hood of an intuitive user experience that enables anyone to manage their own personal investments.

In just one year over 4,000 people have successfully embarked on their own journey as systematic, structured, and strategic investors in the stock market and crypto. This is just the beginning for them and for us, as we learn from them everyday.

As our year 1 comes to a close we bid a fond farewell to founder Shane Monks O'Byrne. His passion, vision and drive brought STRATxAI into being and without him, we would not be here today. 

We are delighted to see Dr. Paul Clifford step up to the role of new CEO. Paul joined  the STRATxAI board of advisors earlier this year before taking on the role of Head of Quantitative Strategy.  He is well equipped to take the reins as CEO with extensive expertise in trading and quantitative investing. 

Paul is supported by co-founder and CFO Conor Naylor and is entrusted by Shane to continue what has been started.

Since first discovering STRATxAI I’ve known that it has the potential to transform the world of investing for everyone. 

To take over the reins as CEO, with such a talented team at my side is a privilege and I plan to fulfill the founding vision and even more

As co-founder of this extraordinary company I am grateful for Shane's energy and leadership so far. 

Paul has already made a huge impact and with his industry experience and expertise, there are exciting times ahead for STRATxAI

I strongly believe this is the right direction for STRATxAI and that this reorg greatly increases our chances of success. 

I’m very optimistic about what is in store for STRATxAI  and very confident in the capabilities of my successor and our new CEO, Paul Clifford

STRATxAI bids farewell to Shane Monks O'Byrne and welcomes new CEO Paul Clifford

Welcoming new CEO Paul Clifford 

STRATxAI customers have been enjoying the ease of automated trading since our 2021 partnership launch with 

Now in October 2022 STRATxAI and Interactive Brokers have launched improvements to the API integration for an even smoother experience. 

When your STRATxAI and IBKR accounts are integrated you can create, view and rebalance your investment portfolios using our quantitative strategies with ease.

To enjoy the benefits of automated trading you can simply pick a pre-built trusted strategy, create an investment portfolio and the trades are sent straight to IBKR. Users will need to be subscribed to an Established or Xplorer core plan with the augmentation of a Connect plan. 

STRATxAI release new and improved broker integration with Interactive Brokers. 

New improved broker integration with IBKR

At STRATxAI we are always looking for ways to enhance your personal investing experience.  With our trusted catalogue of pre-built stock investment strategies, you can select what what works for you and start trading with ease. 

which means that now you can watch your chosen strategy before you begin to invest. 

With 1-Click you can choose your preferred STRATxAI and watch live how it would perform with a hypothetical $10k investment. 

Rebalance each month to watch how the algorithm identifies which stocks it would buy and sell. You don't need a broker account and you can create as many portfolios as you like. If you are comfortable with the performance of your paper portfolio, then you can live trade it with real capital via Alpaca or 

.

It's your hypothetical, simulated trading environment and it's 

STRATxAI launch new 1-click paper trading feature. 

STRATxAI release 1-click Paper trading

Excitement levels are through the roof this December 2022, with the launch of something we have been working on for quite some time.



You can now invent, clone and edit your personal investing strategies with Xplore Stocks on STRATxAI.





Open Xplore on your desktop to enjoy a guided tour of Xplore.

Once you are familiar with the options, check out the step by step guides for building strategies.

Test your strategy by running a 

 and see how your investments could have performed over the past two decades. 

Download your personalised 

 with full analysis, charts, graphs and breakdown of your stocks.

Share your tearsheet and compare strategies with other users on Discord to earn additional backtests! 

Next steps are up to you, save, edit, clone and if you are on the Xplorer plan you can 

Conor our co-founder had an idea for a low risk, high returns strategy.
He decided to focus on highly liquid companies, with low volatility across the whole universe of stocks
And he wanted stocks that had strong momentum which had been doing well.

It took him 2 minutes to select the factors he needed, liquidity, volatility and momentum, then sorted the stocks by low volatility.


A moment later he had run the backtest and was enjoying the analysis that showed that performance over the past 12 years would have been strong.


Conor now has his personalised, tearsheet with all his strategy details and performance analysis which is fully shareable.

*Note: screenshots and images are from release in Xplore beta mode and may not correlate exactly with the Xplore Pro-tools you enjoy today. 

STRATxAI release Xplore Stocks. Now you can access the pro-tools and invent, create and even trade your own investment strategy

STRATxAI release Xplore Stocks 

It is holiday season 2022 and what could be more festive than a new feature launch that makes your personal investing even easier. Enjoy spending the holiday with your family and friends while your investments look after themselves.

Choosing or designing your own investment strategy with STRATxAI is the fun part. Creating your STRATxAI portfolio is easy and integrating your STRATxAI account directly with your online broker makes it simple!

STRATxAI already offer integration with Interactive Brokers.
We are now expanding the broker suite to include Alpaca Markets in Beta.

This will be happy news to our many customers who use 

 already.
If you have not checked them out, setting up an account with Alpaca takes just a few minutes.

STRATxAI rebalancing emails will remind you of your monthly check in.
Apart from that, you can sit back and relax.

Broker integration is available to users who are subscribed to Established or Xplorer plans and have augmented with Connect. 

When your STRATxAI and Alpaca accounts are integrated you can create, view and rebalance your investment portfolios using your chosen strategies with ease.

To enjoy the benefits of automated trading you can simply pick a pre-built trusted strategy or use Xplore to design your own.  With 1 click you create an investment portfolio and the trades are sent straight to your broker.

For STRATxAI customers who already have an Alpaca account set up, integrating is a matter of few fast clicks.

If you don’t have an Alpaca account set up yet and want to try it out, its also very quick to do.


- As with all broker integrations we offer, the integrated Alpaca account can only be used with STRATxAI. Do not hold other assets in there. Sell them. Or set up a separate Alpaca account for STRATxAI. There are no sub accounts offered by Alpaca.

-  Alpaca Markets do not offer integrated paper trading, but no fear, you can enjoy 1-click STRATxAI Paper instead.

STRATxAI announces partnership with Alpaca Markets 

New broker partnership with Alpaca Markets

School may be out for the summer but this June 2022 at STRATxAI the learning is just getting started. We are very proud to announce the launch of our eLearn wing, filled with 

 to support you on your investing journey.  

From beginner to expert there are topics and tutorials for every level. Whether you are starting out on your investment journey and what to get a firm grasp on the basics or you are already a seasoned investor who wants to enhance their skills and knowledge. 

Perhaps you have questions on choosing an STRATxAI strategy or how how to integrate your broker account. The 

 offer step by step instructions, cover common problems and answer your FAQ's. With 8 guides and growing, this is the perfect starting point.

2. Tutorials on investing and portfolio management

Managing your personal investments and trading with your broker require familiarity with a range of topics from risk budgets, drawdown, risk parity and backtesting. In this 

 there are at least 7 tutorials to choose from suitable from beginner to intermediate, while the  braver scholars can go next level with "Don't be scared of the math". 

With STRATxAI you have the tools and framework to design personal investment strategies and build investment portfolios all of which are based on the 

This means you are following a rules based approach, grouping stocks based on one or more criteria from company financial data. Leaving emotion and subjectivity at the door, your investing strategies will be based on facts and backed by data.

Improve your understanding of what equity factors are and why they are used in this 

Take your understanding of quant strategy to the next level. We offer 5 tutorials in this 

 where you can deep dive into the data, exploring concepts, datasets and python code.

 for those who want to enhance their knowledge to further improve the investment stratgies they choose and create. We show how to use company fundamental balance sheet and income statement data to identify the best companies. 

6. Xplore and build your own investment strategies

With the launch of Xplore we have created a range of posts in this 

 to guide you as you invent, create, test and clone your very own investment strategies. 

Your input is invaluable as we continue to publish new topics and tutorials, let us know if there is an area you would like to see covered or anything we can help guide you on.  

Begin or advance your investment skills and trading knowledge with STRATxAI tutorials and resources. 

STRATxAI launch wide range of Topics & Tutorials 

This January 2023, you can now design, create, test and invest in your own ETF strategies with the release of Xplore ETFs on STRATxAI.


 in December 2022, we have been working at full speed to get 

Test out Xplore ETFs today and send us your 

 so we can continue to improve our features.

With Xplore, we’ve taken the pro-tools of hedge funds and made them accessible to everyone. It's so easy to use that in just a few clicks you could be beating the S&P 500 benchmark.


Not only can you create your own investment strategy but you can establish its viability too. Review historical performance compared against the benchmark.  

Conor, our co-founder, had an idea for an inflation busting ETF strategy. Ambitiously he took the whole universe of US ETFs but excluded Bonds. With his core group in place he filtered these ETFs to include only those in the best 30% based on momentum. Next, he sorted by Relative Strength Index (RSI) and a portfolio size of 2 to identify the 2 most oversold ETFs. His personal strategy was created in just a few minutes and backtested against 17 years worth of the worlds best financial data. 

You can check out some selections from his tearsheet below. 

Analysis shows the strategy performance strongly outperforming the benchmark on multiple metrics. 

The strategy shows both higher return and less risk than the market. 

Open Xplore on your desktop to enjoy a guided tour of Xplore.

Once you are familiar with the format, check out the step by step 

Check the historical performance of your strategy with 

 and compare strategies with other users on Discord to earn additional backtests.

You can edit, clone and if you are on an Xplorer plan, you can also 

; using a hypothetical $10k in a simulated trading environment allowing you to watch the performance in real time.

 to use the guided portfolio manager on STRATxAI while trading alongside with your broker.

. STRATxAI users can enjoy seamless integration with Interactive Brokers and Alpaca Markets.

Whatever option you choose, we hope you enjoy Xploring and we would love to hear your 

Important note for EU and UK domiciled users 

Check if you are set up to trade US ETFs. More on that 

*Note: screenshots and images may be from AIKIDO Beta mode at release and not exactly match the fully launched Xplore pro-tools you enjoy today.

Announcing the release of Xplore ETF. Design, create, test and even invest in your own ETF strategies.

STRATxAI release Xplore ETFs 

Today is a momentous day in the evolution of the AIKIDO investment platform.


Over the past 8 months our users have had the opportunity to test in Beta many of our new products including Xplore pro-tools for Stocks and ETFs. They have also been able to take advantage of new and enhanced integrations with Alpaca Markets and Interactive Brokers. An entirely new educational wing, packed with content and just last week the first Market Review.

Today, we are not only formally releasing the full suite of features but unveiling the biggest change of all.  AIKIDO is now STRATxAI

Quite simply we have grown beyond our original AIKIDO mission. With STRATxAI we can empower retail investors everywhere with the strategies, tools, and knowledge to invest like a pro.


STRATxAI is now the only end to end investing platform that enables retail investors from novice to expert to achieve their investing goals.

Strategy is the bedrock of successful investing. Our users have experienced the strength of  strategy powered by AIKIDO and data. Our AI specialists are now bringing the power of machine learning to the platform with very exciting things to come.


Is the investing platform still the same?

In the past few months in preparation for our relaunch, we tested loads of new features. So our AIKIDO users have already had the chance to try these out in Beta for free. These are all now fully tested and formally being released under STRATxAI

Today we release our first pre-built and proven ETF investment strategies

All pre-built Stock investment strategies have been reformatted for enhanced analysis

All users can access Xplore Pro-Tools to create their own investment strategy in ETF or Stocks.

And you can clone the pre-built strategies, edit and test your changes.

We've just debuted our Market Review last week which will be exclusive to STRATxAI subscribers.

Our connected users, can integrate STRATxAI with Alpaca Markets as well as our long standing broker partner 

Keep an eye out for your first customer email from STRATxAI with everything you need to know about your new account set up.

All existing AIKIDO features will be part of STRATxAI. How our legacy customers access some of these features may change. We will be on hand to help with anything that crops up in the transition. If for some reason you have not received your email in the next day please reach out directly.

Announcing the official launch of STRATxAI, the next phase in evolution for the investing platform formerly known as AIKIDO.

Welcoming new CEO Paul Clifford

Celebrating one year since public launch

Introducing our new CEO

“Since first discovering STRATxAI I’ve known that it has the potential to transform the world of investing for everyone.

To take over the reins as CEO, with such a talented team at my side is a privilege and I plan to fulfill the founding vision and even more”
Paul Clifford

“As co-founder of this extraordinary company I am grateful for Shane's energy and leadership so far.

Paul has already made a huge impact and with his industry experience and expertise, there are exciting times ahead for STRATxAI”
Conor Naylor

“I strongly believe this is the right direction for STRATxAI and that this reorg greatly increases our chances of success.

I’m very optimistic about what is in store for STRATxAI and very confident in the capabilities of my successor and our new CEO, Paul Clifford”
Shane Monks O'Byrne

Welcoming new CEO Paul Clifford

New improved broker integration with IBKR

STRATxAI release 1-click Paper trading

STRATxAI release Xplore Stocks

New broker partnership with Alpaca Markets

STRATxAI launch wide range of Topics & Tutorials

STRATxAI release Xplore ETFs

STRATxAI official launch

Welcoming new CEO Paul Clifford

Celebrating one year since public launch

Introducing our new CEO

“Since first discovering STRATxAI I’ve known that it has the potential to transform the world of investing for everyone.

To take over the reins as CEO, with such a talented team at my side is a privilege and I plan to fulfill the founding vision and even more”Paul Clifford

“As co-founder of this extraordinary company I am grateful for Shane's energy and leadership so far.

Paul has already made a huge impact and with his industry experience and expertise, there are exciting times ahead for STRATxAI”Conor Naylor

“I strongly believe this is the right direction for STRATxAI and that this reorg greatly increases our chances of success.

I’m very optimistic about what is in store for STRATxAI and very confident in the capabilities of my successor and our new CEO, Paul Clifford”Shane Monks O'Byrne

Welcoming new CEO Paul Clifford

New improved broker integration with IBKR

STRATxAI release 1-click Paper trading

STRATxAI release Xplore Stocks

New broker partnership with Alpaca Markets

STRATxAI launch wide range of Topics & Tutorials

STRATxAI release Xplore ETFs

STRATxAI official launch

To take over the reins as CEO, with such a talented team at my side is a privilege and I plan to fulfill the founding vision and even more”
Paul Clifford

Paul has already made a huge impact and with his industry experience and expertise, there are exciting times ahead for STRATxAI”
Conor Naylor

I’m very optimistic about what is in store for STRATxAI and very confident in the capabilities of my successor and our new CEO, Paul Clifford”
Shane Monks O'Byrne