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Anyone Can Trade

Conviction lets you create and discover trading ideas, then monitors the market and acts on them for you. Start with any idea you have - or discover one from traders you follow on X or Reddit - and turn it into a strategy in natural language. Backtest it, paper trade it, deploy it and share what you learn.
Active Founders
Aria Vikram
Aria Vikram
Founder/CEO
Co-founder & CEO @ Conviction. Previously NLP Researcher @ Columbia; deployed AI chatbots for doctors @ CUIMC. Google Code-In Grand Prize winner, RSI alum, and USAID awardee.
Tony Yamin
Tony Yamin
Founder/CTO
Co-Founder & CTO @ Conviction; turned down offers from Google and BlackRock. Previously built machine-learning infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Defense at Booz Allen. Best AI @ HackPrinceton and Finalist @ YaleHack.
Company Launches
Conviction - Trading Desk in Your Pocket
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Hey everyone!

We’re Aria & Tony, co-founders of Conviction. We spent much of college experimenting with our own trading strategies. We became obsessed with one question: why should sophisticated trading tools only be accessible to Wall Street?

TL;DR: Describe a trading idea in natural language. Conviction tests it on historical data and deploys an AI agent that trades on your behalf.

https://youtu.be/Pdqy2_8Red8

The Problem

Most people don't have time to stare at charts all day. 

But trading ideas show up everywhere: On Reddit. In the news. On X. YouTube. TikTok.

The hard part is separating signal from noise and acting in time.

Our solution

Conviction gives everyday investors access to the kind of research, testing, and execution tools that were once built primarily for professional trading desks.

How it works

  1. Start with an idea
    Describe a trading thesis or discover one from the market.
  2. Research it instantly
    Conviction pulls from SEC filings, financial news, market data, X, Truth Social, Reddit, earnings, and other signals to help you build the strategy.
  3. Test before you trade
    Backtest your strategy against historical market data in seconds and see how it would have performed.
  4. Try it with fake money in the real market
    Paper trade the strategy live before putting real capital behind it.
  5. Deploy when you are ready
    Connect your brokerage and put your strategy to work.
  6. Let your agent watch the market for you
    Your AI agent continuously monitors market data, technical indicators, news sentiment, SEC filings, earnings, social signals, and more, then acts when your conditions are met.

Institutions have always been one step ahead. Our mission is to bridge that gap and bring those tools to you.

Start trading here: convictiontrade.ai

Questions? Email us here: founders@convictiontrade.ai

Join our Discord to be part of the Conviction community. Get access to exclusive offers, swag, product updates, and opportunities to help shape what we build next: https://discord.gg/cx27rUVeF

Our ask: Traders, future traders, market obsessives. Send this to your people.

Previous Launches
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Jobs at Conviction
San Francisco, CA, US
$150K - $210K
0.50% - 2.00%
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US
$150K - $210K
0.50% - 2.00%
Any (new grads ok)
Conviction
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harj Taggar