{"id":115741,"title":"Conviction - Trading Desk in Your Pocket","tagline":"Turn ideas into trades in seconds ","body":"Hey everyone!\n\nWe’re Aria \u0026amp; 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?\n\n**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.\\\n\\\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/Pdqy2_8Red8\u003e\n\n**The Problem**\n\nMost people don't have time to stare at charts all day. \n\nBut trading ideas show up everywhere: On Reddit. In the news. On X. YouTube. TikTok.\n\nThe hard part is separating signal from noise and acting in time. \\\n\\\n**Our solution**\n\nConviction gives everyday investors access to the kind of research, testing, and execution tools that were once built primarily for professional trading desks.\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. **Start with an idea**\\\n   Describe a trading thesis or discover one from the market.\n2. **Research it instantly**\\\n   Conviction pulls from SEC filings, financial news, market data, X, Truth Social, Reddit, earnings, and other signals to help you build the strategy.\n3. **Test before you trade**\\\n   Backtest your strategy against historical market data in seconds and see how it would have performed.\n4. **Try it with fake money in the real market**\\\n   Paper trade the strategy live before putting real capital behind it.\n5. **Deploy when you are ready**\\\n   Connect your brokerage and put your strategy to work.\n6. **Let your agent watch the market for you**\\\n   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.\n\nInstitutions have always been one step ahead. Our mission is to bridge that gap and bring those tools to you.\n\n**Start trading here:** [convictiontrade.ai](http://convictiontrade.ai)\n\n**Questions?** Email us here: [founders@convictiontrade.ai](mailto:founders@convictiontrade.ai)\n\n**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: \u003chttps://discord.gg/cx27rUVeF\u003e\n\n**Our ask:** Traders, future traders, market obsessives. Send this to your people.","slug":"U6n-conviction-trading-desk-in-your-pocket","created_at":"2026-09-16T23:25:03.321Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T09:31:25.887Z","total_vote_count":1168,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/U6n-conviction-trading-desk-in-your-pocket","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30681,"name":"Conviction","slug":"conviction","url":"https://convictiontrade.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d77bd0a212f97907bcda7fd8ba18232fbfdb55b.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"Fintech","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Fintech","Crypto / Web3","Consumer Finance","Stocks"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30681"}}