Quant Mode

Agents

The same hunt, without the button.

An agent is an alpha hunt on a schedule. Choose a saved hunt recipe, or create one when you set the agent up, and it runs that research while you're away. You come back to prospects already built, tested and graded, waiting for your decision.

Agents are Pro and Elite. Elite gets 3 agent slots, Pro gets 1. Each hunt an agent runs has the same flat 20,000-token charge as one you start yourself. Hunts you start by hand work on the free trial too; only the scheduling is paid. See Models, tokens and usage.

Set one up

Agents live in the right-hand rail of the Quant Mode page.

  1. Click Create an agent or an empty slot.
  2. Choose a saved hunt recipe. If you do not have one yet, create the recipe there.
  3. Save and create the agent.

The recipe controls where the hunt looks: universe, timeframe, base idea and any attached Horizon scripts. Leave those optional fields blank when you want HorizonAI to choose them.

There is no portfolio setting on an agent. Research remains separate from the execution line-up.

What it does

An agent finds 5 ideas across the day, roughly one every five hours, then switches itself off.

It stops on purpose. Five finished ideas is a full graveyard's worth of new evidence, and running more hunts before reading that evidence risks repeating the same mistakes faster. Hit Learn on the Quant Mode page to rewrite the playbook from what died, then turn the agent back on and it hunts another 5.

An agent holds no separate brain of its own. The playbook and graveyard belong to your account, so everything your quant learns is available to every hunt and agent.

Why you would run more than one

Slots are parallelism, not extra intelligence. Three agents each doing one hunt cost exactly what one agent doing three costs.

Use multiple Elite slots for different research recipes: one can explore forex mean reversion, another index momentum, and another your own Horizon indicator on higher timeframes. They still send every result to the same review step.

Reviewing what it found

Nothing an agent finds is traded, exported or placed into a portfolio automatically. Every prospect waits under Prospects for you to Approve or Kill, exactly like a hunt you started by hand.

Approving moves the strategy to Approved. From there, use Build best portfolio to let HorizonAI choose a complementary line-up, or add the strategy to a portfolio manually. Until you do that, it is not part of an execution plan.

Fine print

  • Pro and Elite only. A free trial can run alpha hunts by hand, but not schedule them.
  • An agent is simply on or off. It turns itself off after 5 completed hunts; turning it back on starts another batch.
  • Agent hunts are charged at dispatch from the same premium allowance as manual hunts. When the allowance is gone, hunts stop.
  • Agents research and grade strategies. They do not connect to a broker, place trades or change portfolio membership.

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Portfolios: turn Approved strategies into one balanced line-up →