The future of trading is already here.

“If it’s publicly traded, liquid and amenable to modelling, we trade it”

- Jim Simons -
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We generally follow this philosophy, and you will be surprised what “amenable to modelling” applies to in the brave new world of accessible trading data and AI.

- Sonic head of trading -

Our process

From an idea to live capital, in six steps.

  1. Step 1

    Academic research

    HumanAI

  2. Step 2

    Idea spawning and alpha edge search

    AI

  3. Step 3

    Strategy grooming with rule sets

    AI

  4. Step 4

    Human quant review and promotion to paper trading

    Human

  5. Step 5

    Satisfactory market behaviour for a time

  6. Step 6

    Live funds allocated

    Human

The human factor

A person still makes the final call. Not because we recognise patterns better than the models do; we don't. We recognise them differently, and in markets where everyone runs similar machines on similar data, that difference is what lets us see what others won't.

So nothing reaches live capital on a backtest alone. A quant has to be able to say why a strategy should work, not only that it did.

How we work

Three principles, no exceptions.

Systematic

Models, not hunches

Every position comes from a model that was researched, validated and deployed on our own platform. If it is publicly traded, liquid and amenable to modelling, we can trade it.

Infrastructure

Built on Sonic Trader

Execution through our brokers of choice, HotForex, Tradeview Forex and LMAX, two decades of tick data and a cloud-native platform with multi-region failover, built and run by the same team that writes the strategies.
About the platform

Transparent

We report to our investors

Investors see their statements and the fund sheets in the portal. The public site keeps the method to the three principles on this page and the numbers to the chart.
20+
Years of market data
99.999%
Platform uptime
3
Brokers of choice: HotForex, Tradeview Forex and LMAX

Sonic Fund

A systematic fund for a brave new world.

Sonic Fund is a systematic fund trading the world's most liquid markets. Every position comes from a model that was built, tested and deployed on the Sonic Trader platform; none comes from a hunch. We capture the inefficiencies that human needs and emotions leave in centralised monetary systems, and we report to our investors, not to the market.

Rough seas, best return to shore.

The $6 trillion currency liquidity pool that is traded daily lends itself to a better approach, one that automatically capitalises on the natural volatility and inefficiencies that exist as a result of human needs and emotions.

At Sonic, we have built and continue to refine a set of high-frequency trading algorithms that exploit every statistically non-random inefficiency that can conceivably be detected in the currency market. We think of it as grabbing a surfboard when rough seas present themselves and riding the waves that provide the best return to shore.

Founding Sonic team at the Gravaton leadership conference, October 2021
Founding Sonic team at Gravaton leadership conference, Western Cape, South Africa, October 2021. Not the prettiest bunch but the grey matter mostly makes up for it.