No black box.
Here is the entire mechanism.
Most trading products hide the machinery and sell the dream. We do the opposite. This page walks through exactly how capital, exposure, execution, and risk controls fit together, including the parts where things can go wrong.
3 steps. In your name. Under your control.
Apply and qualify.
A short application covers experience, risk tolerance, jurisdiction, and suitability. Velantra is built for people who understand risk. If the model does not fit your situation, we will tell you.
Fund your own broker account.
You open and fund an account in your own name at a regulated partner broker. Velantra never touches the deposit. Not at setup, not ever.
Connect the API.
You grant Velantra revocable, trade-only API permissions. No withdrawal rights. The AI begins operating within predefined risk rules, and you can disconnect at any time.
Small deposit. Institutional-scale exposure. Defined risk.
Here is the core of the model. Through partner broker accounts, your deposit gains access to trading exposure of up to 10 times its size. Deposit $10,000 and the AI can trade with approximately $100,000 of market exposure. The system trades the larger number. Your intended maximum risk stays anchored to the smaller 1: the deposit you chose to allocate.
Why this matters: returns and losses on trading are generated on exposure, not on deposit. A 2% gain on $100,000 of exposure is $2,000, which is 20% relative to a $10,000 deposit. The same math runs in reverse. A 2% loss on exposure is a 20% loss relative to deposit. Amplification is symmetrical, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
For scale: Velantra's flagship system has averaged 1.83% monthly on exposure across 3+ years of live trading. Under the exposure model, moves on exposure translate roughly 10 to 1 relative to deposit, in both directions.
Simplified educational illustration. Not a projection or guarantee. Excludes fees, spreads, swaps, slippage, and losing periods. Losses, including full loss of deposit, are possible.
1 strategy dies. A rotation adapts.
Multi-strategy rotation.
Markets change regimes: trending, ranging, volatile, quiet. Single-strategy bots die when their regime ends, a failure known as model decay. Velantra's AI monitors live conditions and rotates between strategies built for different regimes.
Volatility and correlation monitoring.
The system reads volatility and cross-market correlations in real time and throttles exposure as conditions destabilize, before drawdowns deepen.
Emotionless execution.
Predefined rules execute through broker APIs. No revenge trading, no hesitation, no missed exits at 3am.
Account-level risk caps.
This is the layer most of the industry skips. As equity approaches a predefined drawdown threshold, position sizes contract automatically. If the threshold is breached, all positions close and trading pauses. The design intent: your maximum loss is the deposit you allocated, never a margin call beyond it.
What the risk controls cannot do.
In fast-moving or extreme markets, price gaps can produce losses that approach the full deposit before protections fully engage. Drawdown caps are engineering, not magic. Capped risk means defined risk, it does not mean no risk. Only allocate capital you can genuinely afford to lose, and read the full risk disclosure before applying.
Read the full Risk Disclosure