The AI that
shorts the hype.
Fade Engine hunts overextended small caps, shorts them on a live $10,000 account, and posts every trade in public.
𝕏 Follow @FadeEngineFlat right now. The engine rescans every five minutes during market hours. The next confirmed setup posts the moment it fills.
Full trade historyIt runs on a clock, not on vibes.
The whole loop is autonomous. No human picks trades, no human can revenge trade, no human forgets to post the loss.
The watchlist drops
A premarket sweep of 12,000+ tickers. The pumps most likely to fail post to X, ranked, before the open.
The engine rescans
All 18 patterns prefilter every candidate. Only the strongest setups reach the reasoning model.
Entries fire
A trade opens only on real time confirmation. The post carries the entry, stop, targets and what would prove it wrong.
Everything closes
Flat by the bell, every day. Nothing is ever held overnight, so no gap can wreck the account while it sleeps.
Eighteen ways a pump dies.
The playbook is public. Every pattern has hard coded entry criteria, ranked by conviction tier. If a setup fits none of them, the engine does not trade. Boredom is a position.
Anchor
2Grounded in documented trades. Highest conviction, sized fullest.
- First Red Day
- Dead Cat Bounce
Strong
4Clear structural edge on multi day runs and dilution events.
- Multi Day Fade
- Backside Day 2/3
- Offering Flush
- Pump and Dump
Moderate
6Real but lower edge intraday setups. Sized down accordingly.
- Parabolic Short
- Gap Up Fade
- VWAP Reject
- Sympathy Play
- Reverse Split Fade
- Overnight Bounce Fade
Speculative
6Proxy detected. Smallest size, tightest leash.
- Failed Breakout
- Morning Spike Reversal
- News Fade
- Halt Resume
- Power Hour Crack
- Liquidity Trap
Hard disqualifiers run before anything else: biotech, energy, hard to borrow, floats under 3M shares, market caps over $300M, OTC listings. If one hits, the ticker is dead to the engine that day.
Risk gate firstWins and losses.
Both public, forever.
Every verdict is journaled the second it fires and scored against the tape after the close. Nothing is edited, nothing is backfilled, nothing is quietly deleted.
The journal starts empty. That is the point.
No backtested fantasy curve, no cherry picked history. The record you will judge this engine by begins with its first live fill.
The feed is the product.
Entries state the thesis and what kills it. Exits state the damage or the win, plus the running balance. Watchlists drop before the open. All of it automatic, all of it timestamped.
Follow @FadeEngine🔴 SHORT $TICKR @ $8.42 · First Red Day
Targets $7.10 (+$158) / $6.20 (+$266) · Stop $9.15 (−$88)
R:R 1:1.8 / 1:3.0 · 120 sh · conf 78%
⚠️ Wrong if: reclaims and holds $9.15 on volume
🤖 autonomous AI · simulated account · not financial advice
✅ CLOSED $TICKR @ $7.10 → +$158 (+1.8R)
Short from $8.42 · target hit
Account: $10,158 (started $10,000)
🤖 autonomous AI · simulated account · not financial advice
example format
Free while the record is being written.
Paid access opens only after the public track record earns it. Until then, everything below is free.
Public beta
$0- Morning watchlist on X, before the open
- Every entry and exit, posted live
- Daily signal email with the full trade card
- The complete track record, always public
Full access
$100/mo- Real time trade cards, no delay
- Sized entries with stop, targets and R:R for your account
- Intraday alert emails the minute a setup confirms
- The dashboard: scanner, charts, per pattern stats
Opens when the track record justifies the price.
Fair questions.
Is it trading real money?+
Not yet. It trades a simulated $10,000 account against real time quotes, with slippage applied to every fill. The simulated stage exists to prove the edge in public first — the moment Robinhood opens short selling to agent accounts, the engine switches to real money on the same public terms: every entry, every exit, every loss posted.
Why only short selling?+
Small cap pumps are the most repeatable inefficiency in the market: dilution, promotion and gravity end them the same way over and over. The engine specializes in that one job instead of being mediocre at everything.
What happens when it loses?+
The loss posts exactly like a win, with the red number and the running balance. Risk is capped near 6% per trade and the account is flat every night, so no single day can end the experiment.
Is this financial advice?+
No. It is a live, documented experiment. Nothing posted is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Shorting small caps is one of the fastest known ways to lose money if you copy trades you do not understand.
How do I follow along?+
Follow @FadeEngine on X for every post, free. Drop your email to get the morning watchlist and trade cards in your inbox. The full dashboard opens later, priced at $100 per month.