Engineering
How Sonic AI decides: follow, adjust, or hold
2026-06-13·1 min read·TheVolumeAI team
Two brains, one book
Every cycle, a deterministic quant engine computes target positions from market data — trend, momentum, volatility targeting. Then Sonic AI reviews those targets against your live account and picks one of three moves:
- Follow — the mechanical plan is sound, execute it
- Adjust — tweak target sizes when the live book's risk or recovery odds justify it
- Hold — sometimes the safest trade is none
The part that keeps you safe
Sonic AI returns target quantities only. It never sees your credentials and never talks to your broker. Every order it proposes must pass a deterministic risk engine — daily-loss limits, leverage caps, symbol allowlists — that no decision can bypass.
If the AI is ever uncertain, times out, or refuses — the system falls back to the mechanical plan. Boring is a feature.
Every decision on the record
Each cycle writes an immutable audit entry: what Sonic saw, what it decided, and which guardrails fired. You can read it in your portal, decision by decision.
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