What AlphaHouse is
AlphaHouse runs a quantitative, market-neutral trading strategy inside your own exchange account. You keep custody throughout: we never hold your money, and by design we cannot move it.
Once a day the system works out what your account should be holding, compares that to what it currently holds, and sends the difference to your exchange as orders. That is the whole product.
Market-neutral, in practice
Section titled “Market-neutral, in practice”The strategy holds roughly twenty crypto perpetual futures positions at once, split between longs and shorts. It profits from relative mispricings between assets rather than from the market going up. Your book normally looks like:
| Typical value | |
|---|---|
| Long exposure | Roughly half your gross book |
| Short exposure | Roughly the other half |
| Net exposure | Near zero |
| Gross exposure | Well above your account equity |
A net exposure near zero is the goal, not a bug. Longs and shorts nearly cancelling on Portfolio is the strategy working.
Gross exposure above your equity is also normal. Running long and short at once means the book’s total size exceeds what you deposited. See Leverage.
How it differs from a trading bot
Section titled “How it differs from a trading bot”Most retail bots are grids or indicator triggers on one symbol at a time. AlphaHouse rebalances a whole portfolio on a statistical ranking, closer to an institutional desk. In practice:
- It trades once a day, not continuously.
- It does not react to intraday price moves.
- It has no stop-losses in the conventional sense. Risk is managed through position sizing and portfolio construction, plus regime scaling.
- Individual positions are small. No single symbol is allowed to dominate.
What we can and cannot do with your account
Section titled “What we can and cannot do with your account”We can: read your balances and positions, and place and cancel orders.
We cannot: withdraw, transfer, or move funds. Not a policy promise, a permission you control: you create API keys with trade permissions and without withdrawal permission, so the capability does not exist on our side. You can revoke those keys at any moment, without telling us, and trading stops immediately.
About the track record
Section titled “About the track record”The performance page publishes the full history including every drawdown, and marks where real capital was committed and where the configuration was frozen.
This is not a curve-fit backtest. Signals have been recorded as they happened for over two years and traded forward with no lookahead. Results are net of modelled fees, slippage and funding. Past performance does not guarantee future results, and stating that is not a formality.
What these docs will not tell you
Section titled “What these docs will not tell you”The signal itself is not here: which assets are ranked, how, or what drives it. That is what you are subscribing to. Everything around it is: how your account is sized, when it trades, what each number means, and what to do when something looks wrong.
- Before you begin covers account minimums and choosing a venue.
- Setup walkthrough is the step-by-step.