Hesper Atlas
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AI-assisted stock signals for AI & growth investors

Profit from the AI revolution, with a clear strategy.

Know when to buy, hold or sell ~150 AI and growth names, with exact prices and a nightly alert. Plus a model portfolio, rebuilt monthly by one fixed rule, ahead of holding in 8 of 11 years.

No card required for the free tier. Educational tool, not financial advice.

The results

As a portfolio, more return. Per name, shallower drawdowns.

Both tested the same way: rules chosen on earlier data only, then traded forward from 2016 to 2026, after costs.

The model portfolio · monthly walk-forward, 2016 to 2026
Model portfolio+44.1%
Holding all 135+27.4%
Nasdaq 100+20.0%

Worst drop -37% versus -31% holding and -37% for the Nasdaq 100; Sharpe 1.21 versus 1.20 and 0.84.

What it is

Top 20 of the quality names the engine is long, ranked by 12-month momentum at each month-end, engine-sized, no leverage, after costs. It beat holding the same names in 8 of 11 years.

The honest caveat · read the gap, not the level

The universe was assembled knowing which names won, so the level is inflated for the strategy and the benchmark alike. On a broad set of 445 US stocks that were never selected for anything, the same rule did +43.2% against +21.3% holding; on sector ETFs, with no survivorship at all, it earns the few points a year the academic literature reports, at equal Sharpe and higher volatility. The same code builds the live portfolio and the public track record with past monthly picks; the research note has the full method. Backtested, not live.

Per name, the signal · median return per year, after costs
The engine +18.5%
Just holding +20.7%
Nasdaq 100 +20.0%
S&P 500 +15.2%
Cash, T-bills +2.3%

The engine gives up return to holding in sharp recovery years. For scale: cash, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 over the same 2016 to 2026 stretch, dividends included.

Per name, the signal · worst drop, median of 144 names
The engine −50%
Buy and hold −57%

Shallower on 128 of the 144 names, a median 5 points of relief, and equal Sharpe. This is the part of the result that holds up.

Historical replay578 closed signals since 2022 · 64.9% ended in profit · 111 still open and counted too · current rules, losers includedInspect the replay →
Backtested, not live · how these numbers are measured

Rolling walk-forward: each January the engine's rules are chosen on data available to that date, then traded for the next calendar year, 2016 to 2026, next-open fills, 5 basis points per unit of turnover, cash earning T-bills. The figures are for the untuned class engines. The per-name tuned rules this site currently ships scored 14.8% a year in the same test, which is why they are under review; the full self-audit and the row-level JSON are public. The static-tail validation this page led with until September 2026 (+22.7% vs +18.9%, −30% vs −57% on 152 names) used rules chosen with that tail in view and remains available as validation JSON. The universe is picked for engine fit, so treat per-name return edges as a curated list; the drawdown discipline holds across essentially every name. Benchmarks cover the same stretch most validation windows span, January 2022 to July 2026: S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 as total return with dividends (SPY, QQQ), cash as the average 3-month T-bill yield. The row-level artifact and run manifest are public through validation JSON; the separate historical replay applies today’s rules across history and is not live performance.

Proof, not promises

Every buy. Every sell. On the later validation window.

Pick a name. Triangles are the engine's buys and sells. Below, what $10,000 became versus just holding.

With the engine
Just holding

Static-tail validation: later 40%, originally withheld but reused in later research · after costs, next-day execution · backtested, not live · July 2026.

Year by year

The model portfolio against holding, every year since 2016.

One fixed rule, re-run at every month-end. The years it lost to holding are in the table too.

YearModel portfolioHolding all namesNasdaq 100
2016+19.8%+21.1%+10.2%
2017+37.8%+35.3%+32.5%
2018+6.7%+1.6%-2.7%
2019+38.2%+45.0%+43.2%
2020+69.5%+49.1%+47.8%
2021+16.8%+35.5%+27.2%
2022-15.4%-19.7%-32.2%
2023+54.9%+43.7%+52.1%
2024+123.7%+38.4%+27.5%
2025+131.3%+37.7%+21.2%
2026 to 08/26+50.4%+22.9%+14.4%
Since 2016, per year+44.1%+27.4%+20.0%
Worst drop-37%-31%-37%
Backtested, not live · how the portfolio is measured

Quality names the class engine is long, ranked by 12-month momentum at the last session of each month; the top 20 held at inverse-volatility weights times the engine's exposure; decisions at a close, fills at the next open, 5 basis points per unit of turnover, cash at T-bills, no leverage. The universe is today's tracked names, assembled knowing which ones won, so equal-weight holding of it beat the Nasdaq 100 by itself; read the gap between the first two columns, not the level. On a broad set of 445 US stocks that were never selected for anything, the same rule did +43.2% against +21.3% holding. The per-name signal's own validation, including its misses, is on the ticker pages and in validation JSON; the research note and the portfolio JSON have the full method and every row.

The thesis

The money is upstream.

The headline GPU names get the attention. The real money sits upstream, in the chokepoints nobody watches.

adjacent waves We are here Breakthrough Build-out Deployment Application Ubiquity
We are here:the binding constraint has moved from chips to power, grid and packaging.
Substrates Chips & EDA Fabs & tools Packaging & memory Optical & networking Servers Power & grid Cloud

Plus the adjacent waves: genomics, robotics, quantum, space, fintech. Around 150 names, one nightly signal each.

A second clock: smarter models · the demand side of the build-out
A second clock: smarter models.

The build-out's demand engine is AI capability itself. The most-cited map is Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness": steady gains in compute, algorithms, and the unhobbling that turns a chatbot into an agent.

Scaling the OOMs
underway, measurable
Roughly 10x effective compute a year, the demand pulling capital into the whole stack.
Broadly human-level AI
his estimate, around 2027
One more GPT-2 to GPT-4 jump lands near systems that do most remote work. Bold and contested.
Intelligence explosion
speculative
If AI can do AI research, progress compresses sharply. The most speculative stage, the most debated.

His sharpest point matches the data: the binding constraint becomes power, not chips. That is the whole idea in one line: the money is upstream. An influential but contested view, not a forecast. Read it ↗

Exact trade plans

The price to buy at, add at, trim at, and the line where you get out.

Daily alerts

Signal flips land on Telegram and in your inbox after each close.

Market Heat gauge

One 0-100 read of the whole cycle, from opportunity to overheated.

Quality on sale

A running list of strong names trading at a discount, with the reason why.

Inside the app

Not a feed. A workbench you open every night.

Free: the dashboard, the heat gauge and three stock pages a day. Pro: every name, daily alerts, the at-risk monitor and the model portfolio.

The Hesper Atlas dashboard: a Risk-On market read, the AI supply-stack rotation, what changed since the last close, and a 0-100 Market Heat gauge with macro tiles.
The dashboard. One read of the whole market: the regime, where money is rotating through the AI stack, what changed since last night, and a 0-100 heat gauge.
An NVDA stock page with a 20-year signal chart and a plain-language trade plan: exact prices to own, add, trim, reduce and sell at.
A plan for every name. The exact prices to buy, add and trim at, and the line where you step out. No guessing where to act. Free covers three of these a day; Pro opens all of them.
The Opportunities page: ranked strong-buy cards and the new buy and sell signals from the latest close.
Tonight's strongest buys. Every name ranked, with the fresh buy and sell signals from the last close, in one place.
The Themes page mapping the AI supply stack layer by layer, from substrates and chips to power, grid and cloud, each with a latest-close signal.
The money is upstream. The whole AI supply stack, layer by layer from substrates to power and cloud, each with a latest-close end-of-day signal.
A fundamental-health scorecard grading a company A-plus on growth, profitability, balance sheet and outlook, with valuation and reported financials.
Is the business any good? A plain-language quality grade behind every name: growth, profitability, balance sheet and where the valuation sits.
The Regime page showing structural-pressure gauges and long-run charts for debt, real yields, liquidity and gold versus the money supply.
The macro backdrop. The structural pressures, debt, real yields, liquidity, that decide whether to lean in or hold back.
Inspectable by agents

Every number on this page is a public JSON artifact, and an MCP server serves it to any AI agent, no account needed. Ask yours to verify the headline.

MCP · 9 public evidence tools Hesper Atlas for Agents
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For getting a feel for the tool.
  • Market dashboard & Market Heat gauge
  • Macro tiles: M2, yield curve, credit spreads, VIX
  • 3 stock pages per day, full trade plan included: exact buy / add / trim / sell prices
  • Nightly digest email: the market read and the night's signal changes
  • Public historical replay & methodology
  • Daily post-close alerts (Telegram + inbox)
  • Unlimited coverage of the full universe
  • The model portfolio & at-risk monitor
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Pro

$199/ year
about $16.60 a month · or $24 month-to-month.
  • The model portfolio: 10 or 20 names, rebuilt monthly, with its published walk-forward record
  • Everything in Free, plus unlimited stock pages across the 150+ name universe, indexes, BTC and gold
  • Daily post-close alerts on Telegram and in your inbox
  • At-risk monitor & sell-risk scores for what you hold
  • Risk-weighted allocation for your own holdings
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FAQ

Fair questions.

What does Hesper Atlas cover?
About 150 AI & growth US equities on NASDAQ and NYSE (megacaps, semis, software, biotech, power and infrastructure) plus major US indexes such as the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000, Bitcoin and gold. A focused universe on purpose: each name gets an engine validated for its asset class, not one formula stretched across everything.
Why should I trust the signals?
Check three distinct evidence layers. The 152-name backtest uses a later chronological tail originally withheld from early tuning, but reused in later research, so it is validation rather than a pristine unseen test. The public track page separately replays today’s rules over history. From deployment onward, an append-only ledger freezes each new end-of-day publication. The agent interface names each data type and its caveats.
What results has the engine produced?
In the rolling walk-forward (rules re-chosen every January on earlier data only, then traded the next year, 2016 to 2026, 144 names, next-open fills, after costs): the untuned class engine returned a median +18.5%/yr versus +20.7% buying and holding, with a median worst drawdown of −50% versus −57%, shallower on 128 of 144 names. The per-name tuned rules scored 14.8% in the same test and carry no out-of-sample edge; the self-audit documents this. The older static-tail figures (+22.7% vs +18.9%, −30% vs −57%) used rules chosen with that tail in view and remain available as validation JSON. Backtests, not live results, and the universe is picked for engine fit. The separate historical replay includes winners, losers and open positions under today’s rules.
How do the signals work?
Hesper Atlas uses a rules-based trend process: each asset is routed to an engine suited to its behavior, then end-of-day price data is converted into a buy / hold / reduce / sell state. The public methodology page explains the process and limits.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. One click from your account page, and you keep Pro through the period you paid for. New subscriptions also get a 7-day refund window, no questions asked.
How much does Hesper Atlas cost?
There is a free tier: the dashboard, three stock pages a day with the full trade plan, and the optional nightly digest email. Pro is $199/year (about $16.60 a month) or $24 month-to-month, with checkout handled by Stripe. Cancel online in one click anytime; new subscriptions have a 7-day refund window.
Is this financial advice?
No. Hesper Atlas is an educational tool that shows what a systematic, backtested trend process would do. It doesn't know your situation, taxes or risk tolerance, and it will sometimes be wrong. The decisions, and the responsibility, stay with you.
Can an AI agent or LLM access Hesper Atlas data?
Yes. Start with Hesper Atlas for Agents. Nine public tools expose the current-rule historical replay, static-tail and rolling walk-forward evidence, version provenance, forward-publication commitments, per-symbol replay history and methodology through MCP, free and with no credential. Six OAuth-connected subscriber tools return current or frozen end-of-day signal rows and change-since events; API keys remain a developer fallback. Responses identify data type, freshness, provenance and caveats.

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