Automated trading · from $0.50
Start automated trading with $0.50
Kestrel is a trading robot. Connect your trading account and it trades it for you — on its own, day and night, while you sleep. Or put in as little as $0.50 and let it trade alongside everyone else’s. You pay 5% of the profit, and nothing at all when it loses.
Every figure here traces to 2,745 recorded trades — losing years and drawdowns included.
Where the pooled account stands today
Auto-updatingRead live from our own books and updated while this page is open. Nothing here is a placeholder or a counter that climbs on its own — when it says nobody has deposited yet, nobody has.
How it works
On the managed plan your money never leaves your own brokerage account. We place trades in it; we cannot withdraw from it.
Connect your own account
You open an account with your broker, in your name. Kestrel connects to place and manage trades. Withdrawal rights stay with you, and you can disconnect at any time.
Set your own limits
Risk per trade, maximum open positions, daily trade cap, and a pause switch. The limits are enforced on our side, not suggested in a document.
The system trades the rules
The same rules, every signal, with no discretion and no overrides. Entries, stops and targets are fixed before a position opens.
A bank, a professional trader, or this
A bank pays you almost nothing, but it is close to impossible to lose money in one. A professional trader might make you more, but you rarely see their real numbers, and most charge you whether they win or lose. Kestrel is built to fix that second part specifically: a fixed rule with no exceptions, every result published including the losing years, and a fee only when it actually makes you money. It is not built to fix the first part — this still carries real risk, same as any trading does.
Can you actually lose money
Almost never
Yes — often more than you expected
Yes — median drawdown 24%, published up front
What a typical year looks like
Very little, but steady
No way to know until it has already happened
+30.9% historically — never guaranteed, and about 1 year in 5 finished down
What you pay
Usually nothing
Often a fee whether they win or lose, plus a cut of profit
Nothing — unless it makes money, then 5% of the profit only
Do you see what really happened
Just your balance
Usually a few good months, not the full history
Every trade since 2021-09-08, wins and losses both
Can a bad mood change a decision
No decisions being made
Yes — fear and fatigue are part of being human
No — the same fixed rule, every time
Works nights and weekends
Not applicable
No — a person has to sleep
Yes — markets are open, it is watching
Minimum to start
Usually nothing
Often thousands
$0.50
The Kestrel figures are simulated results from 2,745 recorded trades, 2021-09-08 to 2026-09-03 — not a guarantee, and not the same as a live track record. See the full methodology for exactly how they were produced.
What we will not tell you
Most platforms in this category publish a rising line and a large percentage. We think that is the least useful thing you could be shown, so here is what that line leaves out.
Read the full methodologyWe will not promise a monthly profit.
At this system's measured consistency, roughly four to five months in a year finish below where they started. That is what the arithmetic gives; anyone claiming otherwise is describing something other than trading.
We will not hide the drawdown.
The median run gives back 24% from a peak before recovering, and the worst five percent of runs give back 41%. If that number would make you close the account, this is not the right product.
We will not call a backtest a track record.
These figures come from simulation over 2,745 recorded trades between 2021-09-08 and 2026-09-03. Live trading is recent and its sample is still too small to confirm or contradict them.
We will not round a statistic in our favour.
The edge measures 0.0611 R per trade at a t-statistic of 2.27. The instruments were chosen from a wider search, which inflates that statistic — so treat it as suggestive, not settled.
We will not pretend $0.50 is an investment.
The minimum is that low so you can watch the system run with your own money before committing anything you would miss, and because a platform that only works above a certain balance has decided who is allowed in. Sending it costs you about a dollar in network fees — start small to test, not to earn.
Year by year
Simulated at 1.00% risk per trade, net of the 5% performance fee. Partial years at each end of the sample are shown as they are, not annualised.
| Year | Trades | Win rate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 93 | 32% | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 381 | 33% | -15.2% |
| 2023 | 672 | 38% | +39.0% |
| 2024 | 628 | 38% | +25.9% |
| 2025 | 598 | 39% | +47.9% |
| 2026 | 373 | 42% | +76.7% |
Try it on a demo account first. It costs nothing and proves more than any page can.
The demo runs on a demo brokerage account with simulated money, stops automatically after 12 hours, and places at most two trades a day. Watch it work before it touches anything real.