Candlestick AI

Candlestick is an AI-powered investing platform aimed at people who want algorithmic portfolio management without building their own models. Its core engine reads business and financial news from around the world and learns how those events tend to affect company outcomes. That understanding is applied across thousands of stocks listed on the Nasdaq and NYSE, and the result is a set of AI-managed portfolios that clients can fund and follow from a mobile app.

Rather than offering a single fixed strategy, Candlestick lets investors choose between multiple AI model configurations, so the portfolio reflects their own appetite for risk and their personal preferences. The platform also emphasizes transparency: clients can see the news and reasoning behind individual positions rather than receiving a ticker list with no explanation. A generative advisor built on GPT-4 provides a conversational layer, capable of explaining a pick, breaking down an earnings report, or answering general financial questions.

On the operational side, Candlestick states that advisory services are provided by an SEC-registered investment advisor subsidiary and that brokerage is handled through a partner, Alpaca Securities; the company notes it is not itself a registered broker-dealer. It lists three AI portfolios and coverage of roughly six thousand stocks, with subscription pricing starting around six dollars a month. Standard investment risk disclaimers apply, including the possibility of losing invested capital.