Intro

Forven is a desktop research shop for retail quant traders. It does three things:

1. Runs a lab that takes strategies through a four-stage gauntlet: screen → gauntlet → candidate → live.
2. Runs a daemon that invents, tests, and retires hypotheses without supervision.
3. Exposes an agent layer that turns your LLM key into a team of co-researchers.

The free tier is the lab and the daemon. The agent layer is the paid Forged tier.

What Forven is not

• Not a signal service. No trade recommendations, no copy-trading, no newsletter.
• Not a black box. Every gauntlet stage exposes its metrics. You see what passed and why.
• Not a prop firm. You trade your own capital with your own keys.

How to read these docs

If you want to install and start running strategies: Install then Quickstart.

If you want to understand the model: start with Philosophy and The gauntlet.

If you want to use agents: Agent layer.