AI Is Increasing the Profit Divide. Here’s How You Can Be on the Right Side
December 10, 2025
The future of trading is no longer up for debate – it’s already here. And it’s being dominated, decisively, by machines.
Roughly 80% of what drives consistent market outperformance now comes from AI-powered predictive analytics – systems that learn turning points, quantify them with extraordinary precision, and execute before human traders even realize something has shifted.
This isn’t theory. It’s the operating manual of the most profitable trading firms on Earth.
How the Elite Are Winning
The evidence is everywhere.
Citadel didn’t become a $63 billion fortress on intuition. Its reinforcement-learning engines tear through order-book flows, microstructure patterns, volatility clusters, and liquidity depth. These systems detect price inflection points in nanoseconds.
In 2024 alone, Citadel generated nearly $9.7 billion in trading revenue – a 55% jump – driven largely by machine-derived edges that no human team could replicate.
Jane Street, the quiet powerhouse of global markets, runs probabilistic AI engines that map real-time cross-asset relationships. They aren’t squinting at charts – they’re modeling entropy itself.
That’s how they routinely lock in billions trading ETFs, options, and basis spreads… all before lunch.
Even Goldman Sachs has reshaped its entire trading architecture around machine learning. Their models identify momentum exhaustion, liquidity vacuums, and microtrend reversals – patterns Goldman openly admits are “not observable through traditional analysis.”
That is the new 80%.
The 20% That Still Matters
Here’s why this matters: the remaining 20% isn’t going anywhere.
Fundamentals – earnings, margins, competitive advantage – are still the bedrock of long-term investing. What has changed is the timing. AI now quantifies the narrative surrounding fundamentals, constantly scanning sentiment, positioning, volume, and volatility to determine when those fundamentals translate into actionable opportunity.
Fundamentals provide the why.
AI provides the when.
And the winners use both.
What We’ve Built for You
That brings me to what comes next – and why it may be one of the most exciting developments we’ve ever brought to readers.
My team and I have been quietly building a new AI-driven investing system that uses the same type of tools powering Wall Street’s most elite trading desks. A platform that:
- Identifies momentum shifts before they appear on charts.
- Scores turning points by magnitude and conviction.
- Tracks narrative-aware sentiment across news, policy, and market psychology.
- Fuses fundamentals with machine-precision timing into one unified signal.
In short, it’s a Citadel-level analytical engine, purpose-built for everyday investors.
Your Edge Is Coming
This new, soon-to-be-announced product takes the same AI technologies used by the big shops – the technology that gives them their 80% edge – and makes it accessible to individual investors for the first time.
It will surface opportunities faster, filter out noise automatically, and highlight high-conviction setups with unprecedented clarity.
More details are on the way. But make no mistake: the divide between those who leverage AI and those who don’t is widening every day.
The Bottom Line
The biggest profits over the next decade won’t go to those who debate AI.
They’ll go to those who use it.
And with what’s coming next – you’ll finally be able to use it, too.