ItoFlow Blog

Research notes on portfolio intelligence, risk models, and the future of AI-assisted investing

Quant Research June 15, 2026

How We Built a Global, Cross-Asset Factor Risk Model at ItoFlow

The process and math behind ItoFlow's in-house risk model for global stocks, ETFs, style tilts, mixed-asset covariance, and single-stock shocks.

Agentic AI Mar 3, 2026

Async Critique Agents: Spaced Repetition for AI That Drifts

Hooks can't scale. Sub-agents block. We built asynchronous critique agents that use spaced repetition to course-correct long-running AI trading strategies without ever stalling the main execution.

Engineering Dec 24, 2025

Building Market-Hours-Aware Trade Execution for AI Agents

When AI agents decide to rebalance at 10 PM, naive systems execute at stale prices. Here's how we built async execution that queues trades and waits for each exchange to open.

Agentic AI Dec 6, 2025

Why Agentic Investing is Hard

The patterns that made Claude Code successful don't transfer to investing. Here's why the challenges are fundamentally different, and harder in ways that aren't immediately obvious.

Portfolio Analysis October 2025

Why GOOGL Won and AAPL Lost: The Power of Integrated Analysis

Real analysis of AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, NVDA, and META reveals why Google returned 44% while Apple limped to 6.5%. Discover how combining fundamental and quantitative analysis delivers +4.99% better returns.

AI & ML September 2025

The Future of Quantitative Research is Here

How AI agents are revolutionizing financial analysis and democratizing institutional-grade quantitative research capabilities.