HL Hunt’s HLX Trading still hasn’t launched — but its proof-of-reserves and AI-agent pitch hasn’t changed either

HL Hunt Financial’s HLX Trading, the company’s planned multi-asset trading platform, remains listed as launching soon on HL Hunt’s site, with sign-ups still limited to a waitlist rather than general availability — the same status the product had when FinCrunch first covered it in early September.

The core pitch is unchanged: a stated 1:1 reserve ratio on deposits, continuous proof-of-reserves publication, on-chain attestation a user can check independently, and a commitment that customer funds are held in segregated accounts rather than lent, staked or rehypothecated. HL Hunt continues to pair that custody claim with instant, no-hold withdrawals, positioning the two together as evidence that deposited funds are genuinely accessible on demand rather than only visible on a dashboard.

The AI layer HL Hunt is building around that custody pitch is also unchanged: real-time buy/sell signals across stocks, crypto, forex, options, commodities and futures, each carrying a stated confidence percentage and drawing on technical indicators, sentiment analysis and volume-anomaly detection, with the trading decision left to the user rather than executed automatically. Sitting above that are the platform’s three prebuilt AI trading agents — Sentinel, Momentum and Apex — which a user can hire to trade automatically within limits they set, still carrying the same stated backtested annual returns of roughly 18% for the conservative Sentinel agent up to roughly 91% for the high-risk Apex agent.

Pricing is also identical to what HL Hunt published previously: a no-monthly-fee Basic tier with standard per-trade commission, a $29-per-month Pro tier with lower commissions and access to options and forex, and a custom-priced Institutional tier for funds and firms. The security stack HL Hunt advertises — multi-signature cold storage for a stated majority of assets, SOC 2 Type II certification, and insurance on digital assets — is likewise unchanged.

The detail that continues to matter most here is timing rather than features: HLX Trading is still a pre-launch product taking waitlist sign-ups, and HL Hunt’s own site continues to state that its backtested agent returns are simulated results, not a guarantee of what the agents will do once real customer money is on the platform. A reserve-transparency and custody pitch is a claim that gets tested in practice once a platform has paying users and live withdrawals to process — something HLX has not yet had the opportunity to demonstrate.