What Acuity Trading does

Acuity Trading is a London-headquartered (founded 2013) AI-powered financial market intelligence provider that sells white-labelled analytics and trade-idea tools to online brokers, proprietary trading firms, and institutional clients. Its flagship product, Acuity Intelligence, unifies three modules — Trade Intelligence (AI-assisted signals and expert-verified ideas via AnalysisIQ), Market Intelligence (real-time sentiment and news interpretation through NewsIQ and AssetIQ), and Event Intelligence (economic calendar and corporate-event impact) — alongside Dynamic Emails, an AI-driven personalised content delivery channel. The underlying technology stack combines finance-specific natural language processing, large language models, and explainable machine learning, trained on a proprietary dataset spanning 20+ years of historical news across 80,000+ global assets and 43 million+ data points.

Name

Acuity Trading

Legal name

Acuity Trading Ltd.

Website

https://acuitytrading.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Acuity Trading is a London-based AI market-intelligence vendor that delivers white-labelled sentiment analysis, trade ideas, and event intelligence to online brokers, prop trading firms, and hedge funds via MT4, MT5, and cTrader.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Market Intelligence Software

NAICS

Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage (5231), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Algorithmic Trading & Execution Platforms (FSAFANAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Multi-Asset Electronic Trading Platforms (FSAFANAH)

Keywords

• AI market intelligence
• Sentiment analysis software
• Trade signal platform
• Financial news analytics
• Trading intelligence tools

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. White-label Licensing: B2B white-label licensing of AI trading intelligence suite to brokers and trading platforms. Platforms embed Acuity's technology under their own brand, typically on multi-year contracts with annual billing.
2. B2B SaaS Subscription: Direct subscription model for enterprise clients including prop trading firms, hedge funds, and investment managers. Custom pricing based on data access and feature requirements.
3. API Access Licensing: Revenue from API integration licensing for custom platform deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Acuity Trading builds an AI-driven financial market intelligence platform that delivers sentiment analysis, trade ideas, and event-driven insights to online brokers and trading platforms. Its products combine NLP, large language models, and explainable machine learning to transform news and market data into actionable trading intelligence. The suite is offered as white-labelled modules (Acuity Intelligence, Market Intelligence, Event Intelligence, Trade Intelligence, Dynamic Emails) embedded inside broker platforms such as MT4, MT5, and cTrader.

Product overview

Acuity Trading offers a unified platform-plus-modules architecture centered on Acuity Intelligence, which connects three core modules: Trade Intelligence (including AnalysisIQ for trade ideas), Market Intelligence (including NewsIQ and AssetIQ for sentiment and opportunity analysis), and Event Intelligence (including Economic Calendar for macro events). The platform also includes Dynamic Emails for personalized content delivery. The products combine finance-trained NLP, large language models, and explainable machine learning to transform news, economic data, and sentiment into actionable trading intelligence. All tools are white-labelled and delivered across multiple channels including MT4, MT5, cTrader, web platforms, Telegram, and email, targeting online brokers, proprietary trading firms, and hedge funds.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Acuity Intelligence: Integrated platform combining Market Intelligence, Event Intelligence, and Trade Intelligence for brokers
• AnalysisIQ
• Trade Intelligence
• Market Intelligence
• Event Intelligence
• Dynamic Emails
• NewsIQ
• AssetIQ
• Signal Centre

Products and services

• Acuity Intelligence The flagship connected platform that combines Market Intelligence, Event Intelligence, and Trade Intelligence into one in-platform experience for online brokers. Built to increase broker engagement, retention, and platform usage by delivering AI-driven trading intelligence directly inside broker platforms.
• Trade Intelligence Delivers a steady stream of trade ideas with clear reasoning, generated by an AI-supported engine alongside expert analyst insight. AI adds context around sentiment and news impact while experts provide market judgment and idea structure; includes AnalysisIQ as the primary trade ideas product.
• Market Intelligence Uses AI to analyze real-time market developments and sentiment to explain why prices are moving. Delivered inside trading platforms where traders trade, providing sentiment analysis and market insights to help traders understand market dynamics without leaving the platform.
• Event Intelligence Covers economic and corporate events that drive volatility including major announcements, central bank decisions, and earnings. Helps traders understand market events and how to act on them through forward-looking insights and multi-channel delivery.
• Dynamic Emails AI-powered email tool that delivers tailored daily insights and market intelligence straight to traders' inboxes. Provides clarity and information in fast-moving markets through personalized, dynamic content delivery.
• AnalysisIQ Trade ideas product providing high-quality market signals and trading opportunities. AI-assisted trade ideas supported by expert analyst verification, with pattern recognition across 128+ instruments, clear entry/exit levels, confidence ratings, and ongoing updates every 10 minutes.
• NewsIQ AI-driven news sentiment analysis and filtering tool that surfaces impactful stories across popular instruments. Provides real-time market research and updates by analyzing news sentiment across macro, FX, indices, commodities, equities and crypto using finance-specific NLP.
• AssetIQ Complete market trade opportunity analysis tool providing asset-level scoring and sector ranking with interactive event-overlay charts. Covers FX, indices, commodities, equities and other securities, generating unified opportunity scores analyzing multiple data sets to help traders identify best opportunities.
• Research Terminal AI-powered workspace that brings together news, sentiment, macro events and trade ideas in one centralized location. Integrates AnalysisIQ, asset overviews, FX news and calendar events, designed to streamline pre-trade and in-trade decision-making for traders.
• Economic Calendar Trusted news-source-powered macro events calendar with forward-looking insights and multi-channel delivery. Helps traders follow key economic and non-economic indicators that provide clues to subsequent market direction, with potential range data for timing trades.
• News Sentiment Analysis & Nowcasting Hedge fund and institutional product using advanced AI to scrutinize global financial news, delivering instantaneous market sentiment analysis. Helps traders make informed decisions by offering real-time insights, identifying trends, and predicting market movements based on tone and content of financial news coverage.
• Topic Modelling AI-powered tool that categorizes and analyzes large volumes of financial news, identifying key themes and trends. Helps investors and traders understand prevailing market narratives, uncover emerging topics, and gain insights into influential factors driving market behavior in real time.
• Corporate Data Analysis Sophisticated AI tool that scrutinizes financial reports, news, and market data to provide comprehensive insights into corporate performance. Assists investors and analysts in understanding company health, industry trends, and investment risks.
• Signal Centre Trade signals and analysis product acquired by Acuity Trading in 2021 and rebranded for partner brokers (e.g., 'Signal Centre powered by AnalysisIQ' for GO Markets). Provides approximately 50 ideas daily with predefined risk/reward ratios (typically 2:1 or greater), delivered via MT4/MT5, Telegram, Dynamic Email, and Client Portal.
• Pattern Recognition in AnalysisIQ Feature product identifying chart patterns across 128+ instruments including forex, equities, indices, commodities and crypto. Delivered as a white-label solution across MT4, MT5, cTrader and web-based platforms to help brokers improve user retention and bridge the information gap for retail traders during high market volatility.

Quantifiable outcome

• 43 million+ data points processed for market intelligence
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Bullwaves PrimeflagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 March 2025Full white-label integration of Acuity Intelligence suite for Bullwaves Prime's proprietary trading environment. Acuity's complete suite including sentiment analysis and trading tools is embedded under Bullwaves Prime branding.
• FP MarketsflagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAI-powered trading signals and tools integrated into FP Markets trading platform, providing clients with enhanced market intelligence and decision-making tools.
• Traders' HubcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAI-powered research and decision tools delivered through Traders' Hub platform, helping retail traders access professional-grade market intelligence.
• OneRoyalcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAI-powered signals and Dynamic Email tools integrated into OneRoyal's platform, enhancing client engagement and trading intelligence for their customer base.
• WNSTNcoreTechnology or IntegrationCo-integration of trading intelligence through WNSTN platform partnership, enabling mutual technology integration and broader market reach.
• GO MarketscoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerSignal Centre integration with AnalysisIQ for GO Markets, providing AI-powered trading signals and market analysis tools for their traders.
• Hantec MarketscoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerAI trading intelligence tool integrated into Hantec Markets platform, providing clients with real-time market sentiment and analysis.
• cTradercoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform partnership for embedding Acuity's AI trading intelligence within the cTrader trading platform ecosystem.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• RavenPack: RavenPack provides AI-driven financial sentiment and news analytics for institutional investors and hedge funds. Direct competitor in news-driven sentiment analysis with overlapping NLP/LLM technology and institutional broker customer base.
• Trading Central: Trading Central provides AI-augmented trade ideas, technical and fundamental analysis tools embedded into broker and trading platforms. Most direct peer to Acuity's AnalysisIQ trade intelligence offering, with similar white-label broker distribution.
• Sentifi: Sentifi provides alternative data and market intelligence derived from news, social media and analyst content for institutional and retail financial services. Direct competitor in AI-driven sentiment analytics with similar B2B distribution model.
• TipRanks: TipRanks offers analyst tracking, sentiment scoring and market intelligence tools to broker platforms and retail investors. Overlapping product (sentiment analytics) and customer base (online brokers and trading platforms).
• Social Market Analytics (SMA): SMA provides real-time social media-based market sentiment indicators and analytics for institutional and retail trading platforms. Direct overlap in sentiment-driven trading intelligence products.
• MarketReader: AI-powered market analysis platform providing real-time attribution for why financial markets are moving. Acuity made a strategic investment in MarketReader in 2026, making them both a portfolio company and a direct product-adjacent peer in market intelligence.

Broad incumbents

• LSEG (Refinitiv): London Stock Exchange Group (Refinitiv) operates major market data and analytics platforms including news, sentiment and AI-driven research products. Large incumbent with overlapping sentiment and market intelligence offerings for brokers and institutions.
• Bloomberg Terminal: Bloomberg Terminal offers comprehensive market data, news, analytics and sentiment tools as part of a much broader financial data suite. Incumbent with overlapping NLP/news analytics capabilities used by institutional and broker clients.

Emerging players

• Brain AI: AI-native analytics provider delivering sentiment and market intelligence data products for financial institutions. Emerging competitor in the same NLP/sentiment category targeting buy-side and broker clients.
• Tradytics: AI-powered options and trading analytics platform for retail traders. Competes in the AI-driven trade signals and market intelligence space with overlapping customer segment (retail and prop traders) but more options-focused.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/acuitytrading
• Facebookfacebook.com/acuitytradingltd

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments1 record

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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