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The No-Custody Principle

Most platforms that manage your money operate on a custody model: you deposit capital with them, they control how it's deployed, and you trust them to return it. That model requires you to trust the platform with your money, not just your strategy.

Oyamori operates on the opposite principle. Your capital never leaves your brokerage account. Oyamori connects to your Alpaca account via an API key that you generate and can revoke at any time. The API key authorizes Oyamori to read account state and submit trade orders — nothing else. There is no mechanism for Oyamori to withdraw, transfer, or move funds. The architecture makes it structurally impossible.

What Oyamori Can and Cannot Do

The API key Alpaca issues for trading access is scoped to trading operations. Alpaca maintains the custody of your funds as the registered broker-dealer. Oyamori operates entirely within the API's permissions — there is no secondary channel, no administrative access, no backend relationship with Alpaca that extends beyond what the API key authorizes.

Revoking Access Takes Seconds

If you want to stop Oyamori from accessing your account — for any reason, at any time — log into your Alpaca dashboard, navigate to API keys, and delete or regenerate the key. Oyamori's access is revoked immediately. No notice period. No request to Oyamori. No delay.

Your capital was never with us. There's nothing to withdraw. There's no redemption window. You stop the key, you stop the access.

This is the structural property that distinguishes a no-custody trading platform from every custodial model in the market: exit is always one action away, and it doesn't require us to do anything.

Your Strategy Logic Is Private

Oyamori's catalog contains validated strategies built by the Oyamori team and, as the creator program develops, verified independent quant developers. When you subscribe to a strategy, you receive access to its execution behavior — the entry signals, exit conditions, and risk management rules. You do not receive the source code, and neither does Oyamori have access to share it.

Creators retain full intellectual property over their strategies. The execution pipeline is the distribution layer; it is not a code transfer mechanism. Your capital runs the strategy. The strategy logic belongs to its creator. Oyamori routes the signals between them.

Every Trade Is Logged

Every signal generated by a strategy, every order submitted to Alpaca, and every fill confirmation received is written to your audit log. You can inspect any trade: what conditions produced the signal, when the order was submitted, what price it filled at, when and why the position was closed.

Transparency is not a toggle. Audit logging is on by default and cannot be disabled. The full execution record is yours — it persists regardless of subscription status and can be exported at any time.

This is what transparent trading signals look like in practice: not just the signal output, but the complete chain from input conditions to execution outcome, available for review at any level of detail.

What Oyamori Is Not

To be precise about the structure:

• Not a fund. Oyamori does not pool investor capital or make discretionary trading decisions. Each investor's account runs independently with their own capital and their own risk parameters.
• Not a registered investment adviser. Oyamori provides software execution of pre-defined algorithmic strategies. It does not provide investment advice. All strategy selection decisions are made by the investor.
• Not a signal service. Signals are not delivered for manual action — they result in automated execution within the parameters you configure. You set the strategy; the platform executes it.
• Not a custodian. Alpaca is the registered broker-dealer and custodian of your assets. Oyamori has no custodial relationship with your capital.

The Honest Risk Disclosure

Algorithmic trading carries substantial risk. Systematic strategies with documented edge still experience drawdown periods that can be significant. Past edge performance does not guarantee future results. Market regimes change, edges decay, and strategies that worked in one period may underperform in another.

Oyamori's role is to execute strategies reliably, enforce the risk parameters you set, and provide a transparent record of every execution decision. It does not eliminate trading risk. It structures and constrains it according to your rules.

If you want to understand how to evaluate the real risk of a strategy before deploying it, read what makes a trading strategy verifiable and the retail algo trader checklist before going live.