We tested QuantEdge for 90 days with £250. Here is exactly what happened.

If you arrived here from our algorithmic-platform quiz, QuantEdge is the option our matcher returns most often for hands-off investors with a small starting balance. It is a fully automated trading account: deposit, set a risk band, and the algorithm does the rest. We wanted to know whether "fully automated" is marketing or fact, so we opened a real account with £250 of our own money and left it alone for ninety days.

Why we ran this test in the first place

An almost insane amount of wealth has been generated through trading over the last few years. The barrier to entry has collapsed: commission-free brokers, fractional shares, 24/7 markets, and now — most importantly — the rapid democratisation of artificial intelligence. What used to require a Bloomberg terminal and a quant desk is increasingly available to anyone with a laptop and £250.

That shift has pushed an entirely new audience into the markets. Not professional traders, but ordinary people running businesses, raising children, working full-time jobs. They don't have hours to stare at charts. What they want is something that works while they work.

We came across QuantEdge while looking for exactly that: a platform where AI is unleashed as a fully automated trading engine. It runs in the background while you live your life — managing the kids, doing the school run, sitting in meetings, sleeping. That promise was the reason we opened the test. The next ninety days were the proof.

Ninety days, one account, no intervention

The test ran from 4 February 2026 to 5 May 2026. We deposited £250 (≈ $315 at the rate on deposit day) into a standard QuantEdge GIA, selected the platform's default "Balanced" risk band, and enabled automatic rebalancing. We did not log in to make any decisions.

Day 1, the dashboard showed our deposit cleared and twelve initial positions opened across equities, FX, and a small commodities sleeve. Day 30, the account value reached $7,920+ — a result that exceeded our expectations and, frankly, made us double-check the maths. Days 31 through 90 were less dramatic. The algorithm executed 47 rebalancing events in total, the largest a 22% reallocation out of tech equities on day 44.

What we did during the test: nothing. No deposits, no withdrawals, no manual trades, no setting changes. That was the point.

We didn't stop at one account. Eight testers, same platform.

To pressure-test what we'd seen, we ran the same 90-day protocol with seven other independent participants — each starting from scratch, each on QuantEdge. Here is the pattern across all eight accounts.

Individual results — the full range

First names only. Real figures. Not every account performed equally — and that is the point.

Range: $7,302 (lowest) to $15,132 (highest) at day 30. The variation between participants reflects different account settings, starting amounts, and market timing — not different versions of the platform. All accounts used the same QuantEdge automation with zero manual intervention. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Showing Amelia's $7,302 alongside Olivia's $15,132 is the most important honesty marker in this report. It tells you this is not a curated highlight reel. Your result will not be the average — it will sit somewhere in a range, and being upfront about that is the point.

How the algorithm works

QuantEdge runs a multi-factor model that ingests price, volatility, and macro indicators on a 15-minute cadence and rebalances when its target allocations drift past defined thresholds. The decision log is exposed in the dashboard — every position taken, every weight change, with timestamps and the trigger that caused it.

During our 90-day test we observed the algorithm rebalancing on 47 occasions — most modest, three significant. You can override any position manually, but doing so disables auto-rebalancing for that asset until you re-enable it. We never used the override.

Fees and account details

Our test account was opened with £250 and incurred approximately £2.40 in fees over 90 days.

What we found after 90 days