Florent Poux
Co-founder and CTO of Obside
Florent Poux is co-founder and CTO of Obside. He leads the engineering and technology behind Obside's AI copilot, market-data systems, backtesting infrastructure, and automated trading agents.
Areas of focus
- Artificial intelligence
- Software engineering
- Trading automation
- Market-data infrastructure
Recent articles and reviews
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Obside vs Capitalise.ai: Which Should Automate Your Trading?
Both let you automate trading in plain English, but they solve different problems. Capitalise.ai is a free rule engine that lives inside partner brokers; Obside is an AI copilot that sits on top of your existing accounts. Here is an honest comparison from the team behind Obside.
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Obside vs Composer: AI Copilot or Symphony Brokerage?
Composer is a US brokerage where you build rule-based 'symphonies'; Obside is an AI copilot that automates the brokerage accounts you already have. The team behind Obside compares both honestly — including the cases where Composer is the better pick.
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Best Capitalise.ai Alternatives in 2026: 7 Tools Compared
Capitalise.ai is excellent — when your broker supports it. If yours doesn't, or you need more than if-then price rules, here are the seven alternatives worth considering in 2026, compared by broker coverage, AI depth and price. Written by the Obside team, disclosure included.
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Best Composer Alternatives in 2026: 7 Trading Tools Compared
Composer is a strong product with two hard limits: US residents only, and your money has to move to its brokerage. Here are the seven alternatives worth considering in 2026 — for Europeans, for people keeping their current broker, and for strategies symphonies can't express. Disclosure: written by the Obside team.
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AI Investing: What It Means and How to Actually Use It
Two different questions hide behind the same phrase: using AI to run a portfolio, and buying shares in AI companies. This guide separates them, then covers what AI genuinely does for a long-horizon portfolio and what it cannot do.
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AI Trading: What It Actually Is and How to Start
The term AI trading covers four very different things. This guide separates them, states plainly what each can and cannot do today, and lays out the backtest-paper-live sequence that keeps automation useful instead of expensive.
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Trading in 2026: Strategies, Tools, and Day Trading
Markets are faster, data is cheaper, and the gap between idea and live order keeps shrinking. The traders who win in this environment are not the ones with the best chart — they are the ones with the clearest rules and the shortest path from rule to execution. This guide gives you both.
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Agentic AI in Finance: From Chatbots to Portfolios
Agentic AI is moving finance from text generation to action-taking. Where firms deploy it first, what the 2026 adoption data shows, and what it means for your money.