We read the signalshiding inside markets.
Cotes breaks down financial markets into the hidden waves that drive price — then predicts which direction it moves next, in any market.
- Patent-pending engine
- Tested on 5,155 markets
- Live now in early access
The Signal Engine
Most tools stop at the chart. The Signal Engine takes raw price, breaks it into the underlying waves that move it, then fuses them into a single, scored signal that surfaces a move before it's obvious on the chart. It works on any market, at any time frame.
Market price
We start from raw price data — every open, high, low, and close.
Decompose
Each price is pulled apart into the underlying waves that drive it.
AI model
Our model reads the waves — their strength, timing, and alignment.
Score the call
Those reads fuse into a single, scored UP or DOWN signal.
Five patents filed on the method.
The Signal Engine isn't a new coat of paint on old indicators — it's a genuinely different way to read markets.
- 01Spectral decompositionBreaking a live price into its underlying component waves.
- 02Resonance measurementScoring how tightly those waves line up — the core signal.
- 03Cross-feed analysisReading the asset price and the market's own price together.
- 04Confidence scoringTurning resonance into a calibrated probability.
- 05Real-time adaptationRe-reading the signal as new data arrives.
One engine. Many products.
The same engine that powers SpectralBot can run a whole family of tools — for everyday traders, trading desks, and the platforms they build on.
SpectralBot watches Bitcoin prediction markets — where traders bet on which way price moves next — and sends a simple UP or DOWN call to your Telegram every 15 minutes.
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Spectral Studio
Coming soonCharts and tools to study many markets at once.
Spectral Feed
Coming soonA real-time signal feed built for developer integration and agentic trading applications.
Our Team
A passionate team of founders and operators who've turned hard science into shipped products before — and are doing it again at Cotes.
Steve Lacy
Co-founder & CEO
Steve has spent decades turning hard science into real products — across medical devices, signal processing, energy, and precision instruments. He created Spectral Trading™ to bring hedge-fund-grade technology to everyday traders.
Michael Gauthier
Co-founder & CTO
Michael is a repeat, exited founder and engineering leader with a track record of scaling fintech products to millions of users, most recently at Coinbase. He's driven by bringing ambitious products to market, holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (AI), and now leads engineering at Cotes — building the technology that reads the signals hidden in markets.
See what the engine sees.
Our first product, SpectralBot, is live now in early access — or reach out about the engine, partnerships, and data.