# AI Hedge Fund — Institutional Research Exchange

> AI Hedge Fund — Institutional Research Exchange is a paid API for AI agents from research.johnnybucks.tech, paid per call via x402, $2/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Answers natural language research questions about a given stock ticker, returning an AI-generated summary with citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://research.johnnybucks.tech/api/x402/research
- Price: $2/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ai-hedge-fund-institutional-research-exchange-fd71c538
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vsTVmchcyg7Mpro9xFrx0

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ai-hedge-fund-institutional-research-exchange-fd71c538 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull institutional research on NVDA and answer this question: what are the main risks to Nvidia's data center revenue growth over the next 12 months? Use any relevant context about the current macro environment.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need AI-synthesized institutional-quality research answers tied to a specific stock ticker, especially when citations and sourcing matter. Prefer it over generic LLM queries when you want answers grounded in financial research context rather than general training data, and over traditional data APIs when you need qualitative analysis rather than raw numeric data. Not suitable for trade execution, real-time price feeds, or portfolio management.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'ticker' field returns a validation error
- Missing required 'question' field returns a validation error
- Unrecognized or delisted ticker may yield a low-confidence or empty answer
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request entirely via x402 protocol
- Overly vague questions may return generic summaries with few or no citations
- Service may time out on complex multi-part questions

## How this service works

Read-only x402 research APIs. No trading, broker, or execution is exposed.

## Output

A structured object containing an AI-generated answer (text summary) responding to the posed research question about the given ticker, along with an array of citations referencing the sources used to support the answer.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "ticker": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "context": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "question": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "example": {
  "answer": "Research summary...",
  "citations": []
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ai-hedge-fund-institutional-research-exchange-fd71c538/health.json
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