Permutable’s Explainable AI Strategy Outperforms S&P500 This Year
Market intelligence provider Permutable AI outperforms all major commodities benchmarks this year as real-time, explainable sentiment signals prove their value in fast-moving geopolitical regimes.
London, UK, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Permutable AI, leading provider of AI-driven market intelligence for institutional investors, has released one-year performance results of its live systematic commodity trading strategy, demonstrating how sentiment-based models can offer earlier conviction in markets defined by geopolitical volatility and rapidly shifting narratives.
From 1 October 2024 to 1 November 2025, the strategy generated a 20.6% return with 7.3% volatility, a maximum drawdown of 4.4%, and a Sharpe ratio of 2.85. Over the same period, the S&P 500 returned 18.1% with 18.2% volatility, while the S&P GSCI delivered 4.1% at 17.2% volatility. The strategy outperformed the majority of CTAs, supported by a balanced long–short structure and evenly distributed VaR across energy, agriculture and metals.
The results come at a time when institutional investors are grappling with markets in which prices increasingly react to headlines driven by geopolitics, sanctions, supply dislocations and policy risk. Traditional indicators often lag these narrative shifts, while many AI approaches remain opaque or difficult to justify under governance and model-risk frameworks. Permutable’s system was designed to address both challenges by providing real-time sentiment signals with full explainability.
“Our live track record demonstrates what matters most for our clients: sentiment is actionable,” said Wilson Chan, Founder & CEO of Permutable AI. “We built this for institutional teams who need clarity earlier and who require transparency behind every signal shift. Our job is to help them see around corners.”
Michael Brisley, Chief Commercial Officer, added that institutions increasingly want intelligence rather than outsourced asset management. “Explainable, real-time sentiment can be a performance lever when used by people who understand their markets. The heroes here are the portfolio managers and traders who use the information to make sharper calls. We simply give them the advantage.”
October served as a meaningful test of the system’s ability to navigate event-driven commodity markets. Permutable’s models captured early sentiment around tightening sanctions and logistics friction in Brent crude; responded to rapid, weather-led reversals in natural gas; identified the mid-month safe-haven rotation into gold; and detected improving sentiment across key agricultural markets. In areas where signals were early, risk controls helped contain losses. Across assets, the company says signals consistently turned ahead of price.
Permutable provides its intelligence through two delivery mechanisms: a real-time API licence for integration into OMS, risk and execution systems, and the Trading Co-Pilot, an interface that offers live signals, narrative drivers, explainability modules and a full audit trail. The company has opted not to launch a fund, positioning itself instead as an infrastructure and analytics provider that enables institutions to deploy AI within their existing investment processes.
About Permutable AI
At Permutable AI, we deliver next-generation intelligence to decode the world’s most complex markets. Our plug-and-play LLM solutions cut through global macro, geopolitical, and financial noise – transforming overwhelming information into real-time, actionable signal. We exist to automate how capital markets process insight, fast-tracking decision-making through intelligent workflows that adapt as quickly as the markets move. Our mission is simple: turn complexity into clarity, and empower trading professionals to act with confidence, speed, and precision. We’re building the future of market intelligence – one where AI doesn’t just inform decisions, it enables them. Our vision is to set a new standard for speed, transparency, and strategic edge in global finance. By fusing explainable generative AI with capital markets expertise, we’re redefining what it means to stay ahead of the curve. Our flagship Trading Co-Pilot delivering real-time, LLM-powered signals for commodities, currencies, macro traders with fixed income and equities coming soon. Designed to save 90% of the time typically spent parsing global news and data, it transforms high-volume input into precision insight so you can focus on strategy, not searching. We’re powering the next era of trading intelligence: plug-and-play, explainable, and engineered for performance in today’s fast-moving markets.
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