Strategies
Explore the major ways a trading premise becomes a rule.
Choose a family to understand the behavior it targets, the decisions that define it, and the conditions that can break it.
Trend & Momentum
Price movement can persist across a chosen horizon, but the rule succeeds or fails through its timing, exits, sizing, and tolerance for whipsaw.
Mean Reversion
A price, spread, or normalized deviation may return toward an anchor, provided the anchor still represents the state being traded.
Breakouts & Volatility
A market leaving a well-defined range can reveal a change in participation, but range choice and confirmation determine whether the rule captures expansion or noise.
Session & Seasonality
Sessions concentrate information, liquidity, and positioning in repeatable windows, while calendar patterns demand especially strict controls for selection and decay.
Relative Value & Factors
Relative strategies compare assets rather than forecasting each one in isolation, turning a signal into a portfolio only after universe, neutralization, and weighting choices.
Order Flow & Auction
Volume, aggressor flow, footprint structure, and auction references can describe how a move is being accepted or rejected, but none is a trade rule without context and timing.
Portfolios & Multi-Strategy
Portfolio design allocates risk across imperfect forecasts; the central problem is deciding which relationships are stable enough to influence weights.
Market Making
A market maker repeatedly quotes both sides and manages the risk that fills accumulate inventory or arrive just before adverse price moves.