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For family offices & private capital

You hold the positions. What you need is a clearer view of how they should be weighted.

Portfolio optimisation, risk analysis and hedging for private capital. The same rigour a fund applies, without a procurement process or an in-house quant team.

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Senior-led engagements·NDA on request·You own the IP
Sharpe & Sortino· Beta to benchmark· Drawdown & exposure· Gross & net returns
Why people call us

The problems we are brought in to solve.

01
Allocation decided by feel

Weights were set once and adjusted by instinct. Nobody has tested whether the mix is actually efficient for the risk being carried.

02
Exposure you cannot see whole

Holdings sit across custodians, managers and asset classes. Concentration and correlation are invisible until something moves.

03
Reporting built by hand

Quarterly packs are assembled manually, so they arrive late and cannot answer follow-up questions without more manual work.

What we build

Named deliverables, not capabilities.

Portfolio optimisation

Allocation and rebalancing modelled against your own holdings, constraints and liquidity needs, not a generic efficient frontier.

Risk & exposure modelling

Drawdown, correlation, concentration and stress scenarios, so the downside is quantified rather than assumed.

Hedging & exposure management

Overlay structures and hedge logic designed around the exposures you actually hold, and automated where it makes sense.

Institutional-grade reporting

Sharpe, Sortino, information ratio, standard deviation, beta to benchmark, max drawdown, sector and geography weights, gross and net returns, turnover.

Proof

Kush Mathow

Capital managed for others · ~$50M · USA

Capital managed on behalf of others, running across several US brokers. We built the dashboard to design, backtest, deploy and monitor every strategy from one place, with intelligent order slicing and distributed execution at roughly 50ms, reduced slippage, and full internal control over what is live.

"Anyone looking for a properly built trading system can confidently trust the team end to end."

Selected engagements

Projects like yours.

Drawn from live engagements. Client names are withheld throughout this segment.

Performance reporting
IBKR · eBest Korea

Reporting across two brokers to a full institutional spec: Sharpe, Sortino, information ratio, standard deviation, beta to an MSCI World benchmark, max drawdown, sector and geography weights, gross and net returns, turnover ratio.

Portfolio analysis engine
Python · IBKR

Allocation, exposure and concentration analysis across holdings, built in Python against the actual book rather than a model portfolio.

Production algorithm review & update
Python

An algorithm already running was reviewed at code level and updated, establishing what still held before more capital went behind it.

Where a product is public we show it: CF Trading, Ticker Tape and iDividendStocks all have real screens on their case studies. Client trading systems are a different matter, and for those we will walk you through the architecture, the approach and the outcome on a call.

In detail

Read the full case studies.

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Case study
Multi-broker control dashboard

Design, backtest, deploy and monitor across several US brokers from one interface, with order slicing and distributed execution at roughly 50ms.

Case study
Portfolio automation at $500M

Consolidated position, exposure and performance reporting across brokers and venues, with automation integrated into existing systems.

How it runs

Four steps, fixed price before any build.

01 · WEEK 0
Scoping call

Free, with an engineer. If there is no defensible edge, or no viable product in it, we say so then.

02 · WEEKS 1–2
Written spec

Architecture, milestones and a fixed price, agreed before any build.

03 · BUILD
Paper, then live

Milestone demos against your own data. Nothing touches capital untested.

04 · ONGOING
Handover

A documented codebase your own developers can maintain. Retainer optional.

Before you reach out

Common questions.

Do we need to move custodian?

No. We integrate with whoever you already use, wherever they expose an API.

Is this a product or a build?

A build. Everything is specified around your holdings and constraints, and you own the code and IP on completion.

How confidential is this?

NDA on request before the first call. We do not keep a screenshot portfolio of client systems and we do not name clients without permission.

Next step

Tell us what you're working on.

A specialist reads every enquiry, not a sales team. Bring your rules, your current setup and your constraints, and we will tell you what we would build and roughly what it takes.

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