Hey guys,
So switched to a different hosting services, fixed some bugs (not all of them) and DNS configured the domain. Result? Quant (h)Edge is live. Check it out here!
PS: You can’t make an account and log in yet. Haven’t configured my email service.
Now I can focus all my attention on deploying the models and backtests I have on deck. This is going to be fun (and profitable)!
I am still short the funds I need to pay for data APIs and the hosting (I’m using Railway’s 30-day free trial). I sent out an email asking 8 of you to subscribe to the substack for $25 annually forever so I could raise the funds. One of you did and I’m super grateful. If you’ve been reading Quant (h)Edge and like what this is all about, or just want to help me with this, here’s that discount link again. It expires tomorrow.
You will get full access to the substack and the website. The prices on the website will be higher so take advantage.
Right now I’m not trading. I recently had a MavenTrading 5k instant account which I got for three reasons. The first is I simply love trading. It’s my number one favourite thing to do in the world. But I like to do it correctly, and when I don’t have capital, I miserably do other things with myself, bidding my time until I do. Secondly, since I was writing my market thoughts on discord, I felt it would be wrong to spout things I’m not wearing myself. Thirdly, I wanted to raise the money I needed for the data APIs and hosting.
I got close. I wrote about the whole experience on X (read it here). I got my account up to $5108, and was $42 shy of qualifying for payouts. But a silly mistake cost me the account. On Fed night, after the presser, I got short dollaryen and after assessing the rate-differential narrative (ECB had to hike, Fed wanted to dovish-hold), I got long EURUSD.
But metatrader keeps a memory of the last size you used on a trade. In the morning, I scanned the charts to see RSI bullish divergence on Gold.
RSI divergence is one of my favourite entry signals. Right now Sugar is posing some serious RSI divergence and I would love to short it. But I also know that supply-constrained commodities are virtually the only thing rallying in this market so I’m hesitant.
Anyway, metatrader kept the 0.05 size from my EURUSD long and I blew the account in 10 pips because I violated the rule that you can’t lose more than 1% on a trade. It sucked. Really hard. But it was also the first time I was trading a prop account and I had a learning curve.
Anyway, since then I’ve been coding Quant (h)Edge, and my own portfolio website (which is pretty nice if you ask me). Btw if you need to hire a quant or data scientist you can just do it on my website. I’ve made the hiring experience awesome, even included NDAs and contracts and anonymity and whatsapp updates and many other stuff. You can also check out my art and my current fav music there.
A good friend of mine and Quant (h)Edge subscriber told me about the good things going on in FTMO and I set up a trial account for a 100k account. I have a few weaknesses to iron out before I get back to trading real money.
I don’t totally suck tho. Here’s an oil trade ideaI posted on the discord the night before I blew my prop account(two trade ideas actually).
And today, I posted this.
Of course Bitcoin and co proved me ‘wrong’ immediately. I add quotes on wrong because my post clearly says to have it on the radar, and this is a good example of why I said that. You want the market to confirm your idea, give you a good setup, then you take the shot. That’s what I’m waiting for.
I did post a live trade tho. Long gold.
Then I went on twitter and found I wasn’t the only one thinking this way.
Great minds think alike, as they say.
I’m sharing this coz I want more of you to join and be active in the discord. Especially those who like myself are looking to develop their skills and grow their accounts. It gets lonely in there, me talking to myself. But like I said, trading is the thing I love most and if there was not a single person there, I’d still keep posting because it is a form of keeping myself accountable even to myself. The discord is free.
Which brings me to Quant (h)Edge’s raison d’etre. Quant (h)Edge is for traders. It’s supposed to give you Quantitative Edge or help you Quantitatively Hedge; to give you insights you can’t get anywhere else. I made it for myself first of all. I am super curious, especially about markets, and I love numbers and coding. But at heart I am a trader. What coding and number skills give me is a different set of eyes. Eyes that can find something in the data other’s can’t. Then I use my trading skills to make use of the insights. But you have to remember that I have a B.Sc in Financial Engineering, I’m soon getting my CFA 1 and FRM certs (not that I need them, I already know all that stuff, but need the papers to buttress my backwater University degree). I equipped myself with all the I’d skills to find edge quantitatively. From linear algebra to Stochastic Calculus. And I never cared about exams, I knew I was doing all to help me make money in the markets. Thanks to Claude Code, Codex, and Perplexity’s computer, anyone can now make a dashboard and put all the quanty stuff they want on it (and showboat it on X), but that’s not what Quant (h)Edge is. Quant (h)Edge is me learning LLMs from scratch so I can build you guys the perfect AI assistant for your trading and for getting insights from Quant (h)Edge. So consider joining now while the price is low.
PSS: For what could be the last time, I will let anyone who wants to subscribe at a price of their choosing. Click here and I will handle the backend stuff.
See you guys on Sunday with the Weekly (h)Edge. Have a good weekend. Lift something heavy, cook something nice and kiss someone you love.
Lago Brian,
Founder and Analyst, Quant (h)Edge