Run your own systematic trading operation.

Robot Wealth is the research lab and shared infrastructure for independent quants: technical people who treat their trading as a serious business and run it themselves, in a few hours a week.

Most don’t arrive as quants. If you can run a spreadsheet and you’re willing to learn enough code to do some simple data analysis, you can do this.

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Kris Longmore

You can build the systems. Now find the edge.

I’m Kris Longmore. I came to trading as an engineer with no finance background. My first strategy turned $10k into $25k in four months… and it turned out to be pure luck.

After that, I spent years thinking that complexity was the answer and over-engineering everything: machine learning, elaborate backtesting machinery, parameters tortured until the equity curves looked beautiful. None of it made money.

Then a professional trader asked me a question I couldn’t answer:

“What’s your edge?”

Answering it took me on a journey from over-optimising beginner to equity partner in a proprietary trading firm, and eventually to my own operation, run from the south-west of Western Australia in a few hours a week.

The full story is in the free case study, along with the edges we’ve traded on the way.

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The backtest trap

Most technical traders are stuck in the same loop. Find an idea, backtest it, optimise until it looks brilliant, go live, watch it fall apart. Then do it again, with more sophistication each time.

The tools were never the problem. A backtest can only tell you how a rule would have performed; it can’t tell you why it should keep working. Real research starts with the mechanism: who’s on the other side of your trade, and why they’re willing to pay you.

Learning to think that way, edge first and tools second, is what Robot Wealth is here to help you with.

Useful things that suck

The durable edges for independent traders tend to look unattractive. They’re noisy, a bit awkward to trade, and too small for institutions to bother with: bearing risks others pay to avoid, getting in front of big predictable flows. That unattractiveness is exactly why they persist.

No single one of them will make you rich. Combined into a portfolio, they add up to a serious operation. The case study shows this thinking applied to the real edges we’ve traded over the years.

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Two things came out of all this

Trade Like a Quant

The course I wish existed when I started. Six modules that teach the edge-first approach, with four strategies you build yourself. Complete and standalone.

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RW Pro

The research lab and shared infrastructure I wish I’d had when I went out on my own. You run your own operation, choosing what to trade and how to size it. Pro provides the strategies, the research, the tools and a community of independent quants alongside you.

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What members say

Alex

“Well, hands down, I can say that Robot Wealth is the best trading community on the internet.”

Francesco

“As a physicist, I appreciate deep-diving investigations. RW’s approach is quite sophisticated but presented in a way that’s practical and actionable.”

Matt

“I’ve been running the stat arb code live since we came back from Easter… it has really opened my eyes to another way to trade. I could never have done this without your work.”

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