Twelve Entry Filters, Zero Survivors
Two live strategies, two bad days, and a 48-hour campaign to teach them to skip their losing trades. Every filter cost money — and the effect-size table explains why: at entry, future winners and losers are statistically identical. A Bayesian reading, and a Deflated Sharpe verdict on the strategy itself.
Read the research → Market Microstructure · Original ResearchHow Much Money Fits Inside a Depeg? A Census of 1,136 Stablecoin Dislocations
Nobody had published a systematic measurement of capacity during stablecoin dislocations. Two years of tick data, a reproducible event definition, a per-event capacity distribution spanning three orders of magnitude — and the finding that 99% of the money flows through the slow events, not the millisecond wicks.
Read the research → Statistics · Live Track RecordThe Track Record That Couldn’t Lose
Bootstrap resampling produced ten thousand simulated years without a single loss — and that certainty is the finding. Sharpe t-tests, the Deflated Sharpe Ratio, and the date on which the record actually graduates.
Read the analysis → Position Sizing · MethodologyThe Kelly Criterion Said Bet 3,000x. The Interesting Part Is Why It's Wrong.
Log-growth sizing applied to a live trading book: why the naive answer is a data-completeness alarm, why the formula's decisive input is unobservable, and the three situations where Kelly earns its seat back.
Read the analysis → Model Validation · Case StudyWhy "Backtest Says It Works" Isn't Enough — An Independent Model Review Case Study
How a plausible-looking trading rule was pressure-tested: selection bias, regime decomposition, out-of-sample splits, PBO overfitting checks, and measuring real fill slippage instead of assuming it.
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