Letters & Notes
Archive
Everything I write about running a live systematic portfolio: position sizing, risk allocation, drawdown management, and the decisions behind the numbers.
L015
30 Jul
How Much Capital Do You Actually Need?
Letter
L014
27 Jul
The Systematic Execution Stack
Letter
L013
23 Jul
Strategy Decay: Is it Dead?
Letter
L012
20 Jul
Risk of Ruin
Letter
032
17 Jul
Drawdown or Death?
Frameworks
L011
16 Jul
Raising Capital
Letter
031
15 Jul
Size the Distribution
Frameworks
030
14 Jul
Smart Money, Dumb Money
Process
L010
13 Jul
Try to Kill It
Letter
029
7 Jul
Automated Build Loop
Process
L009
6 Jul
Correlation Isn't Enough
Letter
028
3 Jul
Stop Blaming Market Makers
Process
L008
2 Jul
Don't Trade For A Living
Letter
027
1 Jul
The Final Check
Process
026
30 Jun
Saying No To Money
Process
L007
29 Jun
Claude Isn't Your Quant
Letter
025
26 Jun
Fixed Risk Isn't Fixed
Process
L006
25 Jun
It's Overfit
Letter
024
24 Jun
The Lucky Sharpe
Frameworks
023
23 Jun
Win Rate vs Expectancy
Frameworks
L005
22 Jun
How To Get Started With Systematic Trading
Letter
022
19 Jun
I Lost Everything
Process
L004
18 Jun
Everyone Sees You Bleed
Letter
021
17 Jun
Trade For A Living
Process
020
16 Jun
News Isn't The Problem
Frameworks
L003
15 Jun
The Cost of Discretion
Letter
019
15 Jun
Testing Never Stops
Process
018
12 Jun
The Product Is You
Process
017
11 Jun
Don't Mix The Books
Process
L002
11 Jun
The Second Layer
Letter
016
10 Jun
Too Much Risk
Process
015
9 Jun
Inactivity Pays
Building
L001
8 Jun
Welcome to "The Letter"
Letter
014
8 Jun
The Shared Brain
Building
013
6 Jun
Drag. Drop. Overfit.
Building
012
5 Jun
The Regime Filter Trap
Building
011
4 Jun
How Investors Actually Find You
Building
010
3 Jun
Why I Stopped Trading
Process
009
2 Jun
Quit Your Job to Trade? Don't.
Process
008
1 Jun
Time under water: the metric your backtest ignores
Process
007
29 May
Where AI actually helps in systematic portfolio work
Building
006
28 May
Is your Sharpe lying? What Sortino tells you that Sharpe hides
Frameworks
005
27 May
The correlation trap: why your portfolios aren't as diversified as you think
Building
004
26 May
The maths of ruin: position sizing from first principles
Process
003
25 May
Correlation: the silent killer in your portfolio mix
Building
002
22 May
Don't trust your backtest
Frameworks
001
21 May
Your trading portfolio will fail. Here is how to plan for it.
Process