2025 Plan
Business
Initial Trading Profit
- Deploy arbitrage, market making ML strategies with break-even or better performance
- Track execution costs and latency impact on P&L
- Measure strategy behavior in different market conditions
- Establish baseline performance metrics
Strategy Iteration
- Achieve $1-5K monthly profit through strategy and model iterations
- Reduce execution costs by 20%
- Validate ML prediction impact on P&L
- Scale successful strategies with more capital
Customer & Investor
- Engage with 5 potential customers
- Engage with 10 potential investors
- Establish a single customer or investor relationships
Tech
Trading System Stability
- Zero incidents from state inconsistency
- Risk limit enforcement validation
- Complete trade lifecycle monitoring
- Sub-5-minute recovery time
- Achieve first profitable ML strategy with at least break-even performance
- Deploy production-ready ML model versioning and real-time prediction monitoring system
- Validate ML prediction impact on trading P&L with measurable correlation
- Build collaborative ML development infrastructure supporting multiple researchers
Team Development
Roles
- Hire a full-time quantitative researcher
- Hire a full-time trading engine engineer
- Mentor frontend contractor to improve productivity
Culture & Collaboration
- Clear performance metrics for team deliverables
- IP protection while enabling collaboration
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning