Systematic 0DTE Options Trading
Defined-risk options strategies on SPX and index products, driven by dealer positioning and regime. These systems carry strong Calmar and Sortino ratios across forward testing and live management.
Algorithmic Trading · Real-Time Financial-AI Systems
Real-Time Market-Structure Intelligence
Real-time 0DTE SPX options-microstructure infrastructure, with a self-hosted AI layer that reasons over live market structure. Built and operated for research purposes only. Nothing here is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation.
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Some methodologies
Focus areas
Real-Time Market Microstructure
Tick-level ingestion and per-minute aggregation of gamma / delta / vega exposure, charm, skew, max-pain and net-premium drift across the full 0DTE SPX chain, VIX and 250+ concurrent instruments.
Applied AI for Trading
Local LLM agents that learn the way I trade — from my notes, daily write-ups and past sessions — through a pgvector memory layer, pre-warmed with dense structural summaries instead of raw ticks.
Quantitative Research & Backtesting
A strategy registry with walk-forward validation and prop-firm drawdown/survival modeling, with reproducible result caching for honest, comparable evaluation.
What I'm currently building
Self-hosted inference for real-time trading
Today I rotate one-shot calls across commercial APIs — Claude (the most capable), plus Gemini, Mistral and others — feeding each a tightly compressed market summary, because tick-level data won't fit and the plan caps run out mid-week. Moving to a self-hosted model removes the cap and lets me benchmark what actually matters for trading:
Latency
Time-to-first-token and generation latency low enough to fit inside scalping execution windows.
Requests per minute
Sustained, minute-by-minute context injection through the session without thermal or VRAM bottlenecks.
Data throughput
Rapidly experimenting to learn which real-time signals carry edge — and which are noise — across high volumes of structured market data.
Execution integration
Decision speed fast enough for the model to react inside scalping windows — quicker than manual execution of the same methodology.
The longer-term goal is a refined local model with durable long-term memory — warmed from summary profiles and continuously taught my methodology — running at high throughput on dedicated hardware.
Selected work
Systems I've built
SIGNUM-ONE Options Intelligence
A real-time SPX options analytics and automated-reporting platform: per-minute dealer-exposure snapshots, filtered net-premium drift, regime detection, and gated end-of-day / pre-open / intraday report generation — surfaced through a React charting portal, with verification gates on every published figure.
Local AI Agent Stack
Multi-agent orchestration over a knowledge base of thousands of embedded research chunks with structured tool use. It learns from my daily write-ups and past sessions via pgvector — and is being moved off API caps onto self-hosted hardware at near-zero marginal cost per token.
Research & Backtest Engine
Backtesting, a strategy registry and signal research (dealer-positioning, regime and ML families) with prop-firm survival simulation and reproducible, cached result sets for comparable evaluation.
PKI, WebTrust & Cryptography
Earlier career · 2001–2015
Two generations of WebTrust-certified public-key infrastructure — multi-layer CAs, registration authorities, LDAP, and OCSP — deployed to government, banking, and industrial clients across 30+ countries. HSM-integrated custom cryptography, smart-card platforms, and a granted patent for digital authentication of valuable goods. Secure data centres built to WebTrust and DoD Level 5 specifications; annual WebTrust audit programmes; EU EEMA PKI interoperability standards work.
Digital identity, social networks & blockchain
Earlier career · 2001–2015
Secure credential and password-management platforms across web, desktop, and mobile — X.509 digital IDs, encrypted local stores, and biometric integration. Consumer social-network systems for major sports franchises with Facebook/Twitter APIs, content management, and fan push alerts. Smart-card authentication architectures; commercial certificate and subscription transaction portals. Cryptocurrency and blockchain identity infrastructure for digital-asset provenance and secure transactions.
Daily intelligence
End-of-day reports
Every session my stack generates an end-of-day market report — dealer-positioning, regime, flow and the levels that matter — fronted by $RAVOLM, a regime-aware animated volume visualisation. A few recent ones:
2026-11-11 · Wednesday
GAPPED UP TO 7,586.65, MADE THE 7,571.88 LOW AT 09:47, RAN TO THE 7,647.20 HIGH AT 13:46, AND CLOSED 7,619.38 (+1.31%), 27.8PT UNDER THE HIGH
SPX +1.31% | open 7,586.65; high 7,647.20 (13:46); low 7,571.88 (09:47); close 7,619.38 | VIX -10.1% to 17.50
2026-11-10 · Tuesday
GAPPED DOWN TO 7,513.09, MADE THE 7,470.43 LOW AT 12:41, AND CLOSED 7,520.93 (-0.38%), 23.0PT UNDER THE 7,543.92 HIGH
SPX -0.38% | open 7,513.09; high 7,543.92 (10:08); low 7,470.43 (12:41); close 7,520.93 | VIX -2.3% to 19.46
2026-11-09 · Monday
OPENED 7,422.24 AT THE LOW, MADE THE 7,577.39 HIGH AT 15:15, AND CLOSED 7,549.94 (+2.35%), 27.45PT UNDER THE HIGH
SPX +2.35% | open 7,422.24 (low); high 7,577.39 (15:15); close 7,549.94
2026-11-06 · Friday
OPENED 7,377.65, MADE THE 7,444.20 HIGH AT 09:54 AND THE 7,369.55 LOW IN THE FIRST MINUTE, AND CLOSED 7,376.86 (+0.31%), 7.31PT OVER THE LOW
SPX +0.31% | open 7,377.65 (high 7,444.20); low 7,369.55; close 7,376.86
2026-11-05 · Thursday
OPENED 7,678.72, MADE THE 7,681.29 HIGH IN THE FIRST MINUTE, AND CLOSED 7,353.73 (-4.36%), 3.38PT OVER THE 7,350.35 LOW
SPX -4.36% | open 7,678.72 (high 7,681.29); low 7,350.35; close 7,353.73
2026-11-04 · Wednesday
OPENED 7,635.81, 66.89PT OVER THE PRIOR CLOSE, WHICH WAS ALSO THE LOW, MADE THE 7,715.57 HIGH AT 13:07, AND CLOSED 7,688.62 (+1.58%), 26.95PT UNDER THE HIGH
SPX +1.58% | open 7,635.81 (low); high 7,715.57 (13:07); close 7,688.62
2026-11-03 · Tuesday
OPENED 7,552.92, 11.52PT OVER THE PRIOR CLOSE, MADE THE 7,545.39 LOW AT 09:30 AND THE 7,594.61 HIGH AT 13:34, AND CLOSED 7,568.92 (+0.36%), 25.69PT UNDER THE HIGH
SPX +0.36% | open 7,552.92; high 7,594.61 (13:34); low 7,545.39 (09:30); close 7,568.92
$RAVOLM (Regime-Aware Animated VOLM) — research/visualisation, not financial advice.
Curriculum vitae
Profile
CISO and CTO background with 20+ years in regulated financial services and digital security — alongside full-stack systems development at the intersection of quantitative trading and applied AI. Designs, builds and operates systems such as real-time 0DTE SPX options analytics, dealer-exposure and regime engines, and a multi-agent AI / reporting layer with pgvector memory. These trading systems carry strong Calmar and Sortino ratios across forward testing and live management — with work now underway toward self-hosted LLM inference to apply local models to trading methodology at high throughput.
Core competencies
- Systematic options trading — defined-risk SPX / 0DTE strategies; risk-adjusted performance (Calmar, Sortino) across forward testing and live management
- Real-time market-data engineering — DXLink / WebSocket ingestion, TimescaleDB hypertables, Redis Streams event bus, Dockerised microservices on Linux with systemd
- Options analytics — GEX / DEX / VEX, charm, dealer positioning, max-pain, skew & term structure
- Quantitative research & ML — Backtrader walk-forward validation, prop-firm survival modeling, scikit-learn / XGBoost signal work; Parquet-derived cache layers for bulk pandas replay (Postgres as source of truth, columnar extracts where SQL would be the wrong tool)
- Live trading integration — broker and execution APIs across Tastytrade, Schwab (thinkorswim), MooMoo (Futu OpenD API), and cTrader (prop-firm FIX / Open API + Protobuf); DXLink market-data feeds
- Full-stack web engineering — FastAPI backends, React + Vite + Tailwind front ends, Plotly interactive charting and research portals
- Applied AI & agent systems — multi-agent orchestration, RAG over pgvector and Neo4j, tiered LLM dispatch with rate-limit metering, structured tool use, self-hosted inference (vLLM / Ollama)