Traditional systematic trading
often asks:
“What strategy worked
best in the past?”
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
BALNOE is an experimental quantitative research and development platform focused on building automated trading systems that adapt to changing market conditions.
Research. Build. Test. Adapt.“What strategy worked
best in the past?”
“Which strategy is best suited
to the market we're in now?”
Directing research toward the configurations and hypotheses most likely to provide useful information.
Identifying meaningful differences in market behaviour rather than assuming markets are stationary.
Evaluating independent trading strategies and their evidence under current conditions.
Exploring machine-learning approaches for recognising relationships between market states and strategy performance.
Turning large-scale historical testing into a structured research process rather than relying solely on manual optimisation.
THE OBJECTIVE
A strategy can produce exceptional historical results and still be completely unsuitable for the market environment that follows.
BALNOE is being developed around the premise that strategy selection should itself be adaptive. The goal is not to discover one perfect trading strategy, but to develop a framework capable of determining when different strategies should — and should not — be trusted.
BUILT FOR FUTURES
BALNOE's initial research is focused on US futures markets, with development and testing conducted within NinjaTrader 8.
CURRENT STATUS
The platform is being built through iterative research, extensive historical testing and systematic out-of-sample validation.
No strategy is considered successful simply because it performs well in-sample. The objective is robustness.
INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING THE DEVELOPMENT?
Connect, collaborate or discuss the research.
✉ Contact +61 (0) 408 020 495 graham@balnoe.com