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Deep Dive into an Emotionless Options Trading C++ System: Architecture, Strategy, and Simulation
This article provides an in-depth exploration of a comprehensive, command-line-based a Emotionless Options Trading System written in modern C++ (C++20)
Bryan Downing
Jul 3112 min read


Why Your Trading Track Record is the Only Lifeline in an Quant AI-Trading World
For aspiring and established professionals in banking, AI quant trading, and quantitative finance, the message is stark and unforgiving: adapt or be rendered irrelevant
Bryan Downing
Jul 2411 min read


Modern Trader's Guide to Navigating the AI Revolution Using an Automated Broker The Trader's Crossroads: A Familiar Story
A dedicated day and swing trader, armed with automated broker platforms like Interactive Brokers and NinjaTrader, finds themselves at a critical juncture.
Bryan Downing
Jul 2311 min read


The Ultimate AI-Powered Futures & Best Options Trading Platform for Micro, Mini & Full-Sized Contracts
In the relentless arena of financial markets, the modern trader is besieged by a deluge of data, a cacophony of signals, and the...
Bryan Downing
Jul 239 min read


AI Gauntlet: My 48-Hour Battle to Forge a Real-World Trading Tool and the New Rules of Quant Trading Firms
This is not a story of seamless success for quant trading firms; it's a dispatch from the digital trenches, a chronicle of a grueling two-day battle against degrading model quality, logical drift, and the frustrating opacity of the very tools we’ve come to rely on.
Bryan Downing
Jul 1810 min read


Quant Career Endgame: Navigating Finance After 50 and Why Portfolio Management is the Ultimate Goal
In the glittering, hyper-competitive constellation of modern finance, the quant career analyst, or "quant," is a star of a peculiar brightness.
Bryan Downing
Jul 1616 min read


AI Trading Bot on Windows: Live Demo with Python, Streamlit & Interactive Brokers
The dream of a personal, automated trading system—an AI trading bot-powered alchemist that turns market data into gold—is no longer the exclusive domain of hedge funds and quantitative powerhouses.
Bryan Downing
Jul 1214 min read


Comprehensive Description of the IBKR API Trading Scripts README File
algorithmic trading and automated systems dominate the landscape, a simple yet powerful README file can serve as the gateway to efficient IBKR API stock and ETF trading.
Bryan Downing
Jul 118 min read


Top Quantitative Trading Firms Reveal Their Edge: Inside the HFT Strategies Powering Wall Street's Billions
The rise of quantitative approaches to trading has created a clear divide between retail traders relying on intuition and institutional players leveraging sophisticated mathematical models and quantative trading firms and high-frequency trading (HFT) systems.
Bryan Downing
Jun 178 min read


Forget Research: The New Path to a $2.5M Quant Jobs is Coding
Supporting them are quant jobs of developers, the elite programmers tasked with translating these theoretical models into robust, high-performance code.
Bryan Downing
Jun 1610 min read


Mastering Market Dynamics: Strategic Blueprint for Futures and Options Trading
We will dissect the key metrics that signal opportunity, select prime candidates for our trading focus, and lay out detailed strategic plans for each.
Bryan Downing
Jun 129 min read


How to calculate profit and loss for options contracts
Let’s show how to calculate profit and loss for options contractsThis is where algorithmic analysis provides substantial value, enabling traders to systematically scan the vast options landscape to uncover the most advantageous opportunities.
Bryan Downing
Jun 1110 min read


Navigating Economic Forecasts and Market Realities: From Replicating Inflation Models to Weekly Trading Signals
Navigating Economic Forecasts and Market Realities: From Replicating Inflation Models to Weekly Trading Signals
Bryan Downing
May 319 min read


Can We Finally Use ChatGPT for Trading as a Quantitative Analyst?
Now, as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT trading demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capabilities, a pressing question emerges: can these AI systems effectively serve as quantitative analysts for trading?
Bryan Downing
May 3011 min read


Overview of the Project: Nonlinear Correlation Analysis
I’m thrilled to share with you an intriguing quantitative finance project that I’ve been working on. This particular project is coded in Python, and while I’ll be rolling out more advanced projects and demos in C++ as we dive deeper into advanced AI with tools like Anthropic, today’s focus is a simpler yet insightful example of pure quant finance. So, let’s check it out!
Bryan Downing
May 309 min read


Oscillators to AI-Orchestrated Markets: Developer's Journey Through Quant C Coding Experiment
An in-depth exploration of experimental quant C and C++ projects, from implementing Ehlers' Cybernetic Oscillator and probing option theory to simulating mean-reverting processes and LPI volatility.
Bryan Downing
May 2312 min read


Trading "Gurus" Exposed? Trader Track Record ONLY Way to Prove Real Skill
The Market's Verdict: Bryan Downing on Trading Track Record Credibility and the End of Unverified Gurus
Bryan Downing
May 2310 min read


Quant Developer Books AI, and the Enduring Value of Mastery
The world of quantitative finance and algorithmic trading or quant developer is in a perpetual state of evolution.
Bryan Downing
May 2210 min read


Fractional Regime-Switching Models in Option Volatility and Pricing
The evolution of financial markets has necessitated increasingly sophisticated mathematical models to capture complex market dynamics. Traditional option volatility and pricing models, such as the Black-Scholes model, while foundational, often fail to account for the intricate behavior observed in real-world markets.
Bryan Downing
May 218 min read


Exploring Financial Insights: Market Deep Analysis vs. Programming Quantitative Techniques – What Are You Primarily Interested In?
The question is simple yet profound: Are you primarily interested in market deep analysis reports on all asset classes, or in the programming code behind these reports using quantitative techniques?
Bryan Downing
May 208 min read
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