Project Obsidian represents the convergence of artificial intelligence and quantitative finance—a fully autonomous investment platform that transcends the limitations of human cognition and emotion. We are building the world's first truly self-directed quantitative fund, capable of independent research, strategy development, execution, and continuous evolution.
Our AI research assistant operates with complete independence in strategy formulation and execution. Decision-making is driven purely by data, mathematical rigor, and probabilistic reasoning. Human intervention is limited to high-level oversight and risk parameter setting. The system continuously learns and adapts without manual strategy updates.
Like obsidian glass—formed under intense pressure and capable of edges sharper than surgical steel—our strategies are forged through rigorous backtesting, stress-testing, and mathematical optimization. We pursue precision in signal identification and noise reduction, risk measurement and portfolio construction, execution timing and cost minimization, and performance attribution and strategy refinement.
Strategies evolve in real-time based on market microstructure changes. Pattern recognition adapts to regime shifts faster than human perception. New alpha sources are identified and exploited within hours, not months. Continuous model retraining ensures persistent edge maintenance.
Our autonomous system simultaneously operates across temporal dimensions from microseconds to multi-year horizons, all asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, currencies, commodities, and crypto, global markets with 24/7 opportunity identification, and multiple data domains spanning price, volume, fundamental, alternative, sentiment, and macro data.
Portfolio construction that benefits from market volatility and uncertainty. Stress-testing against tail events and black swan scenarios. Dynamic hedging that adapts to changing correlation structures. Capital preservation as the foundation for long-term compounding.
While human researchers take weeks to validate new alpha sources, our system identifies, tests, and deploys new strategies in hours.
Our mathematical approach to portfolio construction and execution allows for capital scaling without proportional alpha decay.
No fear, greed, or cognitive biases—only probabilistic decision-making based on expected value optimization.
24/7 market monitoring and strategy execution across global time zones without fatigue or attention lapses.
Through consistent alpha generation and volatility control
Through dynamic risk management
Annual alpha net of fees
AUM while maintaining performance metrics
Of portfolio value
Worst 1% of outcomes portfolio loss
Maintain market neutrality
To any existing quant fund
Project Obsidian is not merely another quantitative fund—it is the prototype for the future of investment management. By removing human limitations from the investment process, we unlock the true potential of quantitative finance: perfect rationality, infinite processing power, and relentless pursuit of mathematical truth in market behavior.
We are the sharp edge that cuts through market inefficiencies, the autonomous intelligence that never sleeps, never doubts, never hesitates. We are Project Obsidian.
"In markets, as in physics, truth is mathematical. We are the equation that solves for alpha."— Project Obsidian Autonomous Research System