Research

White papers, from the desk

Practitioner papers drawn from systems actually built and markets actually traded. Downloading a paper takes a short registration — tell us who you are and what interests you.

White paper · Risk systems

Real-Time Portfolio Risk: How to build an engine that measures exposure as the market moves

The architecture of a production portfolio risk engine: risk as a cached view, continuous futures, spread explosion, six options models, regime-aware covariance, volatility floors, stress testing, limit governance — and how to sit the whole thing on top of a legacy ETRM/CTRM.

12 pages · October 2026 · English

White paper · Energy markets

Reading the Energy Curve: calendar spreads, seasonality, and crack spreads

The daily analytics behind the Morning Brief: term-structure dynamics across crude, natural gas, and refined products, near-minus-far calendar spreads, seasonal patterns, and refining crack spreads.

11 pages · October 2026 · English & Spanish

In preparation

Honest Quant: a stat-arb framework that publishes its failures

Cointegration testing, z-score signals, and regime filters — including the pairs that failed. A framework for statistical arbitrage with negative results reported, not buried.

White paper · Trading operations

The Agentic Trading Operation: AI agents from deal capture to settlement

How AI agents can automate deal entry, lifecycle scheduling, confirmations, invoicing, and settlement — with risk management and human-in-the-loop governance built in from the start.

13 pages · October 2026 · English & Spanish