Risk

Risk is the strategy.

Risk is modeled before return. Drawdown budgets, exposure envelopes, and correlation limits define the framework for strategy research and review.

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Philosophy

The question is never "how much could we make" but "how much could we lose."

Risk is modeled before return. Drawdown budgets, exposure envelopes, and correlation limits define the available surface on which strategies operate. A signal should be ignored if its expression would breach the firm's risk envelope.

This is not a risk overlay bolted onto strategies after the fact. It is the first layer of the stack.

Sizing framework

Volatility aware.

01

Realized volatility

Position sizing should adapt to realized volatility and liquidity conditions per instrument.

02

Correlation aware

The sizing framework should account for inter-strategy correlation and reduce concentration when cross-dependence rises.

03

Drawdown budgeted

Each strategy should operate inside a formal drawdown budget with review triggers and escalation rules.

Exposure controls

Bounded on every axis.

Exposure is constrained per strategy, per asset class, per instrument, and at the firm level. The envelopes are designed to be enforced before execution. Orders that would breach a defined envelope should be rejected pre-trade.

Gross exposure
Prevent concentration · Pre-trade
Net exposure
Manage directional risk · Pre-trade
Instrument risk
Limit single-name impact · Pre-trade
Session risk
Constrain overnight exposure · Policy-driven
Volatility review
Maintain risk envelope · Continuous

Operational controls

Resilience is a process.

01

Separation of duties

Research, execution, and risk operate with distinct authorization scopes and independent review.

02

Change management

Every material system change should be versioned, tagged, reviewed, and rollback-ready.

03

Daily reconciliation

Positions, cash, and margin should be reconciled independently against source records.

04

Business continuity

Redundant connectivity, failover execution, and documented continuity planning.

05

Incident response

Formal incident protocol with tiered escalation and post-mortem discipline.

06

Audit lineage

Every fill should be traceable from signal to parent order to child execution to record.

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