Ting Capital — private trading research journal & lab · est. Jul 2, 2026

Growing capital,
the steady way.

A fully automated systematic desk compounding its own money — risk first, no heroics, every strategy tested in the open and the losers published beside the winners. It manages no outside money and offers no advice; the private edge stays offline. Red days included.

The live record is early and far too small to prove edge. It is published before it is mature, so the desk cannot rewrite the story later — in either direction.

what we do — in one screen
current standing

Ting Capital does not yet claim a proven live edge.

The live journal is early. The process is being published before the record is mature, so the desk cannot rewrite the story later. 52 live trades is not evidence of skill — it is the start of a record that will speak for itself, in either direction.

the whole firm, in one screen · what · how · the result

Ting Capital is a private research desk built to kill bad ideas before they reach the live book.

What we do

Systematic options trading.

A machine trades one fixed edge on U.S. options — the same rules every session. No forecasts, no hunches, no discretionary hand on the button.

How we do it

The gauntlet.

Thousands of strategies swept for candidates — and a sweep that size flatters some by luck alone. Survivors still face walk-forward testing, real fills, risk review, and human authorization before going live. Every number we publish is reconciled to internal broker records, losses included.

The record

Published early.delayed closed summaries · reconciled to internal broker records · not independently audited

The desk publishes delayed closed-trade summaries, the graveyard of failed ideas, and its doctrine — nothing is for sale. The live record is far too small to prove anything yet, and it says so plainly.

or read the whole ledger

Act I

It starts with two real trades.

entries 001–002 · first live session

The first live session,
summarized.

On July 2, 2026, the machine took its first two live trades. Full execution detail — contracts, strikes, timestamps, prices, order IDs — lives in the private Ledger. This is the public closed summary; the journal never carries live alerts or copyable logic.

INSTRUMENTU.S. listed optionsclosed
STRATEGY FAMILYmomentum breakoutrule followed · yes
LIVE TRADES2 · both closed positivesample too small
NET P&Lreconciled to broker record+5.85%

Broker records: +6.00%. Our own books log +5.85% — where accounting differs, we round against ourselves. "Reconciled" means matched to internal broker records reviewed by the desk — not independently audited.

Act II

How the machine works.

entries 002–005 · one dollar, drawn through the machine
01 · Signal

A rolling band and the opening range watch three symbols. Entries stay deliberately simple — every clever filter we tested made them worse.

02 · Execute

Real quotes choose the contract. A spread gate refuses any price more than 12% wide; the machine would rather skip than overpay.

03 · Verify

Every fill is reconciled to internal broker records by the desk — not independently audited. Exits faster than ten seconds trip alarms the same day.

04 · Allocate

Green days route 20% into income assets and 27% into taxes, automatically. Unconverted profit is just inventory.

Act III

The numbers, as they stand.

running totals · from the ledger, updated at deploy

The numbers, as they stand.

Live return, reconciled
-99.26%
Live trades
52 (30 wins)
Days since founding
47
Green days, all books
2/8

Roughly half our trades lose by design — small, capped, fast. We publish the win rate a marketing team would hide, because the days are what pay. All figures are reconciled to internal broker records reviewed by the desk; none are independently audited.

Act IV

The rules that shut it down.

standing orders · the funeral instructions

We wrote the rules
that shut us down.

Most funds publish their wins. These are the exact numbers that force this firm back to paper trading — set in advance, on a green day, so no losing streak gets to renegotiate them.

Live drawdown from peak reaches−73%
Worst live drawdown actually reached−99.4% — the line above was breached, and this firm is on paper because of it
Any rolling three weeks net negative< 0%
Win rate over the last sixty trades below30%
Any exit faster than ten secondssame-day halt
the record, plainly · for readers, not scrollers

Everything above, on one page.

The story is done — here is the same record laid flat, plus the doors to the rest of the firm.

Entry 001 · closed summary

instrumentU.S. listed options
strategy familymomentum breakout
live trades · rule followed52 · no on 3 manual session(s)
net return, reconciled-99.26%

The machine, in four moves

01 signala rules-based trigger, same every session
02 executereal quotes, with a spread gate
03 verifyevery fill vs the broker record
04 allocatea portion to income · taxes reserved

The record, as it stands

net return, reconciled-99.26%
live trades52 · 30 wins
live trading days8 (47 days since founding)
independent auditno

Standing orders

drawdown from peak−73% halts us — worst reached −99.4%
three red weekshalts us
win rate < 30% / 60 tradeshalts us
any exit < 10 secondssame-day halt