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Proprietary Trading

Built to hold a line.

DeepKeel is a private trading firm. We try to build strategies we can stay with when conditions turn.

Approach

A problem is the absence of an idea.

Markets look random until the right one arrives. We research those ideas, build them into systematic strategies, and hold them through the noise.

The Firm

We trade our own book.

Every position we hold is our own. Our capital, our consequences.

  • Capital
    Own funds
    exclusively
  • Outside investors
    None
  • Client assets
    None
  • Markets
    Listed US equities
    & ETFs
Method

Systematic, not discretionary.

Our decisions are made by systems we design, test and supervise — not by intuition in the moment. Rules come out of research, get encoded, and are then executed the same way in every session.

Every change is measured against years of market history it was never fitted to, before it is allowed anywhere near live capital. Most ideas do not survive that. That is what the test is for.

Candidate rules, discarded in testing Survives out-of-sample
Technology

We build the whole stack.

Research, simulation, execution, monitoring and risk control are built in-house. We run our own data pipeline, our own execution engine on institutional brokerage infrastructure, and our own supervision layer that watches the system while it trades.

Nothing we run is a black box to us. If we cannot account for why a position exists, it does not exist.

  1. DataMarket data, normalised and verified
  2. ResearchHypotheses tested against history
  3. SimulationOut-of-sample evaluation
  4. ExecutionAutomated order handling
  5. SupervisionReconciliation and hard stops
Position path Risk envelope — bounded before the session, never breached
Risk
A keel is not what makes a boat fast. It is what lets it carry sail.

Risk control is not something bolted onto our trading. It is the structure the trading is built on. Exposure is bounded and flat by default.

We would rather miss an opportunity than take one we cannot see clearly.

Contact

Get in touch.

We read every message.

contact@deepkeel.ca