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I'm a hacker at heart, not a trader. I built my entire career around technology, and when I first tried to approach the markets, I did it the same unstructured way I approach my cybersecurity research.

After all, in its simplest form, trading is finding market inefficiencies and mispriced assets, then taking advantage of them — just like hacking is finding flaws in how software is implemented. The two resonated with me immediately.

I soon learned it's possible to find opportunities in the markets, but doing it consistently and profitably over time is much harder. The most reliable way, I realized, was to build a systematic approach — a trading system based on statistics rather than sentiment. In other words: a quantitative approach.

After looking at many instruments, I got hooked on options for plenty of reasons, but most importantly because they let you trade in any market condition and have a tunable risk profile. I read through a lot of books, and found The Unlucky Investor's Guide to Options Trading by Julia Spina to be the ideal quantitative framework to build the software around — thanks to its focus on risk management, allocation, position sizing, and diversification.

Despite that, I decided not to let my inner hacker stay quiet, so I built an exploration framework on top of it — to let users research their own edge with ease.

This is how ctrl-trade was born! I know, the name is a bit too geeky, but what do you expect from a developer? Plus, look down at your keyboard — the ctrl key is right next to the option key... how can it be just a coincidence? :)