Quantitative Investment · Systematic Trading

Alpha, engineered
from first principles.

Aquanta Capital is a research-driven quantitative investment firm. We build our own backtesting engine, data infrastructure, and investment-research operating system — from the metal up, with no third-party black boxes.

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EVENT-DRIVEN
Nanosecond-resolution backtester
PB-SCALE
Tick-level market data pipeline
BACKTEST = LIVE
Identical code, sim to production
100% IN-HOUSE
No third-party dependencies
01 — Backtesting Engine

A backtester built
for realism.

Our event-driven engine replays the market tick by tick. The same strategy code that runs a historical simulation runs in production — no rewrite, no divergence between research and reality.

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/01
Nanosecond event clock
Deterministic ordering of every order, fill, and quote.
/02
Realistic market simulation
Latency, slippage, queue position and partial fills modelled.
/03
Multi-venue, multi-asset
Equities, futures, options and crypto under one engine.
strategy/momentum.py
# same code — backtest & live
class CrossSectionalMomentum(Strategy):
    def on_bar(self, bar):
        sig = self.alpha.update(bar)
        tgt = self.risk.size(sig)
        for inst, w in tgt.items():
            self.order_to_weight(inst, w)

# >>> engine.run(venue=SIM) → same as LIVE
μs
event resolution
10+
venues wired
1:1
sim ↔ live parity
02 — Data Processing

Market data, refined into signal.

Raw ticks from every venue flow through a single normalized pipeline — cleaned, aligned, versioned and served to research and production with the same guarantees.

Ingest
Real-time & historical feeds, every venue
Normalize
Clean, dedupe, corporate-action adjust
Store
Versioned, columnar, point-in-time
Serve
One API for research & live
PB+
Tick, quote & order-book history under management
ms
End-to-end latency from feed to strategy
24/7
Continuous validation & anomaly detection
03 — Investment-Research Operating System

One integrated operating system.

Five subsystems, built and owned end-to-end, running on a shared infrastructure layer.

S1
Strategy & Backtesting
S2
Capital & Strategy Allocation
S3
Index Analysis & Risk Control
S4
Operations & Performance
S5
Data Analytics Subsystems
INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM
Integrated & fully self-developed — no reliance on any third-party software.
04 — Methodology

Research is a
closed loop.

Every idea travels the same disciplined path — from hypothesis to capital, and back into the data as new evidence.

01
Hypothesis
Economic intuition and market structure become a testable statement.
02
Signal research
Feature engineering and validation on point-in-time data, no look-ahead.
03
Portfolio construction
Risk-aware sizing, cost modelling and capacity analysis.
04
Live monitoring
Realised vs. expected performance feeds the next hypothesis.
05 — AI Fundamental Research

Mapping the entire
AI value chain.

From applications down to models, infrastructure, chips, energy and raw materials — an interactive, infinitely zoomable atlas connecting every layer to the public companies that build it. Our bottom-up view of where AI value accrues.

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9
value-chain layers
90+
sub-sectors mapped
300+
companies tracked
0%
Proprietary technology stack
0
Integrated operating subsystems
PB+
Market data under management
24/7
Systematic monitoring
06 — The Firm

Engineers and researchers, in one room.

Aquanta Capital brings together portfolio researchers, software engineers and data specialists under a single roof. We believe durable edge comes from owning the full stack — from raw ticks to executed orders — and from treating investment as an engineering discipline.

Our teams operate with scientific rigor, reproducibility and a bias toward building rather than buying.

RESEARCH
Alpha, risk & portfolio construction
ENGINEERING
Backtester, execution & platform
DATA
Pipelines, quality & infrastructure
OPERATIONS
Risk, compliance & performance
07 — Get in touch

Building the future of
systematic investing.

For allocators, partners, brokers and exchanges — and for engineers and researchers who want to build with us.

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