Ikaay Capital is a small team building a quantitative signal platform we use ourselves.
Most of what's sold to retail traders is one of two things. The newsletter end is mostly survivorship bias and good copywriting. The algo end is mostly sand-castle backtests dressed in Python.
We didn't want either. We wanted a platform we could use ourselves — that we could leave running while we slept, that didn't make us check it on Saturdays, that produced fewer trades than a human, and that was honest about the trades it produced.
The platform is the platform we use. The signals you see are the signals we look at on our own books. The realized scoreboard is the scoreboard.
Five things, in no particular order.
Most edge is not real. Most of what looks like edge is overfitting, hindsight, or selective publication. Real edge tends to be a thin margin over a benchmark, sustained across regimes, and visible in a realized track that includes losses.
We believe in the discipline that lets you keep edge alive — walk-forward testing, FDR correction, fail-safe gates, slow-moving model weights. The discipline is the work; the alpha is what's left.
We would rather publish ten signals a week that survive ten checks than fifty signals a day that survive none. The Grade A gate is a choke point on purpose. A subscriber who waits an extra day for a Grade A is in a better seat than one who got three Grade Cs the day before.
The platform is signal-only. We do not place orders for you. We do not pretend to know your circumstances.
You read the signal, you decide if it fits your portfolio, you size it, you place it. The platform does what software is good at — finding patterns at scale, applying gates consistently, learning from feedback. You do what humans are good at — applying judgement that depends on knowing yourself.
A scoreboard you can read in five minutes is more credible than a hero-page Sharpe ratio. We publish wins and losses both. If we ever stop, the scoreboard will tell on us.
We are a publisher of financial information. We are not your adviser. The legal status matters, but more than that, it matches what we actually do — we publish ideas; you trade them.
A platform that pretends to give personalized advice ends up either tailored (which makes it regulated and slow) or wrong (because it doesn't know your actual circumstances). We picked the third option: be honest that we don't know you.
Ikaay Capital was founded by a small group of practitioners with backgrounds across systematic equities, futures, and FX. The founders trade their own books on the platform. We are based in Singapore.
When the team is large enough to be worth a roster, this page will list it.
Ikaay Capital Pte Ltd is incorporated in Singapore. Singapore is our headquarters and our regulatory home. The Service is operated from Singapore. We have engineers and contributors in three time zones; the company itself is Singapore-resident.
We are not authorised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a financial adviser, capital-markets-services licensee, or fund manager. We are a publisher.
We sell subscriptions. That's it.
We do not run a brokerage. We do not collect a kickback from a brokerage where you trade. We do not sell user data. We do not run advertising. Subscription fees are the entire revenue model.
The economic alignment is simple: when subscribers get value from the platform, they renew; when they don't, they cancel. There is no hidden incentive to push you toward bad trades or to dilute the gate to publish more. We are paid the same whether you trade once a week or twenty times a day.
The platform today is the signals piece. Over time we are working toward:
Each of those is a separate decision. None of them ships before the realized scoreboard supports it. Today the platform is signal-only.