Everything About QTES

QTES is an AI-enabled trading engine built for markets that run on blockchains. It reads the chain block by block, combines what it sees with exchange, derivatives and macro data, and turns the result into trades with no human in the loop. Nine years of research went into it. It has traded live since July 2023 and it does not stop for nights, weekends or holidays.

Our live flagship portfolio trades Bitcoin, long or cash, without leverage. We are extending the engine to further on-chain markets, including tokenised equities, commodities and other real-world assets, as each proves itself in live testing.

Not at the moment of decision. Signals, position sizing and order execution are fully algorithmic, and the engine has traded without human execution since its first live trade in July 2023. People do the research, decide which strategies are promoted into production and supervise the system.

Most quantitative firms were built for markets that close at night and report quarterly. QTES was built for 24/7 on-chain markets, where every transaction is public and trading never stops. We read that data at the source, and we own the full stack that processes it.

Throughout: in research, in validation, in operations and in engineering. AI lets a small team test far more ideas than before. It does not make trading decisions on its own. Every signal in production has an economic rationale we understand.

Throughout: in research, in validation, in operations and in engineering. AI lets a small team test far more ideas than before. It does not make trading decisions on its own. Every signal in production has an economic rationale we understand.

The deepest drawdown since 2019, measured on month-end values, is 21.6%. Over the same period Bitcoin fell by as much as 73.1% and the S&P 500 by 24.8%.

No, and the engine is not designed to. In a strong rally Bitcoin can run ahead. The engine is designed to lose materially less when the market falls and to take part in recoveries, which since 2019, including the simulated period, has produced higher returns with far smaller drawdowns.

The flagship portfolio uses none.

Risk management is built into the strategy. When the signals weaken, the engine reduces its position or moves entirely into cash. Execution, data feeds and systems are monitored automatically around the clock.

With reputable banks and institutional-grade custody and trading venues.

Today QTES trades proprietary capital only. In 2027 we may begin to license selected strategies to external partners.

QTES is an independent Swiss company financed by Swiss and US investors. It was incubated by Saidler & Co., which began the underlying research in 2017.

Compute has become the limit on our research, and we want our models, data and strategies on infrastructure we own and control.

In Switzerland, with a presence in New York.

Yes, selectively.