Proprietary
We trade only our own capital. We do not accept outside investment.
[00]L8 Cap
Signalfrom noise.
L8 Cap is a proprietary quantitative trading firm operating systematic strategies across global markets and digital assets.
[01]Thesis
Markets are an ocean of noise. Somewhere inside it — faint, fleeting, and always moving — there is signal. We build the machines that find it, and the discipline to trade only what remains.
[02]Method
Research. Simulation. Execution.
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Research
Hypotheses drawn from data, never from narratives.
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Simulation
Every idea is stressed across thousands of possible futures before it touches capital.
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Execution
Automated, measured, and continuously recalibrated.
Fig. 02 — Monte Carlo paths. One survives.
[03]Global markets
One book. Every session.
Systematic strategies deployed across the world's major markets — following liquidity as it moves from Asia to Europe to the Americas, and back again.
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Digital assets 24 / 7
Fig. 03 — Financial centres, connected. The sun never sets on the book.
[04]Digital assets
A market that never closes.
Fragmented venues, continuous sessions, volatility as a native feature. We meet it with the same rigor we bring to every market — and machines that never sleep.
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Fig. 04 — Implied volatility surface. At the money, highlighted.
[05]Risk
Risk is the product.
Sizing, drawdown and correlation are not constraints placed on a strategy. They are the strategy. Returns are what is left when risk has been designed.
- Sizing
- Exposure earned, never assumed.
- Drawdown
- Limits set before the trade, not after.
- Tails
- The rare event is the one we plan for.
Fig. 05 — Distribution of returns. Tails, respected.
[06]Principles
Four rules. No exceptions.
Systematic
Decisions are made by models, reviewed by people, and never by impulse.
Boutique
Small by design. Every strategy is known; every risk is owned.
Discreet
We do not publish returns, positions or forecasts. The work speaks quietly.
[07]L8 Cap
Proprietary. Systematic. Global.
Proprietary capital only — no outside investors, no solicitation.