Slide 01 · Cover

QuantSentinel.

Systematic options & futures trading platform for Indian retail markets

Investor deck · Closed beta · 2026

Slide 02 · The problem

90% of Indian retail F&O traders lose money.

The losses are structural — not a knowledge gap, not a will-power gap. The same four traps catch nearly every retail participant:

  • Cost drag consumes the median strategy's edge
  • Behavioural bias defeats systems without enforcement
  • Asymmetric information vs. institutional desks
  • Complexity surface beyond individual cognitive bandwidth
Slide 03 · Market size

The market that this happens in.

₹500 cr Daily Nifty options turnover NSE 2024-2026 average 1 cr+ accounts Active F&O traders SEBI 2026 disclosures 90% lose Retail F&O loss rate SEBI study 2022-2024 Aggregate retail F&O losses ₹50,000+ cr annually
Slide 04 · The solution

Institutional-grade systematic infrastructure — sized for retail capital.

One user-facing dial controls the entire aggression axis. The platform handles signal generation, risk gating, structure selection, and execution as a coherent system.

  • Risk-first design — 7 walls + 12 kill switches before any trade
  • 17 specialised ML systems across 5 capability groups; 6 closed-loop learners
  • 5 strategy families with intelligent regime-aware selection
  • Indian-market-native cost engine, calendar, regulatory awareness
  • MLOps stack: MLflow + custom additions for production safety
Slide 05 · Platform

Architecture at a glance.

Trader tenant The Knob 0 – 100 Alpha Engine 8 signal modules 17 ML systems Risk Castle 7 gates · 12 kills tail hedge layer Strategy 5 families regime-gated Broker live or paper
Slide 06 · User interface

One dial. The entire aggression axis.

50 Defensive 0 - 24 Conservative 25 - 49 Balanced 50 - 69 Aggressive 70 - 84 Maximum 85 - 100
Slide 07 · Risk first

Capital protected by seven concentric walls.

Capital protected Wall 1: Cost Engine Wall 2: Regime Engine Wall 3: News Engine Wall 4: Position Limits Wall 5: Margin Engine Wall 6: Concentration Tracker Wall 7: Liquidity Validation 12 kill switches orbit outside Tail hedges permanent layer Every trade passes seven walls before reaching execution.
Slide 08 · ML

Seventeen learning systems, retrained on their own cadences.

Vol & Distribution01Volatility ForecastingHAR-RV + GARCH02Implied DistributionBreeden-Litzenberger03IV Mean ReversionLightGBM binarySignal Generation & Combination04Multi-Timeframe CoordinationBayesian combiner05Cross-Sectional AlphaSingle-name ranker06Direction Prediction EnsembleLearned ensemble07Optimal Entry TimingLightGBM 4-class08Anomaly DetectionIsolation forestStrategy Decision Systems09Adjustment TriggerLightGBM 7-class10Strike SelectionXGBoost · 33 feat11Wing SelectionXGBoost12Trend Regime ClassifierLightGBM · 22 featRisk & Event Management13Pin Risk PredictorLightGBM14Event Impact MagnitudeMulti-output ML15Learned Hedge SelectorXGBoost · 20 featPerformance & Validation16Statistical RobustnessWhite's Reality Check17Performance AttributionPer-tenant factor
Slide 09 · Strategies

The right tool for the regime.

Premium selling

Iron condor, iron fly, narrow IC, jade lizard, short strangle, final-hour condor — 5 structures gated by regime + ML strike selector.

Directional

Long futures + intelligent option hedge (mandatory at MODERATE conviction). Debit spreads for defined-risk directional.

Expiry day

Four time-window strategies for Indian weekly expiry (morning theta, mid-day range, final hour, high-IV cross-window).

Permanent tail layer

Always-on 5-delta puts, ~0.5% of capital/month, absorbs catastrophic moves.

Slide 10 · Futures decision matrix

Conviction → action.

Conviction Score Band Action Hedge 85 – 100 VERY HIGH Trade futures directly Optional 70 – 84 HIGH Trade futures directly Optional 55 – 69 MODERATE Trade futures REQUIRED 40 – 54 LOW Defined-risk options n/a 0 – 39 NONE No trade n/a
Slide 11 · Scale

Multi-tenant from the first commit.

Tenant 1 knob 50 · ₹10L Tenant 2 knob 30 · ₹25L Tenant 3 knob 75 · ₹50L Tenant 4 knob 45 · ₹8L … N tenants 20 personas synthetic tenant isolation · postgres triggers · ws rooms · audit trail Shared platform infrastructure Alpha engine · Risk castle · 17 ML systems · Strategy selectors · Tail hedges Cloud SQL · Redis · TimescaleDB · ModelRegistry · Caddy reverse proxy per-tenant outputs · WS rooms · Telegram DMs · audit Per-tenant dashboard live signals · positions · attribution Telegram private DM verified 1:1 · no groups Audit log append-only · immutable Per-tenant execution own account · own capital
Slide 12 · Status

Where the platform is today.

Validated

  • All 7 risk gates fire correctly
  • All 12 kill switches activate at thresholds
  • All 17 ML systems train successfully + versioned
  • MLflow + custom safety layers validated
  • Multi-tenant isolation (Postgres + WS + audit)
  • Live signal end-to-end < 200ms

In paper-test

  • 9 tenants in closed beta
  • Paper trading on real-time market data
  • Cost engine + slippage model running live
  • Real cohort numbers replace illustrative figures when statistically meaningful
Slide 13 · Revenue model

Three viable monetisation paths.

Subscription

₹5,000–25,000 / month flat, tiered by capital.

Performance-linked

10–20% of gains above benchmark hurdle.

At 1,000 active users: ₹6-50 crore annual revenue. At 10,000: ₹60-500 crore.

Slide 14 · Roadmap

Where this goes next.

Near-term (6 months)

  • Extended paper-test validation across more market regimes
  • Live trading for closed-beta cohort
  • US market extension (architecture supports it)
  • Mobile app for daily check-ins

Medium-term (12-24 months)

  • Bank Nifty + stock options expansion
  • Cross-asset combined strategies
  • Institutional PMS-style offering
  • White-label partnerships
  • API access for sophisticated users
Slide 15 · Why now

Three converging trends.

  • Technology bar has risen. SEBI's algo-trading framework + peak margin rules push the industry toward institutional-grade infrastructure. Platforms without proprietary systematic capability are increasingly exposed.
  • Retail capital wants quality. The 2021-2026 cohort is more educated, more analytical, willing to pay for systematic infrastructure.
  • No dominant player. Algo marketplaces and analytical dashboards exist, but the integrated systematic platform category is unfilled.
Slide 16 · The ask

We are open to the conversation that turns 18 months of focused work into a decade of capital deployed well.

  • Strategic acquirers evaluating systematic-trading capability
  • Fintech / financial-services / investment firms
  • Institutional partners for white-label or licensing

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