A research programme that mostly says no.
I build and test trading strategies on Indian equities, alone. Every hypothesis is registered in a dated commit before it is scored, every verdict is published whether it passed or failed, and no real capital has ever been deployed.
- Registered
- 23
- Dead
- 22
- Qualified pass
- 1
- Built on an unproven signal
- 0
The complete register is the Ledger — the most useful page here, and the one that would be hardest to fake. The single pass is under a pre-registered forward test whose verdict dates were published before its first observation.
What this is not
- A track record
- Every figure here is simulated. No real capital has ever been deployed.
- Advice
- No tips, no signals, no recommendations. I am not a registered adviser.
- A data shop
- Nothing is for sale and nothing is downloadable.
- A claim that this works
- The first scheduled verdict is due around February 2027.
Research log
All entries →18 August 2026 · DR-13, DR-25, DR-12, DR-27
How raw NSE Bhavcopy beat premium vendors at survivorship-free data
Why most Indian equity datasets quietly inflate every backtest run on them, how to rebuild a decade of history that doesn't, and the eight-month hole the acceptance tests found in my own archive.
11 August 2026 · DR-26, DR-24, DR-27
We built a gate, then failed it twice in one day — on purpose
How pre-registration works in practice, why a threshold chosen after the result isn't a threshold, and what it costs to run a research programme that can tell you no.
28 July 2026 · DR-31, DR-30, DR-36
Eleven hypotheses, two rounds, zero trades
A year's worth of quantitative research discipline compressed into six weeks, and what it cost to find out that nothing worked.