Investment Philosophy
     

 

    "We aim to keep it simple and transparent."
     

Technical Trading

   Market activity is not purely random. Consequently, we believe that there are opportunities for “technical” trading systems to identify and exploit patterns found in the history of markets’ movements.
 
     

No Discretionary Activity

   KV1 has built a methodology around the belief that discretionary intervention can only handicap a successful technical trading strategy. KV1’s methodology eschews all discretionary trading and discretionary system overrides.

From the initial design stage, we have integrated traditional portfolio management decisions and actions into the structure of our model. As a result, our models are extensively “self-governing.” Intervention only occurs in the form of improvements to decision modules.
 

     

Diversification Across Systems & Markets

   KV1 studies and applies the “Law of Large Numbers” to a portfolio of speculative futures trades, to seize and amplify the small positive expectancies which can accrue to technical trading models.
 
     

Sophistication via Simplicity

   We believe there are inherent benefits to a portfolio model built from numerous, elegant components rather than one complex “black box”.
 
     

Risk & Portfolio Management

   KV1’s portfolio and risk management techniques are based on the concept that trading systems will experience both upswings and downturns. Prudent portfolio management, therefore, can help capture the gains of the former and dampen the losses from the latter.
 
     

Transparency & Liquidity

   KV1 offers the kind of transparency and liquidity usually associated with an individually managed account.