The House Edge: A Quant Approach to Digital Assets

Ashridge Quantum is a fully-automated, institutional-grade trading system engineered to "Protect First." We've built a statistically proven edge for the crypto markets.

The Modern Trader's Dilemma

Today's markets, from crypto to futures, are dominated by two failing approaches: emotional, high-risk gambling and overly simplistic, "one-trick-pony" algorithms. Both are fragile and built to fail. The average trader is trapped in a cycle of fear and greed, while most automated systems are rigid, curve-fit to a specific market condition and shatter at the first sign of real-world volatility.

An Institutional-Grade, Multi-Strategy Engine

Phase I: The "Sentry" Crypto Model

(Live & Operational)

Sentry is our 24/7 crypto execution engine for BTC/ETH/SOL. It uses a multi-horizon regime model with a momentum envelope and a liquidity/volatility gate. It sizes positions with path-aware risk management. It is a real-time policy layer that enforces drawdown caps, trade spacing, portfolio concurrency and kill switch precautions. Telemetry, audit trails and alerting are built in for continuous monitoring.

Phase II: The "Guardian" Options Model

(In R&D - Q1 2026 Launch)

Guardian is our cash-settled index options alpha engine: regime-aware, vol-surface and risk-disciplined driven. It deploys edge from skew/term-structure and intraday volatility while following hard Greek and VaR limits. The system auto-constructs income and convexity packages (credit/debit spreads, calendars/diagonals, butterflies) and rebalances toward target Greeks around key macro events. Universe: SPX, XSP, NDX, RUT & VIX.

Phase III: The "Defender" Futures Model

(Scheduled - Q3 2026 Launch)

Defender is our cross-asset futures engine for 24/6, institutional-style execution. It mixes trend, carry & mean-reversion overlays with volatility targeting, dynamic sizing, and strict drawdown parameters. Multi-market universe: equities, rates, energy & metals, etc.

Defend & Protect Before Alpha

Capital preservation isn’t a feature. It’s the operating system.

Capital Guardrails: Per-trade, per-symbol, and per-day loss limits; max concurrent positions; exposure caps by asset/sector; configurable leverage ceilings.Sizing & Exits: Volatility-aware position sizing (ATR/beta), hard stops + optional trailing stops, slippage/fees baked in, time-based exits and trade cooldowns to prevent churn.Event Awareness: Economic-calendar embargo windows (CPI, FOMC, NFP, etc.) that pause new entries and optionally de-risk open positions; automatic re-enable after the window.Market Sanity Checks: Stale-data and outlier detection, exchange/venue health checks, and price-feed quorum/validation; when in doubt, we fail closed (no new risk).Order Safety: Idempotent order placement, retry with exponential backoff, duplicate-order suppression, min-notional and tick-size compliance & dry-run/shadow modes in staging.Monitoring & Alerts: Live heartbeats, P&L and drawdown monitors, slippage/fill-rate drift & circuit-breaker triggers all with Telegram/email paging and audit logs.Governance & Versioning: Config hashing and change logs, canary releases, instant rollbacks & a two-key rule for production strategy changes.Reliability & BCP: Auto-restart on crash, persistent journals of state & trades, time-sync checks, rolling backups & least-privilege API key management/rotation.Compliance-Ready Posture: Full trade ledger with timestamps, parameter snapshots & rationale tags; separate credentials; optional IP allow lists and secrets vaulting.Human-in-the-Loop Controls: One command kill switch, maintenance mode, manual override for exits & a safe-mode that only manages existing positions.

Our Edge: A System Engineered to "Protect First"

We target capital-efficient return per drawdown, robust profit factor across regimes, and tightly bounded loss paths.Live telemetry and weekly transparency reports replace static back tests.

About the Founder

Kevin Vespe

For nearly 20 years, I thrived in a high-stakes, data-driven environment as a Respiratory Therapist, with a decade in upper management. My world was defined by translating complex, real-time data into critical, life-or-death decisions. It forged in me a non-negotiable commitment to disciplined, rules based systems where mistakes were not an option.I founded Ashridge Quantum to apply that same "Protect First" ethos to the financial markets. This venture is the culmination of a lifelong passion for data, a deep respect for risk management and a belief that a quantitative, unemotional approach is the key to long-term success.

The Founder's Pledge: Profit & Purpose

We believe in a dual mandate: generating exceptional returns and creating real-world social impact. To that end, I have made a personal commitment.As the founder, I will personally dedicate a portion of my own profits to The Ashridge Foundation, a separate non-profit entity focused on supporting underfunded, proven charities that focus on public health.

100% of investor capital is dedicated to the fund's for-profit mission.

Join Us from the Beginning

We are currently in our live paper trading phase and will be opening our seed round shortly. We are looking for a select group of partners who believe in our data-driven approach and our long-term vision. To receive our full investor brief and be notified when the round opens, please enter your information below.

Ashridge Quantum is the sole originator of all its used trading models. All signals and analysis are proprietary. We are not affiliated with any other group or service. Please contact if imitators are suspected.