Apologies for the late timing of this Newsletter but with Donald Trump throwing metaphorical macro economic hand grenades into the market every three days since his inauguration, trips to Miami and Hong Kong to visit existing and potential investors, it has been a very busy month.

I am not going to list the various macro events of January as there were simply too many and they were all well documented. Suffice to say that $1 trillion dollars has been wiped off the value of the crypto market place in the last 45 days and we are now at the same level we were back in March last year when BTC was $73K. Given that BTC is now $86k it shows the dominance of BTC and the poor performance of the Alt coin market in the last year.

The big news for us is that Hedgeweek have recognised our Custody solution, that significantly mitigates exchange and management counterparty risk and nominated us as a finalist in their European Awards in the category of New Solution Provider of the Year . Given the problems last week experienced by BYBIT, it just highlights how vital our Quant Pro product is to protect client funds. Obviously none of our Quant Pro investors were affected by the BYBIT hack. That is the beauty of Quant Pro. Your only exposure is to our ability to trade on your behalf and if you don’t like what we do you simply pull your assets. The way it should be.

I have also attached a snapshot of our Tear sheet for AiQP for the month of January and whilst it shows a loss of 3%, given the circumstances, we are very pleased. Last January in similar choppy conditions, the worst conditions for Algorithmic traders, we lost 6.2%; this year after applying our upgrades in November, we halved that loss for the month, in what were even worse trading conditions. Testimony that our upgrades did their job. Can we do better – of course but reducing drawdowns by almost 50% is a very big win for us and our investors. 

I can also report that as I write, our rock solid Market Neutral strategy is up over 5% this month, showing that in rocky waters this one is ultra dependable. (All our strategies are up MTD – proving that we perform equally well in bear conditions as we do in bull markets – all correct as of 25-2-25) I genuinely believe that in the coming months it will show its real value (not investment advice – just my personal opinion)

We would love to win the Hedgeweek Award- against stiff opposition but if you could find the time to vote for us on this link  – https://awards.hedgeweek.com/european-awards-2025 -it would be greatly appreciated. 

I have been writing to you now for over 18 months and I always finish with Algoz Quant Pro – A safer, better way to invest in Crypto. After last Friday that couldn’t be more true and now Hedgeweek knows it as well!