One strategy, three stages of evaluationAn illustrative curve passes through idea and research, evaluation on unseen data, and live trading. Setbacks appear in each phase. This is a process illustration, not actual or projected performance. Strategies can be revised or rejected at each stage.

01Idea & Research

02Out-of-Sample

03Live Trading

For Traders & Researchers

Build Strategies That Survive Live Markets

Turn trading ideas into clear rules. Test whether they hold up. Build strategies that work together in a portfolio. Learn the process with Robuxio, then develop research you can put forward for professional evaluation.

The Mission

Making Institutional Trading Research Accessible

Robust trading research is difficult to find. In our due diligence on outside teams, we have repeatedly seen promising results built on a narrow idea that fails when market conditions change or the research is tested more rigorously.

That is why we are building a path that starts with the foundations and progresses towards work we could evaluate for the Robuxio desk. We share the research process behind our own strategies, while giving serious traders a clear route to develop and demonstrate what they can do.

The long-term goal is to find traders whose research can add something genuinely different to the portfolios we run. If we can pass on what we have learned and eventually discover people we want to work with, the path has served both sides.

The Path

Choose Your Starting Point

The path runs from the fundamentals in the Playbook, through advanced research together in the Lab, to potentially partnering on the Robuxio trading desk. Start at the level that matches your experience.

Level One · The Fundamentals

Learn How Robust Strategies Are Built

The Algorithmic Crypto Playbook follows the fundamental research process, from forming an idea to testing its robustness, building a portfolio and preparing it for live implementation.

It gives you the foundation used throughout every level that follows. Available on Amazon as a paperback or Kindle edition.

Great book for any level but especially for the new trader

Just finished the book! It's a concentrated read with not much fluff. Gets right into what will improve any systematic traders outcomes in a logical sequence.

Amazon Customer · United States · Verified

Foundational Read for Algo Traders

…it was fun, enlightening and certainly covered what a beginner would need to get started.

Pablo Lema · United States · Verified

An honest and clear book, well worth reading

The biggest thing for me was how it explains momentum and mean reversion strategies without assuming you already know everything. … As a beginner, I needed to hear that.

Jamolpe · Spain · Verified
Level Two · Build the Strategy

What You Will Learn

The University Course puts the Playbook into practice. Across 11 video lessons, Pavel develops systematic strategies in RealTest and shows you how to apply them, with no coding experience required.

  • How backtesting works, and the mistakes that break live performance
  • Market selection, trading approaches and building a strategy from scratch
  • Robustness testing, exits and risk management
  • Portfolio trading, trading psychology and automation
  • Five complete strategy examples, plus two live portfolio examples

Watch Lesson 1

Introduction to Algorithmic Trading

Live university recording · Czech audio · English subtitles

This first lesson was recorded live at the University of Zlín, in Czech with English subtitles. All other lessons are in English, except Lesson 8.

From the students

The best algorithmic trading course I have taken, with concepts explained in a clear, easy-to-understand way and a well-defined end goal. Most quant and algorithmic trading courses I have attended were filled with complex jargon and lacked clear objectives, making them difficult to follow.

David Lee · Course student

In the retail space, more than 95% of content is discretionary nonsense. This is the opposite: a retail-oriented approach to strategy development that follows the structure used in the professional space. I could not recommend this course more.

David · Course student

A great foundational level course that teaches you how to properly build a portfolio based on robust trading strategies. The knowledge gained is equally applicable to other asset classes. If you are new to systematic trading, this is definitely the right place to start.

Ben Osborn · Systematic stock trader

Data driven and first principle, idea first approach to trading. I suppose there is no other course on crypto online going this deep into trading nuances. Portfolio approach to trading utilising capital efficiently, handling max DD and optimizing for returns. Good starting point for unprofitable and struggling traders to execute a positive EV system.

Mohd Wasil · Engineer, IIT Delhi

The course is well done and my experience confirms it.

Fede · Course student

I cannot see how anyone would not benefit from the course so I would definitely recommend it.

Ales Smiljanic · Course student
Level Three · Advanced Research

The Research Lab

Develop your trading ideas, test them to a higher standard, and build a verified track record of your research and results.

Submit your models for professional evaluation, track them out of sample, and learn directly from Robuxio quants and other serious systematic traders.

Exceptional researchers may progress toward paid research, institutional allocation, or professional trading opportunities.

Pavel Kýček on the equities launch call, walking through the Crisis Hedging sleeve versus SPY, January 2018 to June 2026

Pavel on the equities launch call, walking through the Crisis Hedging sleeve. This is what a Lab research call looks like.

Level Four · Submit Your Work

Work With Us

We are always looking to partner with strong systematic traders. A strategy that is genuinely uncorrelated with what we already run is worth more to the portfolio than one that simply performs well on its own, because it improves how the whole book behaves.

If your work holds up, it is evaluated against the same bar as our own strategies and can be implemented alongside them. What that process looks like is on the page behind the button.

The Submission

Send Us Your Work

Tell us what you trade, how it was tested, how long it has run, and where we can see the record. No CV, no cover letter.