Room 01 · The Hunt Is Planned Here

STRATEGY & RESEARCH

Every system that trades on this desk started as a hypothesis in this room — a backtest, a tear-down, a re-build. Nothing trades because it feels right. It trades because it survived the room.
STATUS PLANNED — OPENS ON GO

The Working Cycle

Room 01 · How a system earns a place on the desk
01 · Hypothesis
Every system starts as a question, not a certainty.
A named setup with entry rules, exit rules, and a written doctrine — the setup it hunts, the regime it needs, the conditions that retire it. A strategy without a written doctrine is a mood, not a system.
STAGE PLANNED — OPENS ON GO
02 · Backtest
The claim faces history before it faces the market.
Sample size, regime coverage, cost modeling, slippage honesty. The room's law: if the backtest can't survive a hostile read, the strategy doesn't graduate to paper.
STAGE PLANNED — OPENS ON GO
03 · Teardown
Nothing trades because it feels right — only what survives the tear-down.
Every hypothesis is attacked on its own terms before the room trusts it. What breaks under a hostile read stays a hypothesis; it never reaches an order.
STAGE PLANNED — OPENS ON GO
04 · Rebuild
What survives gets rebuilt sharper, not shipped as-is.
The system returns to Discipline 01 with its doctrine re-written and its edge re-stated — the cycle runs again until it earns its place on the desk.
STAGE PLANNED — OPENS ON GO

The Four Disciplines

Room 01 · Strategy & Research
01

Trading Strategies

Named systems with entry rules, exit rules, and a reason to exist. Each one carries its own doctrine — the setup it hunts, the regime it needs, the conditions that retire it. A strategy without a written doctrine is a mood, not a system.

02

Backtesting

Every claim faces history before it faces the market. Sample size, regime coverage, cost modeling, slippage honesty. The room's law: if the backtest can't survive a hostile read, the strategy doesn't graduate to paper.

03

Market Research

Macro structure, sector rotation, volatility regimes, the narratives driving flows. Research feeds strategy — the desk hunts where the research says the game is, not where the noise is loudest.

04

Watchlists & Screeners

The target list. Liquid, volatile, tradeable. Screeners surface candidates; the watchlist is the short list that survives scrutiny. Everything on it has a thesis attached.

“A trade without a thesis is a bet. The thesis lives here, written down, before a single order breathes.”

House Materials

Reference documents

The Wilder Trading Command Center

The desk's command doctrine — how strategies, risk, and automation interlock into one engine. The house paper lives in the vault tree; the site carries its public face.

Swarm Playbook · MFR Empire

The multi-family research empire playbook — how the trading house connects to the capital house. Strategy at Wilder is never one market deep.