Notes from
the desk.
Research notes, strategy updates, and market regime commentary. Written when there's something to say. Not a content calendar.
- 2026-04-05Mikhail Savchenko
A trading desk that owes you no story
Why we built inite.fund the way we did. The five constraints we keep coming back to.
· philosophy· design - 2026-04-10Mikhail Savchenko
How we trade levels
Zone engine, MTF confluence, limit-entry maker mode, Sharpe-weighted sizing, funding overlay. The intraday side, end to end.
· strategy· trading· zones· execution - 2026-04-15Mikhail Savchenko
The long sleeve playbook
Crypto + equity + gold + bonds, weights set by macro regime, drawdown governor on the throttle. How balanced actually allocates.
· strategy· long-portfolio· macro-regime - 2026-04-19Mikhail Savchenko
Per-strategy ownership: your kitchen, your keys
We dropped the global trading-user model. Each strategy now reads venue keys from its owner's vault.
· architecture· security· ownership - 2026-04-22Mikhail Savchenko
The non-linear trading balance
Why your trading NAV is allowed to be greater than your allocation — and why we keep them in different DBs.
· architecture· trading· capital-tree - 2026-04-26Mikhail Savchenko
Why MCP and not more buttons
We replaced six dashboard pages with one chat window. The cost was an hour of engineering; the saving was the entire long tail of UI we never had to build.
· mcp· ux· claude - 2026-04-30Mikhail Savchenko
Why we deleted A-grade signals
Counter-intuitive: dropping the strongest setups from the intraday book made the sleeve more profitable, more stable, and easier to size. The comparison data and the reasoning we landed on after a year of running A and B side by side.
· strategy· trading· execution· research - 2026-05-03Mikhail Savchenko
The regime engine, in one note
What sits at the heart of the balanced sleeve: a three-state HMM on a hand-picked observation vector, with regime-conditional exposure ceilings instead of regime-conditional bets.
· strategy· long-portfolio· macro-regime· research - 2026-05-06Mikhail Savchenko
Drawdown as a throttle, not a brake
Why the long sleeve cuts risk at −8% — well before the −15% target band — and why the cut is partial rather than total. The math, the philosophy, and the edge cases that broke our first three designs.
· risk· long-portfolio· macro-regime· research - 2026-05-09Mikhail Savchenko
When the engine stops
The algorithm runs itself. But in three cases it asks the operator, and in one more it simply lies down. A walk-through of how the HIL queue, strategy modes, and the kill switch fit together — and where the line between them is.
· control· hil· operations - 2026-05-11Mikhail Savchenko
A ledger you can't quietly rewrite
Every capital flow, every approval, every mode change lands in an audit log with a hash chain. Why this matters in trading software, and how to verify integrity in under a minute.
· architecture· audit· security