i26g Learning

What It Is

i26g Learning helps independent systematic traders understand the choices involved in building and running a trading operation: what the alternatives are, what each requires, and how to evaluate the trade-offs.

It is planned as a dedicated site. The material is intended to be useful whether you use the i26g Platform, another system, or your own tools.

What You Will Learn

The site is organised around the parts of a systematic trading operation:

• Data: sourcing, cleaning, storing, and checking the market data everything else depends on.
• Research and testing: turning an idea into a rule, testing it honestly, and avoiding the overfitting that makes a backtest look better than reality.
• Position sizing and risk: how much to trade, how losses are bounded, and how risk is measured across the whole operation.
• Execution and operations: running the system day to day — orders, monitoring, failures, and recovery.

The Operating Model

The topics are connected by an operating model: a coherent reference point for how the parts of a systematic operation fit together. It starts from questions such as:

• Decisions made in advance: what the operation decides before trading begins, and what it leaves to the moment.
• Required evidence: what a rule has to survive before it trades real money.
• Risk limits: how losses are bounded, for each position and across the whole operation.
• Records: what gets recorded, so the operation can be improved rather than merely repeated.

A systematic process needs to be explicit enough to test, execute consistently, and review. An independent trader often combines research, execution, risk oversight, and operations in one person; an explicit model helps keep those responsibilities distinct. The model is a reference point, not the only way to work — the learning material explains the choices around it, including the alternatives.

Scope

The focus is on research methods, engineering, and operational decisions, rather than specific trading strategies, signals, or trade recommendations. Nothing on the site is investment advice.

Relationship to the i26g Platform

The i26g Platform is being developed as one implementation of the operating model: data, strategy, execution, and risk in one system, deployed and operated on infrastructure the trader controls. Using it is not required to use the learning material.

Development Status

i26g Learning and its operating model are still developing. The aim is a stable foundation that can be revised when evidence warrants it. Work on a real trading operation informs what needs adding, clarifying, or correcting.