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Kieran Duff on building a one-person systematic trading desk

Kieran Duff, systematic portfolio manager and Head of UK Growth at Darwinex, joins Sokio to talk about running a multi-strategy book across FX, metals and indices, built and managed on his own. We get into why he quit discretionary trading, how he turns any idea into a backtest (including a Friday-red, Monday-long S&P system he dropped because it had no capacity), what BOJ intervention did to a long-running USD/JPY breakout strategy, and the incubator and governor layer that decide which trades actually reach the market. Plus: moving everything to market orders with spread and slippage…

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