For years, I was Melville’s Bartleby. Not because I refused to work, but because of the essential futility of wearing yourself down in a system that doesn’t value your knowledge and replaces you with someone younger as soon as it can. That dynamic ends the day you decide to take control of how you want to spend the rest of your life making money.
I was trapped in the cage of an ordinary 8-to-6 job, feeling a gray system slowly devour me. When I decided to take the leap into trading—under my alter ego, Bookbinder—I wasn’t chasing the promise of easy money.
I did it for the true Latin American dream: absolute sovereignty. I wanted to work alone, from anywhere, with no bosses, no imposed schedules, and no stale bureaucracies dictating how or when I get paid.
At first, I fell into the same trap as everyone else. I studied candlesticks, indicators, patterns, market cycles, and psychology. I had dozens of loose pieces on the table, but no one teaches you how to fit them together into a real method. Traditional trading marketing convinces you that you’re the problem: they tell you your animal brain is sabotaging you, that you lack discipline, or that a simple stop loss is your lifeline.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg.
Living with neurodivergence, my brain doesn’t process mathematics in the conventional way; space and time don’t move along a linear Cartesian plane in my head. Trying to trade manually (discretionarily) in front of a live screen was torture. I realized that trading this way is like being an amateur mechanic trying to fix a car with wires while racing in Formula 1 against major institutions, funds, and artificial intelligence algorithms.
That’s when I understood a truth that almost no one discusses publicly: systematic trading is the only way to survive without destroying your mental health.
When you translate your ideas into strict rules and run them through algorithms, you eliminate the need to make decisions in the heat of the moment. But when I took that step, I ran into the two biggest roadblocks in this business:
1. The lack of a scientific method for validating whether an idea actually works. The boring, lengthy, exhausting work of testing rules until you find a real statistical edge.
2. Most people lose years searching for complex strategies or copying other people’s systems that never adapt to their reality. It wasn’t about predicting the future, but about building your own trading rules and putting them through an EMOTION-FREE mathematical filter that tells you the truth before you put your neck on the line: Does this have a chance of surviving over time, or is it going to ruin you?
This whole search comes at a very high cost: operational, mental, and physical. And let’s be honest: as time goes by, you have fewer years left to become profitable. Profitability takes time and capital, and not everyone can afford to spend five years learning programming and statistics from scratch, only to then build the expertise that will finally tell you whether you can leave your 9-to-5 job.
That’s why I decided to turn my own pain into a tool. I’m currently developing an app designed to do the heavy lifting for you: analyze your rules, validate whether they have a real statistical edge, and give you an objective direction—or a restructuring—when your system isn’t working.
I’m still building my own consistency in the real-world laboratory: the markets, one algorithm at a time, step by step, proving that mathematics doesn’t lie. If you’re tired of trading based on the false expectations you’ve been sold—that you can get rich in just a few days—and want to start rigorously validating your rules and get clear direction on how to build your own strategies, join me on this journey.
P.S.: (You can also try my app ALPHAIA 100% FREE. It’ll help you test my Bitcoin strategy and predictive model across several cryptocurrencies, so you can get a clear idea of how quantitative trading works).
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