Since 2024, Saeed has built and operated a systematic trading platform from scratch — 130+ strategies live across FX, equities, commodities and crypto, executing through Interactive Brokers and Binance with real-time risk controls. Backed by a background in HPC numerical simulation and PDE-based derivatives pricing.

130+ Strategies IBKR & Binance — Live Volatility Modelling Walk-Forward Backtesting Options Pricing

Platform & Execution

Multi-Asset Execution Engine

Independent — Multi-Asset Platform, 2024 – Present

Modular platform running 130+ strategies live across FX, equities, commodities and crypto, executing through Interactive Brokers and Binance APIs with real-time position sizing and risk controls — execution latency reduced 25%.

IBKR APIBinance APIRisk controlsPosition sizing

Volatility-Targeted Signal Framework

Regime-switching overlays maintain robustness across structural market shifts; delta-aware confidence filtering governs when signals are trusted enough to size into.

Volatility targetingRegime detectionConfidence filtering

Walk-Forward Backtesting Infrastructure

Disciplined optimisation built to mitigate overfitting; every strategy is evaluated on out-of-sample forward return distributions before it earns live capital.

Walk-forwardOut-of-sample testingOverfit control

Quant Research

Derivatives Pricing & Risk

Monte Carlo simulation, Black-Scholes PDE and finite-difference schemes for options pricing and stress testing under supply/demand shock scenarios; K-Means clustering for asset grouping and capital allocation.

Monte CarloBlack-Scholes PDEK-MeansStress testing

Forecasting Pipelines

ARIMA, LSTM, XGBoost, Gaussian Processes and Exponential Smoothing models feeding directional signals — a 12% improvement in forecast accuracy across the pipeline.

ARIMALSTMXGBoostGaussian Processes

ML-Driven Strategy Backtesting

github.com/Pasha0313/MachineLearning

A classification/regression pipeline for signal generation — data preprocessing, ML model training, backtest interpretation, parameter optimisation and walk-forward validation as discrete, reproducible stages rather than one monolithic script.

ClassificationRegressionWalk-forwardParameter optimisation

Book & Open Source

Algorithmic Trading Strategies book cover

Algorithmic Trading Strategies

Book · Amazon, 2024

A step-by-step guide into the world of quants — 70+ documented systematic strategies, including commodity and FX models.

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Algo-Trading Platform

github.com/Pasha0313/Algo-Trading

The modular, multi-asset trading platform itself — 130+ integrated strategies with live execution, open on GitHub.

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Certifications: Algorithmic Trading and Finance Models with Python, R & Stata (2024) · Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading with Python and Binance (2024) · Python for Finance (2024)