Intertemporal Crystal Hedging

Intertemporal Crystal Hedging is a small-scale quantitative hedge fund in a nascent phase of research and exploration. Our ambition is to leverage upper-echelon technical skills from mathematics to programming to finance in order to discover and exploit profitable investment opportunities, primarily within sports betting, but certainly, with time, also in more typical financial markets. Our name bears especial significance, with each component representing a philosophical cornerstone of our investment strategies. Intertermporal Sports betting markets are, when approached statically (at one point in time) rather than dynamically/intertemporally (at multiple points in time simultaneously) highly unfavourable for investors. Our contention is that bookmakers emphasise being safe statically: they are covered with large margins at any given point time, where they are never exposed to static arbitrage; but it is, we believe, much more difficult to remain fully covered intertemporally, where the range of possible offsetting positions grows rapidly with time. Crystal The word crystal holds multiple connotations which we want to embody. Firstly, it has strong connotations of wealth, which a hedge fund should represent. On a more pragmatic level, however, crystal connotes transparency. For us, transparency goes in two directions. We want to be transparent, while remaining proprietary, with our investors regarding our strategies and methodologies. This is a transparency of honesty, of integrity. But we also want, not in the direction of our investors, but in that of our trading second-parties, a transparency of stealth, where we bet in responsible fashion so as to avoid restriction from bookmakers due to being profitable. Hedging The intertemporal strategies that we envision require an exact understanding of how prices can move. We mitigate how susceptible we are to model mistakes by placing bets that are beneficial in multiple event contexts and multiple price trajectories.