A hiring CIO does not need another opinion. He needs evidence: what I said, when I said it, at what level, and what happened. This page is that, and it gets a new line every quarter.
Alpha Loop Capital. Founder and CIO. SMID-cap long/short equity with an options overlay and an event-driven sleeve. Philadelphia. Fund launched June 02, 2025.
Performance. Monthly and quarterly figures, risk statistics, and the partner letters are available to allocators on request.
Before Alpha Loop. COO and Co-Portfolio Manager, Teramo Advisors, on the Equable Shares Hedged Equity Fund alongside Ron Santella. Led investment and capital raising at Naples Technology Ventures. Equity research at Emerald Asset Management.
Coverage. Hedge Fund Alert, November 19, 2025: L/S Equity Shop Plots $15M Fundraise. Business Wire, October 16, 2024: Alpha Loop Capital Announces Firm Launch.
Blade Air Mobility (BLDE) - Mar 27 and May 14, 2024. Long. "The price is wrong." Blade sold its passenger business to Joby Aviation for up to $125.00mm; announced Aug 04, 2025, closed Aug 29, 2025. The remainder trades as Strata Critical Medical (SRTA). Right. Read the call
Enovix (ENVX) - Mar 15, May 02 and Jul 01, 2024. Long. ENVX traded near $3.20 on Aug 18, 2026, after the CEO resigned on Aug 13, 2026. Below every 2024 print. Wrong, so far. Read the call
One right, one wrong. Wrongness is content; the next Scorecard grades every call made since June 2026.
LoopSeek AI. Relationship-intelligence platform. MVP 0.5 live May 2026: extraction pipeline, scoring engine, graph construction, semantic search. Built as the answer to the placement-agent industry.
The voice corpus. Every published and unpublished piece, chunked and embedded into Supabase pgvector, retrieved live by register before drafting. The reason this publication came back.
Cognitive Architecture v2.0. A written operating standard for how analysis gets assembled, falsified, and re-checked before it ships. Seven pillars. Runs on every position and every essay.
LSIS white paper. The LoopSeek Incentive System. Conceptual mathematics for more accurate model output with less context. In review.
Trading scaffold. Python, ib_insync, Interactive Brokers. The plumbing under the desk.
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