SIMTEK by Dark Skies

A live, autonomous, policy-bound options execution engine.

SIMTEK observes the market, selects high-quality breakout setups, vets liquidity, sizes against hard risk caps, executes, manages the trade, and reconciles against the broker — without manual clicking, and all to an auditable record.

The Problem

Most strategies don't fail on ideas. They fail on execution.

Entries get chased. Profits are taken too early or too late. Losses are rationalized. And there is rarely a clean audit trail to learn from. Allocating capital to a process like that is uninvestable — no matter how good the underlying idea.

SIMTEK solves the execution and discipline problem. The same setup is treated the same way every time, every trade must clear a stack of risk and liquidity gates before a dollar is committed, and performance is measured from the broker ledger — not from a spreadsheet of intentions.

The Engine

A bounded agentic loop — not a black-box AI.

Once enabled, the engine runs one loop continuously through the session. Its autonomy is bounded by preconfigured risk controls, liquidity filters, position limits, and broker reconciliation. A human stays in control at the policy and account level — enable and disable, capital, risk caps, the tradeable universe, and a kill-switch.

Price + volume
Trend / regime
Options liquidity
Breakout quality
Composite score
Exposure + events
Spread / OI + timing
Position + contract
Trade
execute / manage

Dashed loop: the engine reconciles against the broker, records the result, and repeats continuously through the next market cycle.

Live data ingestion
Streams market and bar data during the session.
Pattern detection
Scans the universe for qualifying breakout setups.
Liquidity vetting
Confirms the contract is liquid and tradeable before entry.
Risk gating
Applies a stack of risk gates — exposure, events, conflicts, timing.
Position sizing
Sizes within per-trade and total-exposure caps.
Order placement
Submits orders through the connected brokerage.
Exit management
Executes scaled profit-taking, trailing stops, and hard stops.
Broker reconciliation
Continuously reconciles its own state against the broker.
Why It's Different

The edge is the complete operating loop.

Many systematic pitches rest on a single signal. SIMTEK's edge is the whole loop — signal → options selection → risk check → execution → trade management → broker reconciliation → measurement — built and running in live, real-money conditions across multiple segregated accounts, with a full audit trail. The differentiator is operational completeness and discipline, not a clever indicator.

Track Record

Live, real-money results — not a backtest.

Since the current risk guardrails went live on April 17, 2026, the managed book has closed every trade net-positive, with no realized drawdown over that window. Reported on live broker results only.

Net-win rate
100%
since guardrails
Closed trades
8
since Apr 17, 2026
Profit factor
2.18
full history
Realized drawdown
$0
since guardrails

Avg holding period ~5.7d · positive per-trade expectancy · live, real money, across three segregated accounts.

The live record is early and the sample is small (n = 8 since the current guardrails). It is promising, not conclusive — win rate and profit factor will move as the sample grows. The full track record, per-account ledger, and tear sheet are available to qualified investors on request.

Risk Framework

Risk control is the core of the system, not a bolt-on.

Multi-gate risk governor
Trades are blocked unless they pass every gate — total exposure, concurrent-position limits, daily trade limits, time-of-day window, and symbol-conflict checks.
Per-trade & total-exposure caps
Dollar risk per trade and aggregate options exposure are each capped as a fraction of account equity.
Liquidity gates
A contract must clear open-interest, volume, and spread checks before entry — no thin, untradeable options.
Event gating
Earnings blackout windows and macro/event-day blocks keep the engine out of known binary-risk events.
One position per symbol
No pyramiding; an open position means the engine is in exit-management mode for that symbol only.
Scaled exits + hard stops
Profits are banked in stages; failed breakouts are cut at a defined stop. Exit logic is tailored to position size.
Continuous reconciliation
The engine treats the broker as the source of truth and corrects any divergence automatically.
Drawdown kill-switch
Account-level drawdown limits pause the engine; the operator and investor can halt and flatten at any time.
What You Receive

You keep control and visibility at all times.

The operating model is deliberately simple: capital stays in your brokerage account, performance is reconciled from the broker ledger, and every engine decision is preserved in the audit trail.

  • A segregated brokerage account in your own name — no custody, no commingling.
  • Live position visibility in your own brokerage app, in real time.
  • Periodic reporting drawn directly from the broker ledger and the engine's audit database.
  • Pre-agreed account-level drawdown limits that pause the engine.
  • An immediate kill-switch to halt trading and flatten positions.
  • A full, timestamped audit trail of every engine decision.
Pilot Structure

A measured mirror-account pilot, not a pooled fund.

Initial pilots run for roughly one to two quarters, with economics discussed only after fit, eligibility, and risk policy are aligned.

01
Segregated account
Capital remains in an investor-owned brokerage account, connected only for signal mirroring and execution.
02
Pre-agreed policy
Per-trade risk, total exposure, drawdown limits, eligible symbols, and review cadence are defined before trading.
03
Mirror execution
The account mirrors the canonical engine's approved signals at its own scale, with broker reconciliation and audit logging.
04
Operator review
Jett monitors the engine, reviews the ledger, and can pause, halt, or flatten according to the agreed policy.
Founder

Jett Magnuson

Founder & Fund Manager

SIMTEK is built and operated by Jett Magnuson. He designed the engine, the multi-gate risk policy, and the canonical-to-mirror architecture that runs three live accounts off a single signal source today — the same infrastructure a funded pilot plugs into.

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Request the investor materials.

SIMTEK is currently structured around separately managed pilot accounts in the investor's own name. Share a few details and I'll follow up personally with the full memorandum, live ledger, and pilot terms.

No custody, no commingling. Capital stays in your own brokerage account. This is a request for information — not an offer or solicitation.