Blog

Research notes, platform updates, and perspectives on the future of quantitative trading.

24 May 2026

The Stars Our Destination: SpaceX Files for IPO

SpaceX’s S-1 hit the SEC on 20 May 2026. A $20 billion bridge loan forces the IPO, xAI and X have been folded in, and Starlink is paying for everything. The deal is a referendum on whether the equity market can still finance voyages into the unknown.

17 May 2026

A Chronicle Tale of Nvidia Investors

Six investors embark on a journey as a once-in-a-generation opportunity unfolds. A tale of vision, patience, discipline, and learning the hardest part of investing.

11 May 2026

Berkshire’s Cash Pile Tells Nothing about the Market

$397 billion in cash is not a market signal. It is the receipt for the largest missed opportunity in modern investing history.

6 May 2026

Australia RBA Cash Rate: Air Conditioning with the Window Open

The RBA has hiked three times in 2026 while most central banks cut or hold. Australia’s inflation is supply-driven — and rate hikes do not fix supply shocks.

3 May 2026

The AI Capex Machine: When Does It Stop?

The four largest hyperscalers have committed $700 billion in AI capex for 2026. We model when the cash flow constraint forces the first guidance cut — and what reprices when it does.

19 April 2026

Reading the Macro Page — A Primer

A guide to the neucore.ai macro page — how the macro score, market regime, sentiment index, and backtest chart work together to describe the U.S. equity backdrop.

10 April 2026

A Negative-Sum Game, Being Reshaped by AI

Sharpe's arithmetic makes short-term trading negative-sum after costs — and AI does not break the math. It concentrates the winners, homogenises the losers, and grows the rake.

6 April 2026

The Next Crowded Trade Will Be Built by Machines

AI agents are democratising quantitative trading — but if everyone's agent finds the same alpha, the oldest systemic risk in markets arrives through a faster channel.

5 April 2026

Lessons Learnt by Working with Anthropic's Claude Code in Software Development

Five weeks, one developer, an end-to-end quantitative trading system. Reflections on what AI coding agents do brilliantly, where they fall short, and why human judgment still matters.