Solo quant
One person, full universe
Julian Pike runs factor research as a one-person shop at Pike Factor Research. Before DollarFlow, "full universe" meant a patched API script, a Postgres table that broke every earnings season, and Sunday nights fixing broken exports.
He did not need a terminal. He needed a screener that stayed current without a data engineer.
“I run screens on 2,064 names, pull True Price history for backtests, and export watchlists — no pipeline to maintain.”
Research loop
Screen, backtest, deploy
Morning workflow: sector filter in Ag-Grid, sort by valuation metrics, open slideout for True Price bands and Lightweight Charts history. Watchlists export to CSV for the factor model. Live prices confirm entries without a second tab.
What consumed roughly 20 hours per month in data wrangling now runs inside one browser session.
“True Price history in the slideout replaced three Python scripts I was afraid to touch.”
The result
42% hit rate on factor shorts
Hit rate on factor-short candidates cleared through DollarFlow screens reached 42% over six months — up from 29% when entries relied on stale fundamentals. Maximum drawdown on the book fell 18% by exiting names that violated lower bands before gap-downs. One person, full stack, no terminal lease.
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