# GDV Capital

> GDV Capital is a fully autonomous AI-powered quantitative trading platform. It uses artificial intelligence to generate, backtest, optimize, rank, and execute trading strategies across US equities, commodities, and crypto — with zero manual intervention. Built and operated by Sebastián Gebhardt. A Menlo & Oak Advisory venture based in Santiago, Chile.

The system's pipeline: Market Intelligence → AI Strategy Design → Multi-Regime Backtesting → Risk-Adjusted Ranking → Iterative Optimization → Live Execution. Every component — the backtesting engine, the AI strategy pipeline, the risk-ranking framework, the broker integration, and the monitoring dashboard — was designed and coded from scratch.

## About

- [Landing Page](https://www.gdv-capital.com/): Main site with system overview, founder profile, and technical architecture
- [Full Site Content](https://www.gdv-capital.com/llms-full.txt): Complete site content in Markdown (the site is a JavaScript SPA — this file provides all text content for LLM consumption)
- [Sitemap](https://www.gdv-capital.com/sitemap.xml): Site structure

## System Architecture

- AI Strategy Generation: Autonomously designs diverse trading strategies across momentum, mean-reversion, volatility-adjusted, multi-factor, and sector-rotation methodologies
- Multi-Regime Backtesting: Every strategy stress-tested across COVID crash (2020), bear market (2022), bull run (2023-24), and recent periods
- Risk-Adjusted Ranking: Composite score weighing Sortino (30%), Sharpe (20%), returns (20%), drawdown severity (15%), and consistency (15%)
- Iterative Optimization: Top 3 strategies each generate 2 improved variants, all 11 candidates re-ranked
- Live Execution: Winning strategy deployed to live brokerage with daily autonomous execution and AI-generated market intelligence

## Tech Stack

- AI Engine: Claude (Anthropic) for strategy generation and daily market intelligence
- Backend: Python 3.11+, FastAPI, custom backtesting engine with 30+ technical indicators
- Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Recharts
- Data: yfinance (primary), with Polygon.io support
- Broker: Alpaca API for paper and live trading
- Infrastructure: Railway (cloud hosting), cron scheduling, Telegram alerts

## Markets Covered

- US Equities: SPY, QQQ, IWM, TLT, sector ETFs (XLK, XLF, XLE, XLV)
- Commodities: GLD (Gold), SLV (Silver), USO (Oil), DBC (Broad Commodities), UNG (Natural Gas)
- Crypto ETFs: IBIT (Bitcoin ETF), ETHA (Ethereum ETF)
- Latin America: ECH (Chile), EWZ (Brazil), EWW (Mexico), ARGT (Argentina)
- Europe: VGK (Broad Europe), EWG (Germany), EWQ (France), EWU (UK), EWL (Switzerland)
- Japan: EWJ (Broad Japan), DXJ (Hedged Japan)
- FX & Macro: DXY, USD/CLP, USD/BRL, USD/MXN, USD/ARS

## Company

- Founded by: Sebastián Gebhardt — CEO of Yáneken ($230M+ revenue, 170+ stores), Stanford GSB MBA (Arjay Miller Scholar), PUC Chile MSc & BSc Industrial Engineering
- Parent company: Menlo & Oak Advisory — boutique strategy & technology advisory
- Location: Santiago, Chile
- Website: https://www.gdv-capital.com
- Status: Invitation-only private platform