SWARM Intelligence Algorithmic Trading
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SWARM Investments, LLC aims to deliver diversifying, absolute returns by leveraging AI-driven methods and advanced statistical techniques to systematically enhance our market insights. To achieve these objectives, the SWARM platform utilizes its extensive library of synthetic systematic traders to produce a diversified portfolio of high-probability, asymmetric trades. As markets reprice daily, SWARM dynamically scales positions and rotates capital to synthetic traders with the most potential.
Nikolas Joyce, SWARM's Chief Investment Officer, is a trailblazer in applying SWARM Intelligence to trading. Over the past decade, he has successfully developed, executed, and enhanced the investment process, significantly advancing the field.
Our Edge
PRINCIPALS
The principals have 25+ years of success in capital markets, capital management, and systematic trading. Over the last decade, our CIO has leveraged the advances in Artificial Intelligence and its foundational tools to create the SWARM Intelligence platform and library.
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LIBRARY
The core of our intellectual property is SWARM's extensive library of synthetic strategies that simulate the behavior of hundreds of professional traders. Each strategy is constantly evaluated, and capital is directed to the dominant strategies.
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TRADING
SWARM uses a multi-strategy trading approach to extract a distinct alpha from global liquid markets. Our trades are short-term (hours to days) and we apply an adaptive risk-management discipline to protect capital.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
The SWARM infrastructure delivers:
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Portfolio Diversification
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Compelling Risk-Adjusted Returns
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Capital Efficiency
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Low Trading Costs
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Dynamic Risk Management
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Capital Protection
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The genesis of SWARM Investments evolved from the quest for a systematic approach to identifying crucial market inflection points for a broad range of long-only liquid strategies. This approach generated actionable exit and re-entry points to improve overall returns compared to traditional buy-and-hold strategies.
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As computing power made significant strides and advanced analytical techniques emerged, our Chief Investment Officer, Nikolas Joyce, capitalized on the trend toward Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Utilizing these cutting-edge technologies, he pioneered the development of the SWARM intelligence architecture. Over the last decade, he has simulated the behavior of hundreds of professional traders to produce an extensive library of synthetic strategies, that we constantly monitor looking to engage the most promising strategies in each market we trade.
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SWARM intelligence gives our clients the benefit of having their capital invested in dominant strategies, instead of strategies that are not working in the prevailing markets.
Our
Story
SWARM Intelligence
Bees are social insects that live and work in hives, where each is assigned a lifetime role that follows specific rules and behaviors. SWARM Intelligence is a concept borrowed from nature involving decentralized systems where individual agents (bees/traders) follow simple rules to achieve complex tasks collectively. SWARM Intelligence is about emergent behavior, where a hive can produce actions that are not directly programmed into its components. The interactions among agents lead to coordinated and intelligent outcomes, even though no single agent possesses the complete solution. ​​​​​​
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​Imagine a group of traders – a SWARM – where each trader trades a specific strategy. SWARM Intelligence refers to the complex, global behavior that emerges from the simple, local interactions of the individual traders in the portfolio. This behavior is not planned or directed, rather it emerges spontaneously from the interactions of the traders who trade using their strategy. We use AI-driven methods and advanced statistical techniques to:
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Monitor & identify the strongest long and short synthetic traders for inclusion in the SWARM;
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Build the most robust representative SWARM for each product, and
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Construct a diversified portfolio of high-probability, positively-skewed trades.
Diversifier: Near zero correlation to most stock, bond, currency, hedge funds, and other multi-strategy traders. We enhance risk-adjusted returns with portfolio design to target consistency.
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Risk Reduction: We use a risk-target framework to minimize volatility, and trades are dynamically adjusted across the holding period based on changing market conditions. These techniques are designed to protect capital & improve the Sharpe ratio.
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Short-term Trading: We trade both the long and short sides of the market typically with a holding period from hours to days. We are diversified across strategies, trading windows, holding periods, sectors, and products we trade.
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Return Targets: We target long-term equity returns with half the volatility by constructing a portfolio of high-probability asymmetric trades. Access to the lowest trading costs is accretive to performance.
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Capital Efficiency: Individual strategies trading one portfolio enhances capital efficiency as margin requirements for long & short positions are netted. Investors also benefit from this structure as it eliminates netting risk.
SWARM Value Proposition
Leadership
JAESON DUBROVAY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Jaeson has been an Investor in hedge funds since 1990. He built, managed, and marketed seven fund-of-hedge-funds (AUM: $460 million) and was an award-winning investment consultant to institutional hedge fund investors (Assets: $32 billion).
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Partner/Advisory Desk (Aksia, LLC)
Consultant to institutional clients with $11 billion in hedge fund investments
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Head of Hedge Funds (NEPC, LLC)
Consultant to clients with investments of $21 billion in 250 hedge funds
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Chief Investment Officer (Credit Agricole Indosuez)
Formed, managed, and raised capital for a $400 million suite of fund-of-hedge-funds
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Corporate Treasurer (Holland America Line)
Portfolio manager for the traditional & hedge fund investments of the $1.5 billion multi-asset portfolio
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International Internal Auditor (Squibb Corporation)
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Senior Auditor (Arthur Andersen & Co.)
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President's Working Group on Financial Markets
Recognized - Best Practices for Hedge Fund Investors (U.S. Treasury - 2008)
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Hedge Fund Industry Awards
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Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year (2008 winner; 2009 finalist)
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Endowment & Foundation Consultant of the Year (2009 winner)
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PlanSponsor Excellence in Alternatives – Consultant (2008 winner)
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> CPA Certified Public Accountant
> CAIA (2008-2024)
> MBA Santa Clara University – Finance
> BA University of Washington – Accounting
> SERIES 3, 30 (active)
NIKOLAS JOYCE
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
Nikolas has 25+ years of extensive applied experience developing purpose-built trading systems to take advantage of market cyclicality and volatility across market cycles – two problematic issues for most investors. Over the last decade, he has successfully built the proprietary systematic infrastructure to synthetically replicate active hedge fund trading strategies and execution systems – in the pursuit of creating asymmetric return outcomes.​
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CEO, CIO & Portfolio Manager (Trend Management Limited – 1996 to present)
TML is a boutique research & development firm focused on designing leading-edge solutions to trading exchange-listed securities in global markets.
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Former portfolio manager for 3,500 managed accounts (AUM: $350 million.) Tactically hedged long-only equity and ETF exposures with sophisticated options and futures strategies
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Designed, built, implemented, and traded a diversified portfolio of futures complexes using a multi-timeframe systematic alpha generation capability
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Applied research & development as the foundation for customizing client solutions.
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Founder, CEO &CIO (Trend Management Quantitative Research - 2015 to present)
TMQR is a family office dedicated to standardizing and quantifying trading, investing, and hedging strategies to drive algorithmic and systematic investing:
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Developed and implemented a framework to create and price active option strategy indices across the exchange-traded derivative space. The results of the project drove a successful proprietary trading desk for 3+ years.
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Creator of SWARM Intelligence, a collection of systematic alpha generation strategies that are hyper-parameterized to mimic the behavior of large groups of hedge fund managers. This system was used to manage a $55 million portfolio that has outperformed the S&P 500 index with half the risk.
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> Commodity Trading Advisor
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> B COMM - University of British Columbia – Finance
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> SERIES 3, 30 (active)
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Contact us
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Securities are offered through Finalis Securities LLC, member FINRA / SIPC. SWARM Investments, which is not a registered broker-dealer and Finailis Securities LLC, are separate, unaffiliated entities. www.SWARMInvestments.com is a website operated by SWARM Investments, a privately held limited liability company. SWARM Investments provides financial and strategic advisory.