Algorithmic Trading and Market Intelligence Tools for an Uncertain Future

Our platform, NOVA, enables rapid development and validation of algorithmic trading strategies through the use of highly configurable and composable models and rigorous backtesting and simulation.

NOVA

Doomsun's systematic trading platform used to develop, test, deploy and manage strategies.

  • Strategy composition

    Reusable alpha and risk models, stateless and composing through defined interfaces. Portfolio and execution behavior is declarative configuration, stored as data and versioned over time.

  • Immutable history

    An accumulate-only store. Every decision traces back to the data and model state that produced it, which is what makes a result reproducible a year later.

  • AI orchestration

    A structured surface for an agent to work against rather than a codebase to modify, so the platform absorbs advances in AI-assisted research as they arrive.

Components

  • Stellarator

    Backtesting and simulation, with a focus on execution realism and statistical rigor.

  • Daylight

    Characterizing what the current market structure is, how it is evolving, and what it implies for the near term.

The meta-strategy

Durable edge comes from the process that produces strategies, not from any one of them. Strategies emit probabilistic forecasts rather than buy/sell calls; those forecasts are scored for calibration, and capital follows the score. Individual strategies do not have to be regime-aware — only the scoring and allocation layer does.

  1. Candidate
  2. Active
  3. Attenuated
  4. Shadowed

Rotates back when the regime turns in its favor

Stellarator

Validation, before a strategy touches capital. Production-grade execution simulation and the statistical machinery that says whether a backtest means anything — in one codebase, enforced by the platform rather than assembled by the user.

Execution realism

Strategies run in-situ, through the same path they take in production, with portfolio-level allocation and execution simulation covering slippage, partial fills and market impact.

Statistical rigor

History happened once. Test enough variants against one path and some will look significant by chance. The corrections for that ship as platform features rather than as an exercise for the user.

Forward simulation completes the picture: synthetic data calibrated to real structure, preserving the volatility clustering and fat tails that geometric Brownian motion cannot produce.

Daylight

“Is this strategy still working?” is a lagging question — by the time returns answer it, the regime has already turned. Daylight asks what the market is currently capable of.

Market structure analysis

Multifractal analysis measures persistence, regime transitions, and directional asymmetry across timescales. Kinematics treats that structure as a trajectory rather than a snapshot, making the rate and direction of structural change the signal — comparable tools report a point value, this reports where it is heading.

Predictors framework

An ML framework holding temporal context across price action, structural features, and cross-market signals. Structure feeds in as conditioning context, so one price pattern reads differently in a trending regime than in a chaotic one. Output is calibrated intervals, not point estimates.

Simulation

Synthetic market data calibrated to a real market’s measured structure, preserving the volatility clustering and fat tails standard Monte Carlo cannot produce. Stellarator stress-tests strategies against those paths rather than the single one that happened.

Daylight: the multifractal spectrum H(q) over time, beside the rolling Hurst exponent against the random-walk null Daylight: forecast paths from a calibrated multifractal random walk, with median and percentile bands

The people behind Doomsun

Decades of experience in distributed systems, financial infrastructure, and algorithmic trading.

Joe Smith

Joe Smith

CEO & Co-founder

20+ years building distributed systems and fintech infrastructure

Daemian Mack

Daemian Mack

CTO & Co-founder

20+ years in consulting and fintech systems architecture

Yaw Odame

Yaw Odame

Founding software engineer
Scott Lloyd

Scott Lloyd

Operations consultant

Backtesting and validation, compared

Graded August 2026 from official product documentation, API references and public source.

Capability Stellarator Nautilus Deltix LEAN VectorBT
Execution realism
Production execution and accounting path in backtestbuilt inbuilt inbuilt inpartialnot applicable
Deterministic, reproducible runsbuilt inpartialnot supportednot supportednot supported
Double-entry ledger accountingbuilt innot supportedpartialpartialnot supported
Tick / order-book fill fidelitynot supportedbuilt inbuilt inpartialpartial
Multi-asset breadthpartialbuilt inbuilt inbuilt inpartial
Statistical rigor
Purged cross-validation with embargo / CPCVpartialnot supportednot supportednot supportedbuilt in
Deflated Sharpe ratio, trial-correctedbuilt innot supportednot supportednot supportedbuilt in
Persistent trial registry feeding the correctionbuilt innot supportedpartialpartialnot supported
Beyond the backtest
Immutable, replayable decision auditbuilt inbuilt inpartialpartialnot supported
Staged signal to fill attribution funnelbuilt inpartialnot supportedpartialpartial
Runtime forecast calibration scoringbuilt innot supportednot supportedpartialnot supported
Multifractal regime analysisbuilt innot supportednot supportedpartialpartial
Vectorized parameter sweepsnot supportednot supportedbuilt innot supportedbuilt in

built in partial, or via add-on not supported no execution layer

Grades reflect what each vendor documents publicly. Some document selectively.

Several of these are general programming environments in which a user could implement the statistical methods independently. The line drawn here is between capability enforced by the platform and capability that is optional and user-assembled.