9 months ago I hit “publish” on the first TRQ post.

No social media. No audience. No idea if anyone would care.

Just a guy with a head full of trading ideas and no place to put them.

I wanted two things:

1. Get the ideas out of my head and into something real

2. Find other traders who think the same way: systematic, data-driven, no guru bullshit

That was it.

I didn’t have a business plan. I didn’t have a content calendar. I didn’t even know if I’d stick with it past the first month.

When I wrote that first post, I said something that still holds true:

“Sharing my ideas in public helps me too. Writing them down forces me to refine my thinking, improve my logic, and elevate my game.”

You push me. I push you. We both get better.

And no, sharing strategies doesn’t scare me. There’s no holy grail. The edge isn’t in one system. It’s in how you combine them into a non-correlated portfolio.

Today, as 2025 ends:

6,500+ of you are reading this.

Hundreds of you trusted me enough to become paying subscribers, some since Day 1, before I had proven anything. That trust keeps me going.

30+ complete strategies published — with code, backtests, and no black boxes.

Dozens of AI prompts for strategy building, analysis, and idea generation.

200+ trading strategies from academic papers translated into plain English in the RogueQuant app.

And a community of traders who actually get it.

I’m not going to lie… this year surprised me.

I expected to feel like I was shouting into the void. Instead, I got emails from traders in 40+ countries telling me this thing actually helps them.

That means more than the numbers.

Turns out, when you put real energy into something you care and keep showing up, week after week, even when nobody's watching… good things find you.

So what’s coming in 2026?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

What would make The Rogue Quant Newsletter 100x more valuable to you?

More strategies? Sure, those are coming. More AI trading prompts? Okay. More content? Yep.

But that’s not enough.

What’s missing (in this whole industry) is two things:

1. A real process.

Everyone sells strategies and signals. Nobody teaches you how to validate them yourself.

So I built a challenge to fix that.

“Zero to First Automated Strategy” — 20 days, one email per day, one exercise per day.

By the end, you have a validated trading strategy ready for incubation.

Not a course you watch and forget. A challenge you actually do.

Launching in January. Paid subscribers get a fat discount.

And the second thing is…

2. Skin in the game.

Everyone shows backtests. Everyone shares “ideas.” Nobody puts real money on the line and shows you what actually happens.

So I’m changing that.

The TRQ Live Portfolio: a real account, real money, real strategies from the newsletter. Complete transparency. Every trade, every drawdown, every mistake.

Not paper trading. Not hypothetical. Real.

If I’m going to ask you to trust these strategies, I should be trading them myself.

More details coming in Q1.

For now, I just want to say thank you.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for the emails, the questions, the feedback, the ideas. Thank you for making this real.

2025 was the experiment.

2026 is when we find out what this thing can really become.

Happy New Year.

— Leo
The Rogue Quant

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