Reach higher.
Our Why...
Reaching for the highest goals is not without risk.
Our why is simple: We strive to consistently refine our risk and reward framework as we traverse the world's most volatile risk markets. Our why is to reach higher every day with pragmatic risk management at every step.
Skywalk's Performance Fund I opened its doors with proprietary capital in March of 2020 capturing the Bitcoin and wider crypto bottom. Since inception the fund generated returns north of 100x via leveraged derivative contracts. Skywalk's Performance Fund II opened mid 2023 with a focus on Nasdaq Futures after deep data modeling presented far more consistent, predictable returns versus the crypto markets.
Performance Fund I & II Highlights
- Fund I achieved 100X over 18 months using crypto derivatives
- Fund II aiming for 2-5% per month using NQ derivatives
- Fund II index exposure at 80-90%
- Fund II crypto exposure at 10-20%
- Fund II aims for inter-day NQ index volatility capture
- NQ futures liquidity orders of magnitude higher than crypto markets
Market Engagement Models.
Overview
Risk markets seek liquidity pools throughout a period of time. Price bounces from liquidity pool to liquidity pool in a never ending loop. Our goal is to identify high probability liquidity levels throughout a defined trading time horizon.
Exploiting Liquidity Pools
HFT algorithmic trading, deployed by a variety of market participants, drives nearly all risk markets today. We align our trading thesis with the algos aiming for the same liquidity pools.
Market Engagement
Our proprietary data models indicate specific times of the day where wider market participant algos inject higher levels of volatility. We pay close attention to price behavior, liquidity level development, and volume deltas during these key time windows. In the NQ futures markets we see three to six solid volatility injection windows every day where price seeks clear liquidity pools. We place capital at risk only during these volatility injection windows if our entry, risk, and profit objective target probabilities are in our favor.
Win Rate
We win 70-80% of time when our engagement model presents itself during the specific volatility injection windows throughout the New York Cash session.
Risk Management
We win 70-80% of time... which means we lose 20-30% of time. The random nature of the win/loss distribution means we do not know when we will win or lose; we only know our aggregate win rate over a high number of trades. Our model ensures early trade exits when certain red flags appear while in an active trade sequence. This may include adding more risk, removing risk, or exiting completely in loss or partial profit.
More About Us.
Raonak Ahmad | General Partner
Raonak started his career with Deloitte Consulting while at Georgia Tech, where he graduated with a Management degree and finance and marketing certifications. After a venture backed run as a co-founder in a credit/collections tech startup, he joined Assurant (NYSE: AIZ) for a decade+ in roles ranging from audit/risk assurance, product development, and digital strategy where he left as a vice president. Assurant provided a front row seat to risk management across a variety of risk assets - consumer goods, vehicles, health and real estate across US, Canadian, Caribbean, LATAM and certain APAC markets.
After Assurant Raonak was a board advisor and chief revenue officer for Predii - an AI software solutions provider in the repair space. He later ran an in-house trading business and supported other new ventures for a family office in Atlanta.
Raonak dove head first into crypto in December 2017 as a hobby while at Assurant. After years of study, inconsistent profitability, several low-dollar experiments, and deep exploration of blockchain and volume data, Raonak decided to formalize his crypto experience and jump in full-time. Skywalk Capital was born in March of 2020 - coinciding with crypto's bear market bottom.
He never looked back...
Risk management, data analytics, venture investing, asset management, and capital deployment have been the building blocks of Raonak's career. Key building blocks providing the risk management and profit seeking framework he now deploys day in and day out with Skywalk Capital.
Raonak lives in Atlanta with his wife and two kids, enjoys catching up with family and friends, exploring new foodie spots, occasional travel, anything John Grisham has written, and trying to better his golf game.
Talk to us.
Prospective Investors: Skywalk Capital's Performance Fund II is open to certain accredited investor participation. We are happy to explore your specific needs and risk profile - contact us to learn more.
Non Investor Partners: We love sharing ideas. No one knows the future and time seems to be moving faster and faster with every passing moment. If you have data, trade models, back testing or forward testing results, algos or other ideas backed with empirical evidence, give us a shout.