Proto-Institutional Scalping Engine

A structure-driven intraday model rewriting how the tape is read.

QuantEdge Technologies develops physics-inspired, intraday models that read tick-by-tick microstructure, capture structural inflection points, and adapt to changing regimes in real time.

ENGINE ARCHITECTURE

From raw ticks to adaptive execution — a layered system built around structure, not hope.

Core Focus
0DTE SPY / QQQ / Weekly Exp. Option
Design Horizon
Proto-Institutional
Orientation
Price-Action / Structure
Risk Mindset
Survival First
The Engine

Market-structure first. Indicators second.

The QuantEdge Engine treats the market like a complex dynamic system, not a sequence of candles. We focus on microstructure, curvature, and regime shifts using indicators only as a language to express underlying structure, not as a crutch.

  • Multi-timeframe compression: micro/meso → 1m → 3m → 5m → 15m.
  • Curvature / inflection points in price dynamics.
  • Order-flow pressure and tape-speed context.
  • State machine for trend, range, and volatility regimes.

The engine is designed from day one to be understandable by a risk manager, not just a coder. Every decision path is loggable, auditable, and rooted in observable structure.

SYSTEM LAYERS
From raw tape to risk-aware execution.
  • L1 – Tape & Microstructure: tick/quote stream, micro-bursts, curvature.
  • L2 – Signal Engine: price-inflection models, regime-awareness, confirmation logic.
  • L3 – Risk & Structure: stop architecture, structure exits, filters.
  • L4 – Broker Layer: execution routing, throttles, and safeguards.
Broker-agnostic design SPY / QQQ 0DTE focus Microstructure aware
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Live Engine Flow

A simplified view of how the QuantEdge Engine processes the tape in real time – from raw ticks to risk-aware execution.

Market Data Ingest

Ticks, quotes, and higher-timeframe bars streamed into a unified feed.

MicroTape & Micro Hook

1s micro-bursts, price delta shock, and tape overrides watching each print.

Signal Engine

Price inflection models, flow filters, and regime context framing each decision.

Risk & Structure Layer

TSL, structure exits, and micro exits guarding downside in real time.

Execution & Logging

Broker-agnostic routing, fills, and full-session diagnostics for review.

Research

Research notes & internal experiments.

QuantEdge runs continuous experiments on microstructure behavior, intraday regime transitions, and signal robustness across instruments and timeframes. This work is exploratory, iterative, and entirely data-driven.

Over time, selected insights will be summarized here as short research notes not as trade calls, but as documentation of how the engine learns and how different components behave under stress.

INTERNAL LINES OF INQUIRY
  • Price inflection detection vs. traditional indicator crossovers.
  • Regime-aware execution vs. static rule sets.
  • Microstructure changes around sessions / volatility events.
  • Behavior of the stack under different market environments.
Simulation-first Stress-tested scenarios No retail “signal service”

This area is under active development. Public research notes will be added once internal experiments reach stable, repeatable conclusions that can be communicated responsibly.

Founder

From rockets to tape.

Samuel Banahene is an aerospace engineer by training, working on complex systems and high-stakes environments before building QuantEdge. That same mindset precision, redundancy, and respect for risk is what underpins the engine.

Combination of: hard engineering, market-structure research, and a deep respect for capital preservation.

Samuel is also the author of "Road to the Unknown. The Nelson Mandela Path", a reflection on resilience, uncertainty, and staying grounded while walking into uncharted territory.

ORIGINS
Aerospace & systems engineering background, honed in environments where failure has a real cost.
TRANSITION
Years of manual trading + research into intraday structure, eventually codified into the Vertex Stack.
TODAY
Building a proto-institutional engine focused on survival, clarity, and scalable decision-making, not hype.

Core philosophy: “Big ideas have small beginnings.” QuantEdge is still early by design: the priority is robustness, not headlines.