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Ethan Kramer
Founder & Portfolio Manager
Michigan State University
Focus
Algorithmic & AI-driven investment systems
Location
East Lansing, Michigan
Contact
contact@arctixcapital.com

The Story Behind Arctix

Arctix Capital wasn't born in a boardroom — it was built in a dorm room. Founded by Ethan Kramer while studying at Michigan State University, Arctix represents a new generation of investment firms: technology-first, process-obsessed, and designed to scale without adding human bias to the equation.

The premise was simple: traditional fund management is too slow, too emotional, and too dependent on the intuition of a few. Modern markets move faster than any human can react. Arctix was designed from day one to close that gap — using AI to generate strategies, validate them relentlessly, and execute with zero hesitation.

What started as a proof of concept has become a full-stack investment infrastructure capable of running continuously, adapting to market regimes in real time, and retiring strategies the moment they stop performing.

The Journey

How We Got Here

The Idea
Concept Crystallizes
The core thesis: AI-generated strategies, validated through rigorous backtesting, deployed autonomously. No emotions in the execution loop.
Infrastructure
Systems Architecture Built
End-to-end pipeline assembled: strategy generation → backtesting engine → validation gate → paper trading → live deployment. The graveyard database initialized — no failed strategy runs twice.
Validation
First Live Strategies Deployed
After 30-day mandatory paper trading windows, first strategies entered live execution. Kill switches armed. Drawdown limits enforced automatically.
Now
Arctix Capital — Live
Investor portal launched at app.arctixfi.com. Website live at arctixcapital.com. The system runs continuously, generating and validating new strategies 24/7.

Remove the human from
the decision loop.

The goal of Arctix Capital is not to have smarter human traders — it's to have fewer human decisions in the execution process altogether. Humans identify objectives. Systems execute them.

We believe the next generation of outperforming funds will look nothing like their predecessors. No star portfolio managers. No gut calls. Just edge — provable, repeatable, systematic edge — generated and deployed by machines.

No Sacred Cows Every strategy, hypothesis, and assumption is subject to invalidation. Nothing survives on reputation.
Process Over Outcome A bad outcome from a good process is acceptable. A good outcome from a bad process is dangerous.
Build for Scale Every system is designed to run without human babysitting. If it can't, it gets rebuilt until it can.

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