{"id":477,"date":"2026-04-18T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/?page_id=477"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:56:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hi, I&#8217;m Gaetano<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a quant trader based in Italy. It&#8217;s how I make my living \u2014 a practice I&#8217;ve been building since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My background is in engineering, and most of what I like about quant research comes from that training \u2014 measure before you conclude, favor explicit assumptions over intuition, and never trust a model that hasn&#8217;t been tested against data it hasn&#8217;t seen. When something breaks, I&#8217;d rather find out exactly where it broke than patch it and move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AIQ Notes is where I publish the work I find worth sharing. Backtests, ideas I&#8217;m chewing on, code, sometimes mistakes. It isn&#8217;t a signal service or an investment recommendation \u2014 it&#8217;s a research notebook, open to anyone curious enough to read along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve learned a lot from a handful of Italian systematic trading schools and from traders who were generous enough to share the way they think. Formal learning got me started; the daily practice of building systems, running them, and watching them fail in new ways is what keeps me learning now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few recent things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>May 2026<\/strong> \u2014 <em>&#8220;Market Regime Identification Using Trend, Volatility, And Credit Conditions,&#8221;<\/em> co-authored with Fabio Baruffa, PhD, in <em>Technical Analysis of Stocks &amp; Commodities<\/em> (V. 44:05).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April 2026<\/strong> \u2014 First note on AIQ Notes: a companion walk-through of the framework.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>February 2026<\/strong> \u2014 Guest speaker at a live evening hosted by one of the systematic trading schools I studied with, where I walked through my own operational setup.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>September 2025<\/strong> \u2014 IFTA conference in Frankfurt. I attended as an observer  \u2014 one of the most useful weeks I&#8217;ve had for meeting people from the international technical analysis community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aiqnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Senza-titolo-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>IFTA 2025, Frankfurt \u2014 with other friends and traders from the conference. (I&#8217;m second from right)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get in touch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can reach me at <a href=\"mailto:gaetanodiprima@aiqnotes.com\"><strong>gaetanodiprima@aiqnotes.com<\/strong><\/a> or find me on LinkedIn. If you&#8217;d like to follow the notes as they come out, there&#8217;s a small newsletter form at the bottom of any page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Gaetano I&#8217;m a quant trader based in Italy. It&#8217;s how I make my living \u2014 a practice I&#8217;ve been building since 2018. 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