◆ The Foundation
~90% of NLV (SPY)
Market exposure + dividends + margin collateral
◆ Educational research · Pre-registration open
E·P·I·G 500 — Enduring Principal Preservation Income Growth
Ekantik 500 is the open educational study of one such mechanism — a pure-booster architecture layered on a passive SPY foundation, documented trade-by-trade, with falsifiability conditions published before any capital deployment.
Educational only. Not investment advice. No solicitation. Pre-registration creates no obligation on either side.
◆ The Architecture (Educational)
Ekantik 500 documents a methodology — a pure-booster architecture — being developed for an eventual separately managed account product custodied at Interactive Brokers. Today, it is an educational study: the structure, the live operator record, and the falsifiability conditions are published openly for review before any investor capital is accepted.
The methodology proposes three components inside one account: the bulk of capital in passive SPY exposure, a small operational cash buffer to absorb daily futures settlement, and an active /ES futures overlay engine that compounds disciplined risk on top of both.
The cash buffer is not parked capital waiting to be deployed. It is the operational shock absorber that lets the engine run without disturbing the SPY foundation on adverse days. Ten percent is the architecture; ninety percent is the market exposure you already wanted.
◆ The Foundation
~90% of NLV (SPY)
Market exposure + dividends + margin collateral
◆ The Buffer
~10% of NLV (cash)
Daily settlement absorption — NOT parked capital
◆ The Engine
1 /ES per $100K (Std) or $75K (Enh)
The compounding overlay
At launch, accounts will be opened at Interactive Brokers in the investor's own name. The structure is being documented now so it can be reviewed before the product opens.
To be granted via a one-page Letter of Direction. Authority strictly bounded to futures and options activity. Revocable at any time.
SPY foundation, 10% cash buffer for operational settlement, and the active /ES overlay on top.
Read-only broker access will expose every trade, every position, every dollar — the same transparency already applied to the published live pre-registration record.
Capital will be withdrawable at any time subject to ordinary broker settlement timelines.
◆ What E·P·I·G stands for
The name encodes the design intent. Each letter names an objective the architecture is engineered to target — not a return guarantee, not a promise. Pre-registration is the window to evaluate whether the engineering choices below actually deliver on each objective when the live record accumulates.
E
Built to survive market regimes
Two falsifiability gates — armed before live capital — would publish a stop signal the moment edge or operator fidelity breach the published thresholds. The 8-test sustainability battery activates once the live record reaches 30+ closed trades. The architecture is engineered for decades, not headline quarters.
P
Engineered to preserve capital first
90% of capital sits in a passive SPY foundation; only 10% in cash funds the active engine. Per-/ES-contract risk is fixed at 0.5% NLV — the architectural anchor never changes. A trailing daily cap, a HWM−5% NLV floor, and a hard kill at −75 cumulative /ES points (1st-percentile of 50,000 bootstrap orderings) bound the worst case.
I
Engineered for steady throughput
The engine is designed to clear monthly throughput as positions close — income realized, not accrued. Specific throughput figures will be reported from the live record as it accumulates. The pre-registration window is exactly the period in which this design intent gets stress-tested in public.
G
Compounding on a passive foundation
The SPY layer compounds at the 20-year market average (~10%/yr assumed); the engine layers an additional aspirational +26% NLV target by scaling 1 → 4 /ES contracts as each profit-buffer threshold is earned. Combined design target: +35% NLV over a model year. Targets are engineering objectives, not forecasts.
E·P·I·G names the four engineering objectives that drive the architecture — they are design targets, not return guarantees. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The pre-registration live record is how each pillar gets stress-tested in public, trade by trade. Nothing on this page constitutes investment advice or an offer to sell any security.
◆ The Mechanism + The Discipline
Starting at $100K NLV. 90% allocated to SPY (assumed +10%/yr at the 20-year S&P historical average, also serving as portfolio-margin collateral). 10% held in cash and opportunistically deployed through the /ES futures engine. Per-contract risk fixed at 0.5% NLV; total per-trade exposure scales 0.5% → 2% as contract count grows 1 → 4 with the earned profit buffer. The cadence rules that bound drawdown are listed first — they govern the engine whichever way the year plays out.
◆ Risk Management Cadence · governs the engine
OP-02 One-loss daily rule
After any closed losing trade, no further entries that session. The day ends on the first loss — regardless of setup quality, conviction, or remaining time.
OP-03 Trailing daily cap v1.2
Daily P&L floor anchored to a trailing high-water mark. Per-contract risk is fixed at 0.5% NLV; total per-trade exposure scales 0.5% → 2% as contracts scale 1 → 4 with the profit buffer. The daily floor ratchets up with every new peak. Replaces the v1.0 fixed −12 ES pts cap.
· Auto-resume
Engine resumes at standard sizing on the next trading session. No witness review required for an isolated daily-cap event.
OP-05 Weekly sit-down trigger v1.2
2–3 consecutive losing days within a single week halts trading for the remainder of that week. Engine resumes Monday with standard sizing pending witness review.
· Witness audit
Witness reviews the loss cluster during the sit-down: process breach (H2) or variance (H3)? Trade attribution log filed within 48 hours.
· Logged, not killed
A single weekly sit-down is a Tier-1 event — logged in the Discord journal, investor disclosure within 7 days. No size reduction yet.
OP-06 Size reduction v1.2
2nd consecutive losing week → engine sizing cuts to 1/5 of normal (e.g. 1 /MES instead of 1 /ES). Daily filing under witness oversight for the duration.
OP-07 Reinstatement v1.2
Standard sizing reinstates only after 5 good trades at reduced size — defined as 5 closed trades with no OP breach and net positive P&L. Witness countersignature on resumption.
· Escalation
If reduced-size window produces a 3rd consecutive losing week, escalates to Stage-1 Tier-2 cessation. Stage-2 (Edge Gate) is independent and may fire at any time.
◆ What 12 months might look like
One illustrative path under the cadence above. Engine contributes +26% on total NLV via gradual scaling 1 → 4 /ES as the profit buffer compounds. SPY foundation (90% × 10%/yr historical) adds +9%. Combined target: +35% NLV. Hard constraint: trailing floor at HWM − 5% NLV (never lose more than 5% of total portfolio from any peak).
Engine contribution
+26% NLV
target · full-portfolio margin
SPY foundation
+9% NLV
90% × 10%/yr historical
Combined target
+35% NLV
engine + SPY, stacked
Hard constraint
−5% NLV max
from any high-water mark
Position scaling
1 → 4 /ES
earned by profit buffer · cap at 4
Per-contract risk
0.5% NLV
fixed architectural anchor · scales via 1 → 4 contracts
↑ All eight kill conditions are armed at every step
Hover or tap any chip to reveal its trigger. The ladder halts when any one fires — regardless of which step has been reached.
◆ Disciplined Risk
Risk is anchored per contract at 0.5% of total NLV — fixed, architectural, never escalated. Total per-trade exposure scales only via contract count: 1 /ES = 0.5%, 2 /ES = 1%, 3 /ES = 1.5%, 4 /ES = 2% (the architectural ceiling). Each additional contract is earned by accumulated profit buffer, never assumed. The dollar amount grows two ways — the capital base grows, AND the contract count grows — but the per-contract percentage never changes.
◆ Earned Leverage
Position size increases only when verified profits compound the base. The second contract is paid for by the first. Scale is earned — never borrowed, never assumed.
◆ Velocity Compounds
Each step shortens the time to the next as throughput grows linearly with contract count. By the 4-/ES ceiling, the engine is doing the heavy lifting and dollar outcomes climb non-linearly.
Aspirational and illustrative. Composition: the equity curve above is the result of two stacked layers — (a) 90% allocated to SPY compounding at the 20-year S&P historical average (~10%/yr) and (b) 10% held in cash, opportunistically deployed through the /ES futures engine. The SPY position doubles as portfolio-margin collateral, so the engine sizes against total NLV. Per-contract risk is fixed at 0.5% NLV — the architectural anchor never changes. Total per-trade exposure scales 0.5% → 2% only via contract count growing 1 → 4 as the profit buffer earns each next contract. Headline targets (+26% engine NLV, +9% SPY NLV, +35% combined) are targets, not forecasts. Engine throughput will be reported from the live pre-registration record as it accumulates. The trailing floor at HWM − 5% NLV ratchets up with every new peak, but markets can gap and slip; nothing on this page is a guarantee. The live record is still accumulating — a statistically meaningful track record will take many more closed trades.
↑ All eight kill conditions are armed at every step
Hover or tap any chip to reveal its trigger. The ladder halts when any one fires — regardless of which step has been reached.
◆ Disciplined Risk
Risk is anchored per contract at 0.5% of total NLV — fixed, architectural, never escalated. Total per-trade exposure scales only via contract count: 1 /ES = 0.5%, 2 /ES = 1%, 3 /ES = 1.5%, 4 /ES = 2% (the architectural ceiling). Each additional contract is earned by accumulated profit buffer, never assumed. The dollar amount grows two ways — the capital base grows, AND the contract count grows — but the per-contract percentage never changes.
◆ Earned Leverage
Position size increases only when verified profits compound the base. The second contract is paid for by the first. Scale is earned — never borrowed, never assumed.
◆ Velocity Compounds
Each step shortens the time to the next. By Step 5, the base is doing the heavy lifting and dollar outcomes climb non-linearly.
◆ The Standard
Five non-negotiables that govern every decision, every trade, every disclosure.
We exist to create deep, meaningful financial outcomes for those entrusted to us — not surface-level advice.
We own results alongside you. No advisory walk-away. No deflection. Skin in the game, always.
Your interests are the only interests. Fiduciary duty is our legal floor, not our aspiration.
Every touchpoint, every conversation, every artifact is engineered to feel disproportionately valuable. Less, but exceptional.
Real-time broker access. Every trade visible. Every fee disclosed in advance. No fine print, no exceptions.
If a competitor cannot match these five — and the data shows none can match all five simultaneously — your wealth deserves the firm that does.
◆ The Proof
Methodology Provenance
01
12+ years of development
Over a decade of methodology refinement — iterating on entry criteria, risk anchoring, regime behaviour, and operator discipline — to reach the point where the documented edge can be replicated trade-for-trade against a frozen process.
02
Live pre-registration record
Every trade from the May 2026 restart published to the live dashboard within 24 hours of close. Tagged per-trade, witnessed, and held to the published Stage 1 fidelity criteria from day one.
03
Battery, computed live
The same eight tests that define the Stage 2 kill conditions are computed in your browser as the live record accumulates. The battery activates once the record reaches 30+ closed trades — until then the sample is too small for statistical inference.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The 8-test battery is a statistical claim about the entire trade record and requires a meaningful sample to produce a verdict — the threshold is 30+ closed trades, with a binding determination at 100+. Until then the dashboard shows individual KPIs and the equity curve, but no battery verdict.
The eight tests below are computed live, in your browser, against the published live record. The battery activates at 30+ closed trades.
8-Test Sustainability Battery · Live Record
Activates at 30+ trades
Each test measures one attribute of a sustainable edge. The bar shows the dataset's actual reading against the pass threshold — the gold fill is the headroom above it.
◆ Run the battery on your own data
All file handling is client-side. Your data never leaves the browser. Format auto-detection supports Tradovate CSV, TradeZella CSV, Interactive Brokers Orders CSV, and Discord JSON exports.
Reset the battery to the live pre-registration record.
◆ Battery implementation is open-source. View on GitHub →
Battery activates at 30+ closed trades and is binding at 100+. Below 30 the sample is too small for statistical inference and the battery returns no verdict. Past performance is not indicative of future results. You can upload your own trade record above and the battery runs against it instead.
◆ Signal Continuity
The methodology was refined privately over 12+ years. The live, witnessed, public trading record begins with the pre-registration window in May 2026. No historical trade record is currently published — every trade visible on the dashboard is part of the live pre-registration record.
Period 1
12+ years through May 2026
Methodology development · private
Over a decade of iteration on entry criteria, risk anchoring, regime behaviour, and operator discipline. During the most recent stretch the operator's public focus was on a separate scalping methodology — the Ekantik Accelerator — publicly demonstrated and verifiable below. The Majority Opinion Predisposal Strategy itself was being refined to the point where the documented edge could be replicated trade-for-trade against a frozen process.
No public trade record from this period. Methodology development is documented in the falsifiability protocol; the live record begins in Period 2.
Period 2
May 2026 → product launch
Pre-registration live publication
Every trade on the strategy published to the live dashboard within 24 hours of close. Tagged H2 or H3 per OP-04. Witnessed per the locked Falsifiability Protocol v1.2. Pre-registration participants get a continuous live record from restart through product launch — built openly, in public, trade by trade.
— pre-registration trades published so far
No historical trade record is published. The 8-test sustainability battery activates at 30+ closed trades and is binding at 100+; until then the live dashboard surfaces KPIs and the equity curve without a battery verdict. Pre-registration participants are the first cohort with a continuous live record on this strategy from public restart through launch. Nothing on this page constitutes a forecast or guarantee.
◆ The Falsifiability Layer
An experiment without a falsifiability condition is not an experiment. It is faith. Ekantik 500 publishes two — both binding, both written before any capital is deployed, both observable in real time.
Two layers run in parallel from day one. Stage 1 — the Fidelity Layer watches whether the published method is what is actually running. Stage 2 — the Expression Layer watches whether the validated edge is still expressing.
◆ The Falsifiability Protocol
Pre-committed operational charter for the Majority Opinion Predisposal Strategy.
The full operational charter — eight Expression-Layer trigger conditions (ED-01 through ED-08), four Fidelity-Layer criteria (OP-01 through OP-04), the three-tier stand-down ladder, the Binding Interpretation Rule, the modification protocol, and the witness verification structure — is published as a single locked document. It was written before any investor capital was accepted. Any change is subject to a 48-hour cool-off, written justification, and witness countersignature, with public disclosure within 24 hours.
Witness: Manish Dharod. Operator: Hiren Desai, Founder & CIO. The summary below this card is the working overview; the linked document is the binding artifact.
Stage 1
Stage 1 falsifies discipline, not data. A profitable rule breach is still a rule breach — and it disqualifies the trade as evidence of edge.
◆ OP-01
Every entry follows the published protocol without modification. No discretionary deviation under stress. The witness — not the operator — approves any rule change, with a 48-hour cool-off, written justification, and disclosure to investors within 24 hours.
Threshold: Zero unannounced modifications, period.
Remediation: Witness countersignature required. Any breach → Tier-3 full cessation.
◆ OP-02
After any closed losing trade, no further entries that session. The day ends on the first loss — regardless of setup quality, conviction, or remaining time. This is the load-bearing intraday rule.
Threshold: Zero second-trades-after-a-loss per rolling 30 trading days.
Remediation: Per breach — trade disqualified, logged as H2. Two breaches in rolling 30 days → Tier-2 cessation.
◆ OP-03
Cumulative same-day P&L cannot reach −12 /ES points. Functions as the backstop for the single edge case where the first trade of the session is a >−12 pt loss (slipped stop, gap, structural break).
Threshold: Zero session-cap breaches per calendar quarter.
Remediation: Two breaches in any quarter → Tier-2 cessation and full process review.
◆ OP-04
Every closed trade tagged within 24 hours as H2 (process breach) or H3 (variance). H1 (edge failure) is reserved for the Stage 2 rolling-100 verdict and is never applied per-trade — a single-trade H1 tag is itself a Stage-1 breach.
Threshold: Zero missing tags in rolling 100 trades.
Remediation: Per missing tag — trade disqualified. Per H1 misapplication — Tier-2 stand-down.
| Tier | Trigger | Action |
|---|---|---|
| T1 — Logged | Isolated OP-02 or OP-04 breach. | Logged within 24h. Investor disclosure within 7 days. Counter resets. No operational change. |
| T2 — Conditions Reduced | 2+ OP-02 / OP-03 breaches in rolling 30 trades, OR OP-04 H1 misapplication. | Position cut to minimum sizing for next 20 trades. Daily filing under witness oversight. Resume on clean window. |
| T3 — Full Cessation | Any OP-01 breach. OR second T2 inside rolling 100 trades. | Immediate cessation. Investor disclosure within 24h with structural cause. Witness structural review. Resume only on countersigned remediation + 30-day calendar gap + paper-trade validation. |
◆ The Binding Interpretation Rule
Stage 2 (Edge Gate) firings that occur while a Stage 1 T2 or T3 Fidelity breach is active in the rolling 30-day window are interpretation-suspended pending remediation. The edge cannot be declared falsified from data generated during a known transmission-fidelity breach. This is the load-bearing commitment that makes the two-gate architecture coherent.
Stage 2
Stage 2 falsifies the strategy itself, not the operator. The eight conditions map one-to-one onto the eight battery tests. Provisional from 50 qualified trades, binding at 100.
| ID | Condition | Kill Trigger | Linked Battery Test |
|---|---|---|---|
| ED-01 | Rolling-100 realized EV | ≤ $0 / trade | Tests 1, 2 |
| ED-02 | Rolling-50 win rate | < 52% | Test 6 |
| ED-03 | Rolling-50 profit factor | < 1.30 | Test 3 |
| ED-04 | Rolling-50 W:L ratio | < 1.10 | Test 5 |
| ED-05a | Realized peak-to-trough DD · warning | > −45 /ES pts (25th-pct bootstrap) | Architecture-linked |
| ED-05b | Realized peak-to-trough DD · hard kill | > −75 /ES pts (1st-pct bootstrap) | Architecture-linked |
| ED-06 | Top-3 winner removal | P&L < 0 without top-3 | Test 4 |
| ED-07 | Consecutive loss streak | Single streak ≥ 7 | Test 7 |
| ED-08 | P-value floor | p > 0.10 past trade 100 | Test 1 |
Falsifiability gates describe operating commitments — written, witnessed, and dated before any capital is deployed. They do not constitute guarantees about future performance. Kill annotations describe operating commitments by the firm. Compliance with kill conditions does not guarantee profitable outcomes; gate-fires do not guarantee preservation of capital.
◆ Pre-Registration · Early Cohort
The Compounding Ladder has ten illustrative steps. Each step is built on the compounded base of the steps before it. Earlier participants — at launch — have the most steps of compounding ahead of them.
The pre-registration cohort registers interest now, while both falsifiability gates are armed but unfired, the rolling sample is pre-asymptotic, and any operator or edge breach is published before the next entry. The structural transparency of this window is what the educational study is built around.
Pre-registration creates no obligation on either side. It places you on the early-access list to receive launch materials, the executed legal documentation, and a private invitation to participate when the product opens.
Pre-registration cohort receives
Pre-registration creates no obligation on either side and does not constitute an application, subscription, or expression of intent to invest until a properly executed investment management agreement is in place at product launch. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or interest in any investment product. Educational use only.
◆ FAQ
No. Ekantik 500 is currently in pre-registration as an educational research project. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or interest in any investment product. The page documents the methodology and operator track record so that a sophisticated investor can evaluate the architecture before any product opens.
Pre-registration adds you to the early-access list. You receive executed launch materials, falsifiability dashboard updates during the educational window, and a private invitation when the product is opened for investment. It creates no obligation on either side and is not an application or expression of intent to invest.
No. When the product opens, Ekantik 500 will be funded with new capital deposited into a dedicated sub-account at Interactive Brokers. Existing holdings at other brokerages stay where they are.
Inside the proposed sub-account, the SPY allocation serves two purposes: ongoing market exposure (dividends and capital appreciation) and margin collateral for the active sleeve. The methodology does not trade SPY — it sits passively while the futures overlay operates against it.
Ekantik 500 publishes two falsifiability gates — both binding, both observable in real time. The Fidelity Layer (four operator-discipline criteria) and the Expression Layer (eight statistical kill conditions) define exactly when the strategy stops. If any gate fires, participants would receive notification within 24 hours, the active engine would immediately reduce to zero new exposure, and the trigger condition would be published.
Yes. Every trade on the strategy since the May 2026 pre-registration restart is published on the live dashboard within 24 hours of close, and exportable as CSV from there. No historical trade record is currently published — the live record is what exists. The same 8-test battery you can run on this data, you can run on your own.
The methodology was refined privately over 12+ years. During the most recent stretch the operator's public focus was on a separate scalping methodology — the Ekantik Accelerator — publicly demonstrated at accelerator.ekantikcapital.com. The Majority Opinion Predisposal Strategy itself was being refined privately to the point where the documented edge can be replicated trade-for-trade against a frozen process. The decision was made to begin the public, witnessed record from the May 2026 restart forward rather than publish private development notes. Pre-registration participants are the first cohort with a continuous live record on this strategy.
At 30+ closed trades the battery begins reporting; at 100+ trades the verdict is binding. Below 30 the sample is too small for the statistical tests to produce meaningful inference, so the dashboard surfaces individual KPIs (win rate, EV, profit factor, drawdown, R-expectancy, etc.) and the equity curve without a battery verdict. The pre-registration window is exactly the period in which the record accumulates to the threshold.
The proposed structure: no lock-up. Capital would be withdrawable at any time subject to ordinary settlement timelines at the custodian.
Ekantik Capital Advisors LLC is the firm developing the methodology. At product launch, it will operate as a Registered Investment Advisor. During the pre-registration phase, this site is operated as an educational research property — no advisory services are being offered.
The founder, Hiren Desai, holds short educational conversations with serious pre-registrants. These are educational only — no investment is being offered. Pre-register above or follow on Discord to make contact.
◆ Pre-Register
Receive the executed launch materials, falsifiability dashboard updates, and a private invitation when the product opens for investment. Pre-registration creates no obligation on either side.
Prefer the live community feed?
The Discord channel runs in parallel to pre-registration: falsifiability gate updates, ladder progression notes, weekly battery snapshots, and open Q&A with the founder. Free to join.
discord.gg/cSQFunvNRx
During pre-registration, the founder holds short educational calls with serious participants to walk through the methodology, the falsifiability gates, and the live record as it accumulates. No pitch — these are educational, not sales conversations, and no investment is being offered.
This page and the pre-registration form are educational only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, an offer to sell, or a solicitation to buy any security or interest in any investment product. Ekantik 500 is not yet open for investment. Pre-registration creates no obligation on either side and does not constitute an application or expression of intent to invest until a properly executed investment management agreement is in place at product launch.