Stocks and bonds both fell in 2022. Your next plan needs a different switch.
Five public market checks, scored every trading day at 3:50 PM ET. Fragile, and one slice of your portfolio parks in T-bills. Healthy, and it holds Nasdaq exposure. Your money never leaves your name.
- Annualized, 2020–2026 out-of-sample (S&P 500: 15.5%)
- 40.6%
- Worst peak-to-trough drop (S&P 500: −33.7%)
- −24.5%
- PM Eastern. One decision window, every trading day
- 3:50
- Client money held by Kairos. Ever.
- $0
Kairos regime model, hypothetical out-of-sample performance; not audited, not client-account results. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Written rules that decide when one slice of your portfolio holds the market and when it steps aside, running inside the brokerage account you already own.
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Three systems. One signal behind them.
The engine
The Kairos signal
Five public market checks, scored at 3:50 PM ET every trading day: Nasdaq exposure or T-bills.
The core equity engine · Start here
Kairos Select
~40 top-ranked U.S. stocks. Re-ranked weekly. Rebalanced only when drift hits 3%. Always long.
Dynamic exposure control
Kairos Enhanced
The Select portfolio plus a 15% sleeve that moves daily between leveraged Nasdaq and T-bills.
Intraday momentum
Kairos Futures
NQ/MNQ on a 15-minute chart. Nothing held overnight. Purely mechanical entries and stops.
“When you’re inside an institution that size, you see exactly how the best money in the world is managed. You also see the wall, the one that keeps all of that away from everybody else who isn’t a pension fund or an endowment. I got tired of being inside of that wall.”
We never hold it. By design.
Your cash and securities sit at your brokerage, in your name. We are the software sending trade instructions at 3:50 PM ET. If Kairos disappeared tomorrow, nothing of yours would be stranded.
The questions you should ask us. Answered in writing.
Your money
Who actually holds the keys to your money?
The difference between holding assets and trading them, why the Madoff scandal happened, and how to verify every cent without taking our word for anything.
7 min read
The record
The $15,000 year: what our rules cost in 2025, and why we kept them
In 2022 the rules stepped aside and finished up 8%. In 2025 the same rules made 3% while SPY made about 18%. Here is the exact cost of that caution, and why you should accept it before you invest a dollar.
7 min read
The record
A 40% backtest should make you suspicious. Including ours.
A 40% annual return looks like a sales trick, and usually is. Here is the difference between curve-fitting and rules locked before the test began, and what that still does not prove.
7 min read
Take the guesswork out of the next decade.
Thirty minutes, books open. Bring the questions you’re afraid to ask: the record, the custody, the year it lagged. Your money stays in your brokerage the whole time.
12 months to change your mind · no lock-up · no obligation