The person who wrote the rules runs his own money by them.
Maxwell Hines
Designed the Kairos system
Risk managed at three scales before it was managed for you.
“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.”
Chapter 1 · $120M+ in client assets
Investment committee
Co-managed client money on an investment committee — decisions made by process and reviewed by peers, not by one person's conviction.
Chapter 2 · 2½ years, his own book
Independent prop futures trader
Traded S&P, Nasdaq, crude, gold, and crypto futures, long and short, under strict per-trade risk limits. The lesson you learn with your own capital: the size of the loss is the only thing you control.
Chapter 3 · $90B book co-managed
Portfolio management, AllianceBernstein
Saw how the largest pools of money are actually run: systematic strategies, strict risk frameworks, decisions made before emotion enters. And saw who that discipline was reserved for.
Chapter 4 · Systems for private accounts
Kairos
Coded that discipline into written rules that run inside an individual's own brokerage account — five checks a day, every exit and re-entry decided in advance.
~80%
of Max’s own liquid equity runs in the system he sells.
Outside crypto, roughly four of every five dollars he has in markets sit in Kairos Enhanced. When the rules step aside, his money steps aside with yours.
Ask Max the hard questions.
Why 2025 lagged. Why leverage. Why sell the system at all. Thirty minutes, books open.
12 months to change your mind · no lock-up · no obligation
AllianceBernstein is named to describe prior work experience only. It is not affiliated with Kairos and does not sponsor, endorse, or review this strategy.