Notes from the One Person Trade Desk

Long-form notes on building the desk: the methodology, frameworks, and code you can lift for your own setup.

How to Make the ORB Strategy Actually Work: Confluence, Structure, and Better Exits

Naked ORB is a trigger, not a strategy. Here's how to turn the opening range breakout into a system worth trading — prior-day levels, market-profile structure, cross-market confluence, and ATR-based exits — plus the three-test gate that separates a real edge from an overfit one.

June 7, 20268 min read

Guide

Does the ORB Strategy Actually Work? Backtest It in TradingView with Claude Code

Build the opening range breakout with Claude Code — it writes the Pine Script for you — backtest it in TradingView, and learn to tell when a backtest is lying to you. Naked ORB looks like an edge on the Nasdaq and dies on the S&P, and neither beats just owning the index — so here's what to actually test to turn a trigger into a system.

May 31, 202612 min read

Insight

What is the One Person Trade Desk?

A real trade desk has 10 roles, 8–20 people, and ~$5M in annual cost. OPTD is what happens when one operator fills all ten — with Claude Code, deep methodology, and a headcount of one.

May 25, 20265 min read

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