# OPTD — One Person Trade Desk

> What a hedge fund builds with $5M and 12 people, run solo with AI as the workbench.

OPTD ("One Person Trade Desk") is a project by Drew Thomas documenting how one operator can fill all ten functional roles of a real institutional trade desk — portfolio manager, quant researcher, quant developer, execution trader, risk manager, operations, performance/TCA, market data ops, tech infrastructure, and compliance — using Claude Code, custom ACSIL/Python tooling, and deep methodology instead of headcount.

The project covers indicator reverse engineering, backtest design that survives walk-forward, Monte Carlo drawdown analysis, ACSIL order management, tick-data infrastructure, and using AI as a senior-engineer-equivalent collaborator for systematic trading work.

## Key pages

- [Homepage](https://onepersontradedesk.com): Overview of the ten desk roles and the OPTD thesis.
- [Blog](https://onepersontradedesk.com/blog): Long-form notes — guides, insights, case studies, product updates.
- [What is the One Person Trade Desk?](https://onepersontradedesk.com/blog/what-is-the-one-person-trade-desk): Canonical introduction.

## Channels

- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@onepersontradedesk
- X (creator): https://x.com/drewautomates
- X (brand): https://x.com/optdesk
- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@onepersontradedesk
- Newsletter: https://read.onepersontradedesk.com/
- Contact: drew@onepersontradedesk.com