2 Jan 2026 — a quick reflection for investors.

2025 didn’t break markets — it exposed portfolios.

Many investors went into last year relying on one main engine: equities, a favourite sector, or a single strategy that worked before.
But as markets rotated, returns became patchy, timing got harder, and many “diversified” portfolios started moving together when volatility picked up.

It became clear that relying on just one way to make money leaves very little room for error.

That’s why we’re flagging Invest360 (Turning Knowledge into Real Wealth) — a session focused on building a more balanced, multi-asset portfolio that can carry through different market cycles.

You’ll also hear from our Founder & Sponsor of Quant X Club, Sean Seah — now Portfolio Manager of the Alpha Quant Index — sharing how systematic, data-driven investors think about portfolio construction going into 2026.

If you’re actively investing this year, this is worth a listen.

👉 Register here:
https://www.togethernextlevel.co/invest360?utm_source=sean

🤖 Build a Robot That Trades for You

Hey Quant X Tribe!

Ever noticed this pattern?

You know your setup.
You know your rules.

But somehow you still:
• hesitate
• enter late
• exit early
• or don’t take the trade at all

Then you watch it work… without you 😮‍💨

We’ve been there too.

The painful truth we learned:
👉 The problem wasn’t the market.
👉 It was manual execution.

That’s why we stopped trying to be “more disciplined” —
and started building a system instead.

A trading robot isn’t AI magic.
It’s simply:
• your rules
• your risk
• your logic

…executed without emotion.

If you want 2026 to be the year you stop screen-watching and second-guessing,
we’ll show you step by step how to build your own trading robot using the B.O.T system.

👉 Click here to register now!

To your growth,
Team Quant X - Where Data Becomes Alpha

🖤 Riskless Options? Sounds Fake — Until You See This Payoff

Blessed New Year 2026, Quant X Tribe.

We’re kicking off the year with a structure that made us pause and double-check the payoff graph.

Same iron condor idea.
One structural change.
And at expiry… the loss zone disappears.

Instead of guessing direction, this setup reshapes the payoff itself — profit varies, but there’s no red zone on the expiry graph.

We call this structure Blackbird.

🛩 Quiet.
🧠 Engineered.
📐 Structure over prediction.

We broke down the full concept (with visuals) in today’s newsletter — plus there’s a New Year gift at the end for those who want to go deeper.

👉 Click here to read now

To your growth,
Team Quant X - Where Data Becomes Alpha

🚨 Before Alpha Trading Cup Starts (15 Jan)

Gold (XAUUSD) just ran from ~$2,600 → $4,400 in a year.

Huge move.
Yet most traders still struggled.

Why?
Because volatility breaks execution if you don’t understand the market environment.

That’s why, before Alpha Trading Cup begins, we’re inviting you to a premium partner session this Monday.

📅 Next Level Academy
Genesis Enhanced Masterclass
🗓 Monday, 12 Jan 2026, 7.30pm

You’ll learn:

- How professionals interpret price in high-volatility markets

- How to spot structure that can later be systemized

- How to approach gold with rules, not reactions

This is not about manual trade calls.
It’s about preparing for systematic execution.

👉 Register here (12 Jan)

⏳ Final prep before execution begins.

⚡️ Anti-Blackbird: What We Use When Markets Refuse to Behave

Hey Quant X Tribe,

We were on Zoom, training through Blackbird,
when one of our Quant X Club members sent in a trade he had just built on the spot.

Different structure.
Opposite logic.

Instead of betting on quiet markets, this setup only works when price moves hard.

Same options toolbox.
Completely inverted intent.

We call this idea Anti-Blackbird.

🌪 Built for expansion
📈 Designed for movement
🧩 A portfolio complement — not a replacement

We broke down the full concept (and why it matters for portfolio thinking) in today’s newsletter.

👉 Click here to read now

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

Alpha Trading Cup Kick-Off 🚀

This Thursday, we’ll show you step by step how to build and run a trading robot in MT5.

No coding. No jargon. Just a clear process you can follow.

🗓 15 Jan | Thurs | ⏰ 7:30pm
👉 Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/hl--V5FNTCSbVEbSqY2myQ

🧠 From Intuition to Algorithms: What Exactly Is Quant X Club?

Most retail investors still trade on instincts, headlines and hope.

At Quant X, we believe the future belongs to systems, not feelings.

Quant X Club is where everyday investors learn to think like quants: no hype, no guesswork and no coding required.

Inside, 3,000+ of our members are:

📊 Studying rule-based systems
⚙️ Testing + deploying real strategies
🧪 Seeing what works (and what doesn’t)
🙋 Guided weekly by our CIO & Fund Manager Glen Ho

If you’re ready to upgrade how you invest:
👉 Follow us on LinkedIn
👉 Read the full post + discover how to enter the Club:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7417025790510284800

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

Alpha Trading Cup Kick-Off 🚀

Tonight, we’ll show you step by step how to build and run a trading robot in MT5.

No coding. No jargon. Just a clear process you can follow.

Starting at 7:30pm sharp!
👉 Zoom link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/hl--V5FNTCSbVEbSqY2myQ

📂 Resources from Tonight’s ATC Session with Dr Christine

Thanks everyone for joining the session earlier.

Here’s the shared folder with the materials covered:
👉 Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GrPzNnIpzu0-cI8e4M9gfOAa0qg4eToN?usp=sharing

🏆 ATC 2026 Registration & Leaderboard Access
If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here and access the leaderboard:
👉 https://atc.alpha-techlab.com/

🗓 Next ATC Session — Save the Date
29 Jan 2026 (Thu) | 7:30 PM
🎤 Jaz — Why 90% of Day Traders Fail in 90 Days (And How TAD Fixes Their Fatal Mistake)

🚀 All the best and start building your bots! 🤖

⚡️ F/A-18 Hornet: The 7DTE Strategy We’re Stress-Testing

Hey Quant X Tribe,

Last week, we revisited a 7DTE weekly options strategy that initially looked… comfortable.

Clean backtest.
Consistent structure.
The kind of setup many traders would happily run every week.

But that’s exactly why we slowed down.

Because weekly strategies don’t fail when markets are calm —
they fail when conditions quietly change.

So instead of asking “Does this work?”
we asked a better question:

“What happens when this is stress-tested?”

That’s the mindset behind F/A-18 Hornet.

🛩 Built for changing conditions
📊 Focused on structure, not surface results
🧠 A lesson in robustness — not blind consistency

We broke down the exact 7DTE structure, why first backtests can mislead, and how we stress-test weekly strategies properly in today’s newsletter.

👉 Click here to read now

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

🤔 Still trading manually in 2026?
That’s exactly why most retail traders never scale.

Markets today are dominated by algorithms, execution speed, and systems that don’t hesitate.
If you’re still clicking buy/sell by hand, you’re not “early” — you’re already behind.

That’s why we built Alpha Trading Cup 2026.

This isn’t a demo challenge.
This isn’t a paper competition.

It’s live CFD trading across Gold, FX & Indices — real volatility, real capital constraints, real performance tracking.

Participants compete using Expert Advisors (EAs) on MT4/5: fully systematic bots designed to execute rules with discipline, not emotion.

Whether you build your own EA or compete via copy trading, this is where strategies get exposed — or proven.

Why serious traders are entering:
🏆 $12,000 USD prize pool (Alpha + Copy Trading)
🧠 Hedge funds scouting the live leaderboard
💰 Up to $10,000 trading credits (qualified participants)
🎖 On-stage awards — May 2026

📅 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2026

This isn’t about prediction.
It’s about process, robustness, and execution under pressure.

🔥 Want to stop trading manually and start competing like a quant?

👉 Learn to build and deploy real EAs here

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

🚨 Hot take for 2026 traders

If you’re still trading on news, gut feel or vibes then you’re already behind!

Markets today are driven by rules, probabilities, and algorithms - not opinions.

We broke this down clearly in our latest IG reel 👇
https://link.alpha-techlab.com/qxig13

Watch it. Then ask yourself: are you trading the market, or trading noise?

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

⚡️ Why “One Good 0DTE Strategy” Is a Hidden Risk

Hey Quant X Tribe,

Most 0DTE traders ask the wrong question.

It’s not “Which strategy works best?”

It’s “What breaks when volatility changes?”

0DTE strategies don’t fail slowly. They fail when regimes shift and running a single setup concentrates risk on the same days.

Inside Quant X, we think in portfolios, not trades:

• Different volatility regimes
• Different strategy behaviours
• Different failure modes

That’s how you survive when markets stop behaving.

👉 Read the full breakdown here

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

❌ Why 90% of Day Traders Fail in 90 Days

Hey Quant X Tribe,

Most day traders don’t fail because they lack effort, they fail because they use one strategy for every market.

Trending, sideways, choppy… same approach, same mistakes, faster losses.

In this week’s newsletter, we break down why this structural error wipes out most traders within 90 days and how a simple two-tool framework used by professionals helps you adapt instead of force trades.

👉 Read the full breakdown here

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

[Answer 3 Qus to get a Ticket to Quant X Inferno]

Hi Tribe

3 years ago, when I started deep diving into Automated Quant Trading, I was totally blown away by this way of investing.

It uses a scientific, data proven approach and automatically executes trading strategies so that common human errors are eliminated.


BUT ~ for a new beginner to learn how to do Quant Trading is in fact not easy and that's the main reason most people never get to actually doing it.

I mean, who doesn't want an automated trading system that is data proven and help us trade while we sleep?

For months, the team has been cracking our head on how to get beginners started and finally we managed to develop a much simpler way ~ "Using specialized Agentic AI prompts with detailed rulebooks and guardrails that helps humans co-pilot in Quant Trading"

In simple words, we developed a systematic way to help beginners use AI 'correctly' by

1. Creating Specialized AI

2. Having structured Prompts for Each AI

3. Stringing the AIs together to form an AI Team.



This is what it looks like (using a an automation platform called make.com)


On 14th Feb, we will be hosting a workshop for Quant X club members on how to use the 5 Agentic AI prompts we have developed, where beginners can simply copy and paste to start quant trading eliminating 90% of the technical know how.

We are doing some gift aways for tribe members ~ you just need to answer 3 questions to be able to get the tickets

Quant X Inferno

Date: 14th Feb 2026

Time: 9am to 4pm

Location: Zoom

To secure a seat, please register using this form where you need to answer 3 simple reflective questions to get a ticket.

https://forms.gle/2dbcrZ7YRUwAe4ce9

[Agentic AI Quant X Inferno]

See previous message to get a ticket to the event.

From zero to automated Quant with 5 Agentic AI prompts

🟡 Gold Exploded. Then Reversed Hard.

Some traders chased the rally and got trapped.
Some shorted too early and got squeezed.
Most walked away confused.

But one of Jaz Lai’s students did something different.

He waited.
Identified the right market condition.
Applied the right framework.

➡️ One gold trade. 5-figure result.

Same market.
Very different outcome.

That’s why we’re opening one more live session tonight for those who missed Jaz’s earlier sharing.

Tonight, Jaz will break down:
• What actually happened in gold
• Why most traders got chopped up
• How adapting to market conditions made the difference

💡 This isn’t about predicting news or catching every move.
It’s about knowing when to engage — and when not to.

🗓 Tonight — 3 Feb (Tue)
⏰ 8:00 PM
🎯 Why 90% of Day Traders Fail in 90 Days
(What Gold’s Recent Move — and a 5-Figure Trade — Revealed)

👉 Join live

To your growth,
Team Quant X — Where Data Becomes Alpha

Hey Tribe 👋

Recently, a Singles Inferno contestant — Samuel Lee — blew up online after people found his LinkedIn.

Everyone’s asking one question:
What does he actually do for work?

Turns out, he’s a Quant Trader.

Here’s the part most people miss:

Being a “quant” isn’t about being born a genius.

It’s about learning how to:
• turn decisions into rules
• test ideas with data
• remove emotions from execution

Watch full reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUSUYx2ksbk/?igsh=MWlhMGhtNGNzYXBsMg==

And if this world genuinely interests you, this Valentine’s Day we’re running an exclusive live session:

🔥 Quant X Inferno
A beginner crash course on:
• What quant investing actually means
• How systematic strategies are built
• How to start thinking in probabilities (not vibes)

Comment on the IG reel to get a special sign up link!

To your growth,
Team Quant X - Where Data Becomes Alpha

What if I told you the weather in New York could predict stock market returns? 🌧️📈

Hey Quant X,

Have you ever wondered why the shadows of oil tanks in satellite images can hint at supply before stock prices move.

Sounds crazy, but this is exactly how quant investors think. If you look closely enough…signals are everywhere.

Watch full reel here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUX1ozdEj4B/?igsh=MW9sd2EzZmpobjY4Ng==

Make sure to follow our Instagram channel for more real world data & real market edge!

To your growth,
Team Quant X - Where Data Becomes Alpha

Hey Quant X,

A trader we know turned $17k into $250k in about two weeks trading options.

It felt amazing… until one night wiped out almost everything.

Not because he was dumb.
Not because he didn’t know markets.

But because one decision mattered too much.

That loss changed how he traded.

Today, he runs 23 strategies at the same time.

Small risk each.
Rules enforced.
No single trade can ruin him.

If you’ve ever had a trade that affected your sleep or your mood, you’ll get this.

This is exactly why we’re running Quant X Inferno on 14 Feb — and honestly — we’re already almost full because we prioritised our paid members first.

If there are any remaining seats, they’ll go to people who move early.

Here’s the link while it’s still open:
https://forms.gle/2dbcrZ7YRUwAe4ce9

To your growth,
Team Quant X