About me

Most trading on our planet is performed by machines; so Running Alpha's CEO & Founder, Efrem Hoffman, goes beyond analyzing how people behave to discover anomalies that exploit weak links in networking latency & reflexivity feedback effects arising from the interaction of machine perception biases and social mood. Efrem is a Global Top 50 Fintech and Quantum Computing Thought-leader, and Tornado Chasing Technology Inventor, who was mentored by: a Windows World Open Smithsonian-Nominated Quantum Physicist -- who studied under the proteges of founding fathers in relativity and quantum mechanics: Einstein and Heisenberg; a highly successful floor trading partner of Noble-Laureate, Fischer Black, an early pioneer of option pricing models and monetary and business cycle principles; a world-class trading psychologist, who popularized the profitable application of fractals and chaos in financial markets; and a quantitative extreme value investor, who harnesses insights on atomic constants for navigating around companies and nations teetering on the edge of technical insolvency. Tapping into 100,000 hours of trading market strategy experience and over 27000 professional Connections, Running Alpha’s LinkedIn Newsletter, Hoffman Financial Storm Chaser, and its flagship premium subscription service, Alpha Trading Box™, fuses data from Dark Pools and other non public liquidity sources, and public exchange information, for: identifying major turning points in equity and commodity markets; helping traders and investors profit from super-anomalies, including, among the most profitable types – “Dragon-Kings” – unusual events of high consequence, appearing like Black Swans, that most trading models can’t see coming, but are made predictable by Running Alpha, for sensing market direction over one-to-three-month trading horizons; and serving longer-term investors wanting to build high-performing anxiety-adjusted and inflation-protected portfolios, capturing the momentum powering emerging global-macro trends, from 6 to 9+ months forward. We are the first company to open new ground in financial & economic decision-making that employs a new type of alternative data science, called Relational Perception Calculus ( RPC ) TM -- branded under: Bottom-Down Analytics TM. RPC leverages quantum computing principles & gauge symmetries ( unchanging geometric relations among system parts under various conditions of rigid body motion -- rotation, translation, scaling ) for competitive advantage in world capital markets, from harvesting uncertainty and converting it into alpha-generating opportunities in equity, futures, & currency markets, to pricing risk & avoiding value-traps and gamma-traps; through value-creation risk sensing overlays on top of existing valuation frameworks and "quanta-mental" factor models. The Running Alpha Risk-Focused Research Platform offers a new kind of deliberate portfolio diversification strategy, one that organically hedges against risk for a profit instead of a cost, by constructing & combining a superposition of entangled market actor perception states ( spanning market structure & sentiment activity ), and augmenting them with early anomaly detection of subtle, rare high-impact risk events. Mr. Hoffman is a thought-leader in Smart-Data Analysis Architecture & developer of Quantum-Behavioral Trading Machines; with over 300 citations & multiple info-tech patents referenced in patents granted to Fortune 500 Companies & Research Think-Tanks.