Batuhan Odabasoglu

This is Fulcrum. Months of building this in silence, no name, no audience, just the work. Testing ideas and killing most of them, because they didn't survive scrutiny, and scrutiny was the whole game. Think of it as a system, not a single signal. A core engine that stays invested and rotates with the market's regime. A turbo bolted onto that engine, extra power that kicks in only when the conditions call for it, quiet the rest of the time. And around both, a set of smaller satellites reading volume and pressure, the stuff most people scroll past. Those satellites are becoming the freemium layer of what's next: market insight and technical reads, open to anyone who wants to follow along before any of it becomes a subscription. Backtested CAGR (2005-2026): 21.4% vs QQQ's 14.9%. A -43.1% max drawdown sits right next to that number, on purpose. Still in paper trading. Backtested/hypothetical performance, shared for informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Everyone talks the talk. Watch this walk. I'll be sharing the rest of the process here, stick around.

2011 was a bad year for Fulcrum's backtest: -20.7%. The S&P 500 was up almost 2% that year, and Berkshire was down less than 5%. Full year-by-year comparison since 2005 below, wins and losses both. Which year would you want explained first?

This is Fulcrum. Months of building this in silence, no name, no audience, just the work. Testing ideas and killing most of them, because they didn't survive scrutiny, and scrutiny was the whole game. Think of it as a system, not a single signal. A core engine that stays invested and rotates with the market's regime. A turbo bolted onto that engine, extra power that kicks in only when the conditions call for it, quiet the rest of the time. And around both, a set of smaller satellites reading volume and pressure, the stuff most people scroll past. Those satellites are becoming the freemium layer of what's next: market insight and technical reads, open to anyone who wants to follow along before any of it becomes a subscription. Backtested CAGR (2005-2026): 21.4% vs QQQ's 14.9%. A -43.1% max drawdown sits right next to that number, on purpose. Still in paper trading. Backtested/hypothetical performance, shared for informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Everyone talks the talk. Watch this walk. I'll be sharing the rest of the process here, stick around.

2011 was a bad year for Fulcrum's backtest: -20.7%. The S&P 500 was up almost 2% that year, and Berkshire was down less than 5%. Full year-by-year comparison since 2005 below, wins and losses both. Which year would you want explained first?

2011 was a bad year for Fulcrum's backtest: -20.7%. The S&P 500 was up almost 2% that year, and Berkshire was down less than 5%. Full year-by-year comparison since 2005 below, wins and losses both. Which year would you want explained first?

Claude's 5 hour window starts on your first prompt, not a fixed clock. So I have a routine fire a throwaway prompt an hour before I wake up. My reset now lands mid morning instead of locking me out right as I get into the Claude Code flow. Small thing, saved me an hour of dead time most days.