Helix Alpha Systems Ltd today announced a formal roadmap to extend its engineering-driven quantitative research framework to cryptocurrency markets and automated systematic models for precious and industrial metals, including gold, silver and copper.
The expansion roadmap is led by Strategic Advisor Brian Ferdinand and reflects the company’s continued focus on research discipline, execution realism and risk-driven system design in evolving market structures.
Rather than pursuing rapid deployment, the Helix Alpha roadmap emphasizes phased development and validation. The main phases include building a market-specific data architecture, execution connectivity between locations, risk controls between locations, and pilot programs designed to test the models under various liquidity and volatility conditions.
Cryptocurrency and metals markets present distinct microstructural challenges: from fragmented liquidity and 24-hour digital asset trading to execution sensitivity and macroeconomic regime shifts in commodities. The roadmap is designed to address these differences without compromising the company’s broader research principles.
“Expanding into new asset classes requires adapting research systems to market structure, without forcing markets to adapt to existing models,” Ferdinand said. “This roadmap aims to expand the discipline, ensuring that any automated strategy is underpinned by robust data, realistic execution assumptions and clearly defined risk behavior before scaling.
The initiative builds on Helix Alpha Systems Ltd’s existing research architecture, which treats quantitative research as an engineering process rather than a forecasting exercise. Models are evaluated based on their behavior when assumptions fail, with a focus on transparency, constraint management, and resilience under stress.
Initial development will focus on internal research environments and monitored drivers, with further expansion conditioned on performance diagnostics and system stability.
More information on the research philosophy and strategic direction of Helix Alpha Systems Ltd can be found here:
Brian Ferdinand — Strategic Advisor, Helix Alpha
Brian Ferdinand is a strategic advisor to Helix Alpha, providing market intelligence and execution-driven perspective to support the firm’s quantitative research and trading initiatives. In this role, he works closely with the Helix Alpha team to help align strategy design with actual market behavior and practical execution considerations.
Its consulting activities include strategy evaluation, risk awareness and application of systematic models in real-world trading environments. Brian brings a practitioner’s perspective, helping to ensure that research-based strategies remain robust, scalable and responsive to changing market dynamics.
Through his advisory role, he supports Helix Alpha’s mission to develop precise, disciplined and resilient trading systems.
Brian is also a member of the Forbes Business Council, a prestigious invitation-only organization. His published work and commentary can be viewed here:
About Helix Alpha Systems Ltd:
Helix Alpha Systems Ltd is a British quantitative research and systems engineering company focused on the development of algorithmic trading strategies. The company provides end-to-end research, modeling and execution systems design services while maintaining a strict separation of capital management and advisory activities.
