Autonomous

A Discord run by a hedge fund trader.

Retail account, institutional edge. What is driving the tape and what is likely to happen next, the stocks and assets it shows up in, and every trade I take. Free to join.

Not a newsletter. Not signals. Not a course. A hedge fund trader's group chat — and you're in it.

01 What Is Autonomous

Follow markets with access to
a hedge fund trader.

Your direct line to a former hedge fund trader.
See what I'm watching. The analysis. The trades. Direct access to ask questions and learn.

Free answers what happened. Insight answers what is happening, why, and what is likely next. Pro answers how I would trade it. Elite gives you one-on-one access to me. The goal is an inside look at how I actually trade, so one day you won't need me.

Membership tiers / Free Insight Pro Elite see pricing

The Trades Pro tierElite tier

Trades I take: entries, exits and the why

What and how I am trading, and my timing. My full book, including the ones that go against me. Institutional read of traditional technical & fundamental indicators Predictive cross-asset macro, liquidity & flow models Confluence of both — higher conviction, better alpha
as I take them
The Analysis and Commentary Insight tier & up

Single stocks, every asset, every session — the names you trade, covered individually, alongside the index and the macro behind them.

Daily technical analysis on the most traded names — requests taken

Single stocks, one chart at a time: the structure, the levels and the read. Drop a ticker and I'll cover it.
every session

Cross-asset analysis: themes and single names, read against credit, rates and FX

Commentary on the stocks you hold: where each name sits in the theme, and what the macro tape says about it.
every session

Sell-side research: the notes JP Morgan and Goldman send clients, and what is actionable in them

as it lands

SPX game plan: index levels and commentary through the NY session

every NY session
The Access Elite tier only

Direct access to a hedge fund trader — ask questions, get coached, and have your trades reviewed weekly

Group calls, analysis walkthroughs and Q&A, with a recording afterwards.
weekly

Insight gets the analysis and commentary. Pro gets the trades. Elite gets coached by an institutional trader.

Inside the chat

Follow the markets and trade with access to a hedge fund trader.

You ask, I answer — and you trade with more confidence, because you know why the read exists, what would break it, and what I am doing about it. That is the difference between reading someone's analysis and sitting next to the person making it. Not a signal to copy. A conversation.

Illustrative conversation · not a live feed

Autonomous Markets #pro-chat
Autonomous
GEX just flipped negative + charm turning bearish. no support until 6,820. if 6,850 breaks, short setup to 6,820–6,825.
why is 6,820 the next support?
Autonomous
Autonomous
there's a cluster of dealer long positions at 6,820 and it's a significant S/R line that's been tested multiple times. expecting buying to show up there.
Ask me in the Discord… Join free
What lands in the chat
Insight & up

Daily Market Color, Cross-Asset & Institutional Research

Every session: what is happening, what is driving it, and what to watch next — with my view and my forecast on each. Equities, rates, credit, FX and commodities read as one tape, with the positioning and liquidity underneath it. Plus what other institutions are saying: my inbox, the notes JP Morgan and Goldman send their clients, and what is actually actionable in them.

Equities Rates & Curves Credit Spreads FX Commodities Vol & Dispersion Liquidity
JP Morgan research report
Goldman Sachs research report
Goldman Sachs research report
Insight & up

Single-Name Stock/Option Trade Ideas

The names I think are set up, before they move. Each idea carries the thesis, the levels, the invalidation, and the option structure that expresses it best given vol, gamma and the cross-asset tape. Risk the premium, target three to four times it.

SPX bearish
put fly financed by call cs
Closed +$2,500 risked $500

No juice left on the upside, so I sold the Aug 6900/6950 call spread for $700. That credit paid most of a 6300/6400/6500 put fly that cost $1,200, so my real risk was the $500 difference. Calls expired worthless. SPX settled 6470, inside the wing, and the fly cashed at $3,000. Risked $500 to make $2,500.

Entry Buy Aug 6300/6400/6500 Put Fly $12.00 db + Sell Aug 6900/6950 CS $7.00 cr
Cost $5.00 net db ($500 max loss)
Exit CS expired worthless · Fly settled $30.00
P&L +$2,500 (+500% on $500 risk)
r/r ratio 5 : 1 realized · 20 : 1 at the 6400 pin
Insight & up

Technical Analysis on the Most Popular Names

Every session, my read on the most traded names: the levels that matter, the structure around them, which way I lean — and what would prove me wrong. One chart at a time, requests taken.

XYZ bullish
#charts
Support 142 (reclaimed, holding)
Resistance 148 (the retest to watch)
Read Above 142 the path of least resistance is a retest of 148. Below it, I step aside.
posted every session
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Course Library

Foundations through advanced flow analysis, plus weekly live Q&A.

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The Approach

Even a slight edge, held with discipline, outperforms.

Every edge in markets comes from one of three places, and a retail account almost never has the first two. So I teach both halves: the institutional way of reading a market, traditional and non-traditional, and the trade management and behaviour I learned from professionals. One without the other does not survive contact with the tape.

See how I trade
01

Informational

Knowing something the market does not yet. Order flow, client positioning, the print before it hits the wire.

Institutions
02

Analytical

Processing public information better than everyone else. Quant teams, colocated servers, models that reprice a thousand names in a blink.

Institutions
03

Behavioral

Doing what everyone else cannot: sitting on your hands, sizing small, taking the loss, not chasing. It costs nothing and needs no desk.

Yours to own
02 Who Am I

a trader,
not an influencer.

Founder
Autonomous Founder, Autonomous Markets
5+ yrs Institutional Trader Active Discretionary Desks Hedge Fund Experience
01

Where I Worked

I spent 5+ years across numerous institutional desks at bulge bracket investment banks and hedge funds, trading real size with real risk. I traded U.S. technology stocks for a thematic pod and covered investment-grade and high-yield corporate credit. Earlier in my career, I held junior roles covering and trading U.S. equity derivatives, swaps, and interest rate derivatives. That's where I learned how markets move from the inside.

02

The Autonomous Difference

Most people selling trading education have never sat on a trading desk. They learned from YouTube and now teach what they learned there. And the ones who have? Most followed a rules-based approach: 70% of fund traders follow an algorithm or strict system. I was an active discretionary trader, making the kind of decisions retail traders make every day. I learned to do it properly because I had a seat at those desks.

Now I run a private investment and holding company, applying those same frameworks. What I share here comes directly from that work. Building a platform around it used to take more time than I could justify. AI changed that. It handles the repetitive production tasks, while I bring my expertise to the analysis. I started Autonomous Markets because I kept watching smart people get fed garbage by people who’d never traded. And honestly, the competitive side of me knew I could do it better.

03

My Approach

Tactical Thematic Intraday 0DTE

To drive execution across the tactical, thematic, intraday and 0DTE buckets, I deploy expertise in traditional technical and fundamental indicators, coupled with a predictive cross-asset macro framework engineered to lead tape movement. Rather than relying on lagging price indicators, my approach systematically evaluates order flow mechanics, institutional positioning, and market microstructure across equities, rates, FX, and commodities.

Proprietary Microstructure & Volatility Analytics

I build custom in-house quantitative models to monitor options market structure and track dealer gamma exposure (GEX) in real time. This maps shifting volatility regimes and pinpoints structural inflection points where market maker delta/gamma hedging either dampens price action or triggers explosive feedback loops.

Systematic Flow Tracking

I pair dealer delta and gamma modeling with real-time estimates of systematic positioning across the rules-based complex — CTA trend-followers, vol-target and risk-parity mandates, and other mechanical programs. This lets me map de-leveraging and re-leveraging trigger levels, anticipating price-insensitive buying and selling ahead of major market moves.

Cross-Asset Risk & Liquidity Triad

I synthesize real-time shifts in credit spreads, global yield curves, and macroeconomic liquidity metrics alongside fixed income volatility and equity dispersion. Monitoring this cross-asset framework exposes underlying financial stress and relative-value dislocations before they surface in benchmark index pricing.

I wait for all or most of the signals derived from these frameworks to converge into one insight. I share the insights from all this analysis with you and teach you how to do it yourself and trade it in the membership.

What members say
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"My time overlapped with Autonomous at a trading desk I worked at. There's probably no one better to teach this stuff because he saw how markets move at a level most people never get access to."

Institutional Trader for 11+ years

Former Colleague, Institutional Desk

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"I've learned a lot from simply reading autonomous's takes"

X Follower since March 2022

@Mrconcerto

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"The free content he posts alone is better than courses I've paid money for"

Discord Member

@blintio21

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"My time overlapped with Autonomous at a trading desk I worked at. There's probably no one better to teach this stuff because he saw how markets move at a level most people never get access to."

Institutional Trader for 11+ years

Anonymous

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"I've learned a lot from simply reading autonomous's takes"

X Follower since March 2022

@Mrconcerto

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"The free content he posts alone is better than courses I've paid money for"

Discord Member

@blintio21

03 Pricing

Pick your seat.

Four tiers, one Discord: a seat next to a hedge fund trader. Free answers what happened. Insight answers what is happening, why, and what is likely next. Pro answers how I would trade it. Elite gives you one-on-one access to me — weekly group calls, analysis walkthroughs, Q&A and recordings.

Paid plans start at $19/mo. Pro at $39/mo is less than a 1-point move on a single /ES contract. All prices in USD, billed monthly.

Start here

Free

Market Overview & Community

What happened

$0

/month

Daily market updates and week-ahead prep. Completed trades, broken down. The community.

For the trader who wants to see how I think before paying to see what I do.

Breakdowns are retrospective — the trade has already played out.

What's included

  • Daily market updates and week-ahead prep
  • Completed trades, broken down — original timestamps shown
  • The community: discussion, questions and answers
  • General analysis and educational chart examples, posted ad hoc
  • The frameworks, taught through completed-trade examples
  • Public lessons and selected replays; Elite sessions stay in Elite
Go deeper

Insight

Research & Analysis

What’s happening, why — and what’s next

$19

/month

Full analysis, charts, cross-asset frameworks and market preparation — indices and single stocks alike, and the reasoning behind my market view.

For the trader who wants to know what is driving the narrative, what is likely to happen next, and which single names it shows up in — a direct line into a hedge fund trader's group chat.

Upgrade to Insight

What's included

  • Thematic, cross-asset analysis: themes, single names, macro, positioning
  • Daily technical analysis on the most traded names, requests taken
  • My view, my forecasts, and the scenarios behind them
  • What is driving the tape and what to watch, with my read on it
  • Sell-side equity research, raw, plus my plain-English decode
  • The frameworks themselves, taught: macro, gamma, CTA flows and dealer hedging
Recommended

Pro

Analysis & Actual Trades

How I’m trading it

$39

/month

Everything in Insight, plus the trades themselves: what and how I am trading, and my timing — entries, adjustments, trims, position updates and exits. My full book, including the ones that go against me.

For the trader who wants to see the trade, not just the thesis: the structure, the entry, the invalidation — and what I actually did about it.

Everything in Insight, plus

  • What and how I am trading, and my timing: entries, adjustments, trims, updates and exits, plus every trade idea from the desk
  • My read in real time, all session: the standing view & multi-day thesis
  • SPX session game plan: index levels and commentary all NY session
  • Execution frameworks: structuring a trade for the most asymmetric payoff
  • Reading the volatility surface: whether to express a view in options at all, and which structure
  • The members room: smaller, sharper, no noise
Full access

Elite

Full Access & Group Coaching

Access to an experienced trader

$99

/month

Everything in Pro, plus: regular access to a hedge fund trader — consult on your own trades, work with me on your development as a trader, or just pick my brain, through weekly group calls, one-on-one sessions, analysis walkthroughs and Q&A.

For the trader who wants the reasoning, not just the read: bring your own trades and questions, and work through them with me.

Everything in Pro, plus

  • Video calls and group coaching: bring your questions and work through the analysis with me
  • Step-by-step walkthroughs of the thesis, key levels, risk and trade management
  • One-on-one sessions and direct access to me for guidance and questions
  • Weekly reviews of your trades
  • The desk's indicators, dashboards & templates
  • Live audio through the open, plus deep dives, webinars and open AMAs
  • Weekly office hours: bring your questions, live with me

One scheduled group call each week, with a recording afterward. Bring questions in advance. One-on-one time is by arrangement and subject to availability; membership does not include unlimited private messages, guaranteed individual attention or account management.

The real product is the seat: a hedge fund trader looking at your process and telling you what to improve.

Free Insight Pro Elite
Deeper market analysis & the reasoning behind the viewSelected examplesIncludedIncludedIncluded
Built for WatchingSeeing it coming Acting on it Asking about yours
Every single stock/sector analysis
Thematic, cross-asset analysis: themes, singles, macro
Daily technical analysis on the most traded names
Sell-side equity research, raw + decoded
Trades I take: entries, exits & the why My full book + updates My full book + updates
Direct access to me
Weekly review of your trades
Desk toolkit (indicators & dashboards)
Weekly office hours & direct questions
SPX session game plan: levels & commentary
Lessons & frameworks Selected public lessonsFull learning resources Full learning resources Full learning resources
Market commentary Selected examples, original timestampsEvery post, live Every post, live Every post, live
Weekly group calls, Q&A & recordingsIncluded
Guided analysis walkthroughsIncluded

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Cancel anytime. Access runs to the end of your billing period. Everything here is education, not signals: posts document my process so you learn to run your own. By the time you read one, my risk may already have changed. Sizing and execution are always yours.