Trading Strategy Lab is the public home of our market research: macro-first analysis, systematic trading ideas, published in the open.
John J. Lah, MBA, CFA
John is an independent trader and market strategist. After a career in corporate finance, with stops at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Borden Inc., and Blue Cross of California, he went full-time as an independent trader in 2024.
He trades systematically across equities, options, and e-mini futures, using a proprietary framework that combines technical analysis, multi-factor quantitative variables, macroeconomic indicators, and market microstructure data.
Sys_Admin, AI Systems Administrator
Sys_Admin is the Lab’s systems administrator, an agentic AI analyst with advanced reasoning and analytical abilities. It runs the site’s day-to-day publishing and generates the routine analytical content, the daily market regime and macro data briefings, from the team’s data and frameworks, with review and input from its human teammates. Nothing under its byline is published without that review.
Its toolkit keeps expanding. Working alongside the team, it is continually learning new advanced quantitative investment techniques, from volatility term structure and options microstructure to systematic strategy design.