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QuantAscent is a desktop app that gives individual investors the kind of analytical tools professionals use. Build investment strategies from real financial data, backtest them against 13+ years of history, then execute stock trades through your own brokerage account — every order previewed and confirmed by you.

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A new kind of investing tool. Built for people who want to understand their strategies — not guess.

01 / RESEARCH

Research what works

120+ financial metrics computed across 5,000+ US stocks and counting.

02 / BUILD

Build your strategy

Compose multi-factor rules as cards. Set weights, add filters. No code, no formulas.

03 / BACKTEST

Backtest your strategy

Run your strategy against 13 years of real market data. See exactly how it would have performed.

04 / DEPLOY

Deploy and track

Connect Interactive Brokers and go live. Every trade and rebalance tracked automatically.

Historical statistical output, shown to illustrate the software. A metric's past relationship to subsequent returns may not persist, and does not predict the return of any individual stock.

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Add a factor. See what changes.

Build multi-factor strategies in real-time.

STEP 1 OF 3 Define your stock universe

Filter the market down to the stocks your strategy will score and trade — then find the metrics that have been most associated with subsequent returns inside it.

SECTOR

Utilities

Technology

Healthcare

Industrials

Energy

MARKET CAP

Any

≥ $300M

≥ $2B

≥ $10B

SHARE PRICE

$—

$no max

STOCKS IN UNIVERSE 6,207

✓ Technology

✓ Market cap ≥ $300M

✓ Price ≥ $5.00

2023–2026 · 90-day rebalance · liquidity-screened

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STEP 2 OF 3 IC Rankings — top metrics per factor TECHNOLOGY · 947 STOCKS

INFORMATION COEFFICIENT (SPEARMAN) · 90D FORWARD RETURNS

ADDED TO STRATEGY 0/3

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FCFYield [decimal %] Value

IC +0.094 ±0.011 95% CI p 0.0000 *** higher is better n_valid: 10,832

Quintile Returns — Spread (Q5−Q1): +3.7 pts

Stocks in the top quintile by FCF yield returned +2.8% per period vs −0.9% for the bottom quintile — a spread of +3.7 points.

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STEP 3 OF 3 Score Analysis — mean return by strategy score

The signal holds

Stocks scoring 70+ outperformed the filtered universe average of +3.65% — which itself beat the unfiltered market average of +1.29%.

The dip at 80 reflects a thin sample: 4% of stocks.

Run backtest

RUNNING BACKTEST · lookback=20q · rebal=90d · slippage 0.10% · commission $1.00

BACKTEST COMPLETE

+108.7%over 3 years

In this simulation the strategy returned about 3× the S&P 500 over the same window. Your results will differ.

Strategy +108.7% SPY +36.5%

CAGR+27.8%

Sharpe1.49

Max Drawdown−14.5%

Ann. Volatility15.7%

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This demo uses simulated data for illustration only. The results shown are not actual investment returns, are not a guarantee of future performance, and a strategy you build may perform very differently — including losing money. QuantAscent does not provide investment advice or recommend any security.

Every result is explainable.

Run your factor approach across different sector filters. See exactly where it works — and where it doesn’t.

SECTOR FILTERS TESTED

Communication Services — Quality

Industrials — Momentum

Financial Services — Momentum

My Custom Strategy

WHAT THIS SHOWS

Communication Services — Quality was the risk-adjusted standout of the test: a 1.67 Sharpe, an 88.9% period win rate, and the smallest drawdown of the four at 5.9%.

Its +77.4% total return edged SPY while carrying roughly half the market exposure (beta 0.55).

Every metric is calculated from the same historical data, same time window, same assumptions — so the comparison is apples to apples.

WHAT THIS SHOWS

Industrials — Momentum finished at +125.9% with the highest alpha of the test (+15.4%) at a below-market beta of 0.87.

It spent most of its first year underwater before recovering — backtested curves include long stretches of trailing, and this one shows it.

Every metric is calculated from the same historical data, same time window, same assumptions — so the comparison is apples to apples.

WHAT THIS SHOWS

Financial Services — Momentum posted the highest total return of this test — +153.9% over three years, versus +72.0% for SPY.

The ride wasn't free — it carried a 17.8% max drawdown and 25.5% annualized volatility along the way, with a Sharpe of 1.26.

Every metric is calculated from the same historical data, same time window, same assumptions — so the comparison is apples to apples.

WHAT THIS SHOWS

My Custom Strategy started as a built-in: adopted in the Strategy Builder, then modified into a user-defined variant with a wider 12-stock portfolio.

In this window it returned +89.7% versus SPY's +72.0%, with an 11.4% max drawdown — a middle-of-the-pack result, produced by rules you define and can re-run.

Every metric is calculated from the same historical data, same time window, same assumptions — so the comparison is apples to apples.

Change the sector universe or factor weights and re-run. The result always reflects exactly what you configured.

About the backtested results on this page. These figures are hypothetical. They were produced by applying a set of rules to historical data, not by trading an account. Backtested performance is calculated with the benefit of hindsight, assumes the rules were applied consistently and that every trade filled as modeled, and does not reflect the taxes, fees, spreads, or market conditions you would actually face. Historical data can carry survivorship and reporting biases. No representation is made that any strategy or account will achieve similar results. Past performance and hypothetical performance are not indicative of future results. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal.

Built for investors who want to understand their edge.

Not a signal service. Not a blackbox. A tool for building and testing strategies you can actually explain.

HANDS-OFF INVESTORS

You want investing to take an hour a month — not a second job.

Set your rules once, rebalance on your schedule, and skip the news feeds and watchlists in between.

Not for: people who enjoy reacting to the market every day.

PROCESS-DRIVEN INVESTORS

You think in rules and evidence — not hunches.

Build a strategy from factors you choose, backtest it against history, and find out whether your edge is real before you risk a dollar on it.

Not for: anyone who'd rather trade on gut feel than test an idea.

LONG-TERM THINKERS

You're optimizing for decades, not the next earnings call.

You're not trying to time the market. You want a repeatable process — one you can run monthly, review annually, and explain rationally when markets get rough.

Not for: active traders looking for short-term signals or price alerts.

TRANSPARENCY-FIRST

You want to know exactly why your portfolio holds what it holds

Every position traces back to a factor score. Every rebalance follows a rule you set. You own the logic, not just the outcome.

Not for: anyone comfortable handing their decisions to a black box they can't inspect.

QuantAscent Technologies LLC is a software company. It is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and nothing on this site or in the application is investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, or a recommendation or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Strategies, screens, and built-in templates are analytical tools that you select, configure, and act on; they are not tailored to your financial situation, objectives, or risk tolerance. Performance figures shown on this site are hypothetical and backtested unless expressly labeled otherwise; they are not actual trading results and are not a guarantee or prediction of future performance. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. See our Disclosures, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.

Find your edge. Test it, trade it, track your returns.

A new kind of investing tool. Built for people who want to understand their strategies — not guess.

Research what works

Build your strategy

Backtest your strategy

Deploy and track

One signal is fragile. Several signals reduce the risk.

Add a factor. See what changes.

Build multi-factor strategies in real-time.

Every result is explainable.

Built for investors who want to understand their edge.

HANDS-OFF INVESTORS

PROCESS-DRIVEN INVESTORS

LONG-TERM THINKERS

TRANSPARENCY-FIRST

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