Christopher Toledo
Founder at Cactus Wren Capital
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Toledo is a founder and quantitative trader with 14 years of experience designing and executing strategies across CME, CBOE, and LedgerX derivatives while running a volatility-hedged core basket of uncorrelated ETFs. Based in Phoenix, he leads Cactus Wren Capital, where he explores unconventional market hypotheses and what he calls "financial eschatology," blending research-driven trading with continuous market discovery. Previously at Minds Forge he paired quantitative market analysis and trading with hands-on web and game development, demonstrating a rare mix of finance, software, and creative problem solving. His academic background in network administration and astronomy-physics gives him a systems-oriented, data-driven perspective on markets and tech. Christopher publishes market ideas through a newsletter, The Wren's Warble, and is constantly experimenting with new instruments and hedging approaches. Colleagues would describe him as an inquisitive strategist who bridges rigorous quantitative methods with practical trading execution.
14 years of coding experience
Network Administration, Computer Networking and Repair, Network Administration, Computer Networking and Repair at Gateway Community CollegeAstronomy-Physics, Astronomy-Physics at Northern Arizona University
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Github contributions (5)
uberscientist/wolfpuncher2
Oct 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 6 months
loganrudd/implied-vol-plot
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Using the LedgerX public websocket API we're able to get live top of the orderbook updates for an option chain with over 150 different contracts and save the data to a RedisTimeSeries type as well as publish updates to listening subscribers. An example subscriber, an interactive plot showing the implied volatility skew of the selected expiration and type (call or put).
Contributions:39 commits, 24 pushes, 2 comments in 7 months
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