Hi, I'm Casey

The tools that could have saved me over $270,000 didn't exist.

I started trading in 1998, right at the peak of the dot-com bubble. I made money. Then I lost it. Over the years, I lost over $270,000 learning what actually works in the markets—through blown accounts, over-optimization, excessive leverage, and more than a few scams.

The frustrating part? I wasn't losing because I was stupid. I was losing because I had no way to know if my strategies were actually good.

I'd build a system, backtest it obsessively, see incredible results, go live with real money—and watch it fall apart within months. The backtest looked profitable. The Sharpe ratio looked solid. But something was missing.

The breakthrough came in 2018.

In 2014, a fund manager recommended I read The Turtle Traders by Michael Covel. That book changed everything. I finally got serious about systematic trading.

Four years later, I learned what hedge funds actually do to validate strategies. Not just profit and Sharpe ratio—but Monte Carlo simulations, statistical significance testing, regime analysis, strategy degradation monitoring, and dozens of metrics I'd never heard of.

The difference was night and day. Suddenly I could see which strategies were robust and which were just curve-fit noise waiting to blow up.

"The tools to do this properly either cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, required a PhD to understand, or meant stitching together Python scripts, spreadsheets, and multiple platforms just to get a basic answer."

No retail trader could access what the institutions use. And no commercial software was bridging that gap.

So I decided to build it myself.

For nearly a decade, I tried to make this happen. Partnerships fell through. Outsourced development teams didn't understand trading statistics. Designers had no idea what traders actually need. Every attempt stalled before it left the planning phase.

It would have cost hundreds of thousands to bring together the engineering, design, and trading expertise required—unless you were already running a fund.

Recently, everything finally came together. After 25+ years in the markets, after helping thousands of traders through my YouTube channel, private community, and Algo Trading Masterclass, after testing over 17 million strategies to validate what actually works—I'm finally building the platform I wish existed when I started.

AlgoChef is that platform.

It's the tool that would have saved me $270,000 and years of frustration. It answers the questions that actually matter:

• Is this strategy's edge real, or just random noise?
• How bad could the drawdowns actually get?
• Is my strategy still working, or has it started to fail?
• How should I combine multiple strategies?

No stitching together scripts. No PhD required. No six-figure software budget.

Just institutional-grade validation in a modern interface, built by someone who's made every mistake so you don't have to.

— Ali Casey, Founder
25+ years trading • 22K YouTube subscribers • Creator of the Algo Trading Masterclass