Protect Capital. Increase Returns.
We trade financial markets using rule-based models that have consistently delivered robust, market-beating results with clearly defined risk for many years.
Protect Capital Before Growing It
At Alphawave, protecting invested capital comes first. We believe sustainable returns can only be achieved by limiting losses and managing risk through a disciplined, systematic approach. Our models are built with risk reduction at their core—from position sizing and stop-loss logic to carefully defined intraday trading windows. Risk management is not an afterthought but the foundation of every strategy, creating the conditions for consistent, systematic outperformance.
Following the Crowd Means Buying Market Risk
Alpha Is No Accident, It's Systematic
Obsessed with Performance, Disciplined on Risk
The People Behind Alphawave
Technology is only as strong as the people behind it. At Alphawave, our team of mathematicians, developers, traders and investment professionals is united by a shared philosophy: making complex markets manageable through clear rules, disciplined execution and rigorous control.
Audited Performance
Where Mathematics Delivers Measurable Results
Our live track record demonstrates that our models deliver on their promise. Following several years of technological validation, the strategy was successfully transferred into live markets. The externally audited performance figures show that our systematic approach has generated sustainable returns in live trading.
Performance Figures at a Glance 2024/2025
Selected key figures of Alphawave GmbH (the parent company). Unless otherwise stated, all figures are in euros and rounded using standard commercial rounding.
¹ Preliminary figures
² The audit covers the achieved live performance (TWR).
Eight Years Ahead
From Research Project to Industrial-Scale Deployment
Alphawave was not built overnight. The high-performance trading architecture you see today is the result of eight years of continuous development. Since 2016, together with a strategic partner, we have invested more than €7 million in our infrastructure—long before raising our first euro from the capital markets.
The Transition to Live Trading
Independent Validation.
It Is Important to Us That Professional and Institutional Investors Can Not Only See Our Results, but Also Independently Understand and Verify Them.
Transparency Through Verification: Audited Performance
We stand for measurable, externally audited results. For institutional investors, the demonstrable verifiability of trading results is the foundation of every relationship built on trust.
The Audit Certificate for the 2024/2025 Period
An independent auditing firm specializing in financial companies has comprehensively reviewed and certified the performance generated by Alphawave GmbH in proprietary trading during the 2024/2025 period.
This document officially confirms:
- The authenticity of our trading performance since our go-live, covering the years 2024 and 2025.
- An actual return of 12.09% in 2024 (with trading commencing in May 2024) and 20.48% in 2025. This corresponds to an adjusted average annual return of 19.54% over the 20-month evaluation period.
- The automated execution of our trading decisions, verified through on-site inspection.
Transparency Through Scientific Validation
Our Collaboration with Heriot-Watt University
Alphawave’s proprietary backtesting engine processes up to 14 million ticks per second—many times the capacity of conventional market systems. This computing power enables us to test trading models across decades of market history, assess their robustness and systematically rule out results driven by chance. The technological strength of this infrastructure has been independently confirmed by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Alphawave Talks – The Deep Dive.
In conversation with our trading experts and leading voices from the financial world, we explore how quantitative strategies work in practice and which technological trends are set to shape the future of capital markets.
What Makes Alphawave Strong
Alphawave is a specialised firm for quantitative absolute-return strategies. Together with a strategic partner, we have invested more than €7 million in a scientifically validated trading infrastructure, enabling us to systematically capture market inefficiencies as a source of returns for our investors.
What makes us strong: Our strategies undergo a rigorous, multi-stage robustness assessment—much like a flight simulator. We test them statistically across as many market environments as possible, select only those that demonstrate consistently stable performance, and deploy them in live trading only after they have met our strict criteria.
This is how we combine data-driven algorithms, robust technology and disciplined risk management to create return opportunities that appeal to both institutional investors and discerning private investors.