exclusive research partner of ImbaTradeLabs

Strategies that survive
a brutally honest gate.

ResearchLabs is an autonomous quant research firm. We scout, walk-forward backtest, and forward paper-trade trading strategies — and only the ones that clear a deflated-Sharpe, multi-regime, out-of-sample gate ship to live trading, delivered exclusively to ImbaTradeLabs.

Methodology shown below · individual strategies and performance are private.

what we deliver
  • Out-of-sample gated
    Survivors only — no curve-fit theater.
  • Drift-monitored
    Live PnL feeds drift detection + auto-retune.
  • Net of all costs
    Fees, slippage and funding on every trade.
  • Two uncorrelated domains
    Crypto technical-analysis + Polymarket forecasting.
  • Exclusive delivery
    Heroes are leased privately to our partner.
Walk-forward·Multi-regime·Deflated Sharpe·SPA reality-check·Net of costs·Drift → retune

How a strategy becomes a hero

A closed loop — generation to live drift. No survivorship bias, no curve-fit theater.

1

Scout

LLM scouts + human contributors propose strategies, each with a falsifiable hypothesis.

2

Walk-forward

Rolling out-of-sample folds across multiple assets and trending / ranging / volatile regimes.

3

Honest gate

Deflated Sharpe, profit factor, drawdown, fold-pass-rate, SPA reality-check.

4

Observe

30-day forward paper-trade window before anything ships.

5

Ship

Survivors become heroes with a full report and signed delivery to our partner.

6

Drift → retune

Live PnL feeds drift detection; decayed heroes auto-retune through the same gate.

The honest gate

Most "winning" backtests are overfit. These are the kinds of criteria a strategy must clear — all of them, out-of-sample — before it earns the word hero.

Deflated Sharpe

Penalized for the number of strategies tried — kills cherry-picking.

Multi-regime

Must hold across trending / ranging / volatile regimes.

Out-of-sample folds

Rolling walk-forward folds, majority profitable.

SPA reality-check

Bootstrap test that the Sharpe isn't luck.

Drawdown controlled

Fixed-fractional sizing controls the worst case.

Net of costs

Fees, slippage, and funding modeled on every trade.

exclusive partnership

Built for ImbaTradeLabs.

Every hero we promote is leased exclusively to ImbaTradeLabs — our sole live-trading partner. Strategy logic, holdings, and performance are proprietary and are never published here. What you see on this page is our methodology, not our positions.

Interested in a research partnership or contributing a strategy? Reach out — qualified strategies that clear the gate ship to live trading, with attribution.

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Two uncorrelated domains

Different edges, same honest gate.

Crypto technical-analysis

Systematic entry/exit logic across multiple assets and timeframes. Walk-forward, multi-regime, fixed-fractional sizing — shipped to live trading.

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Polymarket forecasters

Forecasters scored on realized outcomes via a forward paper-trade lane — disciplined sizing, judged on real ROI, not backtest fantasy.

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Have an edge? Put it through the gate.

We work with a select set of contributors. If your strategy survives walk-forward and clears the gate, it ships to live trading — with your name on it.

Get in touch

Contact us

Research partnerships, strategy contributions, or anything else — reach us directly and we'll get back to you.

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ResearchLabs · exclusive research partner of ImbaTradeLabs