Making Time an Asset Notes from a frontier AI trading research lab
Abstract
Theta measures what the passage of time takes from the holder of an option. Zero Theta names the state in which that quantity is held at zero — time passes, value does not erode.1 Zero Theta is a frontier AI trading research lab. Its system, Elysium, is agentic: it researches its own strategies and trades them under hard gates (§1). Zero Theta Labs is where it learns: autonomous campaigns run overnight, frozen evaluators score every candidate, and people decide what ships (§2).
Keywords — theta invariance; systematic trading; autonomous research; frozen evaluation; human-gated promotion.
1The Elysium system
Elysium is one pipeline from hypothesis to live position: research, signals, execution, and operations over a single data spine. Nothing reaches a live account except through a gate with a human on it.
Definitions 1.1–1.4 continue in [Elysium →].
2Zero Theta Labs
Labs runs autonomous research campaigns: the system explores, frozen evaluators score, people decide. Every candidate — kept or rejected — is retained in a durable ledger.
Algorithm 1 and its rationale continue in [Labs →].
3Selected work
Three case notes on our own systems are collected in [Work →].
4Correspondence
The name, the structure, and the author are treated in [Company →]. Time passes. Intelligence persists.
Correspondence to contact@zerotheta.ai
Footnotes
- An identity, not a limit: Θ ≡ 0, not Θ → 0 — the quantity is pinned, and the work of the company is to keep it pinned. A design principle for how the systems are built and kept — not a claim about returns. ↩