Why I Built Alpha Gear

Sreeni and Milo

"Sreeni and Milo. Chicago. This is who the Friday signal is for."

My name is Sreeni. I am a 43-year-old software engineer and technology director. I have spent 18 years building systems for some of the largest healthcare organizations in America. I know how to design things that do not break when the stakes are high.

I am not a Wall Street trader. I have never worked at a hedge fund. I do not have a Bloomberg terminal. What I have is a Roth IRA, a FIRE retirement target, and a refusal to let emotion make my investment decisions.

2022 broke something in me.

I watched five years of compounding disappear in six months. Not because I panicked and sold — I held. But I held while knowing, deep down, that I had no system. I was just hoping. And hope is not a strategy.

I started asking one question: Is there a way to capture the explosive upside of 3x leveraged tech during bull markets while actually surviving the crashes — not just hoping to?

I spent months in Python, pulling fifteen years of market data, testing every combination of signals I could find. Not AI. Not black boxes. Simple, auditable rules that have worked across multiple market regimes — 2008 recovery, 2015 chop, 2018 Q4 crash, 2020 COVID freefall, 2022 bear market, 2023 and 2024 bull runs.

What I built is called Alpha Gear. Five rules. One trade per week. Executed every Friday afternoon in my actual Fidelity Roth IRA.

The results over 15 years of backtesting:

2,274% total return versus SPY's 415%. A 23.51% CAGR versus 11.55% for buy-and-hold. A max drawdown of -41.64% versus TQQQ's catastrophic -81.76%.

And yes — I show you the bad years too. 2012 at -15.29%. 2015 at -21.19%. 2022 at -34.42%. If I hide those from you I am just another marketer selling a dream.

I am sharing this for one reason.

Most financial tools are built by companies trying to maximize your screen time. Alpha Gear was built by an engineer trying to retire at 57 — when my daughter turns 18 and I want to be present for whatever comes next.

This is the actual code running in my actual account. Every week I get the same Friday signal you get. I make the same trade you make. We are in this together.

"The goal is not to beat the market every year. The goal is to survive the crashes so you can compound the booms — and let tax-free Roth growth do the rest."

I am not a financial advisor. This is not investment advice. This is what I personally do with my own money, shared transparently so you can make your own informed decisions.