My name is Humberto Brandão, and I lead the development of High-Frequency Trading strategies at the Brazilian prop shop. We manage two of the country’s top investment funds - one of them surpassed a 1,600% cumulative return by its second anniversary.

I always work in teams, alongside the brightest people I’ve met. I occasionally take part in competitions. After competing and ranking highly in several contests between 2015 and 2018, we founded Alphabot, specializing in Market Making, Statistical Arbitrage, Directional Strategies, Optimal Execution, Simulation, Risk Management, etc.

For a few years I was a researcher at a Brazilian university, and I also provided services to various overseas investment funds. After those experiences, gaining knowledge in market microstructure and building a specialized simulator for HFT, I decided to develop some strategies, and we began trading in the Brazilian market in 2019. In 2021 we created the company that is now a benchmark for its results in spots, futures and options.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Combinatorial Optimization, a master’s degree in Machine Learning, and I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in risk management at Brunel University London.

Contact: humberto@brandao.org
My website: http://brandao.org
CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandaohumberto