Integrity vs Performance

Behaviour-First Trading: Why Institutions Ignore Retail Logic

Why Dovest Rejects Retail Logic: Behaviour Over Charts Most retail trading begins with the same foundational assumption: price patterns contain predictive information. Charts display setups. Indicators signal entries. Patterns suggest continuation or reversal. Behaviour-first trading rejects this entirely. Instead of asking where price might move, behaviour-first trading systems examine how markets function under varying conditions....

System Integrity in Trading: Why It Matters More Than Performance

Every institutional trading operation faces a fundamental choice: optimise for headline returns, or build systems designed to survive. In systematic trading infrastructure, system integrity determines whether a strategy’s edge compounds over years or collapses during the first severe drawdown. Yet most performance metrics tell you almost nothing about a system’s structural soundness. This analysis examines why system...