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The biggest questions about Vincere – Answered Clearly. Watch these short clips. Full Transparency.
A Library of short videos so you arrive at the call already informed. (You can watch at 2x speed and select the most relevant videos for you.)

Is Vincere a registered broker or investment advisor?

Can I compound my capital?

Is this SEC-regulated and compliant?

Can I use this with Schwab?

How does Vincere compare to Forex algorithms?

Can I trust Vincere Trading?

What kind of returns can i expect?

Will the algorithms lose their edge?

Why license the algorithms instead of just trading them yourself?

Who does Vincere serve?

How is my capital protected?

What is my downside risk?

Is this something i can invest in with my 401k?

What are the capital requirements to use Vincere effectively?

What kind of support do you offer?

What precent of my portfolio should i allocate to this?

What if I've never used trading algorithms before?

Do I have full control of my capital?

How do the algorithms actually work?

How is this different from traditional investing?

What markets do we trade?

Why do so few individual investors use trading algorithms?

Are these returns sustainable?

How does Vincere handle black swan events and extreme volatility?

What is your background?

Do you trade your own capital using the same algorithms?

Who built the algorithms?

Can I compound my capital?

What kind of returns can i expect?

Will the algorithms lose their edge?

Are these returns sustainable?

How does Vincere handle black swan events and extreme volatility?

Why license the algorithms instead of just trading them yourself?

How is my capital protected?

What is my downside risk?

What are the capital requirements to use Vincere effectively?

Do i have full control of my capital?

Is Vincere a registered broker or investment advisor?

Is this SEC-regulated and compliant?

How does Vincere compare to Forex algorithms?

Can I trust Vincere Trading?

Why license the algorithms instead of just trading them yourself?

Who does Vincere serve?

Is this something i can invest in with my 401k?

What kind of support do you offer?

What if i've never used trading algorithms before?

How is this different from traditional investing?

What is your background?

Do you trade your own capital using the same algorithms?

Who built the algorithms?

Can I compound my capital?

What kind of returns can i expect?

Will the algorithms lose their edge?

How is my capital protected?

What is my downside risk?

What if i've never used trading algorithms before?

Do I have full control of my capital?

How do the algorithms actually work?

What markets do we trade?

How does Vincere handle black swan events and extreme volatility?
Meet Our Team
We are driven by a shared commitment to Integrity And Foundational Trust.
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Alex Cecola
Co-Founder & Managing Partner / Chicago, IL
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Brian Jackson
Senior Managing Director / New York, New York

Rick Medalle
Director / Sacramento, California
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Abel DaSilva
Managing Director / Dallas, Texas
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Jon Oh
Vice President, Head of Client Success / Anaheim, California
At Vincere, integrity is everything to us.
Our performance is independently verified by Absolute Performance Verification - a US-based auditing firm with over 20 years of experience, headquartered in Seattle and Charleston, South Carolina.
Our dispute rate is zero. That's not a marketing claim. It's a verifiable record.
We show every losing month. Because the only way to earn real trust is to never hide what's real.
We show you our transparent team on our site. Real names. Real faces. Real backgrounds. The people who built the algorithms. The people who support the clients. The people trading the capital.
The standards we hold ourselves to exist because we know what it costs to trust someone in this space and be wrong. Nobody who works with Vincere will ever feel that way.
Excellent
I run their full allocation model inside a six-figure cash account, using the diversified structure they mapped out for me across the 11 algos.
From a risk management perspective, the consistency has been strong.
We experienced a tougher stretch in early February, but that period was well within projected drawdown parameters.
What impressed me most was how quickly the team communicated system-wide updates and shared a clear roadmap for refinements.
It’s not static — they actively optimize and explain the reasoning behind adjustments.
I've been trading for 10+ years and recently have been looking into the automation game. Lots of bad actors out there with BS products. I am only a few days into my journey with Vincere and I can say with very little hesitation that this is the real deal.
From the initial meeting (which is incredibly data driven and laid back, not a typical sales meeting by any means) to the onboarding call, my experience so far has been everything I could have asked for and more.
I get the hesitation, this space is chock full of idiots who don't know how to trade and are looking to spin their failure into a BS trading course or discord signals. These guys are not that.
If you're on the fence, hop on that call and listen to the numbers, I'm glad I did.
Jon, Brian, the whole team at Vincere is great.
No high pressure sales, it was explained the benefits along with the risks.
Ask questions, do not go into it unprepared. There is risk, do not be fooled.
This team has your back and will walk ypu through it.
The key is capital preservation, patience, and consistency.
Thank you Vincere!
I was shopping around for the most reliable and consistently profitable Algo software company until I finally made the decision to join Vincere.
First, let's address the elephant in the room. The Algos/Bots from A FEW of these Algo companies actually work... There's just levels to it. But it also turns out these levels make up majority of the differences between a profitable Algo Trader and the one that either ends up losing it all or breaking even at best.
Just completed my onboarding and really, it's been so far so good. I've received lots of back-to-back, support from the Team (guys like my man Adam, and Jake).
If you have a few car-buying experiences, I guess you could picture my experience and the amount of confidence I have so far to one that you get from buying a brand new BMW from a BMW dealership rather than buying a used BMW from Facebook market or a "Buy-here-pay-here" used car lot.
They might be a little pricier (actually not as pricey as a few others I've come across that didn't even have nearly as much structure), but you get your money's worth.
If I could give 10 stars to Vincere I would. Came across their IG ad at 6AM on a Sunday morning, had a call by 2PM same day and pulled the trigger.
White glove onboarding, exceptional customer service. I waited a full 2 months to be able to give this review justice to 'stress test' and have 'proof of concept'. Today I have that and more.
Alex the founder is tireless in his efforts to be transparent as well as responsive to the changing market and business environments to keep Vincere on the front edge of success. I'm grateful to have found them.
Their support staff may as well be AI bots, as they never seem to sleep and go the extra mile with exceptional responsiveness and helpfulness. My interactions with them have been extraordinary and I'm not sure where they found them but ANY organization would be blessed to have Sam and James on their team. Kudos all around.
I've been trading futures personally for about nine years, mostly ES and NQ, and I'll say upfront that I came into Vincere as a skeptic. The algo space is full of curve-fit backtests that fall apart the second real money goes behind them.
I signed up in August 2025 after a lot of due diligence, and the reason I pulled the trigger was that Brian was willing to go deep into the methodology with me rather than hide behind marketing.
We talked parameter stability, how the trade windows are defined, why certain sessions get filtered out. It was a more technical conversation than most algo interviews I've sat through.
Live performance since August has tracked reasonably close to what I'd expect from the backtest envelope. Two down months, five up months, net solidly positive, and more importantly the drawdowns have stayed in line with historical behavior rather than surprising me to the downside.
That's what I actually care about as someone who has watched a lot of strategies die in live environments. If you can think about this in terms of expectancy and sample size rather than chasing every green candle, it's a serious operation.
Review Vincere before our demo.
Watching this video is required and will save you significant time in the decision-making process.
How we leverage a suite of 11 diversified and uncorrelated algorithms to provide returns that outperform traditional investments with one of the smoothest equity curves in the industry.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Most Common
The ideal Vincere client has capital they want working aggressively but intelligently. They're frustrated with mediocre returns relative to the risk and illiquidity of their current vehicles. They think in decades, not quarters. They want to understand what they're in and why.
They're not looking to get rich overnight. They're looking for a systematic, compounding infrastructure that builds real wealth over a multi-year horizon - and they want to be part of something growing toward institutional scale.
And ultimately, they want to win. Vincere is Latin for exactly that reason.
Yes. Most Vincere clients have no prior experience with algorithmic trading, and the algorithms are designed with that in mind. You don't need to read code or watch charts. Once your algorithm suite is set up, which our team walks you through end to end, the system runs automatically.
What you do need is investment capital, a compatible brokerage account, and NinjaTrader. We handle the rest.
A useful analogy: you don't need to understand how an engine works to drive a car safely. You need to know how to operate the vehicle and trust the engineering behind it. Vincere handles the engineering. Our onboarding team handles the setup. Our U.S.-based support team remains available throughout the life of your account.
Vincere's automated trading software is built for all experience levels and requires no technical background. Guided setup ensures a quick start for first-time users with full transparency and control. Experience is not a prerequisite. Capital, patience, and the discipline to let a systematic, long-term process work are the actual requirements.
A trading algorithm is a set of rules, executed automatically, that enters and exits futures market positions based on specific, pre-defined conditions.
Algorithmic trading software uses computer models and quantitative logic to analyze real-time market data and execute trades based on that analysis. The system evaluates factors like price movement, momentum, and volatility to identify opportunities with consistency. No emotion, no hesitation, no second-guessing.
This approach is not new. Quantitative funds and hedge funds have used algorithmic systems for decades. Renaissance Technologies, Two Sigma, and Citadel are among the most profitable investment firms in history, and they operate almost entirely on algorithmic execution.
The reason most individual investors do not have algorithmic exposure is access. Until recently, building these systems required nine-figure capital and a team of PhD researchers. That has changed.
For more information on algorithmic investing, watch our Why Invest With Algorithms Guide.
Two reasons: access and awareness.
Until recently, institutional-grade algorithmic strategies required tens of millions in capital and a quantitative development team that most individual investors could not assemble. The retail alternatives that did exist, such as signal groups, Discord bots, and copy-trading services, were generally low quality. The category developed a deserved reputation problem.
The awareness gap has been slower to close. Most traditional wealth managers do not show clients verified algorithmic track records, in part because doing so is not in their commercial interest.
We do trade them ourselves, with our own capital, every month. That commitment is non-negotiable. We only share what we personally trust with our own funds.
Licensing allows Vincere to monetize unused capacity in our trading systems while maintaining steady revenue to fund ongoing research and development. It is the same business model used by firms like Two Sigma, AQR, and Renaissance Technologies. The difference is the audience: those firms typically license to pension funds and endowments, which is why retail investors rarely hear about it. Vincere operates on both sides. We power select U.S.-regulated hedge funds at the institutional level and license the same suite to individual accounts.
Building Vincere into a long-term institution requires building a business, not just managing a personal portfolio. Platform growth funds better research, better infrastructure, and the eventual launch of a full institutional hedge fund, with our clients positioned as founding investors.
The futures markets we trade are deep enough that combined client capital does not affect execution or performance. The alignment is straightforward: when your algorithms perform, ours do too.
Vincere's algorithmic performance is third-party audited under the CFA Institute's Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS).
Our verification is conducted by Absolute Performance Verification, a Seattle and Charleston-based firm that has provided performance audits for over two decades. The firm is led by a CFA Institute Committee member and Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst, and specializes in high-level verification for global investment funds.
This process ensures transparency and accountability across every algorithm Vincere offers.
Capital protection is built into Vincere through three distinct layers, and understanding this is essential to understanding how this works.
- Custody: Your funds never leave your account. Vincere has zero custodial access at any point.
- Brokerage: Your assets are held in a U.S.-regulated brokerage or IRA account with FDIC and SIPC coverage.
- Risk architecture: The algorithms operate with no overnight exposure, no leverage, and a defined maximum loss per strategy.
Vincere is a software provider, not a fund manager or custodian. We never hold or move client funds. Your money remains in your account, in your name, at all times.
Our worst observed live month over six years of trading is -6.6%. The realistic worst case is a difficult month, not a blown account. The architecture is designed to make catastrophic drawdowns structurally impossible through a combination of zero leverage, no overnight positions, defined per-strategy loss limits, and 11 uncorrelated algorithms running together.
Not directly through a traditional employer-sponsored 401(k). Those plans are limited to the investment options your plan administrator makes available.
However, Vincere's algorithms are compatible with self-directed IRAs through Equity Trust Company®, which offers the standard tax advantages of an IRA. If you have an old 401(k) from a previous employer, rolling it into a self-directed IRA that supports futures trading is often worth exploring.
The right structure depends on your existing accounts, tax situation, and capital goals. This is a conversation we walk through on your demo call to help you understand your options clearly.
Our suite of algorithms do not use leverage or high-risk strategies. Our strong returns come from statistical edge, not heightened risk. No margin calls, no liquidations, no same-day blow-ups.
Vincere is partnered with NinjaTrader, a National Futures Association (NFA) member. Funding a brokerage account with NinjaTrader can be done through electronic bank deposit, wire transfer, or transfer from another brokerage account.
For an IRA, the process is:
1. Open a self-directed IRA with Equity Trust®
2. Fund the IRA via transfer, rollover, or direct contribution
3. Fund your new NinjaTrader futures account using funds within your Equity Trust IRA
Vincere’s Algorithms
Vincere is not a financial advisor, and this is not personalized financial advice. That conversation belongs with your own advisors.
What we can share is how sophisticated investors typically approach this category. Institutions treat alternative assets as a meaningful allocation, neither a side position nor the entirety of a portfolio.
The right number depends on your total capital, existing allocations, liquidity needs, and timeline. Many investors allocate a portion of their portfolio to algorithmic strategies to pursue maximized returns that are less correlated with traditional market exposure. Bringing those specifics to a demo call allows us to think through your situation honestly together.
Institutional investors have long had access to private equity, hedge funds, and structured products. The rest of us are ugenerally limited to index funds and mutual funds with associated fees.
Algorithmic strategies offer a different approach. Instead of making a single directional bet on the market, Vincere clients run 11 independent algorithms, each with its own statistical edge across different market conditions. When one strategy underperforms, others may be in their environment. This is diversification at the strategy level, not just at the asset level.
Performance over the past six years has averaged 4.4% per month, with 81.1% of all months since January 2020 ending profitable. The strongest single month produced just under 20%.
Unlike private equity or traditional hedge fund structures, Vincere's licensing model offers same-day access to capital. There are no lock-ups and no performance fees reducing returns. Funds remain in your own custody, in your own brokerage account.
Active investing returns without the active trading.
Please be advised, algorithmic investing with Vincere is not for everyone. Some investors may not have the capital required to use the full algorithm suite, and the platform is not appropriate for those seeking to gamble with highly leveraged strategies. Vincere is designed for clients comfortable with managing their accounts online.
Vincere's algorithm suite is optimized for accounts in the $90,000 to $110,000 range and above. At that level, all 11 algorithms run simultaneously and the full diversification architecture is active.
A partial suite is available for accounts starting at $30,000, though running fewer algorithms means giving up some of the complete risk-distribution structure.
There is no upper limit. The strategies scale linearly with capital.
If you are unsure whether your capital level is the right fit, that question is exactly what the demo call is designed to address.
Yes. You can stop the algorithms with a single click. The algorithms function as a self-directed trading tool that connects to U.S.-regulated, FDIC- and SIPC-insured brokerage accounts of your choice.
You can withdraw funds whenever you choose. Futures accounts are highly liquid, and most withdrawals settle within one business day.
Vincere trades exclusively in the U.S.-regulated futures market, specifically U.S. index futures. Primarily the E-mini S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100, two of the most liquid futures contracts in the world.
Both markets trade nearly 24 hours a day, five days a week. That gives the algorithms the ability to respond to global events in real time, not just during the 6.5-hour U.S. stock market session.
Vincere does not trade forex, single-stocks, or cryptocurrency. The choice of U.S.-regulated index futures is deliberate.
Every algorithm in the Vincere suite was built in-house, by our own team, from the ground up. No licensed third-party code. No repurposed systems we do not fully understand. We own every line of logic, every rule, and every parameter.
Development began with our chairman, Alex, and has grown into a team of quantitative analysts and professional developers working exclusively on the Vincere suite. Our in-house developers are former quantitative fund researchers who previously engineered trading systems for established hedge funds.
Owning the system end-to-end matters. When something needs to be adjusted, we can do it immediately. That is not a small detail. It is central to how Vincere operates.
From the first day of onboarding through the life of your account, Vincere clients are supported by a dedicated team:
- Onboarding: Guided setup of your brokerage account, NinjaTrader platform, and algorithm deployment
- Ongoing service: Direct team access for questions, performance reviews, and technical support
- Reporting: Monthly performance reports with full transparency
Vincere is not designed as a set-it-and-forget-it subscription where you receive a login and an outsourced call center. The human element, a team that is reachable and accountable, is a core part of the offering. We build for clients who stay with us for years, and that requires a real support experience.
VIP white-glove support is available from U.S.-based professionals at all times. No AI chatbots, no put on hold queues. Clients also have access to complimentary 60-minute virtual appointments with an algorithmic specialist for in-depth conversations.
This comparison is one of the most important to understand before evaluating any algorithmic trading product.
Forex is a largely unregulated, decentralized market. There is no central exchange, and pricing varies between brokers. The vast majority of forex algorithm providers use Martingale or grid strategies, which can produce attractive backtests but often blow up accounts in live conditions. Many of these systems run through offshore brokers with 50:1 to 500:1 leverage, where one bad week can erase an entire account. Trade execution quality and regulatory protection sit in an entirely different category from regulated futures.
Vincere trades U.S.-regulated futures. Federally overseen. Centralized pricing. Hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume.
The comparison is not close.
This is a thoughtful question, and the answer depends on the market being traded.
The E-mini S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures markets trade hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. Vincere's combined client capital does not meaningfully affect execution in markets of that depth.
Vincere's edge is not based on speed advantages or order-flow impact. It is based on rules-based logic that identifies repeatable behavioral patterns in how these markets move. That type of edge does not degrade with scale the way a high-frequency strategy might.
Our Mission
For decades, algorithmic trading has been the secret weapon of the biggest hedge fund firms.
But we believe these powerful tools should be available to the rest of us as well.
Technology now makes it possible to not only open access to algorithmic trading, but to create fundamentally better products - for everyone.
Our mission is threefold:
First, to help as many investors as possible use our algorithms to have consistent superior returns from systems not previously available to them.
Second, to reinvest into building even more advanced, powerful, and intelligent strategies - designed to outperform and disrupt the outdated systems propping up prop firm profits.
And third, to expand into our own quantitative hedge fund, giving our users early access to institutional-grade strategies and a chance to grow with us as we redefine the future of algorithmic trading.
We’re here to grow with you - for years to come - as you evolve into a elite-level algorithmic investor.
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