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Charlie Reese

Charlie is the Founder and CEO of ForecastOS. Previously, he was a quant investor at CPPIB, an investment banker at Wells Fargo and Rothschild, and a software engineer and product lead.

Creating ForecastOS with Delphia

Why did Delphia create and spin-out ForecastOS Inc.? As the founder of ForecastOS Inc., and a former entrepreneur in residence at Delphia, I get asked this question at a lot. Below is my attempt to answer how and why this all came to be. In the world of multi-manager hedge

The Fundamental Law of Startup Success

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #18 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) Over the past week, I've thought a lot about startup characteristics like: * vision, * product-market fit, * execution / quality of work completed, * iteration speed, and how these characteristics contribute to a startup's likelihood of success. When

Another Step In the Right Direction

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #17 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) The Process: Hard, Intentional Work, Over Time I've always admired anyone who dedicates a substantial portion of their life to becoming the best at what they do; like Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Michael Jordan

New ForecastOS.com Landing Page

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #16 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) New Landing Page We've heard similar sentiment from many of you: our former landing page was confusing. We hear you, we agree, and we've fixed it (we think). Check it out and let us

Developing a Quant Strategy (Part 1)

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #15 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) Building Our Quant Strategy: Week 1 Several days have elapsed since we started building our out-of-the-box quant investment strategy. While this has been progressing as expected, we've been reminded of the following dynamics regarding

The ForecastOS Super Six: What We Believe

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #14 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) This week we: * Released a landing page for our paper portfolio functionality; you can use it to run a third-party validated backtest out of sample * Started building ForecastOS Maverick, our out-of-the-box quantitative investment strategy

Portfolio Backtests via API

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #13 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) Happy (belated) New Year! After a brief hiatus for the holidays, we're back with our weekly ForecastOS update. Launched New Backtesting API Over the holiday break, we created and launched an API for backtesting

Our Open-Source Multi-Factor Risk Model

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #12 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) Our New Risk Model We're excited to open-source our multi-factor risk model class! It supports custom factor covariances, asset-specific factor loadings, and asset-specific idiosyncratic risk. Check out our off-the-shelf and custom risk model guides

Our Demo Environment is Live!

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #11 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) Demo Environment We're excited to announce that our demo environment is live! It allows anyone to try our platform without signing up or logging in. It includes some test data, and hopefully gives a

Focusing Our Brand Messaging

Welcome to Weekly Roundup #10 at ForecastOS! We're glad to have you here, following our journey :) The ForecastOS Platform The ForecastOS platform makes AI-driven forecasts easier to understand, backtest, and manage - whether you're an engineer, data scientist, or non-technical executive. Said another way, it makes ML pipelines more observable