Traders praise Minotaur’s precision at catching market bottoms.

2 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Kosta Ouzas (speaker) describes his trading firm's engineering philosophy: they build algorithmic trading systems around a conservative “red line” risk/liquidation threshold and design strategies to keep all risk measures above that line. By protecting downside exposure (keeping risk/liquidation below the red line), they believe upside—particularly in bitcoin, which they view as rising over time—will accrue automatically, improving overall performance.

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We don't treat it as. It will never go there, but we treat it as the first corner set. So when we're engineering all our algorithmic systems, we're always making sure that everything is based from the red line and above right to us. It's not safe unless all the risk levels, talking liquidation levels, working on trade, it needs to be below that red line. So then all the math that we're doing as an algorithmic trading company, developing strategies, we're always working off this red line. And this really supercharged the performance. And then we got that whole philosophy of if you protect the down downside, there's something like bitcoin. The upside is just going to take care of itself, because bitcoin's going up over time, you're just going to keep making money.