Markets price risk continuously.
Option prices are set every minute by people with real capital at stake. We would rather read that than reconstruct it from history.
About
One question, asked continuously.
How much market risk to carry, and in what mix. Every portfolio answers it, deliberately or by default. Objective Dynamix is built around that question and nothing else.
We build our own tools and run our own research.
Objective Dynamix is a quantitative research firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in 2026. We build and evaluate multi-asset portfolios, and we believe the risk in them is better read forward out of market prices than reconstructed from an average of the past.
We are engineers, and we came to this from software, systems and markets rather than from a trading floor. We write our own code and run our own research. We hold ourselves to the standard we would want from any manager we gave money to: show the evidence before the track record.
The firm is a subsidiary of Siris Development, Inc., a software company founded in 2001 and run by the same principal. Siris builds and operates the engineering behind the strategy.
What we believe.
Four convictions that shape how the work is done.
How much matters as much as what.
Two portfolios can hold precisely the same assets and arrive somewhere very different, for no reason other than how they were sized. Sizing is where we put our effort, and we think it is where the difference is made.
Some losses cannot be recovered.
A portfolio that loses everything cannot compound back. The objective rejects sizes that risk it, rather than a limit bolted on afterwards.
Forecasts can be tested. Returns take years.
A forecast can be checked the moment an outcome arrives, which makes it the honest thing to be judged on today. Judge us on returns over the long run, when there are enough of them to mean something.
Team.
Jim Baker
Founder and Principal
John Baker
Lead Engineer
How we work.
Research is done in-house, by the people whose names are above, and we build for institutional investors and retirement plans.
We publish a methodological note setting out the process in full — the reasoning, the research it rests on, and the limits of both. It is available on request to institutional investors, investment firms and qualified investors.
For the plain-language version, start with What We Do, then Our Approach.
Contact.
- General inquiries
- info@objectivedynamix.com
- Information for institutional and qualified investors
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qualified_investments@objectivedynamix.com
For the methodological note and information about the firm. Not a route to invest — see below. - Methodological note
- Available on request.
This site is informational. It is not an offer.
Objective Dynamix operates privately. We are not offering or selling any security, fund interest or other investment, and nothing on this site is an offer, or a solicitation of an offer, to buy one.
We do not open investment accounts for individuals and we are not set up to do so. We are not accepting new investors. If you ask us, that is our answer.
This site exists to describe what the firm does, and so that people we have contacted directly can find us. Nothing on it is directed at the general public as an invitation to invest.