Shamrock CapitalAutomated order routing
A webhook-to-broker bridge that takes signals from my indicators and places orders without hesitation or second-guessing. Built for a single instrument on purpose.
Principal and Founder, Shamrock Capital.
I build systems that trade, and the structure that holds what they earn.
I'm Josh. I founded Shamrock Capital in 2019 to trade global index and currency markets, both discretionary and systematic, and I've spent the years since writing the frameworks and tools I trade with. The firm is built on one idea: a consistent, data-driven, quantitatively backed process is the only edge that lasts.
Since 2019leading Shamrock Capital
Focusedon a concentrated set of markets
Financedegree in progress, SNHU
Privatetrading the firm's own capital
Principal and Founder
How I got here
Not a straight line. A long one.
I started the way most people do: too many instruments, too many ideas, and a conviction that I could out-think the market if I just worked harder than everyone else.
The market corrected that view for me. What survived was a narrower set of beliefs. That one market studied deeply beats ten markets studied casually. That risk decided before the trade is the only risk you actually control. That a process applied consistently outperforms a brilliant idea applied occasionally. And that the record of what you did, written honestly and measured quantitatively, is worth more than any indicator you can buy.
I founded Shamrock Capital in June 2019 to trade global markets with a defined, data-driven process. The frameworks I built rest on a disciplined read of market behavior and are shaped by broader economic context. Over time I concentrated the work where my expertise runs deepest, adopted a methodology I learned under a mentor and refined against my own data, and wrote the tooling myself: indicators, backtests, automated execution, and a research library that remembers every strategy I've killed and why.
Shamrock Capital is the container for all of that. The analysis funds it, the research directs it, the data keeps it honest, and the structure protects it. I'm finishing a Finance degree alongside the work because I want the formal foundation to match the practical one.
The path
The order matters. Each stage only made sense because of the one before it.
- Before 2019
Learning the hard way
Multiple instruments, discretionary trades, and the expensive education that comes from having no written rules.
- June 2019
Founding Shamrock Capital
Established the firm in Atlanta to trade forex and global index markets, discretionary and systematic, with written frameworks built on market structure, liquidity, and multi-timeframe confluence.
- Building
Writing the tools
Custom TradingView and Pine Script indicators, proprietary backtested systems tuned for win rate, expectancy, and risk-adjusted return, and data-driven journals that expose performance trends before they become habits.
- Concentrating
One market, one method
Narrowed the focus to a concentrated set of markets. Adopted a structured methodology under a mentor and began scoring it against a growing corpus of my own sessions.
- Now
Shamrock Capital
Analysis, research, and the entity structure around them, run as a single disciplined operation. A Finance degree in progress at SNHU to formalize what experience taught first.
What I've built
I write my own tools because I want to know exactly what they assume. A few of the systems that run the firm day to day.
Indicator and backtest suite
A family of TradingView indicators built in Pine Script to visualize structure, liquidity, VWAP, and volume profile, paired with backtests that score each methodology against my own trade history rather than a generic dataset.
The research vault
A structured knowledge base holding post-mortems, killed strategies, foundational theses, and working rules, so the firm never has to relearn a lesson it already paid for.
Expense and capital tooling
Lightweight software that reads my own financial data and turns it into decisions: where capital sits, what it costs to run, and what moves next.
How I work
Rules I hold myself to. Some I chose; some the market chose for me. All of them come back to the same three things: consistency, data, and numbers that hold up.
Write it down first
If a setup isn't documented with its entry, exit, and invalidation, it doesn't get traded. Ideas earn their place on paper before they earn capital.
Size from the stop
Position size is a function of stop distance and a fixed fraction of capital. Capital preservation comes first; scalable growth follows from it, never the other way around.
Measure everything
Every session is journaled with context, bias, and reasoning, including the macro and sentiment read going in. The record is analyzed quantitatively for win rate, expectancy, and drift, and that analysis is where most of my real progress has come from.
Finish what works
My historic weakness is rebuilding systems instead of letting proven ones accumulate a track record. I name that pattern when it shows up and hold the line.
Own the tools
I build rather than buy wherever the tool touches a decision. Understanding the assumptions inside a system is half of trusting it.
Consistency over intensity
The same process, the same size, the same review, every session. Nothing I do depends on any single week going well; the goal is to still be here, compounding, in ten years.
Off the desk
When I'm not in the market, I'm usually still building something. I have a long-running interest in character design and animation, and I keep a few creative projects alive alongside the analytical work; it uses a different part of the brain and I think the analysis is better for it.
I also spend real time on the long view: what the firm should look like in a decade, what it's for, and the life I want it to support. I've built visualization tools for that too, because I've found that a clearly pictured goal survives a bad week far better than a vague one.
Want to talk?
I'm always interested in hearing from other builders, researchers, and traders who take the work seriously.