Institutional flagship program

ZEUS Engine

Quantitative Research-to-Production Systems Engineering

Arquitectura profesional para convertir datos financieros en investigación validada, señales reproducibles y ejecución algorítmica gobernada

$3,000

6 phases · 14 modules · 42 chapters · capstoneATENEA → APOLO → CHRONOS → AEGIS → TALOS → ARTEMISAOne professional courseInvitational
Course roadmap · 6 phases
Phase I
ATENEA
Quantitative Data Foundation
Phase II
APOLO
Quantitative Data Runtime
Phase III
CHRONOS
Temporal Research Governance
Phase IV
AEGIS
Quantitative Research Factory
Phase V
TALOS
Production Signal Runtime
Phase VI
ARTEMISA
Execution Systems Engineering
One professional course. Six internal phases in this order. Fourteen modules and forty-two chapters live inside them. ZEUS Engine — Professional Capstone sits outside that count. Orientation is outside 14/42. Coursework clock is not sealed. Phases are not sold separately.

Mission and vision

Mission

Teach a verifiable chain that turns financial data into quantitative evidence, research artifacts, production signals, and controlled execution — a strategy is ready for production when that chain exists, not when a backtest looks good.

Vision

Practitioners who can design a governed research-to-production system: certified input, ZEUS data runtime, temporal research governance, a sealed research factory, a production signal runtime, and controlled execution.

Description

ZEUS Engine is Quantitative Research-to-Production Systems Engineering. One professional course. Public name ZEUS Engine. List $3,000.

A strategy is not ready for production because it has a good backtest. It is ready when a verifiable chain exists from known data to the signal and from the signal to execution.

Official phase chain

ATENEA → APOLO → CHRONOS → AEGIS → TALOS → ARTEMISA.

These names are the internal phases of this course. They are not independent products.

DATA to EXECUTION

DATA → KNOWLEDGE → HYPOTHESIS → VALIDATION → EVIDENCE → ARTIFACT → SIGNAL → ORDER → EXECUTION.

Six phases

ATENEA — Quantitative Data Foundation. Acceptance / certification of ZEUS input. ATENEA does not rebuild a Financial Data Center.

APOLO — Quantitative Data Runtime. Operationalize ATENEA-accepted contracts inside ZEUS: historical, incremental, multi-asset research runtime.

CHRONOS — Temporal Research Governance. Control what knowledge may enter the experiment: research cutoff, K / S applied to research, Temporal Air Gap, SV3 isolation, experimental world, research reopening, decision admissibility.

AEGIS — Quantitative Research Factory. Turn a temporally sealed universe into evidence and a sealed production candidate. This is v2 Phase IV — not v1 Phase II and not the AEGIS engine.

TALOS — Production Signal Runtime. Execute AEGIS-approved artifacts deterministically on current approved data. TALOS produces signals. TALOS does not research.

ARTEMISA — Execution Systems Engineering. Turn signals into controlled execution. TALOS decides WHAT. ARTEMISA decides HOW.

Relation to THEMIS

ZEUS ENGINE depends on data contracts, not on THEMIS internals. THEMIS is not a ZEUS phase.

Financial Data Infrastructure (THEMIS or another compatible system) → Data Contract Boundary → ATENEA → APOLO → CHRONOS → AEGIS → TALOS → ARTEMISA.

THEMIS M12 delivers reproducible data evidence (seals, manifests, hashes, PIT delivery, M1/M2/M3). CHRONOS governs permitted research knowledge. They must not be duplicated.

Who it is for

Quantitative researchers, advanced algorithmic and systematic traders, quantitative developers, Python / Rust / C++ developers, ML-for-markets researchers, portfolio researchers, and teams professionalizing a research-to-production pipeline.

Prerequisites

Intermediate-to-advanced Python, applied statistics, backtesting, time series, systematic trading, basic Git, and quantitative-research literacy. Financial Data Engineering (THEMIS or equivalent) is ideal preparation. ZEUS ENGINE does not depend technologically on THEMIS.

Professional Capstone

ZEUS ENGINE — Professional Capstone. End-to-end Reference Implementation: Certified Data → ATENEA → APOLO → CHRONOS → AEGIS → TALOS → ARTEMISA. Controlled scope does not reduce architectural rigor.

Canonical syllabus: `courses/zeus_engine/SYLLABUS.md`. This page is a mount. Orientation remains outside 14/42 and is not rewritten here.

What you'll be able to do

  • Certify research input at ATENEA — ZEUS does not rebuild a Financial Data Center
  • Operationalize accepted contracts inside ZEUS at APOLO (historical / incremental / multi-asset runtime)
  • Govern permitted experimental knowledge at CHRONOS (cutoff, K/S, Temporal Air Gap, SV3, reopening)
  • Turn a sealed research world into evidence and a sealed production candidate at AEGIS
  • Execute approved artifacts as production signals at TALOS; turn signals into controlled execution at ARTEMISA (TALOS decides WHAT, ARTEMISA decides HOW)

Course content

Phase 1 — ATENEA 2 modules · 6 chapters
Module 1 — Financial Data Contracts 3 chapters
1.1.1.- Research Data as a Contract
1.1.2.- Financial Observation Semantics
1.1.3.- Provenance & Dataset Identity
Module 2 — Research Input Certification 3 chapters
1.2.1.- Data Quality Gates
1.2.2.- Point-in-Time Compatibility
1.2.3.- Multi-Asset Research Universe
Phase 2 — APOLO 2 modules · 6 chapters
Module 1 — Historical & Incremental Data Runtime 3 chapters
2.1.1.- Historical Data Access
2.1.2.- Incremental Data Processing
2.1.3.- Historical ↔ Production Parity
Module 2 — Multi-Asset Research Views 3 chapters
2.2.1.- Time Alignment
2.2.2.- Research Windows
2.2.3.- Data Runtime Lineage
Phase 3 — CHRONOS 2 modules · 6 chapters
Module 1 — Temporal Admissibility 3 chapters
3.1.1.- The Three Time Axes
3.1.2.- Look-Ahead Mechanisms
3.1.3.- Decision Admissibility
Module 2 — Sealed Research Environments 3 chapters
3.2.1.- Research Cutoff
3.2.2.- Dataset Sealing
3.2.3.- Experimental Worlds
Phase 4 — AEGIS 4 modules · 12 chapters
Module 1 — Hypothesis & Feature Engineering 3 chapters
4.1.1.- Research Hypothesis Engineering
4.1.2.- Feature Engineering
4.1.3.- Feature Selection
Module 2 — Statistical Validation Architecture 3 chapters
4.2.1.- Train / Validation / Test
4.2.2.- Time-Series Validation
4.2.3.- Multiple Testing & Selection Bias
Module 3 — Robustness & Failure Engineering 3 chapters
4.3.1.- Parameter Stability
4.3.2.- Market Stress Testing
4.3.3.- Failure Analysis
Module 4 — Sealed Research Artifacts 3 chapters
4.4.1.- Production Candidate
4.4.2.- Evidence Package
4.4.3.- Artifact Sealing
Phase 5 — TALOS 2 modules · 6 chapters
Module 1 — Research-to-Production Engineering 3 chapters
5.1.1.- Artifact Loading
5.1.2.- Feature Parity
5.1.3.- Deterministic Replay
Module 2 — Production Signal Runtime 3 chapters
5.2.1.- Incremental Signal Computation
5.2.2.- Signal Identity & Provenance
5.2.3.- Runtime Reliability
Phase 6 — ARTEMISA 2 modules · 6 chapters
Module 1 — Signal-to-Order Architecture 3 chapters
6.1.1.- Signal → Execution Intent
6.1.2.- Intent → Order
6.1.3.- Position Reconciliation
Module 2 — Execution Reliability & Governance 3 chapters
6.2.1.- Order Lifecycle
6.2.2.- Execution Failure Engineering
6.2.3.- Execution Safety
ZEUS ENGINE — Professional Capstone End-to-end Reference Implementation · outside 14 / 42
Certified Data → ATENEA → APOLO → CHRONOS → AEGIS → TALOS → ARTEMISA

Course content is Phase → Module → Chapter. Module numbers restart inside each phase. AEGIS has four modules; the other phases have two. Lecture bodies are not authored yet. Orientation is outside 14/42 and is not this page. ZEUS ENGINE — Professional Capstone sits outside the six phases and the 14 / 42 count.

Instructor

Elmer Niño

Elmer Niño

Founder, VTAlgo Group · Systems Engineer · MSc in Computer Science

Algorithmic trader since 2009, running trading as an enterprise. Methodology built on walk-forward analysis, genetic optimization, PCA against over-optimization, the Triple Barrier Method, and 9–12 month live validation before capital.