| Month | Return | P&L | AUM (End) | vs SPY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | +33.33% | +$5,000 | $20,000 | |
| February 2026 | -5.00% | -$1,000 | $19,000 | |
| March 2026 | +26.32% | +$5,000 | $24,000 | |
| April 2026 | In progress | — | Live | |
| Total | +60.00% | +$9,000 | $24,000 |
Over the same Jan–Apr 2026 window, the S&P 500 returned approximately +5.2% and the Nasdaq +6.1%. Third Door Fund outperformed by 54.8 percentage points.
Under 4 months in. The model is finding edge the index can't touch.
This fund exists because of a $5 tip. Not as a metaphor. As a literal starting point — the moment it became clear that the conventional path was never going to be the path. Finance wasn't going to open its front door. So the third door had to be found, built, and kicked open. Third Door Fund is the result of that decision. One model. One trader. $15,000. And the absolute certainty that the edge belongs to whoever works hardest to find it.
Years in operations, hospitality, and poker — building the instincts for risk, pattern recognition, and staying calm under pressure.
Sentiment-based stock prediction model. NVDA. XGBoost. 73.91% accuracy. The technical layer begins.
Full quant engineering rebuild. AWS, SnowPro, FINRA SIE, Bloomberg BMC, Options 101 at Akuna Capital. CFA Level 1 in progress.
Model refinement, live paper trading, backtesting across market regimes. Building infrastructure before deploying real capital.
$15,000 deployed January 2026. Proprietary model running. +60% in the first 3 months. This is just the beginning.
Alex Banayan wrote about it. Most people only see two doors. The main entrance everyone lines up for. The VIP line for those who were born into it.
The third door is the one you find yourself. The side entrance. The kitchen. The route nobody teaches you — because the people who used it aren't talking.
That's this fund.
The target school, the internship pipeline, the family connection. Most people wait here their whole lives.
The elite network, the inherited capital, the last name that opens rooms. Not available to most.
Built a model. Staked $15K. Showed up. This is the door you find when you stop waiting for someone to open the other two.
Proprietary systematic model built on sentiment signals, price action, and macro data. Trained on real market conditions. No discretionary guessing.
Long equity positions with an options overlay. Asymmetric payoff structures. Volatility traded as an asset. Every position sized by Kelly Criterion.
Hard stop rules. Correlation-aware construction. Daily risk limits. Capital preservation comes first. The model only works if you're still in the game.
Not a trust fund. Not a trading desk pedigree. Started as a waiter, then a poker dealer, an operations manager. Every job taught the same thing — how to read a room, manage risk, and stay calm when the stakes are real.
Then came the data science, the quant models, the CFA, the certifications. The technical layer on top of the street layer. That combination is the edge.
Third Door Fund is a proprietary trading operation managing personal capital only. It is not a registered investment adviser and does not manage funds on behalf of third parties. All performance data reflects actual trading results from a personal brokerage account and has not been audited by a third party. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Trading in equities and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. The Sharpe ratio displayed is an estimate based on available data and may not reflect actual risk-adjusted performance over longer time horizons. All figures are approximate. Nothing on this page constitutes investment advice, a solicitation of funds, or an offer of any security.