An engineer and a CPA who built their own risk desk.
Cliff Radar Capital wasn't built in a boardroom. It was built at a kitchen table, by two people who were done paying for advice that amounted to "just hold and don't look."
Who we are — meet Ryan & Pat
The systems half of the partnership. Ryan spent his career designing things that have to work the same way every time, under pressure, without a human second-guessing them. He built the Tactical Radar the way he'd build any critical system: rules first, tested hard, no room for mood or hunches. His exacting, detail-oriented nature is the engine behind it — a relentless need for everything to be exactly right that keeps him analyzing, refining, and tweaking the models long after most people would call them finished. For Ryan, “good enough” is never the finish line; the machine can always be sharper, and he won't stop until it is.
The numbers half. Pat spends his days tracing exactly where money goes — which is precisely how he noticed how much of it quietly leaked out of our accounts in adviser fees every year, for advice that never once mentioned risk. As a CPA, he demands what accountants live by: a fully auditable system, accurate inputs, and outputs you can trace back to their source. He constantly pushes Ryan — and himself — to store every run, backtest the rules against real history, and re-examine the model's effectiveness so the outputs are as reliable as they can possibly be. If a number can't be verified, it doesn't get published.
At the end of the day, we're investing our own money into this — so it has to be as close to perfect as we can make it. It was built to protect our capital, and we want it to protect yours too. Because the institutions don't care whether you're protected or not — they collect their advisory fees all the same.
We couldn't afford the pros. We didn't trust the pretenders.
Every serious institution runs a risk desk — macro regime models, exhaustion signals, scoring across the whole market — and when the weather turns, they get the call. Retail gets the headline, usually after the drawdown. The real thing was out of our price range, and the versions being sold to people like us were either black boxes or thinly-disguised hot-tip feeds. Neither earned our trust.
So we did the obvious thing for an engineer and an accountant: we built it ourselves. A rules-based, macro-driven strategy we designed, tested, and ran on our own portfolios first — Cliff Radar Capital's Tactical Radar System. No emotion. No guesswork. And no chunk of the balance walking out the door every year.
It worked well enough for our own money that we wanted to share it — the same regime read, the same posture, the same flags, published every trading day before the open, at a price a normal person can afford. We invest in it right alongside you.
If carrying you through one ugly regime with your capital intact is all we ever do, we've done the job. Downside first — it's in our name.
Models do the scoring. Transparency keeps us honest.
Models, not opinions
Every score is produced by the same pipeline that runs our own money — applied identically to every name, every day.
Regime before tickers
We grade the economic weather before a single stock, because the worst losses come from the wrong regime, not the wrong name.
Transparency by default
The full method is public on The System; losing calls stay on the record.
Skin in the game
We hold the same system we sell, and disclose our alignment rather than hide it.
Disclaimers & Terms
The essentials, in brief: we're a research publisher, not your adviser; model output is impersonal and can be wrong; model-portfolio results are hypothetical, not real trades; and you invest at your own risk. The full terms:
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Questions? Contact us at [email protected].