About Arcus
A quant-driven trading operation built on research, automation, and systematic execution — led by a team combining computational finance and decades of academic and investment expertise.
The Team
Shehzad Ahmed
Founder & CEO · Computational Finance
Finance major with a Computer Science Engineering minor specialising in Big Data & High-Performance Computing (IUB). Builds and operates fully automated trading systems — strategy research, backtesting, execution engines, cloud infrastructure, and client dashboard.
18+ months of live systematic trading across crypto perpetual futures and equity markets. Industry experience spans audit, asset management, quantitative research, and decentralised finance — providing a full-stack understanding of how capital is deployed, risk is managed, and performance is verified across both traditional and on-chain markets.
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Dr. Rafiq Bhuyan
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor · Academic Finance
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Finance at Monarch Business School Switzerland and, concurrently, Associate Professor at Alabama A&M University, USA.
Education: PhD in Economics, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) · MS in Finance, University of Illinois · Master & Bachelor of Commerce, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research: Author of 80+ peer-reviewed journal articles in finance, economics, entrepreneurship finance, micro-finance, and financial accounting. Fulbright Scholar. Twice recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award from California State University.
Academic career: Former full-time positions as Purcell Chair Professor at Le Moyne College (New York), the American University in Kuwait, and California State University. Former adjunct positions at UC Riverside, Northeastern University, the University of Southern California, and UC Davis.
Extensive live trading experience in stocks and options while managing a private fund. Brings institutional academic credibility, a global research network, and traditional finance infrastructure expertise to Arcus — leading the fund's Dubai and US LLC formation.
Md. Jahidul Islam Bhuiya
Software Engineer
Software engineer responsible for the technical infrastructure supporting Arcus operations — system development, tooling, and engineering execution. Ensures the technology layer runs reliably so research and trading systems can operate without interruption.
18+ Months Live
Real capital deployed in live markets — not just backtests.
Award-Winning
Best Emerging Innovation — Global Islamic Finance Innovation Awards 2026 (The Digital Banker).
80+ Research Papers
Strategic Advisor's published academic output in finance and economics.
Fulbright Scholar
Academic credentials and institutional finance experience behind every strategy.
What Arcus Does
Arcus Quant Fund is a full-service quantitative trading partner. We do far more than run a single bot — we set clients up with market access, build and automate strategies (ours or theirs), research what actually works, run the systems, manage the accounts, and teach investors the platforms they're using. We work across cryptocurrency (Binance), US markets (Interactive Brokers), and the Dhaka Stock Exchange.
Brokerage setup & access
We help clients open and configure crypto (Binance) and US brokerage (Interactive Brokers) accounts — in their own name, with full custody.
Buy crypto & US assets
Hands-on guidance for buying cryptocurrency and US equities in your own name — funding, platform setup, and execution, even for first-time investors.
Custom strategy development
We design and build automated trading strategies from scratch — no matter how complex — backed by rigorous backtesting and validation.
Automate your own strategy
Bring us your edge and we turn it into a fully automated, monitored bot deployed on your account.
Strategy research
We research, backtest, and validate strategy ideas for clients — walk-forward, Monte Carlo, parameter stress-testing — and report what genuinely holds up.
Automated trading bots
Live bots across crypto, US markets, and the Dhaka Stock Exchange — provisioned, monitored, and maintained 24/7.
Account management
Ongoing management — risk controls, position monitoring, rebalancing, and detailed monthly reporting.
Investor education
We teach clients the platforms — Binance, Interactive Brokers, the DSE — so they understand exactly what their capital is doing.
Every strategy is developed through rigorous backtesting, walk-forward validation, and Monte Carlo simulation before any real capital is deployed. Our systems are broker-agnostic — configurable across Binance, Bybit, Interactive Brokers, Coinbase, Alpaca, and MT4/MT5. If a broker supports API access, we can build a bespoke configuration for that account.
We operate on a performance-fee-only model for managed accounts — we earn nothing unless your account grows. Capital stays in your own brokerage or exchange account at all times; we access it only through trade-execution API keys with no withdrawal permissions.
Live capital is deployed across client accounts, with the operation actively scaling. Targeting registration in Dubai and the United States to support global operations.
Alongside the fund, we are building Baraka — a Shariah-compliant perpetual futures DeFi protocol with zero interest hardcoded by design. Built on original mathematical research (fourteen working papers), Baraka targets the 1.8 billion Muslims and $3.9 trillion Islamic finance industry that today has no access to perpetual futures markets. Learn more →
Interested in Working Together?
We're selectively onboarding new clients. Verify real returns on a trial allocation, then scale. Performance fee only, no lock-up.