About us
Oraclum Capital is a US hedge fund that uses wisdom-of-crowds research and proprietary network analysis to forecast weekly equity market direction.
What drives the strategy?
We trade options on equity indices using weekly signals derived from our prediction competition. We buy 2DTE and 0DTE options while capping maximum risk exposure at 2% per week.
Our edge comes from correctly identifying SPX direction with a hit rate that has historically supported asymmetric weekly outcomes: Asymmetric weekly payoffs, disciplined downside, and a since-inception record of 20% annualized return, -0.05 correlation to the S&P 500, and -8.5% max drawdown.
The methodology we use is a scientific innovation developed at Oraclum Intelligence Systems by ORCA’s founding trio: Dr Vuković, Dr Vinković, and Prof Šikić. We’ve used it to successfully predict both Brexit and Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020, all within 1% accuracy, among many other things. The same research tradition has been used to forecast major political outcomes with 1% accuracy and now informs our market process.
Vuk Vuković
Vuk Vuković, PhD is the CEO and CIO of the ORCA BASON Fund, and the founding partner of both Oraclum Capital and Oraclum Intelligence Systems. His responsibilities include placing and overseeing the weekly trading positioning based on the BASON signal, whilst following a strict set of rules and guidelines that are part of ORCA’s Systematic trading strategy. He is also responsible for relationship building with our investors, writing our weekly newsletter, and all other tasks of running the fund.
Vuk holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, and an MSc from the London School of Economics. His PhD has been adapted into a book Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality, published by Oxford University Press.
Dejan Vinković
Dr. Dejan Vinkovic is one of the co-founders of Oraclum Intelligence System Ltd and Oraclum Capital LLC. As Chief Quant his responsibilities include deriving the weekly BASON signal from our algorithm, regular weekly testing of the strength of the signal, all types of backtests regarding our signal performance, and constant updating of the validity of the signal.
He received his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Kentucky, after which he worked for several years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. After that he was a professor at the Physics Department at the University of Split, Croatia. From there he moved into the private sector, where he worked as the Chief Science Officer at the aeronautical firm, Hipersfera Ltd. He is also the founder of Science and Society Synergy Institute, a private non-profit research institute.
Mile Šikić
Mile Šikić is one of the founding partners of Oraclum Intelligence Systems Ltd and Oraclum Capital LLC, where he plays a pivotal role on the Quant Team. He oversees the automation of trading algorithms, the development of cutting-edge AI methodologies, and managing talent acquisition. Professor Šikić is also the head of the AI in Genomics Lab at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR and a professor of computer science at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.
Scott Alford
Scott Alford is the COO of Oraclum Capital LLC. His responsibilities include identifying strategic partners, outreach and education efforts for investors and potential investors, and business development for Oraclum Capital. Scott holds an MA from George Mason University. He is a former fundraising and philanthropy consultant through Azariah Advising LLC where he advised family foundations and non-profits in their philanthropic investments or fundraising efforts. He also worked as an Academic Dean and social science and humanities teacher for Veritas Collegiate Academy (VCA) in Fairfax, VA, and has worked in university investments and grants with the Charles Koch Foundation.
