About NTS Research

NTS brings investment strategy, quantitative research, and systems engineering together to make personalized investment management more scalable.

NTS Research LLC is a California limited liability company headquartered in Orinda, California.

Origin

Why NTS exists

NTS Research was founded around a practical question: how can sophisticated investment work be made more systematic without forcing every household into the same solution?

Contrarian Bet

Edge without a hard view

  • You can earn returns from volatility structure, even when directional conviction is low.
  • The work spans advisor-level strategy design and household-level implementation.
  • Simplicity, breadth, and clear evidence matter more than decorative complexity.
What’s Broken

And how we fix it

  • Opaque process. We prefer explicit rules, assumptions, and evidence.
  • Manual repetition. We build reusable methods and implementation rails.
  • One-size-fits-all outcomes. We are working toward household-aware delivery.
Mechanism

What the stack does

  • Research investment strategies across broad opportunity sets.
  • Use computation to test, compare, and govern decisions.
  • Keep research, implementation, and promotion boundaries explicit.
Guardrails

Proof before promotion

  • Priors on when to use probability variants.

See the methodology