Strategy Highlights
Deep expertise
In addition to deep financial and statistical research on our stocks, we incorporate weekly credit card spend data, app downloads, website traffic data, listen on every investor call/meeting, and talk with the company CFOs periodically.
Minimized drawdown
Active risk management systems with market price simulations and auto-stop loss safety orders.
Minimized exposure
Selling weekly options so that in any large market drawdown, we can easily get out.
This Is Why Carthage Fund II Is the Right Strategy for You
Many investment strategies rely on a directional view of the market. However, it is highly improbable a fund can accurately predict the right direction, the right stock selection, and the right timing over a multi-year basis. This largely explains why investment funds often don’t outperform S&P500 in the long run.
Carthage Capital Management offers a unique investment strategy that is uncorrelated with the market. We do not aim to predict whether the market will move up or down. Instead, we assess the probability of a specific stock price movement in a given timeframe. We utilize our strong fundamental research and deep understanding of options pricing to sell weekly and monthly option premiums for profit that expire worthless 95%+ of the time. This allows us to keep a non-directional bias.
Our target returns in a normalized market is +50% annually, as we target to make an average of +0.5 to 1% return per week. In a bull market, this strategy has historically outperformed SPY by 3-6x (+194.2% in 2020, +149.7% in 2021, and +41% in 2023) as we focus on recycling our capital faster and tilting our portfolio towards higher ROI trades. In severe downturns, the strategy tends to be conservative (+30.4% in 2022) as we focus on capital preservation.
Hedge Fund Manager
Carthage Fund II is Managed by Carthage Capital Management
Stephen Wu, portfolio manager, was an AI Software Engineer at Amazon and Microsoft for 6+ years, where he used statistical modeling to build the Amazon Alexa music recommendation system. Over the past 4+ years, he used statistical modeling and analysis to trade options, which eventually became the basis of this trading strategy.
He partnered with several of his closest friends at Citadel, Point 72, Millennium, Neuberger Berman, Balyasny, etc to combine statistical modeling with financial analysis to create this trading strategy. After running it for 4 years and returning +31% in 2022, one of the worst years for tech with the Nasdaq -33%, he decided it was time to launch the fund. Stephen now runs it full-time with 100% of his liquid net worth invested and aims to grow it to the best hedge fund in the world. He named it “Carthage” after one of the greatest cities in history, known as a center for trade.
Stephen double majored in Computer Science and Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University with honors.
As Warren Buffet said, "Rule No 1: never lose money. Rule No 2: never forget rule No 1." This is a philosophy we strongly embrace.
Stephen Wu
Hedge Fund Manager @ CARTHAGE FUND II, LLC
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"I didn’t know investments like this existed before finding CARL, and I guess they didn’t for regular investors until now. It provides so many more options, I can now manage my own hedge fund portfolio, diversify my investments and I have the potential to earn a return regardless of market direction."
Chris
CFO, Michigan
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