The Minds Behind stelariqosum

Financial expertise shaped by decades of real-world experience and a shared commitment to education

Collective Expertise

Our approach to financial education stems from diverse backgrounds in institutional trading, risk management, and economic research. We've learned that recognizing patterns isn't just about charts—it's about understanding the stories markets tell.

Institutional Trading Foundation

Combined experience includes positions at major investment banks and hedge funds, where pattern recognition meant the difference between profit and substantial losses. This institutional perspective shapes how we teach market analysis.

Academic Research Integration

Our team bridges the gap between theoretical finance and practical application. We've published research on behavioral finance patterns and continue to study emerging market dynamics that traditional education often overlooks.

Technology and Human Insight

While algorithms can spot statistical patterns, we focus on the human element of market behavior. Our courses teach you to see what machines miss—the psychological patterns that drive market movements.

Meet Our Team

Each team member brings unique perspectives shaped by different market conditions, cultural backgrounds, and professional experiences. This diversity enriches our educational approach.

Cordelia Blackthorne

Chief Financial Strategist

Cordelia spent fifteen years at Goldman Sachs before transitioning to education in 2020. Her specialty lies in identifying macro-economic patterns that influence currency markets. She developed our core curriculum after noticing that most trading education focused on technical analysis while ignoring fundamental market drivers.

Macro Analysis Currency Markets Risk Assessment

Bartholomew Nightingale

Senior Market Analyst

Bartholomew's background combines quantitative analysis with behavioral economics. After completing his PhD at Cambridge in 2018, he worked with several European central banks studying market sentiment indicators. His research on crowd psychology in financial markets forms the backbone of our pattern recognition methodology.

Behavioral Finance Quantitative Analysis Market Psychology

Our Origin Story

stelariqosum began during the market volatility of early 2019. Cordelia and Bartholomew were consulting for different firms but kept encountering the same problem: brilliant analysts who could spot patterns in historical data but struggled with real-time market conditions. Traditional finance education taught formulas and theories, but didn't prepare people for the psychological challenges of live trading.

The turning point came during a particularly turbulent week in March 2019. Both were fielding calls from colleagues who had all the right technical knowledge but were making costly emotional decisions. That weekend, over coffee in Leicester, they sketched out what would become our core philosophy: pattern recognition isn't just analytical—it's deeply human.

"We realized that teaching financial analysis without addressing human psychology was like teaching someone to drive by only showing them the engine."