The roadmap
The rail keeps growing.
The version ladder
Where each edition sits.
V1
Available nowThe Montex AlphaRail System — available now
The Excel edition, shipping today. Eleven governed workbooks, the full authority chain, three proprietary indicators, the operator manual library. $497, one time.
V2
NextAdvanced Strategies, optimized modules & open configuration
Still Excel — the same workbook family, rebuilt. Over 200 Advanced risk strategies, optimized modules carrying more powerful metrics and advanced telemetry, and the open-ended configuration engine. Every readout benchmark-driven. Roughly a year out, and free for every V1 owner when it lands.
V3
On the horizonThe MARS Command Center — the web edition
The rail rebuilt as a live web application, streaming the same advanced telemetry V2 introduces. Roughly two years out. A separate subscription product, not an upgrade path from the workbooks. Waitlist members walk in first.
The promise
Every owner gets the next edition free.
The Advanced Strategies library, the optimized telemetry modules, and the configuration engine land at no additional cost for anyone who already owns the V1 workbooks. Same Excel system, expanded. A one-time price should mean the thing you bought keeps getting better — not that you bought a frozen snapshot of it.
The cloud edition is a separate subscription product, not part of this upgrade.
MARS V2 — the architecture
More accounts, a longer horizon, and branches you construct.
V1 governs one account across one year, through branches the system defines. V2 changes all three of those at once — and that, rather than any single new metric, is what makes it a version rather than an update. Everything below is in build. Nothing here is on sale today, and V1 owners receive it at no cost when it lands.
3
Account lanes
5 yr
Managed horizon
8
Primitive branches per lane
6
Composite branches
Account structure
Three account lanes, each on its own clock
Run up to three accounts side by side in separate lanes. The lanes are independent in TIME, not just in balance — one can sit at week 42 of year one while another is at week 12, and every metric reads against that lane's own position on its own timeline. No forcing two accounts into a shared calendar to make the maths work.
- Up to three concurrent account lanes
- Independent week/year position per lane
- Lane-scoped metrics, benchmarks and cadence
- Lanes need not run in the same period, or at all
Horizon
A five-year rail, not a one-year one
V1 governs a single year. V2 extends the managed horizon to five, which changes what the system can even ask: compounding across cycles, multi-year gate behaviour, and whether an edge survives conditions a twelve-month window never contains.
- Five-year managed horizon per lane
- Cross-year cycle and gate history
- Long-horizon benchmark continuity
Branch architecture
Eight primitive branches, six composite
Each lane holds up to eight primitive branches. From those, the operator composes up to six composite branches — any combination they choose, or none at all. One composite or six; the structure is the operator's decision rather than a shipped preset.
- Up to 8 primitive branches per lane
- Up to 6 composite branches, operator-composed
- Composites built from any primitive combination
- Operator-defined branch construction, as an optional layer
Branch Construction Matrix
The branch becomes a configurable object
Entry, exit, model, and attached strategy all become fields the operator sets rather than behaviour inherited from a preset. A branch stops being a fixed lane on the rail and becomes something constructed — and therefore something that can be compared against a differently constructed one.
Risk governance
Dynamic risk throttle at the branch level
V1 governs risk through one chain: gate, tier, pool, smart capacity, per-trade risk. V2 adds a second layer underneath it, operating per branch — so a branch that has just taken a loss can step its own risk down without the whole book stepping down with it.
- Max_Risk_%
- ReduceRisk_After1Loss_%
- Reset_On_Win_Y/N
- Max_Consec_Reductions
- Chain: gate cap → throttle pool → branch eligibility → branch multiplier
Exit engineering
Trailing families as modules
V1 centres on ATR trailing for trend branches. V2 treats the trail as an interchangeable module, so a different trailing logic is a configuration change rather than a rebuilt strategy.
- ATR trailing
- Parabolic SAR trailing
- Fractal trailing
Position engineering
Scale-in, scale-out, and time at full scale
Deployment stops being a single decision at entry. Size can be built and reduced through the life of a position, and the time spent fully deployed becomes a measured quantity rather than an impression.
- Scale-in and scale-out ladders
- Time at full scale
- Initial and maximum exposure %
- Adverse excursion after scale
- Marginal EV of added size
Research management
Scenario Registry and A/B comparison
V1 has scenario profiles. V2 turns them into a persistent experiment system: named, stored configurations you can hold constant and vary one rule against — same sample, same trades, different management. That is the only structure in which a management-rule question has a real answer.
- Named, persistent scenarios with run groups
- Lane, risk %, branch weights, trade frequency per scenario
- Scenario Compare A/B on a fixed sample
- Scenario-stamped exports
Simulation
Monte Carlo snapshots
A snapshot store sits alongside the existing 50,000-path Dynamic 7-Tier benchmark rather than replacing it. Frozen distributions mean the rest of the system reads a stable, auditable result instead of re-simulating — and a result you can point at months later is a different kind of evidence from one that moves each time you open the file.
- Run ID, scenario, lane
- EV mean and standard deviation
- P10 / P50 / P90
- Robustness score
- Fat-tail frequency
Deployment visibility
The Branch Deployment Matrix
Every branch activation state across all three lanes, shown as one grid. Each lane carries up to eight primitive and up to six composite branches, so the matrix holds up to forty-two branch cells at full extension. The question it answers is the one that is hardest to hold in your head from a spreadsheet: what is actually live right now, and what is sitting idle.
- 3 lanes × up to 14 branches per lane
- 8 primitive + 6 composite per lane
- Up to 42 branch cells at full extension
- Active / inactive state per cell
Analysis scope
An open-ended grain dimension
Instead of building dedicated columns per pair, per timeframe, per session, analysis takes a grain and a scope value — pair, strategy, timeframe, or tag. One structure that answers the question you have rather than a fixed set of the questions someone anticipated.
- Grain: all · pair · strategy · timeframe · tag
- Scope value set per read
Risk telemetry
Regime expected shortfall by branch style
Not only the expected value of a trend, no-trend, or overflow branch, but its average outcome inside its worst tail of results. Governance needs the shape of the bad side, not the average of everything.
MARS V2 — the Branch Construction Matrix
Every branch, specified rather than inherited.
In V1 a branch behaves the way the system defines it. In V2 the operator constructs it — entry, exit, model, attached strategy, and the management ladder underneath. The full field set is below. Branch variants remain optional: build them if you want that control, ignore them entirely if you don't.
Branch ID
Slot
Active status
Branch type
Branch style
Structure mode
Strategy attached
BE trigger
TP target
ATR trail
Risk throttle
Branch weight
Branch hit rate
Partial %
Scale-in
Scale-out
Time at full scale
Partial TP ladder
Defense ladder
ATR trailing
SAR trailing
Fractal trailing
MARS V2 — two ways to read the same system
Basic view. Advanced view.
The same workbook, read at two depths. At the trigger you want the reading that resolves a decision. At the review desk you want the distribution behind it. V2 makes that a system-wide setting rather than a matter of which file you happen to have open. Both depths ship inside V2 — this is a reading mode, not a paid tier.
Basic view
Operator reading
What you need at the click. The reading that tells you whether to deploy, hold, or stand down — and nothing that would slow that decision down.
- Expected value
- Probabilities
- Simple guardrails
- Quota status
- Pacing
- Basic risk state
- Straightforward badges
Advanced view
Quant reading
The same workbook, opened up. For the review desk rather than the trigger — where you are interrogating the structure of the edge rather than acting on it.
- Monte Carlo distributions
- Attribution
- Uncertainty
- Skew and kurtosis
- Regime analysis
- Factor tilts
- Tail behaviour
- Advanced risk statistics
- Cross-path comparison
MARS V2 — the headline feature
Over two hundred advanced strategies. You pick which ones run.
These are not signals and they do not replace the rail. They are additional risk-management rules that layer on top of how the system already governs your account — the operator chooses which strategies to activate, and each one adds its own conditions to how risk gets deployed, laddered, trailed, and cut. The governance stays; the strategies sharpen it.
200+
Strategies
5
Categories, 40 each
Opt-in
Every one, operator-selected
Volatility & Derivative Proxies
40Variance Guild
Read the volatility surface and let it decide the ladder. Break-even triggers, trail widths, and runner permissions all scale with sigma instead of sitting at a fixed number.
- Vol-Regime Switcher — switch ladders when the vol badge flips
- Vol-Conditioned BE — break-even triggers that scale with sigma
- Overflow-Only in High-σ — runners permitted only above a volatility threshold
- Shock-Absorber Trail — the trail widens as volatility spikes
- Sigma Expansion Runner — ride the expansion, accept the flat stretches
- Implied–Realized Carry — harvest the structural gap, stand down in shocks
- Vol-Term Structure Proxy — favour short-horizon dislocations
- Vol-Synced Pyramids — add only into a volatility uptick
Cross-Asset & Relative Value
40Correlation Guild
Stop trading a pair in isolation. Confirm the trade against the wider market — the dollar index, yields, equities, commodities — before the rail authorizes risk.
- DXY Confirmation Overlay — trade EURUSD only when the dollar index agrees
- AUDUSD–Copper Confluence — trend trades only on the commodity confirm
- Cross-Asset Shock Gate — disable entries when the stress index fires
- Basket Mean-Revert — fade tri-pair deviation on a z-score
- Vol Spillover Arb — read the cross-asset volatility lead
Macro & Factor Tilt
40Mini-Ecosystem Cluster
Tilt the whole book toward the macro regime. Real-rate differentials, carry, and risk-on/risk-off state bias which branches get deployed and how hard.
- Real-Rate Differential — lean toward the higher real yield
- Dollar Smile Proxy — favor USD length in risk-off regimes
- Yield Curve Overlay — bias the majors by 2s10s shifts
- Carry/Value tilt — structural bias from the spot–forward basis
Execution & Microstructure
40Execution Guild
The rules that live between the signal and the fill. Session timing, spread conditions, and order tempo — the layer where most edge quietly leaks away.
- Session-gated deployment — risk only inside the liquid windows
- Anti-Chop Gate — disable runners when the chop index is high
- Stall-Then-Burst — wait for the micro volatility stall, then break out
- Trail-efficiency feedback — trail widths tuned by realized giveback
- Gamma-Trail Hybrid — wider trails where shakeouts cluster
- Skew-Adjusted BE — break-even safety scaled to downside skew
Advanced Portfolio Overlays
40Governance Guild
Account-level rules that sit above every individual trade. Tail sleeves, vol-parity sizing, and drawdown-coupled brakes that govern the book as one position.
- Tail-Insurance Split — route 10–15% of risk to no-partial tails only
- Vol-Parity Rebalance — size by volatility targets across pairs
- Drawdown-Vol Coupler — tighten when drawdown × volatility runs hot
- Risk-Parity-Across-Pairs — weight the book to equal risk contribution
- Overflow Sigma Sleeve — reserve risk for the high-σ tail, pay the patience tax
- Shock-Sigma Gate — a crisis brake that protects expectancy
- Kurtosis Regime Bias — tilt toward the fat-tail weeks
MARS V2 — the instrument upgrade
Optimized modules. More powerful metrics. Advanced telemetry.
The workbooks are not merely gaining features in V2 — they are being rebuilt as instruments. Every module is optimized around the metrics that actually move a decision, and every one of them reports against benchmark performance rather than reporting in isolation. A number that cannot be compared to what should have happened is not a metric. It is a rumour.
Optimized
Every module, rebuilt
The eleven workbooks re-engineered around what governs a decision — sharper engines, cleaner surfaces, faster recalculation across the authority chain.
More powerful
Metrics that decide
Deeper readouts on the dimensions that carry weight — the ones that change what you deploy, not the ones that merely describe what you did.
Telemetry
Benchmark-driven throughout
Every readout reports against the benchmark. You do not see a figure; you see a figure and the band it should have landed in. That is the difference between a dashboard and an instrument.
The V3 Command Center streams this same telemetry two years out. What V2 builds into the workbooks is what the cloud edition will render live — the instrument comes first, the screen comes after.
MARS V2 — the configuration engine
The presets become yours.
Today the workbooks ship with the assumptions the system was built on. In V2, the performance trackers — CP3, the Weekly EV Scorecard, and the rest — open up. You set the benchmarks, the branch mix, the risk ranges, and the tail thresholds your own account should be measured against.
Open-ended branch configuration
Branches stop being fixed. Define how many run, which mix deploys across a day or a week, and how many trades each one is allowed — instead of inheriting a preset.
Configurable benchmark hit rates
Set the hit-rate levels the system benchmarks against, per branch, instead of trading someone else's assumptions about your edge.
Adaptive risk ranges
Define the deployment range the throttle works inside, so the tier ladder is calibrated to the account you actually run.
Rolling averages & standard deviation
Every metric gains a transition view: rolling windows and standard-deviation bands that show whether a number is drifting, stabilizing, or breaking down.
Deeper gate-transition metrics
Not just which gate you're in, but how you move between them — dwell, transition frequency, and the pressure building underneath a gate change.
Fat-tail & accelerator benchmarks
Configurable benchmark levels for fat-tail capture, hybrid accelerators, and overflow deployment — the convex end of the system, made measurable.
MARS V3 — the Command Center
The rail, in the cloud.
The most advanced edition of the system — the whole rail rebuilt as a live web application, streaming the same advanced telemetry V2 introduces to the workbooks. Roughly two years out. It is a separate subscription product with its own pricing, not an upgrade path from the Excel editions.
Core
Feature split to be announced
Pro
Feature split to be announced
Expert
Feature split to be announced
Quant
Feature split to be announced
Institutional
Custom-designed per desk — priced on enquiry
Five subscription levels. What sits inside each one will be announced closer to launch — waitlist members hear first, and get in first.
Free — waitlist
Get in line for the Command Center
Join the waitlist and take the Starter Tracker with you — the beginner workbook, free, only here.
$497 — one-time
Own the rail today
The eleven governed V1 workbooks now, and the V2 upgrade free when it lands.
Institutional — on enquiry
Talk to us about a desk build
The Institutional tier is designed around the desk that runs it, so it is quoted rather than listed.
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Ask about the V2 timeline, the strategy library, the upgrade path, or the cloud edition.