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Research framework
Portfolio Robustness Under Market Uncertainty
A regime-aware framework that tracks rising correlation and realized volatility to identify when diversification is being diluted—and adapts exposure as market structure changes.
Finance · Economics · Systems
I study how portfolios behave when assumptions break.
I’m Jesus Valles—a finance and economics student, Army logistician, and independent researcher building practical tools for portfolio risk, market regimes, and capital allocation.
REGIME / CORRELATIONRESEARCH VIEW
STATEElevated
AVG. ρ0.61
ACTIONAdapt
Conceptual view · not live market data
Selected work
Ideas made testable.
Research and products at the intersection of markets, risk, and software.
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Research platform
Axion Alpha Systems
An independent research platform exploring systematic allocation, correlation-aware portfolio construction, and the infrastructure required to move an investment thesis from paper to tested system.
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Learning product
PMG Analyst Arena
A competitive analyst simulation built for the Portfolio Management Group: research, make capital-allocation decisions, and defend conviction under a fixed clock.
Operating principles
Research is only useful when it survives contact with reality.
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Research
Ask where the portfolio’s assumptions fail—not only where its forecast succeeds.
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Systems
Translate an idea into rules, data, tests, and an operating process.
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Execution
Build while learning. Ship the model, explain it clearly, then improve it.
Current path
Building across disciplines.
Finance & Economics
University of Colorado Denver. Focused on portfolio construction, markets, and applied quantitative research.
Army Logistics
Developing operational discipline and logistics expertise as a 92A Automated Logistical Specialist.
Research & Ventures
Turning finance research into working software, educational products, and disciplined business experiments.
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