Pre-market research · Live since Nov 2025
Know the market's regime before the bell.
Every weekday, Pollinate Trading emails the same regime, momentum, and risk read our live systems trade on — free, in five minutes. Then we go deeper: full theses, trade ideas, and the reasoning behind them.
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Today's regime read
Long when the regime rewards it. Flat when it doesn't. This is a sample of the read subscribers get every morning.
What lands in your inbox
One free signup. Three kinds of edge.
Getting on the list is free. It's also where everything starts — the research, the systems, and the trades all flow from here.
01 · Start here
An orientation series
A short welcome sequence: how systematic trading actually works, the regime framework the systems run on, and the thesis behind the whole operation. You'll be up to speed in a week.
02 · Every weekday
The Daily Brief
Pre-market, 9:00 AM ET: the current market regime, momentum and breadth readings, and how the systems are positioned for the day. The same read we trade on — in five minutes.
03 · The main event
Deep-dive research
Long-form theses written by Chris — full reasoning, trade ideas, and where the edge is. Like the AI-buildout piece: 5,000 words mapping the biggest trade in the market.
Live, right now
The read isn't theory. It's running real money.
The brief is the same regime read our systems trade on. Both are live with real subscribers and real capital — returns below are actual, not simulated.
Live since Nov 1, 2025 · you execute in your broker
Live since Feb 9, 2026 · third-party execution
TrendLock backtest since 2020: +171.9% total · +16.7%/yr · alpha +2.6%/yr vs SPY. Past performance, live or backtested, does not guarantee future results.
The deep dives
Research worth reading end to end.
When you're ready to go further
Two ways to put the research to work.
Systematic signals
The Systems
TrendLock, SwingHunter, and VoltAIc — rules-based strategies that fire defined-risk signals you execute in your own broker. No overrides, no tips. A live track record you can verify.
The AI Buildout
A long-term, non-systematic research membership built on the AI-infrastructure thesis: deep research, trade ideas, and a live dashboard tracking the buildout — power, cooling, memory, grid, and compute. The biggest trade I can see, managed in the open.
- — Deep research on every layer of the buildout
- — Actionable trade ideas with reasoning and risk
- — A dashboard tracking the whole thesis over time
Chris Dover
Former Marine · Former hedge fund manager · 26+ years trading
Iraq, circa 2005.
Why this exists
Built in a bunker, because I couldn't sit at a screen.
I'm Chris Dover. Former Marine. Former hedge fund manager. Trading for more than 26 years — from before the dot-com crash through every cycle since.
I ran security operations in Iraq from 2004 to 2011. I started building systematic trading strategies because I couldn't sit at a screen while deployed, and because I couldn't trust my gut when my life was built around not trusting gut decisions.
Every system here runs on rules that worked in markets I wasn't watching. Define the edge. Size the risk. Execute on schedule. No overrides, no hero trades, no hope. The brief is how I share that read with you — for free, every morning.