About Telonics

Built by a trader who got tired of watching people get scammed.

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Nick Bacik

Founder & Lead Developer

Built the entire Telonics portfolio from the ground up — from data infrastructure and edge discovery to live execution and risk management.

How It Started

I got into trading two years ago for the same reason most people do — I got sold the dream. I watched the social media gurus with their supercars and screenshots, bought into the idea that I could quit my job and trade my way to freedom, and dove in headfirst.

For over a year, I traded manually. I tried every strategy I could find. I watched every YouTube video, joined every Discord, read every book. I had lucky streaks that made me feel like I was finally getting it, then gave it all back and more on the next bad day.

I revenge-traded. I overtraded. I broke every rule I'd ever read. I blew countless accounts.

The Truth About Retail Trading

The whole time, I was being told the same thing — "it's all psychology, it's all mental." And while emotions absolutely destroy most retail traders, that excuse is also how the gurus hide a much darker truth:

Most of the strategies being sold don't actually work. Even if you followed them with perfect discipline, you'd still lose over time.

Almost none of these guys publish real statistics — no win rate, no profit factor, no Sharpe ratio, no multi-year backtest. Just clipped winning trades, recycled chart patterns, and the same "you have to manage your emotions" line every time the strategy fails.

Meanwhile, the real edge in trading — the kind hedge funds have been using for decades — was sitting in plain sight. It just required a different kind of work.

Why I Built Telonics

I switched to algorithmic trading and went all in. Over the next year, I built hundreds of different algorithms, validated them on years of tick-level data, and threw most of them away. Most of what looks profitable in a backtest is curve-fit garbage. The few real edges that survive proper out-of-sample validation are the ones worth trading.

Eventually, I built the system that runs Telonics today — a portfolio of 31 independent edges across four futures markets, validated on 7+ years of MBP-1 tick data, with 15+ months of live out-of-sample performance.

I'm not selling courses. I'm not posting screenshots of my Lambo. I'm selling the actual algorithms that trade my own money — fully automated, with real statistics, and complete transparency on what they do and how they perform.

Telonics exists because too many people get sold a dream that doesn't work. If you want to day trade and actually be consistent, you need a real edge backed by real data — not psychology lectures from someone who's never published a stat.

What's Next

Telonics is just getting started. The current portfolio is the foundation — but the research engine that built it keeps running, finding new edges, retiring old ones, and adapting to new market conditions. Subscribers get the latest portfolio as it evolves.

If you've been burned by social media gurus, lost money chasing strategies that don't work, or just want to see what real algorithmic trading looks like, book a consultation. We'll have a real conversation about whether this fits you.