Founder & Lead Instructor
Dr. Victor Klein was born in 1968 and currently resides in New York State. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a highly respected expert in global capital markets, he possesses over 30 years of hands-on experience. His career spans top-tier asset management firms and hedge funds, beginning with key roles in New York institutions where he oversaw multi-asset strategy research and portfolio risk control. Through these experiences, Dr. Klein developed a profound understanding of market structures, capital behaviors, and risk transmission mechanisms, which form the cornerstone of his subsequent professional endeavors. Dr. Klein's research focus has consistently centered on quantitative strategy development, asset allocation framework design, and cross-cycle risk model construction. He led teams in building multi-factor stock selection systems, volatility management models, and cross-asset linkage systems, with strategies encompassing stocks, ETFs, options, and macro hedging tools. His core philosophy—"discipline over prediction, systems over emotions"—permeates his career, emphasizing that trading success stems from replicable frameworks rather than subjective inspiration. During his tenure at Citadel and other leading institutions, he contributed to the development of deep learning-driven autonomous trading systems, advancing quantitative trading from rule-based to data self-learning paradigms. He spearheaded the NEXAIMax automated trading system, optimized from 2017 to 2023, achieving an impressive 860% annual performance in 2024, becoming a highly regarded benchmark in intelligent trading. Dr. Klein is dedicated to creating "a trading system that operates and generates profits even while you sleep," reflecting his pursuit of sustainable profit machines. After navigating multiple bull and bear cycles, Dr. Klein formed a resolute investment philosophy: amid diverse explanations for market volatility, data itself does not lie; market disorder is essentially the visualization of statistical regularities, and the right path in trading is using mathematics to convert noise into signal. Thus, he rejects subjective conjecture, insisting on model-driven approaches, integrating machine learning, big data, and distributed computing into hedge fund architectures to build world-leading quantitative research and execution platforms. His investment portfolio has yielded exceptional results in electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and digital assets (such as early positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum), achieving leapfrog growth across cycles and demonstrating his keen insight into long-term trends and technological revolutions. Beyond commercial success, Dr. Klein places great emphasis on social responsibility, actively supporting and promoting philanthropy in education, environment, and healthcare, with a particular focus on green technology and sustainable development. He believes the true meaning of wealth lies in creating opportunities for others, rather than mere personal enjoyment. This value extends to his educational initiatives. In 2019, he co-founded Ironclad Trading Institute with like-minded partners to cultivate a new generation of traders equipped with systematic thinking, risk awareness, probability mindset, and long-term perspective. The institute's curriculum covers market structure analysis, technical analysis integrated with quantitative methods, asset allocation logic, behavioral finance, and trading psychology with risk management, helping students build stable, replicable trading capabilities in complex markets. Dr. Klein consistently stresses that risk control is the prerequisite for all returns: position sizing, correlation analysis, and scenario stress testing far outweigh "being right on direction." He advocates decision-making through probability thinking and replacing emotional reactions with systematic frameworks. His core belief—"A truly mature investor is not the one who predicts best, but the one who manages risk most stably"—has become a guiding principle for many traders. As the founder and lead instructor of Ironclad Trading Institute, Dr. Victor Klein continues to drive others into the era of systematic trading through personal instruction and system breakdowns, enabling wealth growth and financial freedom.