Empirical Private Investment Office isn’t just a name—it’s a declaration of experience. Our proprietary trading operation and cloud-based automated trading duplication technology is structured around the vision and capital of Robert Nash—an independent trader with 35 years of experience honed through trading his own capital for a living, and a history of managing proprietary trading firms, an options dynamic hedging operation, and a hedge fund and separate accounts management company. 

We are intentionally highly liquid—and act decisively to changes in market ​behavior and high-conviction asymmetrical opportunities. We focus on crude oil and occasionally will trade metals, currencies, and bitcoin. We are unapologetically opportunistic. The trading operation emphasizes agility—executing trades opportunistically based on price activity and behavioral pattern recognition, liquidity, and enhanced by insights from sentiment analysis, statistical probabilities, and seasonality information.

Understanding market activity and crowd behavior is our edge. Markets are influenced by irrational elements—such as emotions and biases. These behaviors aren't static—they change as market conditions evolve. The market is a crowd of humans (and algorithms coded by humans), driven by emotion, bias, and herd instinct. Price moves because participants reposition in response to perceived opportunity or risk. Fear, greed, fear of missing out—all manifest in crowd behavior—the clustering, reacting, and repositioning of participants around key price levels. 

Performance outcome is a reflection of conviction, leverage, high trade frequency, or single-trade conviction when it matters most. Trading frequency follows clarity. Some days—one trade, one conviction—is worth more than a hundred trades. Position sizing, entry, exit and trade frequency are dictated by current price action, auction dynamics, volatility, liquidity, and asymmetric risk. Our core philosophy is maintaining high liquidity reserves—allowing capital to be committed to high-conviction asymmetrical opportunities when potential reward far outweighs the risk. 

We don’t seek attention. We don't give advice. We don’t forecast. We don't ask for trust. We earn it. We operate in real time—not on past returns, not on projections, not on hypotheticals. Our ultra-low latency trade duplication is a reflection of our own trading activities and how we trade our own money, preserving the exact timing, sizing, and execution logic of the original trades. If the way we trade resonates, open an account with one of our brokers. Start small. When trust is earned, scale in. No commitments. High liquidity. Withdraw and deposit anytime.