About
CUBIT

"Wealth, within arm's reach."

an ancient measure for modern markets

What's in a name

CUBIT
from Latin cubitum — "the forearm"

One of humanity's oldest units of measure: the length from your elbow to your fingertip. The pyramids were laid out in cubits. We liked it twice over — this project measures the market with simple, honest rules… and it trades QQQ, which traders have nicknamed "the cubes". Cube it. Cubit.

LUCRATOR
from Latin lucrari — "to gain, to profit"

The house name behind the project. A Lucrator is, literally, a profit-maker — so Lucrator Cubit is "the profit-maker that measures the cubes."

What this is

Cubit is a private, educational dashboard. Every few minutes while the market is open, a rules-based model reads the price of QQQ, names the market's mood — its regime — and publishes what it would hold and, more importantly, why, in plain English. The signal is committed once a day at the market close; intraday reads are provisional.

It was built to teach: how markets move, how a systematic strategy thinks, and how software is engineered — the same rules shown here are a real Python strategy library with a 30-year backtest behind it. Start with how the strategy works, watch it live on Today, and browse every past day in the History archive.

All signals are computed from public market data (daily prices from public sources, volatility indices from CBOE). Nothing here connects to a brokerage account.

The 30-year backtest

Before a single dollar follows these rules, they are replayed against three decades of market history — the dot-com crash, 2008, 2020, 2022 and everything between. This is the current rule set, walked forward day by day with no peeking ahead:

Growth of $1 · log scale

Year-by-year returns

hover a bar for the numbers

The fine print

Cubit is educational and hypothetical. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and it makes no promise of results. Leveraged ETFs like TQQQ can lose value very quickly. The performance line is a hypothetical model track record, not a real account. Never invest money you can't afford to lose — and always do your own thinking. That's rather the point.

LUCRATOR CUBIT · an expri.ai production
built with care (and a lot of backtesting)