Laurence Kingsley
Laurence Kingsley is the founder of SolePursuit Capital Syndicate and a long-standing advocate of process-first investing. Drawing on decades in markets, he focuses on building rule-based frameworks, disciplined risk structures, and practical training that help investors navigate volatility with greater calm and clarity.
Overview
Laurence Kingsley views markets as environments where structure beats spontaneity. He argues that the real competitive advantage is not secret information, but repeatable routines: clear rules, hard risk limits, and execution habits that are robust enough to withstand panic, euphoria, and information overload.
- A Translate ideas into code-level rules, specifying entries, exits, and position sizing before any capital is deployed, so that discretion becomes reviewable design instead of impulse.
- B Test systems across regimes, monitoring drawdowns, stability, and behavior under stress, then iterate on assumptions rather than retrofitting models to past performance alone.
- C Automate recurring tasks—signal checks, order routing, scaling, and exits—while keeping humans focused on research direction, oversight, and improving the risk architecture over time.
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1968 and educated in Business Management, Kingsley built his career in trading and investment leadership before founding SolePursuit Capital Syndicate in 2011, which has since trained tens of thousands of systematic investors worldwide.
Career
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Early Exposure to Commerce
Growing up in a family where business was daily conversation, Kingsley developed an early curiosity about capital, incentives, and how disciplined decisions compound over time.
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Business Management & Market Foundations
During his Business Management degree, he translated economics and finance theory into tools for real markets, forming the analytical base for later quantitative frameworks.
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Trading Practice & Leadership Roles
In subsequent trading and investment roles, Kingsley refined his conviction that rules, guardrails, and execution quality matter more than prediction, shaping his process-first philosophy.
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Founding SolePursuit Capital Syndicate
In 2011 he founded SolePursuit Capital Syndicate as a combined training and systems platform. By 2022 more than 50,000 students had completed its programs, learning to apply systematic methods in live markets.
Research & Focus
Kingsley studies how time gaps between insight and execution erode edge. His work emphasizes streamlined data pipelines, pre-defined response paths, and automation that turn signals into action without sacrificing control or transparency.
He focuses on frameworks that span equities, futures, FX, and digital assets, with attention to risk budgets, cross-asset diversification, and alignment between strategy timeframes and the investor’s real constraints.
Kingsley treats investor education as core infrastructure. He designs curricula that help learners move from intuition-driven trading toward structured, portfolio-level thinking supported by rules, metrics, and scenario analysis.