Support
Supporting independent open quantitative research.
Daru Finance is an independent research lab. The work published here, the SSRN paper, the long-form article, the open-source models, exists because of compute, market data, and research time. This page describes what funding the open line enables, and how to participate.
Active research
Two long-running programmes are in flight. Sustained infrastructure and research time are what move them forward.
Published work
Most urgent right now
Two specific bottlenecks that, today, would change the scope of what this lab can run.
Hardware
2–4 TB SSD
My workstation has 1.2 TB of storage and it is permanently full. Large-scale studies, millions of strategies, walk-forward partitions, parquet caches of bar-level corpora, spill over the edge constantly, and the disk has become a real ceiling on what I can run. A 2–4 TB drive removes that limit.
~$300–600 · one-off
Market data
L2 order book + real-time tick feeds
The published work runs on bar-level data because that is what I can currently afford. L2 + tick access opens research lines this site cannot touch today, high-frequency strategies, statistical arbitrage, market microstructure, and market making, where bar-data assumptions already break down.
ongoing subscription
What sponsorship enables
Where the money actually goes, and how it scales. Numbers are approximate and revised when reality shifts.
- Compute
- Backtest farm, walk-forward sweeps, Monte Carlo permutation runs, Rust crates parallelised with Rayon.
- ~$80–450 / month
- Market data
- Crypto perpetuals, forex majors, commodity feeds at the bar granularities the published work uses.
- ~$50–250 / month
- Infrastructure
- Site hosting, domain, storage for aggregates and figure data, reproducibility-package distribution.
- ~$30–100 / month
- Research time
- Hours that go into writing, replication, and publication, the line item hardest to underwrite and the one that matters most.
- the binding constraint
Current monthly burn lands around $200. The comfortable ceiling for the existing research lines, broader replication runs, more frequent paper releases, more open code, is closer to $1,000 / month. Beyond that the scope itself changes; larger institutional support widens what the open research line can attempt, and the long-term ambition is broader still.
Why reproducibility matters
Sponsorship underwrites a research line that stays open: code in repositories, raw permutation counts shipped with the working paper, methodology fully documented, figures derived from data the reproducibility package distributes. None of that survives if the work has to compete for time with everything else. The open line is the part of the lab that other researchers can build on, contest, and improve, and that is what funding protects.
How to support
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Individuals & researchers
GitHub Sponsors is the small recurring lane. Any amount contributes to the categories above, and every sponsor is publicly attributable.
A GitHub Sponsors page is on the way, pending GitHub staff review. In the meantime, reach out directly and recurring or one-off support can be arranged.
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Institutional & grant-based
For larger one-off support, infrastructure partnerships, or grant-style sponsorship, please get in touch directly. A short introductory email is the fastest path.
Useful to include
- ·Organisation or affiliation
- ·Scope of interest, which projects, which deliverables
- ·Approximate budget or contribution form
Sponsorship supports the open, published research line, papers, articles, open-source models. It is separate from the consulting work conducted under NDA elsewhere.