Founder
Max Krehbiel
I built OpenK. I study the intersection of options markets, price behavior, and human psychology, and I started this because I wanted to know whether the way I view markets could be made precise enough to test.
The origin was literal. I set out to show a computer the same things I look at when I make an investment decision: where the market sits, how it got there, where it is in the cycle, and whether the current level of fear or optimism is unusual in historical context. After years of research, that intuition had become a model. A model with infrastructure that reconstructs historical option-implied distributions, describes market state and path from price alone, and rigorously rejects results that do not survive honest testing.
I am completing an M.S. in Business Analytics at TCU's Neeley School of Business, where I was named a Neeley Senior Finance Scholar. My background is in finance and analytics, and this research is independent. OpenK is not a fund and does not accept outside investment. It is the work of turning a long-term, historically contextual view of markets into systems that can be measured and falsified.
What I care about is honest research under real constraints: only using information available at the decision time, with chronological validation, real baselines, and failures kept on the record. The distribution-reconstruction infrastructure and a methods article are available to serious inquiries. If that is the kind of work you take seriously, I would like to hear from you.