Overview
David Story is a precision-driven entrepreneur, aviator, and quantitative strategist whose career merges the disciplines of aviation, data science, and financial markets into a single philosophy: risk is not to be avoided — it is to be engineered.
As Founder and Managing Partner of Pilot Traders Capital, a private and limited hedge fund seeking to raise $25 million in committed capital, David brings two decades of real-world execution experience across aviation, trading, and systematic portfolio development.
Founder Profile
David’s career began in aviation — a field that shaped his obsession with precision, discipline, and risk control. As an aircraft owner and FAA-certified charter operator under SoCal Air LLC, he built an operation around the same checklist-driven mindset that defines professional trading: plan, execute, verify, adapt.
That methodology evolved into Pilot Traders, a proprietary ecosystem of algorithmic indicators, predictive models, and educational frameworks that now serve traders and institutions worldwide.
Through thousands of hours of market research and backtesting across S&P-500, Nasdaq, Gold, Crude Oil.
David engineered a data-driven architecture that fuses pattern recognition, momentum analytics, and multi-tier risk layering — the foundation for Pilot Traders Capital’s proprietary trading systems.
Strategic Vision
Pilot Traders Capital is designed to operate at the intersection of technology, behavioral discipline, and risk optimization.
The fund’s objective is to generate consistent, non-correlated returns through algorithmic trading systems that dynamically adapt to volatility across global futures and currency markets.
David’s approach is not speculative; it is architectural.
Every strategy, execution layer, and risk parameter is built upon measurable cause-and-effect models tested over a decade of data. His guiding principle — “You cannot manage returns until you master risk” — is reflected in every algorithm and execution protocol deployed under the Pilot Traders Capital umbrella.
Leadership & Philosophy
David’s leadership style blends analytical precision with entrepreneurial foresight.
- He builds systems that transform complexity into clarity.
- He operates with measurable structure, not instinct.
- He treats capital with the same procedural discipline as a flight deck — where decisions are guided by checklists, not emotions.
This mindset enables Pilot Traders Capital to maintain high-confidence execution while continuously evolving its models through feedback loops, stress testing, and data-adaptive optimization.
Mission Statement
To redefine systematic trading through precision, adaptability, and transparency — building a performance-driven fund that reflects the same discipline, engineering, and calculated confidence found in professional aviation.
Closing Statement
David Story is not just a trader; he is an architect of systems that make uncertainty predictable.
Pilot Traders Capital is his culmination of years of research, risk engineering, and disciplined execution — an investment platform designed for measurable growth, quantifiable control, and long-term investor confidence.
