01 / Deep work
Business and valuation research
Break down how companies make money, what drives the model, where expectations sit, and what would change the thesis.
Independent market research
Research the business. Read the tape. Respect the risk.
Taliaferro Capital Group documents the models, market context, and decision systems behind long-term investing and disciplined trading.
Models, not narrativesProcess, not predictionsEducation, not trade alerts
TCG / Research desk
The decision stack
Process active
Thesis strength / time
01
FundamentalsBusiness quality, unit economics, valuation
What02
Market contextTrend, liquidity, positioning, catalysts
When03
Risk architectureScenario, sizing, invalidation, optionality
How much04
Review loopJournal, measure, learn, compound
Then whatResearch architecture
A capital system, not a content theme.
The work moves from understanding the business to understanding the market—and only then to structuring the decision. Every output should make the next decision clearer.
02 / Context
Market structure and timing
Use trend, momentum, liquidity, catalysts, and technical context to separate a sound idea from a sound entry.
03 / Execution
Options and risk process
Document entry logic, position structure, cost-basis management, exit rules, and the post-trade review—without turning the work into alerts.
Published in public
From the desk.
Live market observations, trade reviews, and thesis updates are published on X. These are snapshots of process—not individualized recommendations.
Turning premium into a lower ownership basis
A public review of managing a DRAM covered call, closing early, and waiting for the next favorable setup.
NVDA: documenting the gap thesis
A concise market update tracking whether a specific technical expectation resolved—not a retrospective model rewrite.
MRVL: wait for the base—don’t chase the drawdown
A restraint-first note: 40% below the highs, but still up 100% for the year. The conclusion was to wait for price to establish a base before acting.
The operating framework
Make the work compound.
Good research should improve capital decisions, sharpen the process, and create useful public evidence over time. Each layer reinforces the next.
01
Capital
Focus capital on durable businesses, clear catalysts, and asymmetric opportunities where the upside case and the failure case can both be stated plainly.
02
Process
Convert conviction into rules: thesis, scenario, trigger, sizing, invalidation, exit, and review. The system should reduce impulsive decisions—not merely describe them afterward.
03
Distribution
Publish the work. Market notes, research models, and lessons become a growing record of how the thinking evolves and where the process still needs work.
In development
A decision operating system for investors.
The next TCG product turns scattered research and trade notes into a repeatable decision workflow—from thesis to post-trade review. The product is being built in public; no launch date or performance promise is implied.
Follow the build on XDecision brief / ConceptDraft workflow
01
State the thesisWhat must be true?
Research02
Map the scenariosBull, base, bear, invalidation
Model03
Define the triggerPrice, catalyst, confirmation
Context04
Size the riskStructure before emotion
Execute05
Review the decisionOutcome ≠ process quality
Learn
Founder
Quentin Taliaferro builds models for decisions that matter.
Quentin is a finance and operations professional, investor, and builder. Taliaferro Capital Group is the public home for his market research, investment frameworks, trading process, and the tools being developed from that work.
The goal is not to predict every move. It is to become harder to surprise, easier to review, and more consistent under pressure.
FocusTechnology, platforms, and future TAM
MethodModels + market context + review
Public desk@que_taliaferro on X
Follow the process
No signals. No certainty theater. Just the work.
Follow TCG for market observations, model-driven research, trade lessons, and product development in public.