AtlasVanguard is a Moroccan market observability initiative focused on financial research, market structure understanding, and the study of how derivatives affect market behavior.
Its mission is to:
- Support transparent financial research
- Provide a governed structure for collaborative market observability work
- Improve understanding of Moroccan market structure and market evolution
- Encourage reproducible, evidence-based quantitative research
- Serve academic, institutional, and research-oriented use cases
AtlasVanguard is explicitly non-speculative and non-trading oriented.
- Market observability and research
- Quantitative analysis of Moroccan financial markets
- Governance of research methodology
- Cross-domain collaboration between researchers, engineers, and finance practitioners
- Documentation and reproducibility of analytical work
- Educational and institutional research support
- Trading systems or execution systems
- Investment advice or portfolio management
- Predictive trading recommendations
- High-frequency trading infrastructure
- Brokerage or order routing
- Speculative AI systems
The Steering Committee is the highest-level governance body of AtlasVanguard.
- Set the overall direction of the initiative
- Approve the creation, modification, or retirement of SIGs
- Approve major governance changes
- Resolve cross-SIG conflicts
- Maintain organizational continuity
- Ensure the initiative remains aligned with its mission
The initial Steering Committee is founder-led and may later expand to include trusted contributors, advisors, or institutional participants.
- Small and accountable
- Transparent and documented
- Based on merit and responsibility
- Focused on continuity and governance integrity
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are the main organizational units of AtlasVanguard.
SIGs are used to organize work by domain, responsibility, and decision-making scope.
- Each SIG has a clearly defined area of responsibility
- Each SIG must document its scope and governance
- Each SIG must keep a traceable decision history
- Each SIG must coordinate with other SIGs when work overlaps
- SIGs operate under the overall direction of the Steering Committee
Read more at SIGs
Each SIG is responsible for:
- Defining its own working scope
- Maintaining its own governance notes and working norms
- Proposing changes through the RFC process
- Documenting decisions and rationale
- Reporting progress to the Steering Committee when needed
AtlasVanguard decisions are grouped by impact level.
Examples:
- Routine coordination
- Low-risk documentation updates
- Minor organizational clarifications
Handled by:
- SIG leads or maintainers
Examples:
- Changes in analytical definitions
- Changes in research methodology
- Changes affecting how a SIG interprets its domain
Handled by:
- SIG review
- RFC process
- Steering Committee escalation if needed
Examples:
- Creating or retiring a SIG
- Modifying decision rights
- Changing governance structure
- Cross-SIG conflict resolution
Handled by:
- Steering Committee
All meaningful changes to methodology, governance, or scope should follow the RFC process.
RFCs exist to ensure:
- transparency
- reviewability
- reproducibility
- traceability
- consistency across time
- Draft
- Review
- Revision
- Approval
- Adoption
- Follow-up validation
Each RFC should clearly describe:
- The problem being addressed
- The proposed change
- The reason for the change
- Expected impact
- Alternatives considered
- Any governance implications
AtlasVanguard contributions may come from:
- Students
- Researchers
- Engineers
- Finance practitioners
- Institutional collaborators
- Contributions must be documented
- Methodological changes must be reviewable
- Research work must be reproducible
- Contributors should respect SIG scope
- Important changes must be proposed through RFCs
Contributions are reviewed based on:
- Quality
- Relevance
- Clarity
- Reproducibility
- Alignment with the mission
AtlasVanguard follows a research-first and transparency-first ethic.
- No trading promotion
- No speculative claims without evidence
- No hidden methodology
- No undocumented assumptions
- No manipulation of outputs
- No misrepresentation of uncertainty
- Respect data licensing and reuse constraints
- Document data provenance where possible
- Avoid presenting scraped or third-party data as authoritative without clarification
- Prefer traceable and reproducible workflows
- Disclose assumptions
- Keep methodology transparent
- Preserve reproducibility
- Separate data, analysis, and interpretation
- Avoid overclaiming from limited data
A SIG may be:
- Created when a new domain needs dedicated governance
- Modified if its scope expands or contracts
- Split if it becomes too broad
- Merged if scope overlaps substantially
- Retired if it is no longer needed
SIG lifecycle changes must be approved through governance.
- Every SIG must have a lead
- Every SIG must have a clear scope
- Every major change must be documented
- Every methodological change should be traceable
- No SIG may operate outside the initiative’s mission
- Cross-SIG work should be explicitly coordinated
AtlasVanguard governance is designed to be:
- Credible
- Lightweight
- Transparent
- Reproducible
- Scalable
- Suitable for academic and institutional collaboration
The governance structure should support long-term continuity without unnecessary bureaucracy.