About Aaron

From capital allocation to execution systems.

I am Aaron Liew, a Malaysia-based finance and strategist-builder. My prior work spans investment management, venture and private investments, finance, startup work, and operating experience. Today, I am focused on trading, AI systems, writing, and high-quality execution.

Portrait of Aaron Liew
Identity fileAaron LiewFinance x AI x Markets x Execution Systems
Malaysia-based finance + strategist-builder
Now: trading + AI systems

Quick facts

What to know first.

Prior workInvestment management, venture and private investments, finance, and startup work
Current focusConsistent trading performance, AI systems, and compounding public work
WritingBuilding in public, discipline, trust, distribution, and execution notes
Working styleAnalytical, exploratory, evidence-led, systematic, and resilient

Journey

The through-line.

01

Finance trained the lens.

My earlier work spans investment management, venture and private investments, finance, startup work, and operating experience. The common thread was learning how incentives, operators, timing, and execution quality shape outcomes.

02

Markets made the feedback loop unforgiving.

Trading is the current main quest. It compresses judgment into a tighter loop: what is signal, what is noise, what is the invalidation point, and did the execution match the plan?

03

AI turned the workspace into leverage.

I am building toward end-to-end AI systems: capture, processing, decision support, action, monitoring, and feedback. The goal is not novelty. The goal is better loops and clearer decisions.

04

Writing keeps the learning visible.

Publishing turns scattered notes into clearer ideas and leaves a public trail of what I am learning while building. The goal is not to sound polished. The goal is to make the thinking sharper.

Current focus

What I am building now.

The work sits at the intersection of AI, markets, writing, and personal operating systems. Each project is a way to make judgment more repeatable, while keeping final execution accountable to a human.

TradeCore

A Python decision-support scanner that analyzes market data, scores setups, tracks setup state, and compresses morning prep from 30-45 minutes to roughly 30 seconds.

AI OS

A personal workspace for turning capture into processing, decisions, action, monitoring, feedback, and reusable operating loops.

Newsletter

Essays and notes on building in public, trust, distribution, discipline, accountability, books, markets, and execution.

Public work

A compounding body of public writing, projects, and notes that documents what I am learning while building.

Operating principles

How I try to work.

  1. Explore broadly before narrowing the decision.
  2. Use numerical data and evidence to confirm or challenge the hypothesis.
  3. Work systematically and hold the output to a high standard.
  4. Treat setbacks as learning loops and adapt without losing the goal.
  5. Collaborate where it improves the work, while keeping final accountability clear.