01 — Firm

A closed book, run on method.

MF Whales trades its own capital across four liquid markets, using strategies it researches and systems it builds itself.

What it is

MF Whales is a UAE-based proprietary trading firm that applies systematic research and in-house engineering to liquid markets, trading its own capital.

The firm was founded in 2024 and operates from the United Arab Emirates. It trades a single book, funded entirely by its shareholders. There are no outside investors, no client mandates, and no third-party capital of any kind.

That structure is deliberate. A firm trading only its own money answers to its own risk limits rather than to redemption cycles, and can hold a position, or decline to take one, on the merits alone.

Method

Two disciplines carry the firm. The first is research: forming hypotheses about market behaviour and testing them against data rigorously enough that most are discarded. The second is engineering: building the systems that take a surviving hypothesis and run it in live markets, with monitoring and controls around it.

Neither works without the other. A well-founded idea that cannot be executed reliably is not tradeable, and infrastructure without research to run on it is only overhead.

How strategies are researched and retired

Markets

The firm is active in four markets: listed equities, fixed income, commodities, and digital assets. Trading across several asset classes is a research decision before it is a commercial one — a method that holds in more than one market is more likely to reflect something real about how markets work.

The four markets

Group

MF Whales is part of the Wealth Egypt group, a holding company operating across finance, trading, and technology from the UAE and Egypt. Within the group, MF Whales sits in the trading division alongside Wealth Stone.

Each company in the group is a separate entity with its own activities and its own regulatory position. Nothing stated on this site should be read as extending to any other company in the group.

Wealth Egypt