Smart investing starts with a system you can explain.
Ana Capital is a Toronto trading firm built on one idea: capital should be put to work by rules, not by mood. We created Helix Quant, a systematic program for precious metals, and we teach the thinking behind it.
- Primary instrument
- XAUUSD · spot gold
- Quote
- USD per troy ounce
- Method
- Systematic, rules-based
- Founded
- Toronto, 2018
Ana Capital
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What we stand for
Smart investing
Decisions made from a written plan, risk measured before it is taken, and results judged over months rather than days. The same standard whether the capital is ours, a client's, or a student's first account.
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What we built
Helix Quant: systematic trading in precious metals
A fully automated, rules-based program for trading gold against the US dollar. Every entry, exit and position size is defined before the market opens and followed as written.
About Us
Mashal Sana, and why Ana Capital exists.
Ana Capital was founded in Toronto in 2018 by Mashal Sana. He arrived in Canada at five, in 1997, after a childhood spent moving between countries with his family, and grew up with the immigrant's habit of looking for the more efficient way to get something done. That instinct has run through everything since.
He left school early for a career in telecommunications and energy, and by 2016 had risen to Regional Vice President. Along the way he and the company were featured in Success Magazine, and the company's record-breaking growth was profiled in Inc. Reaching the top of that business made one thing clear: it was not the vehicle. The financial markets were. In 2017 he went full time into trading and investing and applied the same obsession, working at it day and night.
The more efficient way to help people reach their goals is to teach them how money actually works.
That belief led to an education platform built for working people who were never taught financial literacy, and then to Ana Capital itself: a firm that would trade by written rules rather than instinct. In 2021 the firm began turning those rules into code, building the algorithms that would become Helix Quant, its fully automated program in precious metals.
- 1997
Arrives in Toronto with his family at age five, after years of moving between countries.
- 2016
Regional Vice President, telecommunications and energy. He and the company featured in Success Magazine; the company's record-breaking growth profiled in Inc.
- 2017
Full time into the markets. Trading and investing become the work.
- 2018
Ana Capital founded in Toronto, alongside the education platform.
- 2021
Algorithmic development begins. The firm starts building the systems that later become Helix Quant.
Helix Quant
A system built to work hard for people, so they can win their time back.
Helix Quant is the Ana Capital trading program. It was created so that a disciplined, tested method could do the daily work of trading gold, and the people behind the capital could get on with their lives. It grew out of algorithmic work the firm began in 2021: a defined set of conditions for when to enter, how much to risk and when to exit, written down, tested against historical price data, coded, and executed by the system without manual adjustment during live trading.
The edge is in the consistency. A rule that is only followed when it feels comfortable is not a rule.
Net performance of the Helix Quant program on the firm's own capital. Past results do not guarantee future performance.
- 01 · DEFINE
Written rules
Entry, exit and sizing logic specified in full before capital is committed.
- 02 · TEST
Historical validation
Rules are run against years of XAUUSD price history and stress periods before going live.
- 03 · EXECUTE
Automated execution
The algorithm places and manages every trade as written. Review happens between sessions, never mid-trade.
Principles
What the program is built on.
- RISK
Loss is defined before entry
Position size is set from the distance to the exit, not from conviction. No single trade can decide the month.
- FOCUS
One market, deeply
Gold behaves differently from equities or currencies. Specialising in a single instrument means knowing its sessions, liquidity and reactions in detail.
- RECORD
Every trade is logged
Fills, slippage and deviations from plan are recorded and reviewed. The record is the audit trail for the rules themselves.
- PATIENCE
No trade is a valid outcome
The system is allowed to sit out. Activity is not the objective; following the rules is.
Education
Financial literacy before financial risk.
Most people are handed access to markets long before anyone explains how they work. Ana Capital's education programs exist to close that gap: how money compounds, how risk is actually measured, what a trading plan looks like on paper, and why a system beats instinct over any meaningful stretch of time.
The material is drawn from the firm's own process. Students learn the same way Helix Quant was built, from first principles to a written, testable method.
- LEVEL 1
Foundations
How markets, money and risk work. The vocabulary and mechanics every investor should have before placing a trade.
- LEVEL 2
Master Keys
Reading price, structuring a trade, and sizing it so that being wrong is survivable.
- LEVEL 3
Bootcamp
Building and testing a complete rules-based plan, then executing it under live conditions with review.
- LEVEL 4
In Person, One on One
Direct work with the firm on a student's own plan, process and discipline.
Enrolment and schedules by email.
Contact Us
For business matters, partnerships and education enquiries, email us directly.
Office
Ana Capital Ltd202-31 Progress Ave
Scarborough, ON M1P 4S6
Canada