Upside Lab Advisors Inc.

Upside Lab Advisors Inc. provides advisory services primarily to individual clients and reports managing about $1.69 million across four accounts. The firm offers ongoing discretionary portfolio management—documenting client goals and risk in an Investment Policy Statement—and delivers one-time financial planning engagements.

Investment decisions draw on fundamental analysis, modern portfolio theory and quantitative methods, and strategies include long‑term positions as well as options trading (including covered, uncovered and spread strategies); the firm generally limits recommendations to insurance products (including annuities), equities, ETFs, TIPS and non‑U.S. securities. Upside Lab requires discretionary trading authority, directs clients to use Interactive Brokers LLC as custodian, and withdrawals for advisory fees are taken directly from client accounts while clients receive quarterly custodian statements.

Noteworthy features for a firm of this scale include the explicit use of uncovered options and the stated policy not to aggregate block trades for multiple clients, both of which can increase execution and strategy‑specific risk relative to many peers. The brochure also discloses potential acceptance of soft‑dollar research from custodians and states that financial planning is generally delivered as a single plan with additional services available only for an extra fee, practices that differ from many advisers.