Our Story

Built by Investors,
for Investors.

A father-son team. 40+ years of investment technology. $750K+ of our own capital on the line.

The Origin

This Started as a Personal Tool

SignalStrike wasn't built to raise venture capital or flip a company. It was built because two people — a father who spent 40 years in investment technology and a son who bridged business and AI — needed it for themselves.

Greg McVay founded Computer Investment Advice, Inc. around 1980 with a vision of becoming an investment advisor. His technical background led him into software development instead — building enterprise systems while never losing his passion for investing. For decades, he tracked trends, developed systematic strategies, and helped family and friends achieve financial independence through disciplined, data-driven approaches.

Ryan McVay grew up learning from Greg — absorbing his investing strategies and understanding how a small business could be profitable. After building a career across business, real estate, and medical sales, Ryan took over as Chief Operating Officer of the family business around 2020. He became immersed in AI and automation, using it to teach himself programming, server management, and system design.

When Ryan pushed Greg to explore AI tools, something clicked. Greg set out to build what he'd never built for himself — a platform to systematize the momentum investing approach he'd refined over decades. Through multiple iterations, working side by side, they started running backtests and seeing real results on what became the momentum basket trading engine within SignalStrike.

Greg & Ryan McVay

Co-Founders & Partners

$750K+
Personal capital running live since October 2025
40+
Years of combined investment & technology experience
~1980
Computer Investment Advice, Inc. founded
The Team

Meet the Founders

Greg McVay

Co-Founder & Partner

Greg founded Computer Investment Advice, Inc. around 1980 with a vision of becoming an investment advisor. His technical background and education led him into software development — building enterprise systems for decades while maintaining a deep passion for systematic investing.

Throughout his career, Greg tracked trends in technology stocks, developed disciplined investment strategies, and helped family and friends achieve financial independence through data-driven approaches. His decades of pattern recognition across both software and markets are the foundation of SignalStrike's momentum algorithms.

The programmer and the investor.

Ryan McVay

Co-Founder & Partner

Ryan graduated from West Virginia University with a BA in Business, then built a career across oil & gas, real estate, and medical sales. When his father's business partner retired, Ryan stepped in as Chief Operating Officer to keep the family business running.

Around 2020, Ryan became immersed in AI and automation — using it to teach himself programming, server management, and system design. He built scripts that saved the team hours daily, then pushed Greg to explore these tools. That collaboration led directly to SignalStrike.

The business operator and AI pioneer.

Why We Built This

From Personal Tool to Platform

Greg had built software for other companies for years but never built anything for himself. With his lifelong obsession with investing and Ryan's encouragement to use AI tools, Greg set out to create a platform for his own use — something to systematize the momentum investing approach he'd refined over decades.

Through multiple iterations — father and son working side by side — they started running backtests and seeing real results. They deployed their own capital. The strategies worked.

Every strategy on the platform runs with the founders' money on the line. That's not a marketing claim. It's how this started.

The Company Behind It

SignalStrike is a product of Computer Investment Advice, Inc. — a company founded around 1980 with investment in its DNA.

CIA Inc operates McSource Technologies (freight payment & logistics) and SignalStrike (momentum trading platform). The same attention to systematic process that powers enterprise logistics now drives institutional-grade momentum strategies.

Computer Investment Advice, Inc.
Est. ~1980 · Pittsburgh, PA

What's Next

Where We're Going

Growing the Community

From 13 early adopters to 100 paying customers. Building a community of advisors and investors who believe in systematic, transparent momentum strategies.

AI-Powered Insights

6-source sentiment analysis, market regime detection, and AI-driven insight alerts — the intelligence layer behind SignalStrike. Coming to your dashboard soon.

Building the RIA Network

Partnering with independent advisors who want a systematic momentum layer for client portfolios — institutional-grade tools, transparent methodology, compliance-ready architecture.

Join Us

Whether you're an advisor looking for a systematic edge or an investor ready for institutional-grade tools — we built this for you.