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Joined December 2020
If I were Jane Street I would simply have not done the smaller, illiquid leg of the trade that they consistently lost money on. Surely then the trade would be much more profitable, right?.
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How is it possible to be a phd candidate in an ostensibly scientific field and think like this. It’s obviously possible to have a normal (18-25) BMI and still be incredibly unhealthy. Just ask 16th century sailors.
Yep. People have an entirely backwards view of what “good food” is. The only thing which really matters is calories in, and calories out. You need to minimize calories in so that you’re not fat. That’s it.
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Guy who tried to trade on inside information is mad that his inside information didn’t move the market.
Betting markets have not reacted to today's information pertaining to the New York City mayoral election.
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A vector is an element of a vector space. A vector space is a space of vectors (with addition and scalar multiplication). I don’t see what’s hard about this.
Easy. First of all, a vector is an element of a vector space.
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RT @Bonecondor: I love crypto/defi because it’s basically taken a bunch of complex esoteric microstructure questions (order books, network….
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Is there a better or more recent book about convertible arbitrage than this one?
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Great thread, rbit is a very smart cookie, we talked a lot and he always impresses. Definitely worth a follow if you don’t already!.
Post mortem of a (almost) 1 million dollar profit HFT strategy. In the summer of 2023 I started posting some monthly screenshots of this (at the time) 40+ sharpe ratio HFT strategy. I used to only publish % returns, but if you ever wondered what the $ amounts were, there you go:
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Cute little graffiti that I found on a park bench on my walk this morning
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Speaking mandarin.
I can probably pick any skill and be top 1% in 6 months.
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You (weak, cowardly, loser): DMing @bennpeifert to ask about options trading strategies. Me (strong, confident, chad): DMing @bennpeifert to ask about Pokémon trading cards.
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My daughter (6) asked Siri on her ipad “when is Santa’s birthday?” and its response started “As a mythical figure, Santa Claus doesn’t have an official birthday…” which is definitely one way to find out.
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The new Pope is from Chicago and has a math degree, which goes to show that you can still make a success of your life even if you don’t pass the first round interview at Jump
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Way too much imo, six minutes per trade means you can do maximum 65 trades per trading day. Never going to build a $15m/year, 15 sharpe strategy like that.
The median retail investor “spends approximately six minutes on research per trade on traded tickers, mostly just before the trade.” - Apollo’s Slok.
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an AI bro has some thoughts about trading, everyone stop what you’re doing and pay attention.
If a 10M-token context worked, you could download all of yesterday's financial news, put them into the context, and train the LLM on today's S&P 500 stocks to predict whether the stocks will go up or down next day.
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You: spending $300/yr on some zero insight quant larper’s substack. Me: spending $50 on @__paleologo’s book and getting thousands of times more value
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Another satisfied client of cephalopod capital advisory partners 🫡 🫡 🫡
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sometimes you get a dm like this and you’re like “yes ok this site causes me incredible psychic damage but it’s still worth it” 💪💪💪
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If they don’t give us the guy with the most Italian name possible to be the next Pope, it will be a crime against God
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