self taught hedge fund quantitative macro tradooor
Joined March 2023
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Jun 10
quant brainteaser:
Anprotic released a new AI model Bafle - Tymhos with safeguards. time goes by, and no major disaster happened caused by the model. which one is more likely:
1) Tymhos had no groundbreaking capabilities in the first place
2) Safeguards were well designed
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Jun 3
back when I was based in Long Island working for RenTech, we had a super talented quant named Jay
first few years he made so much money. that got into his head. he started hosting lavish parties to seduce our HR Daisy. didn’t end well
since then Jim only hired married quants
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May 27
this is extremely huge because J in JD Vance actually stands for JP Morgan. few people know this. thanks Rick for bringing this to attention
May 26
Just heard a wild rumor from someone I trust that works at JPM.
The buzz is that Trump has been exploring ways to force Vice President Vance out of office. He cannot fire him legally. Unless Vance resigns, the only way for him to be removed is to be impeached by the House with 2/3rds Senate voting to remove!
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May 13
overheard:
“I’m long a lot of tech stocks maybe I should buy some energy stocks or other stuffs to hedge this Iran war thing”
my brother in Christ that’s just S&P500 congrats for discovering it from first principles
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Apr 26
London Marathon is done finally. hit my PB 2:46. the grind was so tiring now it’s time to celebrate with McNuggets
see how easy it is to lie on the internet today I didn’t even go out of the house I’m just a fat fuck
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Apr 20
was watching a video of how some ppl got affected by psychosis caused by AI chatbots. like these ppl became actually crazy. I’m sympathetic but at the same time I can’t help but to think this all could be solved if they take one linear algebra class
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Apr 17
it’s 2026 and only now I’m getting into NN/DL (I know) for personal stuffs and so far I’m using runpod but it’s actually kinda expensive is there a cheaper setup or is everyone just burning their paycheck on GPUs
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Apr 16
when I was at RenTech, we hired a lot of physicists, bcs a lot of groundbreaking concepts in finance came from physics.
momentum.
overextension.
volatility is like a trampoline.
Jim once said to me during post-lunch vape break: “study physics, and you will solve quant finance”
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Apr 13
some have asked me about my time in Renaissance Technologies. although I’m retired I can’t really say much due to NDA, but I have an unseen interview snippet from my ex-colleague Nick (hope the kids are doing well mate) that I’m comfortable to share. a lot of alpha in there
Apr 9
I find the quality of content on QuantTwitter disappointing. so in the next few weeks, I will be sharing novel stories about practitioners/legends, resources, anecdotes & many more
to kickstart this initiative I would like to share one of the most valuable websites for quant:
Community note
The attached screenshot has been edited to insert anachronistic references to "gstack", "Mythos", and "GPT5.4", which did not exist in 2019; the original Hacker News post quotes Nick Patterson discussing simple regression. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190652… robohub.org/talking-machin…
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Apr 10
to continue on this, today I’ll share a very useful AI tool that my HFT team has been using for the last 6m.
recently we combined it with Mythos and immediately received an email from CME that our alpha is too high hence exposes exchange vulnerabilities. so DYOR.
Apr 9
I find the quality of content on QuantTwitter disappointing. so in the next few weeks, I will be sharing novel stories about practitioners/legends, resources, anecdotes & many more
to kickstart this initiative I would like to share one of the most valuable websites for quant:
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Apr 9
I find the quality of content on QuantTwitter disappointing. so in the next few weeks, I will be sharing novel stories about practitioners/legends, resources, anecdotes & many more
to kickstart this initiative I would like to share one of the most valuable websites for quant:
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Apr 1
a lot of students reached out to me asking for resources to break into quant finance. thought I would compile my favourite quantfin authors so everyone can benefit. in no particular order:
1) Jim Simons
2) Steven Shreve
3) Garry Tan
4) Peter Thiel
5) Marco Di Maggio
good luck
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Mar 31
gf: *watching a video on how Shazam uses FFT*
gf: do you know what FFT is?
me: yeah think so
gf: what is it?
me: Fourier Transform?
gf: how do you know?
me: some use it in quant
gf: wow you’re smart. all this time I’ve seen others saying you’re smart but I just don’t see it
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Mar 17
just came back from hospital and it's actually scary to see how ppl say the most unhinged things that they clearly don't mean under drug post-surgery. one of my biggest fears now is after surgery I say some crazy stuffs like retail trading is profitable. touch wood
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Mar 12
this is the average IQ level of a macro trader btw
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Mar 9
me: if the war goes on we might lose money
gf: why don’t you just stop trading for a while?
me: it’s hard to figure out when to turn strats off/on
gf: but Trump said war won’t stop soon
me: yeah but we follow a process
gf: see this is the problem you never listen to anyone
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Mar 4
absolutely amazing thing happening on the everything app
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Mar 4
also you see PE guys writing about quant slops to appear smart, but you will never see a quant writing about PE slops to appear smart bcs writing about PE in any way will make you sound dumber
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Feb 26
no idea why people say Bloomberg’s moat is the data and it can’t be replicated. I literally can just log in whenever I want and write down whatever data I want. tomorrow I can do the exact same thing and they can’t do nothing about it
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