part of noblesse oblige is you’re not allowed to bash people younger than you for being harmless cringe and dumb since all of our past selves were cringe and dumb. but all the uncs are free game so go ahead

met someone who’s a ginger today. on top of that he’s a discretionary macro trader. and you expect me to believe that god is fair.

how quants act when they get to touch a woman’s hand:

why are alcatraz prison and sinners movie trending today

my brypto arb pnl tier really bad day: loses a day’s salary bad day: flat ok day: makes 1/3 of daily salary decent day: makes 2/3 of daily salary good day: makes daily salary great day: wakes up in the morning & made daily salary amazing day: wakes up in the morning & made 3 days salary extremely bad day i wanna kms: supposed to make 5k in 10secs but made a mistake and missed it extremely good day i wanna be reincarnated: critical bug in my code but worked out to my favour and made extra 20bps

lol “deep learning alpha”. for an undergrad intern. do they even know what they’re doing lol

if my backtest Sharpe is 2 I'd be wondering where the hell did it go terribly wrong why is it so low

if my backtest Sharpe is 2 I'd be wondering where the hell it went terribly wrong why is it so low

on a mission to find THE BEST kebab in London pls shill me your recommendations the winner will receive a free kebab delivered to their doorstep at 2am by a man wearing a balaclava and a hoodie

noob question: out of curiosity how do ppl actually backtest semi-high freq stuffs on illiquid things where clearly your presence affect the orderbook significantly. how do you even simulate that? or do you just test in prod like a chad?