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a MIT quant told me Polymarket 5-minute BTC markets are mathematically broken we were at a bar in cambridge. he was finishing his PhD on market microstructure. third beer in he started drawing on a napkin. "Polymarket runs BTC Up or Down every 5 minutes. 288 markets per day....

53,820 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад •via X (Twitter)

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Фото профиля Six
Six5 месяцев назад

Bar napkin + Claude building NEURAL FLUX overnight — this move is too slick

Фото профиля ih8y
ih8y5 месяцев назад

bro i love your visual...

Фото профиля kvro
kvro5 месяцев назад

funny how the edge comes from pricing not prediction

Фото профиля cvxv666
cvxv6665 месяцев назад

I'd love to study at Cambridge so many great stories and people to meet

Фото профиля The Masked Maker
The Masked Maker1 месяц назад

Sum bigger than 1 is platform fee right?

Фото профиля Nikiton
Nikiton5 месяцев назад

At what point did you wake up?

Фото профиля rari
rari5 месяцев назад

spread capture over prediction

Фото профиля Polydesk
Polydesk5 месяцев назад

“mathematically broken” is pure CT catnip ngl

Фото профиля bl888m
bl888m5 месяцев назад

that’s exactly why bro’s an MIT quant

Фото профиля divyasshree
divyasshree5 месяцев назад

the "crowd injects emotion every 5 minutes" part is exactly what stationarity testing catches. onchain trade data tells you when a market has flipped regime vs when it is still mean-reverting. did a full breakdown on identifying these regime shifts using raw trade data here:

Фото профиля VALIX
VALIX5 месяцев назад

Yeah, Claude is doing amazing things now

Фото профиля Electronic Trading Architect | Strategic Advisor
Electronic Trading Architect | Strategic Advisor5 месяцев назад

the napkin's right. oracle refresh cadence is what breaks these. feed updates discretely, market resolves on the next snapshot, final seconds carry no discovery. makers know. takers pay theta.

Фото профиля BuBBliK
BuBBliK5 месяцев назад

this is classic mispricing capture, not prediction

Фото профиля Daily Story
Daily Story5 месяцев назад

That's a brilliant strategy to capture mispricing!

Фото профиля st1ne
st1ne5 месяцев назад

That's why he works at MIT

Фото профиля self.dll
self.dll5 месяцев назад

napkin math to sharpe 3.64 is actually insane lmaooo thesis advisor cooked without knowing it

Фото профиля Valentin
Valentin5 месяцев назад

5 minute market is very difficult to trade

Фото профиля Yeshe Dorje
Yeshe Dorje5 месяцев назад

酒过三巡他在餐巾纸上算的不是市场,是执念:288次起落不过是心念生灭,所谓“数学失效”只是贪嗔痴在高频轮回,见涨跌不如见本心,若执于5分钟输赢,便已被市场所度

Фото профиля slash1s
slash1s5 месяцев назад

fr broken, no way..

Фото профиля techarena.au
techarena.au5 месяцев назад

Love this, classic MIT-quant energy, napkin math at a bar proving 5-minute BTC markets are broken is peak chaotic genius.

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