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an MIT quant showed me his lab's trading model on a napkin after his third whiskey bar near kendall square. friday night. he was celebrating a paper acceptance. i was checking my phone. he noticed the red P&L curve on my screen. "is that a live heartbeat monitor on...

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hiravor 5 Monaten

the real alpha was the friends we made along the way

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cvxv666vor 5 Monaten

this story so wild thx for sharing

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YAYA Trade Logvor 5 Monaten

a Claude's OPUS is literally a game-changer, It makes whatever you want

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rarivor 5 Monaten

napkin math goes crazy

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self.dllvor 5 Monaten

IRB approval before a single dollar moves while you're live and printing, academia is wild

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Parlettovor 5 Monaten

this agent looks promising great setup

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IfNotReallyKenyAwasaPersonvor 5 Monaten

Chinese ai model?

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PavelRawvor 5 Monaten

mad respect for that alpaca lab hustle on friday nights

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Valentinvor 5 Monaten

this model looks interesting

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sopersonevor 5 Monaten

nice terminal brother

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Sevenupvor 5 Monaten

I love your stories

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techarena.auvor 5 Monaten

Love this, peak Kendall Square energy, genius scribbles on a napkin and whiskey-fueled confidence.

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Billy.BTCvor 5 Monaten

cool story but 81% wr live long term?

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Tommy Wilkovor 4 Monaten

@grok please evaluate like a goldman sachs cyber security analyst the validity of this strategy

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slash1svor 5 Monaten

haha only after third whiskey😅😅

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Lunar

12,680 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

a Goldman Sachs engineer sat next to me on a delayed flight from JFK four hours on the tarmac. nowhere to go. we started talking. i told him i trade prediction markets with Claude. he almost choked on his ginger ale. "you do WHAT with an AI?" i showed him my terminal. he went quiet. scrolled through it for two full minutes. "this is close to what we run internally. how did you get the scoring model?" i told him. one GitHub repo with 2,600 stars. Claude connected the dots. official Polymarket framework. LLM-powered trading agents. open source. free. i gave Claude the repo and said: build me a grid that scans 700+ markets per hour and enters when the edge exceeds 9 cents. he didn't ask twice. the Goldman guy kept scrolling. "you have a disposition meter. a kelly gauge. a correlation matrix. we spent $4M building this infrastructure" i told him my total cost. Claude $20/mo + VPS $5/mo he laughed. not the funny kind. that was three weeks ago. today the terminal shows: +$16,976. 439 trades. 73% win rate. avg hold 7h. > Falcon Heavy - mkt 68c. model 95c. +$716. > MSFT antitrust - mkt 59c. model 77c. +$670. > Blizzard NY - mkt 74c. model 85c. +$772. > BOJ rate hike - mkt 52c. model 60c. +$422. four bots split everything: - pulse_alpha +$299. - arb_hunter +$558. - trend_rider +$337. - cal_engine +$719. kelly fraction 0.118. correlation matrix tracking 6 asset pairs. when one breaks - something is wrong. the grid trades it. copytrade here: he DM'd me yesterday. "i showed your screenshot to my desk. they want to know who built your infra" i said Claude. he said "seriously" i said seriously.

Hanako

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Ran into a Chinese quant at a noodle spot in Flushing last week. Jane Street badge on his belt. Came straight from the PATH. Laptop open on the counter. Position check running. He stopped. "Is that Polymarket" Yeah. "You trade it with Claude" I nodded. He sat down without asking. "I'm on the systematic desk. We model this venue in research. You're running it from a noodle shop" I asked what the desk does with it. "We don't trade. Compliance won't let us. We run shadow books. Cleanest retail venue on earth. Every wallet public. Every fill on-chain. You're sitting on a dataset we'd pay seven figures for" I showed him the scanner. 86M trades. - nobody outside maintainers touches it. 14,000 wallets in. Filter by floor WR, trade count, size, recency. 9 wallets out. Opus 4.7 chewed it in 38 minutes on a $5 VPS. "The filter" 40-200 trades. 74+ lifetime WR. Sub $1,500 avg. Active last 45 days. 3 qualifying 21-day windows. "Why those bands" Above 200 is a fund. Below 40 is luck. Between is the edge. A fill landed. +$112 on BTC+100K 5-min. "How does it enter" Each wallet only prints in its zone. 83% crypto. 51% politics. 49% sports. Copy only inside the zone. "Domain conditioning. We have a paper on it. Nobody ships it retail" I ship it. Four Python scripts. Claude Code wrote 80% in a weekend. Delay 21 min. Bet size is the signal. $900 normal, $1,600 is 1.8 sigma. Size up. Exit mirrors source. 74.1% of max gain. Stale past 18h under 3% gets cut. Sharpe 2.67 253 trades 72.7% WR $200 seed +$14,985 in 31 days He put his chopsticks down. "Add one thing. When 8+ wallets dump the same side of a 5-min BTC window in under 60s, fade them. Crowd is the signal" Execution For those who don't build - He slid a napkin across before leaving. "If anyone at my firm asks, we never spoke" I said we didn't. I found it myself. He smiled. "Good answer" Napkin said: "the crowd is the liquidity"

rari

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