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Jim Simons (Quant King), literally tells you exactly how he built the quant strategies behind the most profitable hedge fund in history:

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Roan3 months ago

listen carefully when he talks about predictive signals losing their power over time that one insight is why most retail quants blow up, they find one signal and ride it forever instead of constantly hunting for new ones

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Ruuj3 months ago

Definitely quant king!

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Roan3 months ago

he the greatest of all time, no doubt in that

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Maverick3 months ago

Quant strategies from quant king - this is perfect start for my productive saturday

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Roan3 months ago

learn today and implement bro

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ih8y3 months ago

we should learn him

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Roan3 months ago

bro i am sure you'd learn the "HEDGE FUND STRATEGY"

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ih8y3 months ago

❤️

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Suhel Mangera3 months ago

are these videos on YouTube too? would love a link.

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Bade log Badi Baate3 months ago

Heyyy can i know how u get time to watch these long 1 hour vdos it would help me alot pls telll .

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Ren Satoshi3 months ago

Renaissance basically wrote the playbook everyone's still trying to reverse-engineer.

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Billy Moose3 months ago

simons talking through the math himself is rare

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Jim Osman3 months ago

Patterns beat predictions.

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venus3 months ago

jims a legend.

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