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quant traders before: > Kelly Criterion (position sizing) > Black-Scholes-Merton (options pricing) > Sharpe / Sortino Ratio (risk-adjusted return) > CAPM (expected return) > GARCH models (volatility forecasting) > Markowitz Mean-Variance Optimization (portfolio allocation) > Monte Carlo simulations (risk scenarios) now: all of the above. one AI.

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implied vol was 11.42% on Feb 19, 2020 realized vol over the next 30 days: 95.33% the market was pricing a normal week. what actually happened was one of the most violent moves in financial history that gap between implied and realized volatility is the single most important number quant desks watch implied vol is what options are pricing in for the future realized vol is what actually happened when implied is far below realized, options are cheap relative to what the market will actually do when implied is far above realized, options are expensive relative to what the market will actually do that spread has a name: the volatility risk premium Citadel, Susquehanna, Optiver built entire options desks around one question: what's the expected value of shorting overpriced vol vs buying underpriced vol? the scatter plot in the video shows every data point over years of history regression line: y = -0.73x + 18.5% translation: when implied vol is low, realized vol tends to explode. when implied vol is high, realized vol tends to collapse that's mean reversion in volatility itself. not price. vol retail buys calls hoping the stock goes up quant desks measure whether the option itself is mispriced relative to statistical expectation, and trade the premium one is a directional bet the other is arbitraging the gap between what people expect and what actually happens > volatility risk premium: documented in academic literature since the 1980s > average VRP on S&P 500: implied vol overprices realized vol by 3-5% historically > data: free from CBOE, Yahoo Finance, options chains > implementation: 20 lines of Python Feb 19, 2020 was a warning the math had been printing for weeks nobody in retail was reading it full breakdown in the video below

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sopersone

56,779 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

your backtest showed profit. so did mine then I ran 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations on that same strategy and found out we'd both read exactly one path out of 10,000 possible ones same 112 trades. reshuffled 10,000 times > worst outcome: -31% drawdown, 14 months underwater > 5th percentile: -18% max drawdown > median: +19% annual return > 95th percentile: +28% return strategy has a real edge but 1 in 20 traders running it hits a path that looks like failure for over a year most quit before month 14. blame the strategy, market, signals wasn't any of that here's a number that actually ends accounts: probability of ruin at 2% risk per trade: 0.3% bump to 3%: 4.1% 13x more likely to blow up from changing one input - not worse entries, not worse signals, just 1% more size most "failed" systems weren't failing. they were good systems at wrong size on a bad sequence the trader never knew existed one Monte Carlo run would've told them: this drawdown is normal, keep trading Bookmark this info most traders will never run it. they'll read the backtest once, start live, hit month 4, and wonder why their "proven" system broke it didn't break. they just never knew what they were holding

your backtest showed profit. so did mine then I ran 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations on that same strategy and found out we'd both read exactly one path out of 10,000 possible ones same 112 trades. reshuffled 10,000 times > worst outcome: -31% drawdown, 14 months underwater > 5th percentile: -18% max drawdown > median: +19% annual return > 95th percentile: +28% return strategy has a real edge but 1 in 20 traders running it hits a path that looks like failure for over a year most quit before month 14. blame the strategy, market, signals wasn't any of that here's a number that actually ends accounts: probability of ruin at 2% risk per trade: 0.3% bump to 3%: 4.1% 13x more likely to blow up from changing one input - not worse entries, not worse signals, just 1% more size most "failed" systems weren't failing. they were good systems at wrong size on a bad sequence the trader never knew existed one Monte Carlo run would've told them: this drawdown is normal, keep trading Bookmark this info most traders will never run it. they'll read the backtest once, start live, hit month 4, and wonder why their "proven" system broke it didn't break. they just never knew what they were holding

Livsun

29,454 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

wall street quant got fired and built a bot that trades against you on polymarket $724k in one week I understood how he did it 4,200 lines of Rust, zero machine learning pulls Deribit options implied volatility via WebSocket at 8ms converts IV surface to probability distribution using Black-Scholes polls polymarket CLOB prices every 200ms when mispricing exceeds 5¢ on strikes beyond 2.1 sigma → execution layer scatters parallel market orders across correlated markets in single async batch PostgreSQL for position tracking, Redis for state cache runs on a single AWS instance tokio async runtime, two data streams, compiled binary the bot finds tail-risk markets where polymarket odds diverge from options-derived probability and executes before anyone recalculates I started copying his trades via PolyGun and have already earned $1k in a couple of days

wall street quant got fired and built a bot that trades against you on polymarket $724k in one week I understood how he did it 4,200 lines of Rust, zero machine learning pulls Deribit options implied volatility via WebSocket at 8ms converts IV surface to probability distribution using Black-Scholes polls polymarket CLOB prices every 200ms when mispricing exceeds 5¢ on strikes beyond 2.1 sigma → execution layer scatters parallel market orders across correlated markets in single async batch PostgreSQL for position tracking, Redis for state cache runs on a single AWS instance tokio async runtime, two data streams, compiled binary the bot finds tail-risk markets where polymarket odds diverge from options-derived probability and executes before anyone recalculates I started copying his trades via PolyGun and have already earned $1k in a couple of days

Argona

110,016 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

i built a 2 agent system using OpenClaw and Monte Carlo simulation > one agent predicts gold price > second agent bets on polymarket > second agent takes profit $1,400 → $17,900 in 72 hours saw a market on polymarket: "Will gold hit $3,000 by March 15?" price was sitting at 18¢ seemed random until i remembered Monte Carlo exists gave OpenClaw a task: "run 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations on gold price movement, calculate probability of hitting $3,000, pass results to trading agent" the architecture: > Agent 1 (Simulation Engine): - pulls historical gold volatility data - runs 10,000 price path simulations - factors in: Fed policy, geopolitical tension, USD strength - outputs: 73.4% probability gold hits $3,000 > Agent 2 (Trade Executor): > receives probability from Agent 1 > compares to polymarket odds (18¢ = 18% implied probability) > detects massive mispricing (73% vs 18%) > xecutes position hour 6: entered YES at 18¢ with $1,400 hour 24: gold jumps on Iran tensions, polymarket updates to 41¢ hour 48: Fed hints at rate cuts, simulation re-runs, now shows 81% probability hour 56: polymarket hits 67¢, Agent 2 adds to position hour 72: gold touches $2,987, market resolves YES at 94¢ final: $1,400 → $17,900 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬: polymarket prices are just crowd sentiment Monte Carlo is actual math > when math says 73% and crowd says 18% > that's not a trade > that's free money the simulation factored in: - 500+ historical gold price scenarios - current macro conditions - geopolitical risk premium - correlation with treasury yields ran this 4 more times on different markets: "Bitcoin above $70K by month end" - simulation: 62%, market: 31% → won "Unemployment rate above 4.2%" - simulation: 44%, market: 68% → bet NO, won "Tesla stock hits $250" - simulation: 28%, market: 52% → bet NO, won "Trump announces tariffs this week" - simulation can't model politics → skipped 7 trades total 6 wins 1 skip (non-quantifiable event) the edge is simple: most traders bet on vibes i'm betting on 10,000 simulated futures best polymarket traders use only tradefox: does anyone else realize polymarket is just mispriced probability distributions?

i built a 2 agent system using OpenClaw and Monte Carlo simulation > one agent predicts gold price > second agent bets on polymarket > second agent takes profit $1,400 → $17,900 in 72 hours saw a market on polymarket: "Will gold hit $3,000 by March 15?" price was sitting at 18¢ seemed random until i remembered Monte Carlo exists gave OpenClaw a task: "run 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations on gold price movement, calculate probability of hitting $3,000, pass results to trading agent" the architecture: > Agent 1 (Simulation Engine): - pulls historical gold volatility data - runs 10,000 price path simulations - factors in: Fed policy, geopolitical tension, USD strength - outputs: 73.4% probability gold hits $3,000 > Agent 2 (Trade Executor): > receives probability from Agent 1 > compares to polymarket odds (18¢ = 18% implied probability) > detects massive mispricing (73% vs 18%) > xecutes position hour 6: entered YES at 18¢ with $1,400 hour 24: gold jumps on Iran tensions, polymarket updates to 41¢ hour 48: Fed hints at rate cuts, simulation re-runs, now shows 81% probability hour 56: polymarket hits 67¢, Agent 2 adds to position hour 72: gold touches $2,987, market resolves YES at 94¢ final: $1,400 → $17,900 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬: polymarket prices are just crowd sentiment Monte Carlo is actual math > when math says 73% and crowd says 18% > that's not a trade > that's free money the simulation factored in: - 500+ historical gold price scenarios - current macro conditions - geopolitical risk premium - correlation with treasury yields ran this 4 more times on different markets: "Bitcoin above $70K by month end" - simulation: 62%, market: 31% → won "Unemployment rate above 4.2%" - simulation: 44%, market: 68% → bet NO, won "Tesla stock hits $250" - simulation: 28%, market: 52% → bet NO, won "Trump announces tariffs this week" - simulation can't model politics → skipped 7 trades total 6 wins 1 skip (non-quantifiable event) the edge is simple: most traders bet on vibes i'm betting on 10,000 simulated futures best polymarket traders use only tradefox: does anyone else realize polymarket is just mispriced probability distributions?

ZER

149,335 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

The $20 billion ING bond veteran just exposed the ultimate trap in modern asset allocation. One word: Fragility. It's the entire reason your diversification fails when you need it most, and the reason the 60/40 model is structurally broken. 73 minutes from Alfonso Peccatiello. Three things click after this one: 1/ The negative correlation property between bonds and stocks only exists when core inflation is predictably below 3%. Above that, bonds completely fail as a portfolio diversifier. 2/ Volatility in highly leveraged short-term trades forces a cascade of stop-losses among marginal buyers, putting the very base of the fixed income pyramid under constant strain. 3/ True macro risk parity requires an explicitly leveraged defensive framework -- using futures to free up raw capital so you can scale entirely non-correlated streams of return. Interview 1 of 1 and fully free.. After this, "bonds are safe" stops being an excuse. You'll see where the pyramid breaks before it does. Bookmark & check it today.

The $20 billion ING bond veteran just exposed the ultimate trap in modern asset allocation. One word: Fragility. It's the entire reason your diversification fails when you need it most, and the reason the 60/40 model is structurally broken. 73 minutes from Alfonso Peccatiello. Three things click after this one: 1/ The negative correlation property between bonds and stocks only exists when core inflation is predictably below 3%. Above that, bonds completely fail as a portfolio diversifier. 2/ Volatility in highly leveraged short-term trades forces a cascade of stop-losses among marginal buyers, putting the very base of the fixed income pyramid under constant strain. 3/ True macro risk parity requires an explicitly leveraged defensive framework -- using futures to free up raw capital so you can scale entirely non-correlated streams of return. Interview 1 of 1 and fully free.. After this, "bonds are safe" stops being an excuse. You'll see where the pyramid breaks before it does. Bookmark & check it today.

slash1s

11,372 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

this model doesn't predict where the S&P 500 will go it predicts when the market's own velocity is about to collapse Z(x,y) = F(β, α, τ, ∇τ; x, y, t) one equation. four parameters. a 3D surface that maps how price momentum evolves across time and space β is drift velocity: μ/σ, the ratio of expected return to volatility when β is high the market is moving with conviction when β decays toward zero the trend is losing energy before the chart shows any sign of it α measures how fast that velocity is changing τ is the time structure of the regime ∇τ is the gradient, the rate at which the regime itself is shifting the 3D surface on screen is not decoration the red peaks are where momentum is concentrated and unstable the blue basin is where the system is calm and mean-reverting the yellow marker is where the S&P sat at the moment of the snapshot the model's output: position sizing optimization not buy or sell. how much exposure to hold given the current position on that surface the bottom chart shows it: blue line is the model, white line is buy & hold same asset, same period, different sizing at every point based on where the dynamics equation said the market was > time dynamics models: rooted in physics, applied to finance since the 1990s > drift-to-volatility ratio: standard risk metric at Two Sigma, AQR, Man Group > this exact framework: free, public, 60 seconds in this video > what retail uses instead: lagging indicators that measure the past, not the velocity of the present retail asks "is the market going up or down?" this model asks "how fast is the market's own energy decaying and where on the surface are we right now?" completely different question. completely different result full breakdown in the video below

this model doesn't predict where the S&P 500 will go it predicts when the market's own velocity is about to collapse Z(x,y) = F(β, α, τ, ∇τ; x, y, t) one equation. four parameters. a 3D surface that maps how price momentum evolves across time and space β is drift velocity: μ/σ, the ratio of expected return to volatility when β is high the market is moving with conviction when β decays toward zero the trend is losing energy before the chart shows any sign of it α measures how fast that velocity is changing τ is the time structure of the regime ∇τ is the gradient, the rate at which the regime itself is shifting the 3D surface on screen is not decoration the red peaks are where momentum is concentrated and unstable the blue basin is where the system is calm and mean-reverting the yellow marker is where the S&P sat at the moment of the snapshot the model's output: position sizing optimization not buy or sell. how much exposure to hold given the current position on that surface the bottom chart shows it: blue line is the model, white line is buy & hold same asset, same period, different sizing at every point based on where the dynamics equation said the market was > time dynamics models: rooted in physics, applied to finance since the 1990s > drift-to-volatility ratio: standard risk metric at Two Sigma, AQR, Man Group > this exact framework: free, public, 60 seconds in this video > what retail uses instead: lagging indicators that measure the past, not the velocity of the present retail asks "is the market going up or down?" this model asks "how fast is the market's own energy decaying and where on the surface are we right now?" completely different question. completely different result full breakdown in the video below

delost

72,275 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat