Stanford PhD David Magerman helped shape Renaissance Technologies legendary trading models for over 20 years. Here he breaks down why you can’t compete with algorithmic trading models:

Your post says a different message than what the clip actually says. He's justifying why only looking at the stock price/volume/other market data is sufficient with understanding the state of the world even without other sources of data. It's a good proxy but not unbeatable.

yeah watching that just made me realize im basically playing poker against a supercomputer lol

lol.

the edge isn't the algorithm anymore, it's the data pipeline feeding it. same pattern in every domain - whoever builds autonomous systems that collect and act on signal faster wins. humans can't compete with latency, not intelligence

0DTE last year I got 550% ok ✅

This is dumb and says nothing.

They lost money last year markets change

Didn’t help RIEF which was negative in 2025

So was the model some kind of hidden Markov model or some kind of Brownin model? What kind of model can tease out some predictive insight on such a consistent basis?

It is too competitive!!

@grok breakdown what he is saying such that a 10yr old can understand.

the music makes the presentation of the 'efficient market hypothesis' eerie. please note that this is a hypothesis and also note the "Pelosi stock tracker" phenomenon

that's not what he says. He is simply saying market is efficient so you only need to look at price.

Anyone in this comment section who thinks RIEF having a losing/winning year has any bearing on RenTech and how they trade has absolutely zero understanding as to the nature of what they do.

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What's the point alot of words for nothing

Yeah he is rich as duck

All i heard was stonks

Uuuuf let's see about that

The Kabal changes the algo. Totally different algo now

Uuuuf let's see about that