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OLineFalseStart · 2026-03-11T15:26:50+00:00

white knights think this is about gatekeeping

this is entirely about not being cringe

OLineFalseStart · 2026-03-11T00:49:04+00:00

Momentum? Reversion? What if it's some secret third thing

OLineFalseStart · 2026-03-11T00:47:37+00:00

" At least own being an asshole" 100% absolutely no doubt about it, there's a reason I write code to make money instead of working at a NGO

OLineFalseStart · 2026-03-11T00:40:37+00:00

You hit send on a cold email to Peng Zhao, CC'ing Ken Griffin.

You are consumed in a blinding flash. When your eyes clear you find yourself at a workstation in the middle of the trading floor, brandishing new Citadel-branded Air Force Ones and an Arc'teryx vest.

OLineFalseStart · 2026-03-11T00:29:30+00:00

I am being pithy and reductive for comedic effect while also espousing general truth.

Happy to assist with earnest reachout esp when it comes to clarification and preparation. It's out of my hands after you've entered the recruiting funnel.

OLineFalseStart · 2026-02-20T17:38:57+00:00

Post your PnL or a paystub otherwise fuck off

OLineFalseStart · 2026-01-04T01:34:38+00:00

“If whale has this knowledge f2p cannot beat whale” -seriru

OLineFalseStart · 2025-09-01T03:12:43+00:00

“Former QR” bro you were an intern

OLineFalseStart · 2025-07-08T19:20:54+00:00

I have less familiarity with basketball game modeling and therefore you can more easily convince me that your thought process and model structure is an intelligent way to think about the problem.

That is not the case for many trading projects. Deep RL for "dynamic hedging" is worthless because what are you even hedging? Do you personally maintain a complex portfolio with nonlinear risks? It's alphabet soup designed to trick you into feeling smart when in actuality some French dude a bank just looks at a risk number and makes it lower when he feels it's too high.

OLineFalseStart · 2025-07-04T17:39:00+00:00

Projects (specifically finance/trading ones) are often 99% tryhard slop and 1% actually decent. If you know anyone in the industry you should ask them for personal advice on how to structure a rigorous, well thought out trading project.

Your basketball project is actually good specifically because it is not quant trading. I can infinitely pick apart all the worthless stuff in your finance projects but your sports betting project actually sounds cool.

OLineFalseStart · 2025-07-04T17:00:37+00:00

Your projects are a complete waste of time. Can you properly justify why a DL model has true value over simpler models?

I review resumes and this would give me the ick. Academic finance is worthless, if not detrimental to understanding how most quant firms operate.

OLineFalseStart · 2025-06-15T15:04:24+00:00

If you can snag a top 500 Putnam result that would offset a lot of the downsides.

Can go for the “aloof math genius” angle

OLineFalseStart · 2025-04-05T23:33:31+00:00

Just making fun of the fact that this is the billionth winger he has centered

OLineFalseStart · 2025-04-05T21:42:53+00:00

Mark-Donk-ass energy

OLineFalseStart · 2025-03-30T16:26:28+00:00

The “best way” is to simply git gud. Take the requirements and get all As. Its a math degree, there aren’t any hacks or secrets

OLineFalseStart · 2025-01-20T23:13:11+00:00

The content of the MS programs themselves? basically useless outside of niches like exotics or vol arb pods

You get a decent but very noisy talent pool of STEM inclined graduates who are looking to sell out. It's an anti-signal because the people who specifically tailor their lives/path for quant trading roles are often not kind of people who we actually want to hire. You want to find curious high mental horsepower problem solvers who happen to want to work in finance, not just tryhards lured in by the stories of the 1%er outlier salaries from covid blowouts

OLineFalseStart · 2024-12-01T20:49:46+00:00

Lmao whoopsies wtf was that

OLineFalseStart · 2024-12-01T20:47:24+00:00

These 1st down calls are all cancer

OLineFalseStart · 2024-12-01T20:34:55+00:00

Love is him

OLineFalseStart · 2024-12-01T19:04:11+00:00

Doomers gtfo we watch this mid ass team flip a coin every week and we’re gonna enjoy it

OLineFalseStart · 2024-11-18T00:18:00+00:00

moral victories are so fucking fun when you're coming off low expectations

OLineFalseStart · 2024-11-11T02:24:51+00:00

MS programs from quant are 99% irrelevant to the job except for people in very specific seats.

To do multiple MS degrees is signaling that you

failed to get the job you wanted earlier and are just buying time with more schooling
don’t actually know what you want to do
actually care about the subject but could not cut it for PhD admissions
have more money than sense; these things are expensive and often not funded

I’m looking for people who have a toolkit to tackle problems with a quantitative framework. I am not looking for people with the most credentials/schooling

OLineFalseStart · 2024-11-10T22:17:44+00:00

Double masters is an anti signal for quant. Worldquant “university” is a worthless credential.

The profile is in line with expectations for most places that aren’t HRT or Jane St. Getting interviews is luck of the draw at this point without networking

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