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What areas of pure mathematics are essential and which are nice to know? [closed]
Any chance for some career advice?
I am interested in the pure mathematics courses that are relevant in quant finance and expected knowledge. I have a MFE from a good university but studied Economics ...
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Syntethic short vs short position for a hard to borrow stock
I am sure this is trivial for short sellers, but what am I missing with this synthetic short.
But an example below with actual quotes as of Jul-21st-2026.
If I short 100 shares of CVNA
at $63.77, I ...
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Trading strategies rank
I have a question. When I backtest several trading strategies, they generate around 50 stock picks per day. However, in reality, after these strategies are deployed, I can only execute trades on about ...
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$\mathbb{P}$ vs. $\mathbb{Q}$ measure in FX options
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I want to look at this FX rate with the risk-neutral measure. I read that we strip away the real-world historical trend ($\mu=−2.88\%$). In the risk-neutral world, my assumption is that ...
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Can we track market maker pnl from spreads and executed trades in market
Am new to quant world and is trying a naive approach to find at which time the market maker had highest profit trading the entire session to further study orderflow of that time and price .
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Where can I find an API for free Binary Options Current Data on S&P 500?
Trying to make a python bot to scrape API data for binary options. Anyone know some good options?
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How do you regularize piecewise constant and linear interpolations?
Sometimes you want to regularize the fitting of an interpolation. A conventional way is to minimise the integral of the square of the second derivative (sometimes called "wiggliness" or &...
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Wall Street Gambling Madness: a Simulation
In "The Dao of Capital" by Mark Spitznagel, at pag. 162, the author mentions at a computer simulation to understand what drives the Wall Street's gambling madness. I would like to it set up.
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Replicating an SP500 index with Python
I am looking for a reference to replicate in Python a stock market index like the SP500, or an ETF like SPY (free-floating) or RSP (equal weighting) with individual stock trades. I searched online and ...
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Hawkes process MLE calibration diverges (β → bound) on tick data with millisecond-tied timestamps. Is timestamp jittering the standard fix?
I'm fitting a univariate Hawkes process with exponential kernel to real tick-level trade data (Binance BTCUSDT, ~1.25M trades/day, millisecond timestamps). The intensity is:
$$\lambda(t) = \mu + \sum_{...
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Are there any public datasets on FX venue/LP response-time (last-look hold-time) latency distributions?
I'm studying the latency of liquidity-provider responses in electronic FX (the time between sending a trade request to a venue/LP and receiving the fill or rejection).
I'm particularly interested in ...
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Does the CMA (Investment) factor's reliability vary with institutional quality / state involvement in an economy?
I used Claude (Anthropic) to help research the relevant literature and organize the structure of this post. However, the core idea presented below is my own and is not AI-generated content.
The Fama-...
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How to validate statistical significance for a low-frequency crypto strategy (n≈25) with highly correlated assets?
I am seeking institutional-grade methodology suggestions on validating a low-frequency, high-precision crypto trading strategy.
Due to strict structural filtering, the strategy yields only about 20–30 ...
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Replicating CBOE's discontinued norm_25d_skew_30 field using Thetadata historical options data
I'm trying to reproduce CBOE's discontinued daily options summary feed's per-symbol skew field (norm_25d_skew_30, confirmed via the actual flat-file column header) using Thetadata as the historical ...
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Is 56ms really too slow for crypto arbitrage?
I've been working on a crypto arbitrage bot for about a year. It's written in Rust and currently runs on an AWS server in Tokyo. I also tested Singapore, but Tokyo gave me better results.
After a lot ...