A Cracked Quant’s Guide to Beating the SEC’s Feed
I asked EDGAR for a filing that didn’t exist yet, and eventually it said yes.
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Every fake order and every real fill, timestamped, sitting where anyone could have looked.
We Gave Claude $500 and a Brokerage Login.
It followed every rule we gave it, and I still can’t explain a single thing it bought.
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I timed my fill at a quarter of a second, then spent a week finding out where it went.
Google Regulates Prediction Markets Now
I matched every dual-listed contract on Kalshi and Polymarket, and the ban is worth exactly zero cents.
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You can harvest the decay of two broken ETFs, as long as you post $180 to make $6.42 a year.
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Step one: figure out who's allowed to decide you won.
A Cracked Quant's Guide to Alpha Capture
If your stock picks are good, a hedge fund will pay you for them. If they are too good, the FCA would like a word.
"Bonding Bots" in Prediction Markets
If you buy a dollar for 98 cents often enough, eventually you will buy something that is not a dollar.
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Zero correlation to the S&P, total correlation to whether you brought a jacket.
So You Want to Trade Credit Card Data
How to know the earnings number before it prints, and still lose money on it.
Convertible Bond Arbitrage, Explained Through One Very Strange Loan
Free money, a 0% coupon, and the oldest hedge fund trade on earth. What could go wrong?
A Cracked Quant's Guide to The Index Rebalancing Trade
The $334 billion order that begs to be picked off, and the people who oblige.
Nobody Runs a Multi-Strat in Crypto, So We Did.
The portfolio is market-neutral, except for being net short, which is apparently fine.
Running The Treasury Basis Trade From a Laptop
How to almost do the world’s most famous boring arbitrage.
A Junior Quant's Guide to Getting Diluted
A story about rallies, corporate desperation, and where your gains went.
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The unglamorous but profitable business of pricing your own options.
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We Rebuilt Alphanume From Scratch
We’re not going to become the best data vendor in the world by standing still.