# quant (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover quant. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Cracked Quant’s Guide to Beating the SEC’s Feed](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-cracked-quants-guide-to-beating) _2026-08-16 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ I asked EDGAR for a filing that didn’t exist yet, and eventually it said yes. ## [The Complete Map of Trading Strategy Types](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-complete-map-of-trading-strategy) _2026-08-16 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ From risk premia harvesting to high-frequency arbitrage: a practitioner’s framework for classifying every systematic strategy and knowing where you fit ## [I Rebuilt a $1.1 Million Spoofing Scheme From Public Data](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/i-rebuilt-a-11-million-spoofing-scheme) _2026-08-15 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ Every fake order and every real fill, timestamped, sitting where anyone could have looked. ## [We Gave Claude $500 and a Brokerage Login.](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/we-gave-claude-500-and-a-brokerage) _2026-08-14 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ It followed every rule we gave it, and I still can’t explain a single thing it bought. ## [A Cracked Quant's Guide to Orderflow](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-cracked-quants-guide-to-orderflow) _2026-08-13 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ I timed my fill at a quarter of a second, then spent a week finding out where it went. ## [Google Regulates Prediction Markets Now](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/google-banned-a-prediction-markets) _2026-08-12 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ I matched every dual-listed contract on Kalshi and Polymarket, and the ban is worth exactly zero cents. ## [Shorting Leveraged ETFs Is Still An Edge.](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/shorting-leveraged-etfs-is-still) _2026-08-11 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ You can harvest the decay of two broken ETFs, as long as you post $180 to make $6.42 a year. ## [So You Want to Trade Prediction Markets](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/so-you-want-to-trade-prediction-markets) _2026-08-10 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ Step one: figure out who's allowed to decide you won. ## [How Financial Markets Actually Work. And Why Systematic Trading Is the Opportunity](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/how-financial-markets-actually-work) _2026-08-09 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ From market mechanics to algorithmic strategies: a complete guide to understanding the forces that move prices and how rules-based trading exploits them ## [A Cracked Quant's Guide to Alpha Capture](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-cracked-quants-guide-to-alpha-capture) _2026-08-02 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ 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. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ogDdq1PYpMBY) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Automate Your Trading Setup in Minutes with Python, Docker, and Interactive Brokers](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/automate-your-trading-setup-in-minutes) _2026-08-02 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How to go from a Backtrader backtest to a 24/7 cloud-deployed live trading bot for the cost of a coffee per month ## ["Bonding Bots" in Prediction Markets](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/bonding-bots-in-prediction-markets) _2026-07-28 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ If you buy a dollar for 98 cents often enough, eventually you will buy something that is not a dollar. ## [How to Set Up Your Algo Trading Environment for Free in Under an Hour](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/how-to-set-up-your-algo-trading-environment) _2026-07-26 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ A practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete Python-based algorithmic trading research environment: no paid software, no virtual machines, no headaches ## [Alphanume Learn: So You Want to Trade Earnings](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/alphanume-learn-so-you-want-to-trade) _2026-07-25 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ Earnings season is the one casino where keeping a count is legal, public, and still somehow rare. ## [A Cracked Quant's Guide to Weather Futures](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-cracked-quants-guide-to-weather) _2026-07-23 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ Zero correlation to the S&P, total correlation to whether you brought a jacket. ## [So You Want to Trade Credit Card Data](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/so-you-want-to-trade-credit-card) _2026-07-21 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ How to know the earnings number before it prints, and still lose money on it. ## [Building Your Algo Trading Capital From Zero](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/building-your-algo-trading-capital) _2026-07-19 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ Three proven paths to accumulate starting capital, even if your bank account is empty, and the compounding math that makes it all work ## [Convertible Bond Arbitrage, Explained Through One Very Strange Loan](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/convertible-bond-arbitrage-explained) _2026-07-17 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ 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](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-cracked-quants-guide-to-the-index) _2026-07-14 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ The $334 billion order that begs to be picked off, and the people who oblige. ## [The Secret Weapon of Successful Traders: Time Arbitrage](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-secret-weapon-of-successful-traders) _2026-07-12 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ Why the most powerful edge in financial markets costs nothing, requires no technology, and almost nobody uses it ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gmEBjJG6cls5) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Nobody Runs a Multi-Strat in Crypto, So We Did.](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/nobody-runs-a-multi-strat-in-crypto) _2026-07-12 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ The portfolio is market-neutral, except for being net short, which is apparently fine. ## [Running The Treasury Basis Trade From a Laptop](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/running-the-treasury-basis-trade) _2026-07-06 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ How to almost do the world’s most famous boring arbitrage. ## [The 7 Pillars of Trading Success: A Framework from the World's Top Quants](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-7-pillars-of-trading-success) _2026-07-05 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ What separates professional quant funds from everyone else — and how to close the gap using the framework behind Advances in Financial Machine Learning ## [Mastering Productivity: The 6-Step Framework That 100x Your Output as a Quant Trader](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/mastering-productivity-the-6-step) _2026-06-28 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ A battle-tested system for setting goals, eliminating distractions, and building the habits that separate elite algo traders from everyone else ## [The Real Fundamentals of Trading Success](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-real-fundamentals-of-trading) _2026-06-21 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ What separates the top 10% of traders from the rest — edges, psychology, risk management, and the discipline most people never develop ## [The Options Mispricing Playbook: 8 Effects That Generate Real Alpha in Equity Options](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-options-mispricing-playbook-8) _2026-06-14 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ From earnings volatility crush to risk-adjusted option momentum, here are the systematic mispricings that professional options traders exploit. ## [A Junior Quant's Guide to Getting Diluted](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/a-junior-quants-guide-to-getting) _2026-06-08 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ A story about rallies, corporate desperation, and where your gains went. ## [Average monthly earnings revisions showing the seasonal optimism-to-disappointment pattern](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/average-monthly-earnings-revisions) _2026-06-07 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How Doeswijk's Optimism Cycle explains the most persistent seasonal anomaly in finance — and delivers 7% annualized excess returns with just two trades per year ## [You Can Still Find Mispriced Options in 2026](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/you-can-still-find-mispriced-options) _2026-06-03 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ The unglamorous but profitable business of pricing your own options. ## [Bitcoin Never Sleeps: Exploiting Seasonality, Momentum, and Mean Reversion in a 24/7 Market](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/bitcoin-never-sleeps-exploiting-seasonality) _2026-05-31 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How Padysak and Vojtko's research reveals exploitable time-of-day patterns and price-based signals in Bitcoin's round-the-clock trading ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UBF9FeIkRdMd) _2026-05-31 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [How Benn Eifert's QVR Blew Up](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/how-benn-eiferts-qvr-blew-up) _2026-05-25 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ A story about volatility, correlation, and running out of time. ## [The 7 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail (And How to Avoid Them)](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-7-reasons-most-machine-learning) _2026-05-24 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ Marcos López de Prado's battle-tested diagnosis of why ML strategies blow up — and the concrete fixes from his landmark AFML book that separate surviving quant funds from the rest ## [We Rebuilt Alphanume From Scratch](https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/we-rebuilt-alphanume-from-scratch) _2026-05-24 · Alphanume Research · Alphanume Research_ We’re not going to become the best data vendor in the world by standing still. ## [Every Seasonality Effect in Finance, Ranked by Whether It Actually Makes Money](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/every-seasonality-effect-in-finance) _2026-05-17 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ We backtested 15 calendar effects across equities, crypto, and commodities — most are garbage, but a few still print after costs. ## [Jim Simons: The Mathematician Who Built the Greatest Trading Machine in History](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/jim-simons-the-mathematician-who) _2026-05-10 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ Inside Renaissance Technologies and the Medallion Fund — 66% average annual returns for three decades, and what it means for quantitative traders ## [The Dumbest Strategy That Returned 200% a Year](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/the-dumbest-strategy-that-returned) _2026-05-03 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How market making on stablecoin pairs with leverage printed absurd returns — and why the economics of queue priority made it possible. ## [Introduction to Online Portfolio Selection: Adaptive Algorithms for Capital Growth](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/introduction-to-online-portfolio) _2026-04-26 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ Adaptive Algorithms for Capital Growth ## [Ed Thorp: The Man Who Beat the Casino and Then Beat the Market](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/ed-thorp-the-man-who-beat-the-casino) _2026-04-19 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ The Man Who Beat the Casino and Then Beat the Market ## [5,000 Backtested Strategies from 30 Years of Top Research](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/5000-backtested-strategies-from-30) _2026-04-12 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How we built the world's largest open repository of trading strategies — and how you can use it to find ideas, benchmark performance, and build portfolios ## [Trading on News Sentiment with the All-Daily-News Dataset](https://blog.paperswithbacktest.com/p/trading-on-news-sentiment-with-the) _2026-04-05 · paperswithbacktest · Algo Trading & AI_ How to turn structured financial news data into systematic trading signals — from sentiment momentum to volatility filters, with code examples