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3 minute masterclass on the only "free lunch" in finance.
Taught at MIT by Jake Xia,
With no student debt needed.
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This is Gary Stevenson.
He was Citi Bank's most profitable trader in 2011, earning over $35,000,000 for the bank and a million-pound bonus.
He has an incredible story and a powerful message.
Here's a recent interview with him by LADbibleTV (@ladbible):
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I have found my hero.
(Source: Why the Japanese Yen Is So Volatile - Bloomberg Originals)
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This is Shigeru Fujimoto.
An 87-year-old investor who has made over $12,000,000.
He is often referred to as "Japan's Buffett".
Here's his investing lessons:
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Look at this guy.
He was known as the "algo arms dealer".
He built some of the most sophisticated algorithms on the market until one day they stopped working.
Discovering Wall Street firms were cheating.
Here's the crazy story:
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Poker is one of the most important cheat codes in trading.
Jeff Yass ($59B net worth) trains traders at his $500B+ hedge fund using poker for good reason.
Here are 5 poker concepts that will make you a better trader:
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The best free lectures on quantitative trading from the top universities in the world:
1. Mathematics with Applications in Finance by MIT.
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I'm 5 years into trading.
I used to lose money on candle stick patterns, thinking success was from intuition.
Then I discovered "The Man Who Solved the Market", and it changed my trading forever.
6 lessons from the man who beat the market for 30 years using data:
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How Stanley Druckenmiller (he managed over $12 billion in assets) looks at technical analysis:
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The number 1 killer of traders is a lack of alpha.
But what exactly is it?
Here's the late billionaire Jim Simons explaining alpha:
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"We're in the research business first and foremost.
Trading is simply how we monetize our research."
- Kenneth Griffin (CEO of Citadel)
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Gold being up 60% YTD reminds me of one of Jim Simons' early gold trades in his career:
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Stan Druckenmiller breaks down why he buys first and analyzes later.
A technique that made him buy Nvidia back in 2022.
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4 minute masterclass on how to beat the market,
And debunking the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
By the billionaire hedge fund manager,
Jim Simons.
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11 sentences from a 7-figure quant trader that changed my trading journey forever:
1. "Focus on a portfolio of strategies; no single strategy will save you."
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This is Jeff Yan.
He is the co-founder of Hyper Liquid, doing $10B in daily volume.
He went from being a quant at Hudson River Trading to running one of the largest decentralized exchanges in crypto.
Here's what you need to know:
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Stan Druckenmiller's routine.
4 am every day.
Coffee, Bloomberg, read everything, skim emails.
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This is Ken Griffin.
He is worth over $37 billion and is CEO of one of the most powerful hedge funds in the world.
In 2018, he hired a team of scientists to predict weather forecasts,
The result? Citadel makes a record-breaking $16 billion.
Here's the crazy story:
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One of the best lectures on Price Momentum I've found,
In 24 minutes you learn more than most momentum books.
Plus he includes a paper accompanying the lecture.
Credit to Columbia Business School:
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"Don't ever bet big just because you think this is the way to get out of a mistake you've made."
- Druckenmiller
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I'm 22.
I've been obsessed with trading for the past 5 years.
I spent collectively 5,000 hours studying the best books, the greatest traders of our time, and having 1 on 1 calls with them.
Here's what I found on how to become a top trader:
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Jim Simons' (one of the most successful traders ever) opinion on fundamental trading.
"it just didn't seem to be a way to live your life."
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"The great money managers I've met, they generally don't tell you about a lot of their wins they tell you about a lot of the losses."
- Druckenmiller
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Jessie Livermore’s swings in net worth are insane.
Being up $1.6M at 23 and then being in the hole for $16,837 at 24 is crazy.
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The man who became one of the youngest billionaires by trading Natural Gas:
John D. Arnold.
He was dubbed "king of natural gas", with returns of 150% in 2005.
He was recently interviewed and revealed what it takes to become a great trader and 3 other lessons:
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Here are 3 Quant strategy types taught by a PhD professor worth $26,160.
For free:
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Most traders struggle to find alpha.
So I spent 10s of hours binging:
• Jim Simons (billionaire hedge fund manager)
• David Shaw (king of quants)
What did I discover?
The true method of finding alpha in the market:
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Stop trying to trade every move.
I spent months doing it,
It trapped me in a losing cycle, throwing away weeks of PNL.
Then I focused on ONE principle & finally made over 6 figures.
Here's how:
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Jim Simons breaks down one of the best techniques in trading (using uncorrelated signals).
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Tim Grittani turned $1,500 into $13,000,000.
He has priceless insights into being a consistent trader as he has been so for over a decade.
Here are 6 takeaways on how he did it:
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I wasn’t a bad trader. I just couldn’t execute the trades I knew I should.
I'd freeze up, overanalyze, and watch winning trades move on without me.
Then I made ONE change that erased all doubt & turned those profits into reality.
Here's what I did (so you can copy me):
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The most expensive form of self-sabotage:
Emotional decision-making.
It's why you can't stay profitable, execute consistently, or handle drawdowns.
The 6 hard truths from Jim Simons that shattered my obsession with "traditional trading":
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I've been algorithmic trading for 5 years.
In that time, I went from 0 to 10+ live algo strategies making multi 6 figures.
Here are 12 things I wish I knew on day 1:
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This guy was an institutional trader at a firm with over $161 billion in AUM.
And was one of the most impactful traders in my journey.
Steal these 6 lessons from him on building systematic trading systems to beat the market:
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This is Aaron Fifield.
He interviewed over 200 of the best traders around the world for over 7 years.
I've binge-watched almost all 200+ over my trading journey.
Here are the 8 interviews that held the most value for me:
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15-minute master class on one lesson in quantitative trading,
That would have saved Dr. Eric Rosenfeld $3,000,000:
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If you can't prove your edge, you will never have one.
How to find and prove an edge:
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This is Robert Carver.
An independent trader who used to work for some of the largest banks in existence.
His books are some of the best out there on systematic trading.
Here is one of his lectures that fixes the biggest problem in trading:
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4 probability concepts you need to understand as a trader to improve.
1. The power of large sample size.
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This is Jerry Parker.
A former accountant who is now worth a billion dollars,
All from a newspaper ad.
He is still crowned as one of the most successful Turtle Traders today.
Here's how he did it:
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This guy found the secret to building momentum strategies.
• PhD in finance
• Former Marine
• Wrote one of the best momentum books out there.
His insights on momentum strategies are gold for systematic traders.
Here are the 6 key lessons you should know:
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With Haim Bodek's deep understanding of market structure,
He did a great flash course on it and the issues.
Take 11 minutes to give it a watch.
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Evidence–Based Technical Analysis.
David Aronson's Evidence–Based Technical Analysis will change how you see trading.
Here’s a full breakdown - so you don’t have to read all 544 pages.
Be sure to save this thread:
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Look at this guy.
He built Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that returned 66%, per year for 30 years.
Dubbed the "Quant King", I watched 10+ hours of his public talks to learn everything I could about him.
Here are his most powerful lessons that made him $30 billion:
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14 sentences from billionaire hedge fund managers I can't stop thinking about.
1. “There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.”
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Best intro book for trading.
It guides you through decision-making, edge, risk, and what possibility actually means.
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5 years of brutally honest systematic trading advice in 60 seconds:
1. "Don't rush into trading with capital, it's much better to focus on execution first."
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This is Thomas Peterffy.
He's worth an estimated $38.3 billion.
He is the founder of one of the biggest brokerages in the world and was one of the first electronic traders.
Here's his story from 100 dollars to billions:
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How quant firms made millions exploiting a single flaw in the market.
• No technical analysis
• No fundamental research
Just a single trick, to execute orders before everyone else. That became so powerful the CME had to step in.
Here's how they did it:
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I'm from the UK.
12 months ago at 23, I moved to Dubai.
• Zero capital gains
• $20 for soap
Is it worth it? Here's my honest breakdown as a trader in Dubai:
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The 28-year-old who destroyed a whole bank.
Nick Leeson.
He lost over $1 billion with almost a single trade.
Leaving a note "I'm sorry".
Here's the crazy story of Nick Leeson, who inspired the movie Rogue Trader:
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This guy's worth 100s of millions, is a founding father in quant trading, the man who beat blackjack...
All while telling everyone how he did it.
Here are 5 key lessons from him:
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This is David Shaw.
He’s the billionaire hedge fund manager nicknamed “King of the Quants”.
Over his time, he was part of the highest-performing funds,
Exploiting inefficiencies like none other.
Here's how he created billions in wealth:
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I've read Machine Trading more than I can count.
My favorite line:
"In trading, complexity doesn't pay"
Here are 6 lessons from the book you need to know:
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7 cheat codes I now know 1,988 days into trading I wish I knew day 1.
1. Leverage the power of the "holy grail" in trading.
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How two guys built a $60 billion quant firm,
That was almost stolen from them.
Here's the story of Renaissance Technologies biggest competitor:
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The importance of sticking to your trading strategies by Jim Simons:
"If you are gonna trade using models you just slavishly use the models"
The input of human decision-making makes it impossible to backtest or "simply not science".
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4 mathematical concepts that will improve your trading.
(Explained Simply).
1. Law of large numbers
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The biggest scam in the trading industry:
"You just need ONE perfect strategy."
It's marketed to retail traders as the key to profitability,
But hedge funds make BILLIONS doing the opposite.
Here's what they're not telling you (the "holy grail"):
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I just finished re-reading The Laws Of Trading by Agustin Lebron.
It's one of the best books for trading I've read.
Here are the 6 laws you need to know:
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Your trading potential is trapped by what you don't know.
To overcome this,
Here are 6 videos full of timeless wisdom worth millions:
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How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business
Ernest Chan's "Quantitative Trading" will change how you trade - for the better.
Here's a full breakdown - so you don’t have to read all 256 pages.
Be sure to save this thread:
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Over the past 5 years, I've read over 100 research papers on trading strategies.
And the truth is, 95% of them held absolutely no alpha.
So, I've created a list of 11 that would be worth your time (bookmark this thread):
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This is Bruce Kovner.
He is worth $8.6 billion and ran a successful hedge fund for 28 years,
Returning 21% on average each year.
But it all started with his first trade using $3,000 borrowed on his credit card.
Here are 6 lessons from him:
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A crash course in Mathematical Trading Strategies by a 3.48 trillion dollar company.
It's over an hour long.
So, here are some of the best parts (in less than 6 minutes):
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How hedge funds build momentum strategies that manage billions of dollars,
Explained simply, step by step:
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I've read and tested over 100 strategies since 2019.
There are countless bad ones,
And only a handful of good ones to draw from.
Here they are for free:
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Direct Market data can cost $34,000 a year.
But you can get it for free.
Here are 6 data providers you should know (it'll save you $34,000):
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4 of the most prominent quantitative hedge funds to have ever been founded.
1. D.E Shaw
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This is Ernest Chan.
He worked at two of the biggest banks creating complex automated trading strategies.
He is a wealth of knowledge on everything algorithmic trading.
But it took me over 50 hours to consume all his lessons,
Here are all his best resources in 60 seconds:
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Five years in the markets taught me some brutal truths about trading:
1. Read all the psychology books you want - It's impossible to beat the market with that alone
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Druckenmiller's main lesson he learned from Soros:
"Bet big"
It fueled one of his biggest PNL trades ever.
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