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Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 12:15 pm

i try to understand what kind of models super quants are using to get enormous return on low risk, as a quant novice I am studying the introduction books "Futures and Options Markets: An Introduction"
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 mirror strategy...hemm, some complex secret math behind that I guess! One of the first using Machine learning before others knew about it?

 can someone experienced in such quant strategy tell me the Sharpe ratio on this, distribution, skewed, fat-tails? 
 
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Re: Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 3:52 pm

The strategy: your don't receive a margin call from your broker when you have a heavy loss (-$100k on a "small account") and wait until you are right on the trade to collect your profit.
 
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Re: Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 3:59 pm

The strategy: your don't receive a margin call from your broker when you have a heavy loss (-$100k on a "small account") and wait until you are right on the trade to collect your profit.
If I understand it rightly, the mathematical trick for this strategy is known as St. Petersburg paradox.
 
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Re: Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 5:56 pm

I heard only the Kyiv paradox can trump this strategy!
 
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Re: Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 8:22 pm

Dead or alive?
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Re: Super quants

September 29th, 2019, 11:35 pm

Dead! Or, technically alive, but destined for premature death.
 
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Re: Super quants

September 30th, 2019, 12:56 pm

Kat, what's John Bercoe's cat called?
 
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Re: Super quants

September 30th, 2019, 1:30 pm

Kat, what's John Bercoe's cat called?
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Re: Super quants

October 4th, 2019, 10:38 pm

A note on odds in the cattle futures market by Seth, Jackson and Steagall

"This paper investigates the odds of generating a 100-fold return in the cattle futures market. We employ cattle futures data for the period October 11, 1978, through July 31, 1979, to compute the probability of obtaining such a return. The tests are constructed to give the investor the benefit of the doubt whenever doubt exists. The most conservative finding is that the probability is one in approximately thirty-one trillion. Assuming that the return is made in the most efficient way possible, this probability falls to approximately 1.5×10−16."

hmmm did they use Gaussian based tests (not access to the full paper from the remote area I am now).  I can see several things not being Gaussian distributed here, the returns and the...

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"the First Lady attributed her success to her advisor James Blair’s “theory that because of the economy in the early part of the 1970s, a lot of cattle herds had been liquidated, so that there was going to be a big opportunity to make money in the late Seventies."

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Re: Super quants

October 4th, 2019, 11:09 pm

Kat, what's John Bercoe's cat called?
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Would that be "Awdah!"?
 
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Re: Super quants

October 5th, 2019, 5:54 am

John Bercow is cool. With his stepping down it will be the end of the show for me. But then again I was sceptical about Peter Capaldi, and after the first episode I loved him.

You're grazing on risky pastures, Prof. Collector: https://vegnews.com/2019/9/beef-and-dai ... eport-says
 
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Re: Super quants

October 5th, 2019, 7:04 am

Bullies are not cool!
 
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Re: Super quants

October 5th, 2019, 7:06 am

Take them by the horns?
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Re: Super quants

October 5th, 2019, 2:43 pm

A note on odds in the cattle futures market by Seth, Jackson and Steagall

hmmm did they use Gaussian based tests (not access to the full paper from the remote area I am now). 
You can have it from anywhere with sci-hub.
 
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Re: Super quants

August 22nd, 2020, 10:23 pm

(my background: quite a lot of years in the ags space).
FWIW I haven't read the this whole research paper ("not free, no go"), hence know very little about the authors' methodology. I just want to stress that cattle market (as well lean hogs) are quite "specific" markets in the sense that they are in the hands of a few players (Tyson, Smithfields...). These are very difficult markets to trade for outsiders. Actually, there are many jokes around trading cattle/lean hogs ("got suicidal, started trading cattle?") among ags traders. You would trade grains, but not farm animals. I believe it has been so for decades (authors used trading data from the 70s).
I'm a also puzzled by the "period October 11, 1978, through July 31, 1979" used in this study. Cattle markets are obviously (super) seasonal and based on cycles. I mean a hardly 10-month long time length seems too short (but once again, I know almost nothing about authors' methodology, what type of trading it is, etc...).