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📈 Algo Trader | 10 Yrs+ Building Quant System
⚠️ Not Financial Advice
🚀 Help You Build Winning Trading System
Old strategy ≠ obsolete strategy.

The market’s not outsmarting this simple old school strategy 🤯🤯🤯

This research paper backs it up……🧵🪡
February 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
UC Berkeley Shows You The Most Popular Model in Algo Trading For FREE

Learn it step by step in 100 mins

In this course, you will learn
• Linear regression model
• Use case
• Model testing
• Python for linear regression

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February 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Ways backtesting sharpens your edge:
- Exposes overfitting fast
- Shows true drawdown pain
- Reveals when edge dies
- Clarifies where to size up
- Turns “hope” into probabilities
The goal isn’t perfect prediction, just asymmetric bets.
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The true cost of launching your first quant trading system
• Scipy: FREE
• Python: FREE
• pandas: FREE
• VectorBT: FREE
• Statsmodel: FREE
• Scikit-learn: FREE

You can build strategies right from your laptop for FREE.

The only investment? Your time and effort.
February 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The 4 steps you SHOULD know to develop a strategy:
1️⃣Research: Develop a trading hypothesis, define objectives
2️⃣Backtest: Backtest the strategy to evaluate performance & optimize
3️⃣Validate: Test on out-of-sample data to avoid overfitting.
4️⃣Paper Testing: Run strategy in simulated live environment
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Most traders don’t lose from bad ideas. They lose from untested ideas. A robust backtest is how you turn “I think this works” into “I know the stats.” Edge = positive expectancy, stable drawdowns, and rules you actually trust.
February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Building a trading edge with backtests:
1) Define one clear hypothesis.
2) Code it rules-based.
3) Use out-of-sample data.
4) Track expectancy + max DD.
If you can’t measure it, you don’t have an edge.
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
MIT FREE online video course on Maths in Finance
It covered everything you need to know for quant trading for FREE!
• Introduction, Financial Terms and Concepts
• Probability Theory
• Regression Analysis
• Volatility Modeling
• Time Series Analysis
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February 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
How to know if your edge is real:
- Does it survive 2+ year backtest?
- Positive expectancy after all costs?
- Works across market regimes?
- Can you execute it 100 times?

If not, keep building. Edge isn't found, it's forged.
February 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Losing traders:
- Chase the last hot setup
- Abandon systems after 3 losses
- Trade without testing edge

Winning traders:
- Build repeatable processes
- Trust 1000-trade sample sizes
- Measure expectancy constantly

Edge = math, not magic.
February 1, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Your edge dies the moment you stop evolving it.

- Backtest on 100+ scenarios, not 10
- Track edge decay in your journal
- Rebuild when win rate drops 15%
- Adapt to regime shifts weekly

Markets change. Your systems must too.
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
FREE Python training from JP Morgan
JP Morgan technologists and traders help you to understand complex quant topics without formal programming backgrounds in Python.
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Building edge is about stacking small advantages that compound.

• Test relentlessly.
• Execute consistently.
• Refine endlessly.

The market doesn't reward brilliance
It rewards discipline applied over thousands of trades.
January 29, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Top 9 quant trading strategies for retail quant trader…..🧵🪡
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Free Course in YouTube is a gold mine!

Course highlights
• Linear Regression
• Linear Classification
• Feature Templates
• K-means
• Markov Network
• Bayesian Networks
• Reinforcement Learning

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January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If your strategy’s alpha only works in certain regimes, naive sizing is timing risk in disguise. Trend CTAs, stat arb, vol strategies all cycle. Size up into regime exhaustion, size down into regime birth, and you can lose money with a profitable model.
January 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM
😱😱😱 I can't believe the secret of Ray Dalio building billions of business unleashed to everyone in this paper!!
January 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
MUST WATCH - Market cycle is crystal clear after watching this video
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January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
4 edges that survive market cycles:

- Statistical mean reversion with volatility filters
- Volume-confirmed breakouts on liquid assets
- Microstructure patterns that beat slippage
- Execution speed that captures inefficiencies

Stack them. Compound wins.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Software Developer Doesn’t Need To Write Any Code NOW!!

Stanford University New Course shows you how

Learn Stanford University New Era Of Software Developer Syllabus and FREE online material
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
VIX is not “the market.” It’s SPX. Tech? Look at VXN. Small caps? RVX. Dow? VXD. Different indices, different stress. 2020 taught a simple rule: if your risk is concentrated, your volatility gauge better match your actual exposure.
January 26, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Capital management is not “more when it feels good, less when it hurts.”

It’s a framework:
• regime detection
• alpha diagnostics
• risk budgets
• slow capital ramps

The goal isn’t to juice lucky streaks, it’s to survive long enough for expectancy to matter.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
🧐 Can you understand these lines of code?

If so, you are more than enough to code for your own algo trading system!
January 23, 2026 at 8:00 PM
4 Major Types of Machine Learning that you should master

• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Deep Learning

Quant trading use cases for all types of machine learning in …….🧵🪡
January 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM
FREE Artificial Intelligence with Python Course from Harvard University
• Reinforcement learning
• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence principles
• How to design intelligent systems
• How to use AI in Python programs
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January 23, 2026 at 12:02 AM