I love markets, I love researching them, and I love being rewarded by them.
For the past few years, I’ve lived a wonderful life of solving some of the world’s hardest problems and realizing the rewards for successfully doing so.
Along the way, I publicly talked about what I came up with and often gave you the exact code and instructions to do it yourself.
However, while a lot of the work published is interesting, it does tend to skew a bit safe.
For instance, my favorite, most recent post was about short selling based on real-world event feeds, and while you can definitely make a lot of money by knowing how it works and running it, it’s basically the tip of the iceberg of what we actually get into behind the scenes.
I’ve never really talked much about who’s behind this, but “Alphanume” is a small quantitative trading team that takes a rather ruthless approach to hunting for edge and deploying it.
Now, “ruthless” here can sound a bit aggrandizing, but when it’s your job to identify market-moving information and strategies no one else has, it can take you in a lot of very interesting directions that live up to the name.
So, in a move we may come to regret, we’re starting a new series here, Sketchy Trades, that finally brings you into the more serious side of what unrestricted quantitative trading and research actually looks like.
It won’t be a “here’s how to break market rules” guide, but we’ll be going deep into angles no one else does publicly:
Sniffing out future press releases early
Flaws in stock lending programs that a bad actor can use to “manufacture” a short squeeze
Using mass-distributed survey platforms like SurveyMonkey for real-time information gathering
And so on.
To everyone who’s been here and has given us their feedback, time, and support; we greatly appreciate you and look forward to finally giving you the kind of edge you came here for in the first place.
As always, thank you for reading this, and we hope to see you very soon.