Martin Delamare

FX Spot. My opinion is my own.

[AlgoFlows @algoflows]

Berkshire management ever since Buffett retired

[JT @jiratickets]

The team at Berkshire Hathaway now that Warren Buffet has finally retired

[Pierre Andurand 🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺🕊️ @AndurandPierre]

@DeItaone It will

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

As the great Warren Buffett once said:

“The best investment is not in yourself. It’s in a bankrupt shoe retailer that pivots to AI datacenter operations.”

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

European founders ready to take on Silicon Valley after raising a €25k EU innovation grant

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

Life after switching from ChatGPT to Claude.

[localminima @localminimaa]

YOU WILL NOT BECOME A QUANT

not because you're stupid. not because you don't have access to information

all the content is freee - MIT posted Strang's linear algebra course, Harvard gives away probability theory PDFs, Stanford - optimization

u won't become a quant because you dont have the discipline to solve 200 textbook problems in a row

cuz the moment you see an integral, your brain says "tooooooo hard" and you open TikToooook

while you're watching another 5-minute video "how I made $10K in a day trading crypto," a guy your age is sitting down deriving the BlackScholes equation from scratch.

nooot copying. Nooot googling the solution. takes a blank sheet, writes dΠ = rΠ dt, and an hour later he has the formula that underpins a trillion dollar derivatives industry on his desk

in 18 months he'll be making $300K-$500K u'll be complaining on Twitter that "markets are manipulated" and "the rich always win"

the difference isnt luck. the difference is that when he saw conditional probability P(A|B), he didn't close the article
he sat down and solved 50 problems until it became intuitive. and you read the definition, said "got it" and moved on. Spoiler: you didn't get it

here's the truth nobody tells you: Jane Street, Citadel, HRT - they're not looking for smart people they're looking for people who can sit on one problem for 6 hours and not give up

cuz in real trading, nobody's going to hand you a ready solution. The market is 5,000 simultaneous equations with 50,000 variables, and they're all changing every millisecond

the average Jane Street employee made $1.4 million per year in 2025. That's AVERAGE. Not top trader. Not a legend. Just a regular guy who knows what eigenvalue decomposition is and isn't afraid to use it

and you? You still think trading is about "feeling the market move"" That if you post cool profit screenshots on Telegram, someone will believe you know what you're doing

quants don't feel. Quants calculate. While you're guessing "will Bitcoin go up or down," they've already calculated that at current volatility σ=0.65, correlation with S&P ρ=0.43, and accounting for conditional probability based on onchain metrics, the expected value of going long is negative. So they short. And they take your money

this article gives you the entire roadmap. literally step-by-step what to learn, which books to read, what code to write. All free. All accessible. 18 months at 2 hours per day

but you won't start. because lvl 1 homework is "solve all problems from chapters 1-6 of Blitzstein's textbook" that's 150+ problems. and your brain has already found an excuse: "I don't need this, I'll just trade patterns"

okay. keep going. keep blowing up accounts and believing "next time I'll get lucky" And somewhere, a guy who's sitting today deriving Itô's lemma will be making your annual salary in a month in 2 years

and the funniest part? You'll read this text, feel a sting, maybe even tell yourself "damn, I need to get serious" u'll open the textbook. You'll see the first formula

and you'll close it

cuz you don't want to BE a quant. You want to LOOK LIKE a quant. And those are different things

[qm @quantymacro]

absolutely amazing thing happening on the everything app

[Tito @ChiyanaTito]

“International law”

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

European diplomats when war breaks out outside of standard 9-5 working hours:

[litquidity @litcapital]

We call it “synthetic pre-IPO exposure”. It lets you predict the SpaceX price without owning any actual shares in the company

[gaut @0xgaut]

“Claude, make me a grocery list. Make no mistakes”

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Hedge funds when PhD students drop their cancer research to make commodity markets slightly more efficient

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Counterpoint:

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Every six weeks the whole macro world stops whatever they’re doing to watch the Fed and be like

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

95% of sales volume was what

[autist @litteralyme0]

When you realize COVID wasn't 2 years ago but 6 years ago

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Still think about this