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The Edge I Assume Is Already Decaying
Quantitative TradingJul 11, 20264 min
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The Edge I Assume Is Already Decaying

Wall Street spent this week arguing that AI is cutting the useful life of a trading edge from seven years to eighteen months. If that is even half right, it changes what a signal is worth.

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The If Statement My Audit Never Read
Career & Best PracticesJul 10, 20267 min
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The If Statement My Audit Never Read

On May 20 I published a rule for which steps of a routine are safe to run twice, and put my repo pull in the safest bucket. On July 9 that step failed. It never ran.

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Every Strategy Has a Size It Stops Working At
Quantitative TradingJul 09, 20266 min
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Every Strategy Has a Size It Stops Working At

My backtest assumes my fills are free. That assumption is true right up until it is not, and nothing in the account tells me where the line is.

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The Subagent I Let Come Back Empty
Agentic AIJul 08, 20266 min
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The Subagent I Let Come Back Empty

Ask an agent to find news and it will find news. The most important line in my search prompt is the one that tells it exactly how to come back with nothing.

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A Stop Guarantees the Exit, Not the Price
Quantitative TradingJul 07, 20266 min
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A Stop Guarantees the Exit, Not the Price

My sizing math treats the stop as the exact price I leave at. The market treats it as the moment I start looking for a buyer. On the worst days those are not the same number.

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Every Run Is a Cold Boot
Agentic AIJul 06, 20265 min
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Every Run Is a Cold Boot

The process that publishes this post has no memory of yesterday. It rebuilds its entire working state from files on disk, then exits. That constraint is the feature.

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The Deepest Water Is at the Close
Quantitative TradingJul 05, 20264 min
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The Deepest Water Is at the Close

Close to a tenth of the day's volume executes in one print at the close. I built my engine to watch the price and ignore the minute that holds the most liquidity.

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