HarmoniQ Insights
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HarmoniQ Insights
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@christinaqi What would you suggest someone that want to start one's own shop. What is the one thing or main things that they should focus on


To add to my previous comment, people who want to start an investment firm have to be very clear on the differences between investing and operating an investment business. Very different things. Yes you can outsource a ton, but those outsourced functions also need to be managed. The investing function probably ends up taking < 50% your time.



@christinaqi Bloomberg is a much better product then your product. So you should be a little humble and have a good look at what you’re providing! You’re just a data vendor, Bloomberg is a network! Make sense?


Why SIG told its traders not to hedge. Kris Abdelmessih (@KrisAbdelmessih). 8 years on SIG's options floor. Now writes Moontower. SIG's founders came from gambling. Sports betting. Poker. They understood small edges. "A bookie's making like 5% edge. Making a pretty good living off a fairly slim margin." Then they looked at options markets: "The idea that you could trade a two and a half dollar call spread for $2.20 when you think it's worth $2.50 — SIG was like, that is a ridiculous amount of edge. Way more than you'd get in gambling. And the risk is the same." So what did they do? They traded massive size and didn't hedge. "We were not even instructed to hedge. Central command looks at all the risk across the firm — this guy's long Microsoft, that guy's short QQQ, someone else is short IBM — net it all out and just trade the residual." The philosophy was simple: "Hedging is a cost. Don't hedge. Only hedge when risk starts swamping your edge." And they optimized for size over margin: "They traded giant size because they already knew this was way more edge than they'd ever find anywhere else." The result? SIG was the most profitable options trading firm of that era. Their competitors called them the Evil Empire.

When allocators finally learn that "idio" is just a fancy way to say "short vol"


Didn’t know HRT did warehousing



@danielfsy Make @CliffordAsness Scholar of the Year again! 'The Illiquidity Discount' seems to be becoming an even more seminal piece than his early work on the 'momentum' factor. And that was already a high benchmark to beat! aqr.com/Insights/Persp…

@__paleologo @quantop__ The feeling of helping other without any interest and that somehow your life and purpose is useful for other people in your same pursuit must be incredible. Idk. Doesn't seem like anyone is trying to suck on him. Just people that are genuinely thankful.

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