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@totlsota

{quant trading, defi, hft, ml} perma-learning in high-dim space trading @ ergonia.io

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Joined November 2021

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@totlsota
Apr 20, 2024
Replying to @xmgnr
be sceptical, hustle, don't stop, be insanely competitive, be relentless, hunt, go deeper, out-think them, outwork them, nail the details, do the highest value things, take real bets, move faster, do things first *be positive, happy & good* you can have it all that is winning
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@totlsota
May 8, 2023
a friend of a friend broke up with his gf of 1y he paid for her a lot, an insta-model sort who really took advantage of him after a terse breakup *text* she texted "some of my friends have been getting break-up fees in the range of 20k-40k, whats the best you can do?"
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@totlsota
Nov 23, 2024
talking to someone asking for life advice all of my life advice boils down to Understand: - probability - expected value - optionality/ convexity - ensembles/ diversification - occams razor - (bonus) solomonoff induction, Minimum Message Length, AIXI
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@totlsota
May 4, 2024
random thoughts for quant traders - trading is a business so trade to make money not to be smart, right, admired, or anything else or you will pay for those things - "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool" - your processes
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@totlsota
Jan 22, 2023
How did I miss this one …
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@totlsota
Sep 19, 2022
Why is trading hard? the environment: - non-stationary (things change) - extremely adversarial (competitors compete) - high-noise/low-signal everywhere - results a product of skill & luck, attribution is hard - distributed across the globe - round the clock activity 1/4
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@totlsota
Jan 6, 2024
How to make money for a long time as an automated trading team/ trader (get the max rewards possible through time) Once you have a profitable strategy, it has a gravity and demands that you exploit it to make the most money possible. This is a happy time. 1/n ...
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@totlsota
Oct 9, 2022
What people don't tell you about AI/ML in trading: - most don't use modern ML but linear regression & say "ML" - key is not fooling yourself with data & powerful fitting machines - prediction on a time horizon long enough to be useful, it is hard to be "no change in price" 1/4
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@totlsota
Apr 22, 2023
the true inner experience of quant trading (old classic, gets me every time)
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@totlsota
Jun 17, 2025
🚀Ergonia is entering the Solana perps game. We are assembling a team to build something new. We bring deep market-making expertise on Solana. We're looking for elite smart contract engineers who can handle the challenges of building on-chain derivatives on Solana. DMs open
Solana Network Opportunities Job Board
From jobs.solana.com
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@totlsota
Jan 6, 2024
all strategies/ signals need clocks to tick on trading clocks: - time (every 3sec) - volume (every 5 btc) - volatility (price moves 100 bps) - trade (each aggressive trade) - money (like volume but in some currency) - blocks on chain (every n blocks) what is missing?
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@totlsota
Nov 11, 2024
on CT, you can fake that you are something people want to be, say, a quant trader people who know even less than you will believe you & think they are learning from you, you will even believe your bs because they make u feel smart in fact, you are making everyone dumber thank
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@totlsota
Sep 3, 2022
going thru github stared python 4 ethereum projects github.com/ApeWorX/ape github.com/ApeWorX/evm-tr… github.com/ApeWorX/py-tok… github.com/EthTx/ethtx github.com/banteg/storage… github.com/cleanunicorn/t… github.com/cleanunicorn/k… github.com/Alcibiades-Cap… github.com/fei-protocol/c…
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@totlsota
Aug 27, 2023
Replying to @macrocephalopod and @dieworkwear
I am unskilled in the ways of fashion But I think basically anything goes for kids … And other people
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