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Quantitative Researcher

Quantitative Researcher

Which is larger: pi^e or e^pi?
10 hours ago
n points are placed at random on a circle. What is the probability that they all lie in some semicircle?
+14 years ago
Suppose you can forecast an external shock before it happens. How would you turn that forecast into an alpha?
2 years ago
What is an alpha? What is a net long-short alpha?
2 years ago
Describe one of the alphas you built and explain the intuition behind it.
2 years ago
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How many times in one day are the second hand and the minute hand of a clock perpendicular to each other?
4 years ago
Two players take turns rolling a fair die and the first to roll a 6 wins. What is the probability that the player who rolls first wins?
4 years ago
In an n x n matrix of natural numbers, find the length of the longest up/down/left/right path whose values are consecutive integers.
4 years ago
Two players reveal coins: both heads you win 3, both tails you win 1, a mismatch you lose 2. What is your best strategy and expected profit?
4 years ago
How do you measure how well an alpha performs?
3 years ago
How would you go about improving an alpha?
3 years ago
How can you improve the Sharpe ratio of an alpha? Is the Sharpe ratio a good performance measure?
3 years ago
Is standard deviation a good measure of risk?
3 years ago
What is your view of risk factors when building alphas?
3 years ago
What does neutralisation do to an alpha?
3 years ago
On the BRAIN platform, what does the ts_rank operator do and what does it return?
3 years ago

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