Self-Taught Quant · Jan 2026 – Present

YASIR A.

41
Deep Dives
100K+
Words Written
6
Domains
10 wks
Time Invested

Brain Map

How everything connects — from first principles to live execution

Market Structure
Asset Classes
Strategies
Risk & Psychology
Tools & Tech
Ongoing Research

Knowledge Base

Every topic I studied, documented, and internalized

🏛️ Market Structure

Order Flow Trading

13.6K words

Tape reading, delta, footprint charts & execution flow

Market Microstructure

9,600 words

Venue mechanics, latency, price discovery & HFT dynamics

Heatmap Analysis

11.2K words

Liquidity visualization, absorption & spoofing detection

Order Book Analysis

1,000 words

Depth-of-market patterns, iceberg orders & imbalance signals

💰 Asset Classes

CME Futures Trading

11.6K words

ES/NQ/CL contract specs, rolls, margin & settlement

Crypto Trading

10.8K words

CEX/DEX execution, funding rates, on-chain signals

CFD Trading

9,200 words

Spread dynamics, leverage, overnight costs & broker models

🎯 Strategies

Hedge Fund Strategies

12.0K words

L/S equity, global macro, event-driven & multi-strategy

Prop Firm Trading

8,400 words

Challenge rules, drawdown management & scaling plans

Polymarket Advanced

1,400 words

Prediction-market edge extraction & resolution plays

Polymarket Arbitrage

1,200 words

Cross-market arb with real data & execution logic

Prediction Markets

800 words

Market design, calibration & information aggregation

Kelly Criterion

600 words

Optimal bet sizing, fractional Kelly & bankroll growth

Portfolio Theory

1,200 words

Mean-variance, efficient frontier & factor allocation

🛡️ Risk & Psychology

Institutional Risk Frameworks

14.6K words

VaR, CVaR, stress testing & regulatory capital

Risk Management

800 words

Position sizing, stop methodology & portfolio risk

Behavioral Finance

1,200 words

Cognitive biases, prospect theory & decision pitfalls

Lessons & Rules

1,400 words

Hard-earned trading rules & post-mortem insights

🔧 Tools & Tech

Rust Trading Bot

7,800 words

Async Rust bot for automated prediction-market execution

Rust Programming

2,000 words

Ownership, lifetimes, traits & systems-level Rust

Python Quant Tools

3,000 words

pandas, numpy, backtrader & quantitative pipelines

Quantower & DeepChart

6,400 words

Platform setup, DOM trading & advanced charting

Data Mining

1,600 words

Feature engineering, walk-forward & overfitting control

Sentiment Analysis

1,000 words

NLP on news/social, sentiment scores & signal fusion

🔬 Ongoing Research

PCA for Quantitative Finance

3,200 words

Deep dive #7: eigendecomposition, variance explained ratios, yield curve PCA, pairs selection, factor risk models & stat-arb portfolio construction

Quant Math & Physics

10.7K words

Black-Scholes, Monte Carlo, stochastic calculus, GARCH, copulas & extreme value theory applied to trading

Daily Quant Learnings

4,500 words

Hawkes processes, OFI forecasting, PCA stat-arb, retail flow anatomy, LETF arbitrage, LLM trading agents — updated daily

API Research

2,100 words

Tardis.dev tick data, exchange APIs, alternative data sources & free-tier analysis

AI + Finance Frontiers

1,800 words

LLM agents for trading, AI-driven alpha, autonomous execution systems & research papers

Quant Legends

1,600 words

Jim Simons, Ed Thorp, David Shaw — their math, their edge, their lessons

GitHub Quant Arsenal

1,000 words

Curated open-source repos for algo trading, orderflow, ML signals & backtesting

Weekly Deep Research

3,500 words

Reddit, arXiv & Twitter alpha — stat-arb graph clustering, RL execution, prediction market microstructure & what quants are actually discussing

Learning Journey

Jan 1 → Present — 65+ days of obsessive learning

Jan 1–10, 2026

Foundations

Started with risk management, Kelly criterion, portfolio theory & statistics — building the mathematical bedrock.

Jan 11–20, 2026

Market Structure

Deep-dived into order flow, microstructure, order books, and heatmap analysis. Learned to read the tape.

Jan 21–31, 2026

Strategies & Markets

Studied hedge fund playbooks, prediction markets, Polymarket mechanics, and cross-market arbitrage.

Feb 1–10, 2026

Asset Classes & Tools

Covered CME futures, crypto, CFDs. Built Python quant tools, started Rust for low-latency execution.

Feb 11–17, 2026

Institutional Edge

Wrote institutional risk frameworks, prop firm strategies, behavioral finance. Built a Rust Polymarket bot.

Feb 18–23, 2026

Advanced & Applied

Quantower/DeepChart mastery, sentiment analysis, data mining. 72K+ words of distilled knowledge.

Feb 24 – Mar 6, 2026

Autonomous Research

Automated daily quant research cycles — math deep dives, API discovery, GitHub repos, AI+finance news. 22K+ new words generated autonomously.

Mar 7–10, 2026

Statistical Foundations & AI Frontiers

Deep dive into PCA for stat-arb, graph clustering for pairs trading, RL-based execution, retail flow anatomy, prediction market microstructure, LETF arbitrage mechanics, and LLM multi-agent trading systems.

What I'm Building

Turning knowledge into infrastructure

Active

⛓️

EDITH Protocol

Tokenizing Real-World Assets on Blockchain

RWA protocol for fractional ownership of AI infrastructure — GPUs, clusters, datacenters. ERC20 ownership tokens with automated yield distribution.

RWADeFiSmart Contracts
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IX Capital

Quantitative Hedge Fund

Systematic trading across prediction markets, futures, and crypto. Algorithm-driven strategies built on 72K+ words of self-researched quant knowledge.

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OCON

Enterprise Zero-Knowledge LLM Router

The world's first enterprise router aggregating high-security, zero-knowledge LLM providers. Military-grade encryption at every layer. Hundreds of models. One API. Verifiable privacy.

AI InfrastructurePrivacyEnterprise

R&D Pipeline

🛰️

Xorbit

Space-based datacenter R&D — computing infrastructure beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Deep TechSpace
🧬

CBA Lab

Cancer & blood analysis platform with 3D bio-printing of organs. AI-driven diagnostics.

BioTechAI Health
🏗️

AI for Construction

Intelligent systems for construction planning, automation, and project optimization.

AIIndustry
💎

Crypto Prop Funding

On-chain prop firm funding for crypto traders — decentralized evaluation and capital allocation.

DeFiTrading
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Ryxen

Agentic AI R&D — building autonomous AI agents and LLM-powered systems for real-world applications.

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PandaDoc Clone

Full-featured document platform — rich editor, templates, e-signatures, PDF export, analytics dashboard.

SaaSDocuments
🎰

Polymarket-Style TikTok

Prediction markets meets short-form content — swipe-based betting UX for the next generation of traders.

ConsumerPrediction Markets