YASIR A.
Brain Map
How everything connects — from first principles to live execution
Knowledge Base
Every topic I studied, documented, and internalized
🏛️ Market Structure
Order Flow Trading
13.6K wordsTape reading, delta, footprint charts & execution flow
Market Microstructure
9,600 wordsVenue mechanics, latency, price discovery & HFT dynamics
Heatmap Analysis
11.2K wordsLiquidity visualization, absorption & spoofing detection
Order Book Analysis
1,000 wordsDepth-of-market patterns, iceberg orders & imbalance signals
💰 Asset Classes
CME Futures Trading
11.6K wordsES/NQ/CL contract specs, rolls, margin & settlement
Crypto Trading
10.8K wordsCEX/DEX execution, funding rates, on-chain signals
CFD Trading
9,200 wordsSpread dynamics, leverage, overnight costs & broker models
🎯 Strategies
Hedge Fund Strategies
12.0K wordsL/S equity, global macro, event-driven & multi-strategy
Prop Firm Trading
8,400 wordsChallenge rules, drawdown management & scaling plans
Polymarket Advanced
1,400 wordsPrediction-market edge extraction & resolution plays
Polymarket Arbitrage
1,200 wordsCross-market arb with real data & execution logic
Prediction Markets
800 wordsMarket design, calibration & information aggregation
Kelly Criterion
600 wordsOptimal bet sizing, fractional Kelly & bankroll growth
Portfolio Theory
1,200 wordsMean-variance, efficient frontier & factor allocation
🛡️ Risk & Psychology
Institutional Risk Frameworks
14.6K wordsVaR, CVaR, stress testing & regulatory capital
Risk Management
800 wordsPosition sizing, stop methodology & portfolio risk
Behavioral Finance
1,200 wordsCognitive biases, prospect theory & decision pitfalls
Lessons & Rules
1,400 wordsHard-earned trading rules & post-mortem insights
🔧 Tools & Tech
Rust Trading Bot
7,800 wordsAsync Rust bot for automated prediction-market execution
Rust Programming
2,000 wordsOwnership, lifetimes, traits & systems-level Rust
Python Quant Tools
3,000 wordspandas, numpy, backtrader & quantitative pipelines
Quantower & DeepChart
6,400 wordsPlatform setup, DOM trading & advanced charting
Data Mining
1,600 wordsFeature engineering, walk-forward & overfitting control
Sentiment Analysis
1,000 wordsNLP on news/social, sentiment scores & signal fusion
🔬 Ongoing Research
PCA for Quantitative Finance
3,200 wordsDeep dive #7: eigendecomposition, variance explained ratios, yield curve PCA, pairs selection, factor risk models & stat-arb portfolio construction
Quant Math & Physics
10.7K wordsBlack-Scholes, Monte Carlo, stochastic calculus, GARCH, copulas & extreme value theory applied to trading
Daily Quant Learnings
4,500 wordsHawkes processes, OFI forecasting, PCA stat-arb, retail flow anatomy, LETF arbitrage, LLM trading agents — updated daily
API Research
2,100 wordsTardis.dev tick data, exchange APIs, alternative data sources & free-tier analysis
AI + Finance Frontiers
1,800 wordsLLM agents for trading, AI-driven alpha, autonomous execution systems & research papers
Quant Legends
1,600 wordsJim Simons, Ed Thorp, David Shaw — their math, their edge, their lessons
GitHub Quant Arsenal
1,000 wordsCurated open-source repos for algo trading, orderflow, ML signals & backtesting
Weekly Deep Research
3,500 wordsReddit, 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
Foundations
Started with risk management, Kelly criterion, portfolio theory & statistics — building the mathematical bedrock.
Market Structure
Deep-dived into order flow, microstructure, order books, and heatmap analysis. Learned to read the tape.
Strategies & Markets
Studied hedge fund playbooks, prediction markets, Polymarket mechanics, and cross-market arbitrage.
Asset Classes & Tools
Covered CME futures, crypto, CFDs. Built Python quant tools, started Rust for low-latency execution.
Institutional Edge
Wrote institutional risk frameworks, prop firm strategies, behavioral finance. Built a Rust Polymarket bot.
Advanced & Applied
Quantower/DeepChart mastery, sentiment analysis, data mining. 72K+ words of distilled knowledge.
Autonomous Research
Automated daily quant research cycles — math deep dives, API discovery, GitHub repos, AI+finance news. 22K+ new words generated autonomously.
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.
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.
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.
R&D Pipeline
Xorbit
Space-based datacenter R&D — computing infrastructure beyond Earth's atmosphere.
CBA Lab
Cancer & blood analysis platform with 3D bio-printing of organs. AI-driven diagnostics.
AI for Construction
Intelligent systems for construction planning, automation, and project optimization.
Crypto Prop Funding
On-chain prop firm funding for crypto traders — decentralized evaluation and capital allocation.
Ryxen
Agentic AI R&D — building autonomous AI agents and LLM-powered systems for real-world applications.
PandaDoc Clone
Full-featured document platform — rich editor, templates, e-signatures, PDF export, analytics dashboard.
Polymarket-Style TikTok
Prediction markets meets short-form content — swipe-based betting UX for the next generation of traders.