“Patterns of price movement are not random. However, they're close enough to random that getting some excess, some edge out of it, is not easy.”
Why Jim is the canonical The Arbitrageur
A world-class mathematician turned founder of Renaissance Technologies, Simons built the Medallion Fund, the most successful quantitative trading operation in history. By detecting faint statistical patterns invisible to humans, he industrialized the exploitation of market inefficiency — the archetypal arbitrageur of the data age.
The The Arbitrageur optimizes price differentials and cost structures between markets. See the role on the 23-role map →
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