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Hello everyone, been lurking this sub for a while and decided to finally share some of my progress and hopefully help by any chance. Im brzilian so please forgive any english mistake.

I have produced over a dozen of algorithms and everytime i see myself studying, the more i think that quantitative trading is one of the areas that most relates to Leonardo da Vinci quotes that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It is kinda ridiculous that the picture above is one of the most accurate algorithms i have refined, yet the simplest i have ever touched.

This algo uses the most boring and simple inputs you can ever think: vwap, volume, open interest and some renko sorcery

It works almost like a cheat code on ranges although im struggling to refine it so it can be accurate on critical situations (for example when bitcoin dropped from 73 to 59)

I met bitcoin when i was 12yo (26 now) due the fact i used to love horror stories, there were some creepy pasta about dark web and hitmans that could be hired by a currency so called "bitcoin" that was anonymous, you know, i wanted to feel like the 007 ultra secret kid.

It helped a lot to understand this market and if there is anyone struggling to understand crypto and make quantitative analysis out of it, i strongly suggest keeping it simple and overall, i feel like crypto is much more about "human" behavior more than any other market i ever studied before although im genuinely not an expert, more like a passionated hobbyist (and as an autist, looking at metrics if a passion of mine)

Crypto is likely the market that has more young boooisss, young people are naturally more friendly towards risk and there is also a strong neuro factor on this: young people also have underdeveloped prefrontal cortex compared to other markets where participants may be more mature.

This translates directly into charts that offers more insane and crazy stop losses hunting and more specifically liquidation cascades. In my opinion this makes data modelling on crypto world a nightmare because it feels like youre putting into numbers literally young people stupidity, and i know this very well because i have been there before, trading like a crackhead trying to pull the golden ticket out of one single trade without stop loss or being liquidated over a highly leveraged position

I dont run a crypto market maker desk but if i did i would be genuinely interested in hiring neuroscientists to work along data scientists.
Not sure if you guys are in crypto and remember what happened in RAVE recently. Market makers pumped the shit out of that thing but if you looked at weighted funding rate it was screaming short squeeze fuel.

That is precisely what i meant about crypto being full of young blood that has a underdeveloped prefrontal cortex ready to jump on crazy positions with sexy liquidation prices and stop losses. How do you model that sort of data? It is just pure insanity.

After RAVE dump, the entire crypto community was "afraid" of shorting assets with too much negative funding rate, people were pissed off with exchanges (funding rate was -2% each HOUR for like 2\~3 days non stop

Then, came the LAB token activation which thankfully i opened a long at 0,55 and figured out that market makers were actively changing their strategy compared to RAVE

In order to LAB dont scare away the retail traders from its possible negative funding rate (back when lab initially went from 0,55 to 3,3 on its first pump a few weeks ago), they controlled the premium index of LAB so the funding rate of perp market was never "scary" to retails, people were too much afraid like "i wont short LAB because look what happened to RAVE" but market makers were extremely smart to use this sort of "camouflage" on the premium index controlling funding rate, this allowed short squeezes to be "invisible" for retail traders that based their positions on this metric, i remember LAB kept pumping with very positive funding rates and retail traders kept shorting and getting rekt trying to counter operate what was ALREADY BEING a counter operation of funding rate control LOLLLL

Im not sure and cant prove but i believe market makers manipulated the premium index by constantly controlling the available % of LAB tokens on the spot market by taking it IN and OUT from cold wallets to exchanges. Extremely smart.

Crypto market is insane and MM+quantitative trading/analysis is even more insane, hats off for those who try to bring order to this chaos. Im having a lot of fun and progress using simple setups, i used to prefer complex approaches but really not my type afterall.

I dont have experience on traditional markets compared to crypto, anyone that has been on both feels the same? Would love to hear your thoughts

Hello everyone, been lurking this sub for a while and decided to finally share some of my progress and hopefully help by any chance. Im brzilian so please forgive any english mistake.

I have produced over a dozen of algorithms and everytime i see myself studying, the more i think that quantitative trading is one of the areas that most relates to Leonardo da Vinci quotes that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It is kinda ridiculous that the picture above is one of the most accurate algorithms i have refined, yet the simplest i have ever touched.

This algo uses the most boring and simple inputs you can ever think: vwap, volume, open interest and some renko sorcery

It works almost like a cheat code on ranges although im struggling to refine it so it can be accurate on critical situations (for example when bitcoin dropped from 73 to 59)

I met bitcoin when i was 12yo (26 now) due the fact i used to love horror stories, there were some creepy pasta about dark web and hitmans that could be hired by a currency so called "bitcoin" that was anonymous, you know, i wanted to feel like the 007 ultra secret kid.

It helped a lot to understand this market and if there is anyone struggling to understand crypto and make quantitative analysis out of it, i strongly suggest keeping it simple and overall, i feel like crypto is much more about "human" behavior more than any other market i ever studied before although im genuinely not an expert, more like a passionated hobbyist (and as an autist, looking at metrics if a passion of mine)

Crypto is likely the market that has more young boooisss, young people are naturally more friendly towards risk and there is also a strong neuro factor on this: young people also have underdeveloped prefrontal cortex compared to other markets where participants may be more mature.

This translates directly into charts that offers more insane and crazy stop losses hunting and more specifically liquidation cascades. In my opinion this makes data modelling on crypto world a nightmare because it feels like youre putting into numbers literally young people stupidity, and i know this very well because i have been there before, trading like a crackhead trying to pull the golden ticket out of one single trade without stop loss or being liquidated over a highly leveraged position

I dont run a crypto market maker desk but if i did i would be genuinely interested in hiring neuroscientists to work along data scientists.
Not sure if you guys are in crypto and remember what happened in RAVE recently. Market makers pumped the shit out of that thing but if you looked at weighted funding rate it was screaming short squeeze fuel.

That is precisely what i meant about crypto being full of young blood that has a underdeveloped prefrontal cortex ready to jump on crazy positions with sexy liquidation prices and stop losses. How do you model that sort of data? It is just pure insanity.

After RAVE dump, the entire crypto community was "afraid" of shorting assets with too much negative funding rate, people were pissed off with exchanges (funding rate was -2% each HOUR for like 2\~3 days non stop

Then, came the LAB token activation which thankfully i opened a long at 0,55 and figured out that market makers were actively changing their strategy compared to RAVE

In order to LAB dont scare away the retail traders from its possible negative funding rate (back when lab initially went from 0,55 to 3,3 on its first pump a few weeks ago), they controlled the premium index of LAB so the funding rate of perp market was never "scary" to retails, people were too much afraid like "i wont short LAB because look what happened to RAVE" but market makers were extremely smart to use this sort of "camouflage" on the premium index controlling funding rate, this allowed short squeezes to be "invisible" for retail traders that based their positions on this metric, i remember LAB kept pumping with very positive funding rates and retail traders kept shorting and getting rekt trying to counter operate what was ALREADY BEING a counter operation of funding rate control LOLLLL

Im not sure and cant prove but i believe market makers manipulated the premium index by constantly controlling the available % of LAB tokens on the spot market by taking it IN and OUT from cold wallets to exchanges. Extremely smart.

Crypto market is insane and MM+quantitative trading/analysis is even more insane, hats off for those who try to bring order to this chaos. Im having a lot of fun and progress using simple setups, i used to prefer complex approaches but really not my type afterall.

I dont have experience on traditional markets compared to crypto, anyone that has been on both feels the same? Would love to hear your thoughts