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Module 00

From Discretion to Rules

What changes when trading decisions become written rules that a computer can test and run — and what stays exactly the same.

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What you will be able to do

  • Describe what a quant trader does day to day, without the myths.
  • Separate the skills that transfer from discretionary trading from the ones that need rebuilding.
  • Use expectancy to state what an edge means in numbers.
  • Map the workflow from idea to running system onto the rest of this course.

Lessons

  1. 1 (not completed)

    What a quant trader actually does

    The daily work behind systematic trading — ideas, data, code, testing and review — and the myths worth dropping before you start.

    Beginner10 minDraft

  2. 2 (not completed)

    What transfers from discretionary trading (and what doesn't)

    Market knowledge, risk discipline and the journaling habit carry straight over. Pattern recognition and in-the-moment judgement have to be rebuilt as rules.

    Beginner11 minDraft

  3. 3 (not completed)

    The edge equation: expectancy as the core idea

    Win rate and payoff combined into one number, what that number does and does not promise, and why every later module is a way of estimating it honestly.

    Beginner13 minDraft

  4. 4 (not completed)

    The quant workflow: idea → rules → test → validate → run

    The five stages of building a trading system, what each stage produces, the question that decides whether an idea moves on, and where each stage is covered in this course.

    Beginner12 minDraft