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Founder @Quantcha. Options, prediction markets, and emerging derivatives.

Redmond, WA
Joined July 2009
If you have to ask...
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Funding negotiations are going great, but I think I can squeeze a little more juice from this fruit.
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Finally, the everyman can affordably hedge his Warhol collection. But act quickly—that $540 of upside across the entire order book won't be available at the low price of $6,690 for long. But, in fairness, it has to start somewhere.
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Replying to @thepointsguy
Longest non-overnight layover was flying from Beijing to Tel Aviv and had a 10-hour layover 8am-6pm in Kiev. Went to Chernobyl and Pripyat for the day.
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There is no emoji to describe how hard I laughed when I saw this email.
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I knew I played that wrong.
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25% of one major prediction market platform’s volume was wash trading. At peaks, over 60%. (Columbia study.) If the liquidity signal is fake, every decision you make on that data is noise. I wrote a Bill of Rights for event contract investors. 🧵
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Replying to @Polymarket
This is Qwidgets if it was a real place. Very cool. youtube.com/watch?v=0IrOwJIQ…
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Time to make some easy money on @Kalshi. Picked up a discount on that early Denmark goal.
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Super Bowl runs over the years. At this rate he'll be twice my size at the next one.
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