inside-quant-finance

2 articles

Inside the Hedge Fund Machine: What 'Quant' Means, and How Trading Got This Fast

A first-principles look at what hedge funds and quant funds actually are, where the idea of algorithmic trading came from, how high-frequency trading works mechanically, and how 'skill' gets measured once most decisions are made by machines.

June 12, 2026 · 19 min read finance economics thinking

Part 1 · inside-quant-finance

Inside the Black Box: How Quants Search for Real Patterns, and What Happens When the Machines Get It Wrong

How quantitative funds try to tell a real, repeatable pattern from a correlation that's just noise, what actually makes one quant fund better than another, and whether high-frequency trading is, on balance, good or bad for markets.

June 12, 2026 · 16 min read finance ai thinking

Part 2 · inside-quant-finance