The 200-level working math begins — friendlier than its reputation. The four ideas a quant thinks with: a price is a random walk (returns, and why we take logs); returns are bell-shaped while prices are log-normal (floored at zero, open above), with an honest note that real tails are fatter than the neat curve; volatility is the width of the bell — the typical daily move — and it grows with the square root of time (1% a day is about 16% a year); and expected value is the compass, outcome × odds, that turns the 90-put into a positive-by-design bet and the law of large numbers into the house. An average is a promise only if you survive to collect it — so we diversify and never bet the farm.
Foundations for the Aloha desk — from "capable and curious" to your first pull request. When you want the proofs, the Master Class awaits.
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