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Sports

Interesting Insights from SIG’s 2022 Super Bowl Square Probabilities

February 23, 2022 by Zach

Every year at SIG, we celebrate the Super Bowl with a firm-wide Super Bowl Sweepstakes. This year, every employee was randomly assigned Cincinnati or Los Angeles as the winner and the last digit of each team’s final score. In order to win, both the team you were assigned needed to...

Gaming

Ladies Knight Podcast Appearance

February 11, 2022 by Ella

As part of SIG’s sponsorship of U.S. Chess, I recently joined Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, on her chess podcast, Ladies Knight. Tune in to hear our conversation, where we talk about gender in chess, rating distribution, differences between human chess players and AI chess players and how...

Decision Making

Mental Tripwires

October 14, 2021 by Rob

Traders and decision makers acquire many of their skills through experience. When I read articles on improving decision-making, it sometimes feels like the answers I get, even from experts in the field, are vague and not easily applied to daily life. Below I give actionable advice you can use to...

Decision Making

Podcast: How to Make Better Long-Term Decisions

September 23, 2021 by Todd

Todd Simkin, an Associate Director at SIG, has played an integral role in the development of SIG’s firm-wide and trader education programs. Tune in to his recent interview on The Knowledge Project podcast to learn more about how we approach decision making.

Dignitas Gaming

Valorant Breeze Map Pro Defensive Tips

August 19, 2021 by Emuhleet

Emmalee “Emuhleet” Garrido, professional Valorant player for Dignitas, shares pro tips on how to defend the Breeze map. Walking through A-Site, B-Site, and Mid map, Emuhleet points out the best defensive spots and explains why holding them will boost your performance. Whether you are new to Valorant or trying to...

Sports

Intro to Sports Analytics at SIG

July 26, 2021 by Jerrod

We’re always looking for new opportunities here at SIG. The list of products that we trade continues to grow all the time: equities, index futures and ETFs, bonds, commodities, currencies (crypto or otherwise), options on all of those, sports…. wait, sports!? Yes, sports! SIG has been building a team of...

Gaming

Crucial Games and Tactics for SIG’s 1st Place NACCL Chess Team

June 7, 2021 by Justin B.

Over 6 Thursdays in late January and February, the inaugural online North American Corporate Chess League took place, with over 400 players and 40 teams competing on lichess.org. The league awarded prizes to both the top 15 individuals and the top 5 teams, with each team’s score equal to the...

Gaming Poker

The Intersection of Poker + Chess

June 1, 2021 by Bill

Bill Chen, two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, co-author of The Mathematics of Poker, an expert-level chess player, and a quantitative researcher at SIG, shares his thoughts on the overlap between poker and chess.

What's Making Waves

Book Review: The Data Detective by Tim Harford

April 14, 2021 by Todd

Tim Harford seems to be showing up again and again in the world of rational decision making, from newspapers (he is a columnist for the Financial Times) to podcasts (Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, Cautionary Tales, etc.) to radio (More or Less) to books (The Undercover Economist, How...

Dignitas Gaming

Pro Tips for Upping Your Super Smash Bros Melee Game

March 30, 2021 by HugS

Hugo “HugS” Gonzalez, professional Super Smash Bros Melee player for Dignitas, teamed up with SIG to share some pro tips for boosting your Melee play. From learning the fundamentals, to extending your combos, and controlling the stage, HugS explains how to improve your Melee game no matter your current experience...