Decision Making Archives | Raise Your Game

Susquehanna at FIDE Corporate Chess Championship

Gaming

A Recap of Susquehanna’s Performance at the World Corporate Chess Championship

August 19, 2024 by Ella

Susquehanna recently competed in the World Corporate Chess Championship. The tournament – run by FIDE, the governing body of international chess competition – brought participants from over 350 companies across 55 countries to compete to be considered the “smartest company in the world.” Teams were required to have at least...

Gaming

Decision Making in Love Letter

July 23, 2024 by Jonathan

The board game Love Letter by Seiji Kanai pushes players to be decisive while facing uncertain conditions. Playing the game can help people improve their decision making when they have incomplete information about a situation. If you are not familiar with the game, here is a copy of the rule...

What's Making Waves

How Susquehanna Teaches New Traders

November 6, 2023 by Todd

Education is extremely important to us at Susquehanna, and the amount of time and prep we give our incoming Quantitative Traders helps them to succeed once they get to the floor on their own. Quantitative Traitor Interview: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions I joined Kevin D of Quantitative Traitor to talk about...

Poker

Hand Analysis: Using a GTO Solver to Improve Play against a Human Opponent

October 6, 2022 by Cory

The best poker players in the world are no longer human. Developments in artificial intelligence over the last decade have made poker bots stronger than even the best professionals, being able to nearly replicate game theoretically optimal (GTO) play on the spot. But humans are capable of doing one thing...

Gaming

Rolling in Teamfight Tactics

September 16, 2022 by Andy

A note from SIG: Andy is a Duke University graduate and Quantitative Trader at SIG. Despite starting TFT only a year ago, Andy had the best average placement in NA across all three Dragonlands events and has become first North American representative for the Dragonlands Championship! Introduction Before going into...

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.

Sports

Sports Science and Data Analytics Presentation by Dr. Sam Robertson

January 31, 2018 by Rob

Thanks to increased computational power and improvements in data collection technologies, sports analytics researchers are now able to ask questions (and get answers) they were not able to in the past. The beneficiaries of these new technologies will be teams and individuals who are intellectually curious enough to ask these...

Sports

Insuring the Indians’ Win Streak

September 22, 2017 by Todd

ESPN recently ran an article about an Ohio-based window company that guaranteed any of its customers who installed windows (the kind that makes walls transparent, not the PC operating system), siding, or doors in the month of July would have their money returned if the Cleveland Indians had a 15-game...

Poker

Q+A with High-Stakes Poker Player and SIG Trading Intern, Jens Kyllönen

August 24, 2017 by Jens

Jens Kyllönen is known online as “Jeans89” and is widely regarded as one of the top Pot-limit Omaha players in the world. Jens joined SIG this summer as a Trading Intern in our Bala Cynwyd office. He was nice enough to answer a few questions and provide insights into one...