Tag: Decision Making

How SIG Teaches New Traders
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How SIG Teaches New Traders

November 6, 2023 by
Education is extremely important to us at SIG, 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...
Rolling in Teamfight Tactics
Gaming

Rolling in Teamfight Tactics

September 16, 2022 by
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...
Mental Tripwires
Decision Making

Mental Tripwires

October 14, 2021 by
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...
Sports

Insuring the Indians’ Win Streak

September 22, 2017 by
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

Poker Quiz #1: Expected Value

July 19, 2017 by
The idea of expected value is one that comes up often in poker and trading discussions. Expected value is the sum of the probability of each possible event times that event’s payoff. For example, if you were to flip a fair coin where you got paid $2 for heads and lost...