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Renaissance doesn't care why a stock price moves. They care that it does move in a repeatable, statistically significant way. They look for "ghosts" in the data—tiny anomalies that human traders can't see. 2. High-Frequency, Low-Margin

The strategy relies on making thousands of trades a day. They might only be right 51% of the time, but across millions of iterations, that 1% edge becomes a mathematical certainty of profit. 3. The "Black Box"

This performance dwarfs investment legends like Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Peter Lynch. The Man Who Solved the Markem4b

Even Simons found a limit. The Medallion Fund is capped at around $10 billion because the strategies don't scale infinitely—too much money would move the market and erase the "edge." 🏁 Summary of the "Solution"

Should the tone be or critical of the impact quant trading has on the world? Renaissance doesn't care why a stock price moves

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Jim Simons proved that the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" (the idea that you can't beat the market because all information is already priced in) is wrong—but only if you have enough computing power, the best math minds on earth, and decades of data. To help you refine this blog post, tell me: the best math minds on earth

~39% annually after staggering fees (5% management, 44% performance).