.@BillAckman's resilience is unmatched:
He faced a $4B loss, a divorce, a company takeover, and Brad Pitt eyeing his girlfriend.
He then borrowed $300M, bought back his own stock (now worth 3,7x) and married that girlfriend.
He's an absolute legend.
camilo
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building a hedge fund native to prediction markets
- prediction markets are still frontrunning Wall St @Kalshi remains a leading indicator for Tesla delivery numbers, outperforming @TroyTeslike, the best quantitative Tesla analyst, and Wall St. analysts' consensus in predictive accuracy this is a kindergarten-level arb,
- we are running a trading strat for college football prediction markets, taking live signals from students at the game. our systems automatically size and execute trades based on their input. we currently have presence in Stanford and Berkley. if you are a trader at a U.S.Polymarket CEO at the Knicks literally on the phone front-running the markets on next to score - outrageous stuff
- like this post if you are a trader, quant or dev bullish prediction markets i'm building an army
- we are in the early stages of building this! reach out if you’re a quant or dev interested in building in this spacein the next 6–8 months, we’ll see the first polymarket-only trading fund size: prolly < $10M not hft (liquidity isn’t there yet) strategy: mix of ai + human experts (history, politics) it will easily outperform most other types of funds
- less than 1% of price observations between Polymarket and Deribit bitcoin options contain actionable risk-free arbitrage
00:06the stock market is a prediction market for companies' future free cash flow- some thoughts I had talking with @oxbquant last night: 1. if you continuously optimize for +ev, the probability that you become a normie rounds to 1. 2. just being right doesn’t make money, but being right when the odds are against you does. 3. in a world addicted to
- prediction markets will become the financial market's new lingua franca they are the common denominator connected in one way or another to every asset class they distill the complexities of investing into a single equation of risk, return, and probability they are the most
- the stock market is a prediction market for companies' future free cash flow
00:00 - estimating @Polymarket 's potential revenue if it were to implement the same fee structure as @Kalshi: 1) source data from the underlying blockchain polymarket runs on (@0xPolygon) 2) model kalshi's two-tiered fee structure, comprising separate taker and maker concave functions














