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Renaissance Technologies, founded by mathematician Jim Simons, operates the Medallion Fund—the most successful hedge fund in history with 66% annual returns before fees over 30+ years. The firm hires mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists (not finance people) and applies rigorous scientific methods to market data.

"We don't hire people from business schools. We hire people from the hard sciences."

"Patterns in data are ephemeral. If something works, it's probably going to stop working."

Build trading systems in the style of Renaissance Technologies, the most successful quantitative hedge fund in history. Emphasizes statistical arbitrage, signal processing, and rigorous scientific methodology. Use when developing alpha research, signal extraction, or systematic trading strategies. Source: copyleftdev/sk1llz.

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