Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, one of the most successful hedge funds in history, publicly admitted that AI is making his PhD researchers redundant
This year on stage at Stanford he described exactly what scared him
His team built an AI system that takes an academic finance paper, reproduces it, and tests it out-of-sample
What used to take a junior quant 6-8 weeks, AI does in 2-3 hours
He said he went home depressed
When the man who's been winning this game for decades says the technology scared him, it's worth listening
The edge of these people was never brains. It was one cycle: take an idea, test it on history, kill it if it doesn't work, repeat. Faster and more ruthlessly than anyone
That cycle cost a fund $650,000 a year for a single analyst. So you traded blind, while they tested everything in advance
After reading Griffin, I got curious to reproduce the exact thing that made him feel bad
Took an academic strategy from 2012, described it in one sentence, and in 20 minutes had a full backtest on real data
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No code, no team, no New York office
And here's what most people still don't get. While they tell themselves AI trading is hype, they keep bleeding out on their own deposit, testing one idea for weeks, while machines test a thousand a night
The same cycle that haunts the head of Citadel now fits into one sentence in a text box
The difference is no longer money or a team. The difference is only whether you sit down and test your idea today
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