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by noname123 4411 days ago
What do you find so aesthetically pleasing about it?

Is it the mathematics/model building. Portfolio allocation mean-covariance? Different hedging schemes? Black-Scholes model? Different numerical methods?

Is it the system design? Use of FP to model different contracts or concurrency and distributed trading systems?

Or is it the statistics and back-testing?

Personally, I like the aesthetics a bit but mostly I love the thrill of gambling and watching the market tick and the aesthetics of CNBC money-honey's.