Robot Wealth – Trade Like A Quant Bootcamp

Effective, high-probability quant trading for the independent trader.

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0 – Enrolment and Initiation3 Topics

Lesson Content

Welcome to Trade like a Quant

Logistics – Where Does it All Happen?

Welcome from James – What Do I want You to Get out of the Course?

1 – Seeing the Market for What it Really is29 Topics

Lesson Content

On Not F**king Spiders

Is Trading a Game We Can Lose?

Trading Too Often – Every time you trade you lose money

Trading Too Often – Exercise

Trading Too Often – Exercise Solution

Trading too Big – Don’t get Rekt

Trading Too Big – Exercise 1

Trading Too Big – Exercise 1 Solution

Trading Too Big – Sizing and Volatility Trade-Offs

Trading Too Big – Exercise 2

Trading Too Big – Exercise 2 Discussion

Trying to be a Hero

Try to Lose at Trading!

Understanding the Mortal Sins

Is Trading a Game We Can Win?

Edge, Expectation and Luck

Competition

Price Discovery – The Balancing of Supply and Demand

Price Discovery Examples

Price Discovery Examples: The Limit Order Book

Price Discovery Examples: The Batch Auction

Price Discovery Examples: Auction Exercise

Price Discovery Examples: Auction Exercise Discussion

Price Discovery Examples: The Regular Trading Session

Price Discovery Examples: The Constant Product Automated Market Maker

Price Discovery: The Competition for Alpha!

The Problems of Non-Stationarity and Adverse Selection

Understanding the Mayhem: Experimenting with Random Data

A High-Level Business Plan for Your Trading

2 – Stonkingly Obvious High-Probability Edges24 Topics

Lesson Content

Stonkingly Obvious High-Probability Edges

ETF Arbitrage

ETF Arbitrage: Exercise

ETF Arbitrage: Exercise Solution

Stablecoin Creation / Redemption Arbitrage

Stablecoin Creation / Redemption Arbitrage: Exercise

Stablecoin Creation / Redemption Arbitrage: Exercise Solution

Terra / Luna Arbitrage

Market Making

Commodity Carry (in the past)

Risk Premia Harvesting

Risk Premia Harvesting: Why are we confident in it?

Risk Premia Harvesting: Strategy Implementation

Risk Premia Harvesting: Strategic Sizing

Risk Premia Harvesting: Rebalancing

Risk Premia Harvesting Exercise: Design your Strategy

Risk Premia Harvesting: How you’re gonna screw it up

Risk Premia Harvesting in 2022: What happened?

Risk Premia Harvesting in 2023 and Timing a Government Bond Allocation

Risk Premia Harvesting – May 2024 Update

Pairs Trading in Equities

Crypto Stablecoin Lending, Basis Effects and Other Yield Plays

Crypto Basis Arbitrage in Perpetual Futures

Summary: What Do These Approaches Have in Common?

3 – Inefficiencies and Where to Find Them28 Topics

Lesson Content

Inefficiencies and Where to Find Them

“Win-Win” Games

“Win-Lose” Games

Why Are Traders Prepared to Trade at Inopportune Prices?

The Competitive Market for Dumb Money Alpha

“Win-Lose” Games You Might Be Able to Compete At

“Elevator Pitches” for Inefficiencies

Edges and Strategies

Edge: Speed Advantage: HFT Latency Arb and AMM Arbitrage

Edge: Information Advantage: Discretionary Equity Investment

Edge: Front Runnin’ Flows: The FTX Leveraged Token Rebalance

Edge: Front Runnin’ Flows: Seasonal Regularities in FX, Stocks and Volatility

Edge: Dispersin’ Dislocations: Spreading, Curve Trades, Vol Arb, Liquidations

Edge: Positioning Imbalances: Trading Futures Rolls. Short Squeezes

Edge: Exploiting Mistakes: Corporate actions, Derivatives Pricing Mistakes

Edge: Behavioural / Structural Effects: PEAD and Crypto Trend

Exercise: Specify a Crypto Trend Strategy

Some Turn-of-the Month Flow Games

The Rebalancing Game

The Window Dressing Game

Looking for Evidence in the Data

The Window Dressing Game – Data Analysis

The Window Dressing Game Summary – Strategy Rules

The Rebalance Game – Elevator Pitch

The Rebalance Game – Data Analysis

The Rebalance Game – Strategy Rules

Explore the Flow Effects App

Exercise: Define your own strategy rules

—Consolidation—1 Topic

Lesson Content

Consolidation Week Webinar

4 – Working with Financial Data12 Topics

Lesson Content

Working with financial data

What data do you REALLY need?

Understanding how your data maps to the real world

Downloading daily price data from yahoo finance

Using ChatGPT to write code to pull data from free APIs

Very gentle introduction to running R in google colab

Validating Price Data

Dealing with daily log returns

Looking at seasonality effects over the whole data set

Looking at date subsets

Exercise: do we see this same effect for different, similar assets?

Summary: Working with Financial Data

5 – Research Mindset and Data Analysis Techniques8 Topics

Lesson Content

Data Analysis – Mindset and Techniques

Real-time research Example: Analysis of Equity VRP

Simple Analysis Techniques: The assumption of persistence: Lags, Leads, Overlaps and Scatterplots

Simple Analysis Techniques: Time Series Return Prediction

Simple Analysis Techniques: Cross-sectional Return Prediction

Simple Analysis Techniques: Luck and Stability

Simple Analysis Techniques “What else would explain this?”

Consolidation – Review of techniques used

6 – Simulation, Portfolio Construction and The Fine Art of Sitting on Your Hands12 Topics

Lesson Content

Simulation

Simulation Example: RP Harvesting

Simulation Example: Window Dresssing

Simulation: Doing Statistics Even When You Suck at Math

Portfolio Zen

Get Clear on Your Objectives

Managing Strategy Volatility Contribution

The Real World: Constraints

The Real World: Not All Strategies Are Created Equal

Simple Portfolio Example

Relax and Trust The Market Gods

There Will Always Be More Trades

Q&A Webinars6 Topics

Lesson Content

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 1

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 2

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 3

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 4

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 5

TLQ November 2025 Q&A Session 6

An Invitation to Join Our Community1 Topic

Lesson Content

An Invitation to Join RW Pro

Guide to the Bonus Material1 Topic

Lesson Content

Guide to the Bonus Material

Bonus Material: Embrace the Mayhem Videos11 Topics

Lesson Content

Embrace the Mayhem Initiation Intro

(The Only) Two Ways to Make Money Trading

Collecting Risk Premia

Exploiting Market Inefficiencies

(The Only) Two Ways to Make Money Trading – Summary

Pick the Easy Games

The Easy Games – A Taxonomy of Edges and Strategies

Pick the Easy Games – Summary

Run it Like a Business

Run it Like a Business – Summary

Trade More Sh*t

Bonus Material: Options, Volatility, Tail Hedging and Navigating Market Chaos16 Topics

Lesson Content

Introduction

Volatility Dynamics

Options and Implied Volatility

The VIX Index

VIX Futures

VIX Basis Dynamics

A Dynamic Model of the Basis

A Dynamic VIX Basis Trading Model

Volatility of Volatility as a Predictor of Volatility Returns

Putting Strategy Rules Together

Dashboard and Strategy Simulation

2022 Review and Alternative Implementations

Specifying a Time-Varying VRP Harvesting Strategy

Tail Hedging

Dealing with Chaos: A Market Crash Survival Kit

Q&A Webinar 5

Bonus Material: Trading Strategies Covered in Previous Iterations of the Course7 Topics

Lesson Content

Crypto Basis Arbitrage: An Introduction to Forward Contracts and Futures

Crypto Basis Arbitrage: Cryptocurrency futures on FTX

Crypto Basis Arbitrage: Perpetual Futures on FTX

Crypto Basis Arbitrage: Perpetual Futures Basis Effects

Crypto Basis Arbitrage: Homework

On-chain crypto basis trades in 2024

Equity Pair Trading and Statistical Arbitrage Lecture

Bonus Material: Exploratory Data Analysis Using Excel5 Topics

Lesson Content

Data Analysis 1: Get TLT Daily Prices from AlphaVantage API

Data Analysis 2: Calculate Day of the Month and Daily Log Returns in Excel

Data Analysis 3: Group by Day of the Month and Plot Mean Returns for Each Day

Data Analysis 4: Explore Date Subsets and Look for Consistency of the Effect

Data Analysis 5: Time Series Plots

Bonus Material: Market Basics12 Topics

Lesson Content

Two Fundamental Concepts

The Stuff We Can Trade

Embracing the Mayhem

You’ll Never Figure It Out

The Paradox of Market Efficiency and Randomness

Embracing the Mayhem – A Practical Summary

What is the “Price” of a Stock?

The Limit Order Book

A Trading Day – Trading GE on the NYSE

The Pre-Open and Opening Auction

The Regular Trading Session

Log Returns

Bonus Material: Doing Financial Data Analysis in R3 Topics

Lesson Content

Objects, Functions and Pipes in R

Tidy Data and Switching between Wide and Long Format

Financial Data Manipulation in dplyr for Quant Traders

Bonus Material: Examples of Real-Time, Exploratory Research5 Topics

Lesson Content

Real World Research Examples

Research Example – Cryptocurrency Trend Effects

Research Example- Intraday Cryptocurrency Return Patterns

Research Example – Wrap-up Trend, Seasonality and Momentum Effect Research

Research Examples – Summary

Bonus Material: Simple Cryptocurrency Research in R6 Topics

Lesson Content

An Introduction to Cryptocurrency Trading

Cryptocurrency Trading Module Logistics

Repeating Seasonal Patterns

Trend and Momentum Effects

Futures Basis Effects

Trade Execution and Idiosyncratic Effects

Bonus Material: Dynamic Sizing in Risk Premia Harvesting10 Topics

Lesson Content

Our Stonkingly Obvious High-Probability Edge: Risk Premia Harvesting

Some Things Just Go up (If You Wait Long Enough)

Universe Selection

Equal Weight Buy and Hold

Equal Weight Rebalanced

Simple Risk Parity – Managing Volatility

Predicting Returns and Return Volatility

An Introduction to Volatility Targeting

Volatility Targeting in the Real World

Our Simple Risk Premia Harvesting Strategy

Bonus Material: Using the TLAQ Trading Web Application2 Topics

Lesson Content

Simulating and Sizing the TLAQ Strategies

Trading the Strategies

Bonus Material: Previous Course Webinars34 Topics

Lesson Content

Q&A Webinar 1 Week 1

TLAQ 6 Q&A Webinar Week 2

TLAQ 6 Q&A Webinar Week 4

TLAQ 6 Q&A Webinar Week 5

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 1 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 2 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 3 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 4 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 5 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 5: Q&A Webinar 6 – Nov 2023

TLAQ 4: Q&A Webinar 1 – Feb 2023

TLAQ 4: Q&A Webinar 2 – Feb 2023

TLAQ 4: Q&A Webinar 3 and Statistical Arbitrage – Feb 2023

TLAQ 4: Q&A Webinar 4 – Feb 2023

TLAQ 4: Champagne Webinar – Feb 2023

TLAQ 3: Q&A Webinar 1 – June 2022

TLAQ 3: Q&A Webinar 2 – June 2022

TLAQ 3: Q&A Webinar 3 – June 2022

TLAQ 3: Q&A Webinar 4 – June 2022

TLAQ 3: Q&A Webinar 5 – June 2022

TLAQ 3: Champagne Webinar – June 2022

TLAQ 2: Webinar 1 Replay

TLAQ 2: Webinar 2 Replay

TLAQ 2: Webinar 3 Replay

TLAQ 2: Webinar 4 Replay

TLAQ 2: Webinar 5 Replay

TLAQ 2: Bonus Crypto Module Webinars

TLAQ 1: Intro Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 1 Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 2 Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 3 Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 4 Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 5 Webinar Replay

TLAQ 1: Week 6 Webinar Replay (Champagne Webinar)

Bonus Material: Ask Me Anything with Euan Sinclair2 Topics

Lesson Content

Ask Me Anything with Euan Sinclair

AMA with Euan and Kris – September 2025