The school

School of Quant Trading

43 lessons across seven levels — from why most backtests lie to running validated strategies in production. Free forever. No paywall, no email gate.

~8 hours of material

01

Foundation

6 lessons

Core concepts every quant trader must know

Why Your Backtest Profits Won't Work Live
The gap between theory and reality in trading
8 min
The Difference Between a Strategy and an Edge
Why rules alone won't make you profitable
7 min
The Overfitting Trap: When Your Backtest Lies to You
Why complex strategies fail and simple ones survive
10 min
What You Actually Need to Build a Signals Engine
The realistic infrastructure, costs, and skills behind systematic trading
12 min
The Build vs Buy Decision
A framework for deciding what to build yourself versus what to buy or subscribe to
10 min
Course Roadmap: What You'll Learn
Complete overview of the entire quant trading course
8 min
02

Data

8 lessons

Alternative data sources that give you an edge

Why Price and Volume Aren't Enough
The information hierarchy in crypto trading
7 min
Introduction to Alternative Data
The data that gives you an edge over price-only traders
12 min
Open Interest: Reading the Derivatives Market
How to see where the big money is positioned
8 min
Funding Rates: The Cost of Being Wrong
How funding reveals overleveraged markets
11 min
Liquidation Levels: Where Prices Get Pulled
Why liquidation clusters act as price magnets
13 min
Order Flow: Seeing the Invisible
What happens inside each candle
12 min
Data Sources: Where to Get This Data
Free and paid options for serious traders
10 min
Building Your Data Pipeline
How to collect, store, and process market data
14 min
03

Validation

7 lessons

How to prove your edge is real

Why 90% of Backtests Lie
The gap between backtest fantasy and live trading reality
10 min
Lookahead Bias: The Silent Killer
Accidentally using future data to predict the past
12 min
Overfitting: Curve Fitting the Past
When your strategy memorizes noise instead of signal
11 min
Walk-Forward Validation
The technique that separates hobby backtests from institutional testing
12 min
Sample Size: How Many Trades Is Enough?
Why your 10-trade win rate is meaningless
10 min
Metrics That Matter (And Ones That Don't)
Win rate is vanity, profit factor is sanity, Sharpe is reality
12 min
Stress Testing: Monte Carlo and Beyond
Will your strategy survive a black swan?
11 min
04

Discovery

6 lessons

Finding edges in market data

The Edge Discovery Framework
How to systematically find edges that actually exist
12 min
Z-Score Normalization: Speaking One Language
Making every indicator comparable
10 min
Regime Filtering: Context Is Everything
Why your strategy only works sometimes
12 min
Combining Indicators: The Multi-Factor Approach
Building robust signals from multiple confirmations
11 min
Testing Millions of Combinations
How we run massive discovery without drowning in false positives
13 min
From Discovery to Production: The Promotion Pipeline
Getting edges from backtest to live trading safely
11 min
05

Risk

5 lessons

Position sizing and risk management

Position Sizing: The Most Important Decision
Why how much you bet matters more than what you bet on
12 min
Drawdown Management: Staying in the Game
Surviving the inevitable losing streaks
11 min
Correlation and Portfolio Risk
Why diversification in crypto is harder than you think
10 min
Stop Losses: Science vs Art
The most controversial topic in trading risk management
11 min
Risk Budgeting Across Strategies
Allocating risk when you have multiple edges
10 min
06

Automation

6 lessons

Building and running trading bots

Architecture of a Trading Bot
The building blocks of automated trading systems
12 min
Exchange APIs: Connecting to Markets
Understanding the interface between your code and exchanges
11 min
Order Execution: Getting Filled
The art and science of translating signals into positions
11 min
Error Handling: When Things Go Wrong
Building systems that fail gracefully
10 min
Notifications and Monitoring
Keeping eyes on your system 24/7
10 min
Testing Without Losing Money
Validating your system before risking capital
10 min
07

Production

5 lessons

Going live and scaling up

The Go-Live Checklist
Everything to verify before flipping the switch
10 min
The First 30 Days: What to Watch
Navigating the critical early period of live trading
10 min
Continuous Improvement: Iteration Without Overfitting
Evolving your system while maintaining edge integrity
10 min
Scaling Up: From Small to Serious
Growing your trading operation responsibly
10 min
When to Kill Your System
Recognizing when its time to stop
10 min