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242: Kris Sidial - Volatility Shocks: Positioning for Convex Payouts

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What Kind of Academic Background Did You Have Prior to Taking on This Job?

i was always really good at math and stats. i thought early on that you could use applied statistics to make money in markets. But what i was doing incorrectly was i was assuming that markets were galsion, right? So i feel ikely did have an appreciation for the matriarchal nature of these markets. Hriting wasn't long but we spent a lot of time together talking about things in terms of proptitioan terms. It's pretty crazy that went full circle like that. I'm currently finishing e masters at the university of pennsylvania,. And they kind of have this assumption that i went the traditional ivy leak route to get to wall street.

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