Quantitative Methods
Companies
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Important 'P'eople
Math
100
What statistical measure measures the variance of a random variable?
Variance
100
Which company got its start trading Eurodollars
DRW
100
This alternative currency is up ~139% this year, and has thrived after the 2024 election
What is BTC (Bitcoin)?
100
Current Chair of the US Federal Reserve
Who is Jerome Powell?
100
EV of this game: You roll a six-sided die. If you roll a 4, 5, or 6, you win $10. If you roll a 1, 2, or 3, you lose $5.
What is $2.5?
200
This measure, indicates the sensitivity of an asset’s returns to the returns of the market.
Beta
200
Kwon agreed to modify the parties’ prior agreements and instead unconditionally convey to [trading firm] more than 61.4 million LUNA tokens at a greater than 99% discount from their then-current market price,” the class action lawsuit complaint stated at the time. “[trading firm] later resold those LUNA tokens into the market at a staggering profit of over $1.28 billion.” What is the firm?
Jump
200
This company is down 42% in 2024 due to a turbulent year with issues all around
What is BA (Boeing)?
200
She's notorious for her stellar stock portofolio, 52nd speaker of the house
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
200
Probability of a 2-pair in poker with 2% error margin
What is 4.7%?
300
This is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index, often associated with risk.
Volatility
300
Which company was levered 250:1 and exploded because Russia failed defaulted on its debt
Long Term Capital Management
300
This company's tech guild just ended the strike, popular for their daily games
What is NYT (New York Times)?
300
Co-Founder of Google
Who is Larry Page?
300
What is the probability of rolling three six-sided dice and all showing different numbers?
What is 20?
400
This statistical concept measures how much two random variables change together, capturing both the direction and strength of their relationship.
Covariance
400
Market Data Firm BMLL Raises $21 Million as [trading firm] Takes Stake
Optiver
400
This Canadian multinational e-commerce company's share price jumped 14% today after a great Q3 Earnings report
What is SHOP (Shopify)?
400
Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Palantir
Who is Peter Thiel?
400
The probability of getting exactly three heads in five flips of a fair coin
What is 31.25% (10/32)
500
This theorem, crucial in stochastic calculus, states that every continuous martingale with quadratic variation can be represented as a time-changed Brownian motion.
Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem
500
[trading firm's]’ Trade Secrets Suit Proceeds Against Portofino
Citadel Securities
500
This company's stock is up 5% today after an activist investor took a $5 billion dollar stake
What is HON (Honeywell)?
500
54th Speaker of the House, Republican from Wisconsin
Who is Paul Ryan?
500
Probability of a full house with 0.05 error
What is 0.1441% =
