venus (@RitOnchain)

Every quant strategy has a dirty secret: it only works in one regime. A momentum strategy crushes in trending markets and bleeds in choppy ones. A mean-reversion strategy prints in sideways markets and gets destroyed in trending ones. Most quants discover this the hard way - live, with real capital....

Single-shot prompting is dead for serious quant work. You ask an LLM for an alpha factor, it gives you momentum or RSI, you backtest it, it fails. You prompt again. Nothing connects. Nothing learns. Nothing improves....