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Quant crypto glossary: 30 essential terms
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Quant crypto glossary: 30 essential terms

Sharpe, Calmar, drawdown, profit factor, calibration… 30 quant terms defined in plain language. The toolkit to read a trading strategy honestly.

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Drawdown vs Volatility
9 min
EDUCATION

Drawdown vs Volatility: What You Really Need to Watch

These two metrics don't measure the same risk. Recovery asymmetry, the Calmar ratio, and why confusing the two is costly in systematic trading.

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Isotonic calibration vs Platt scaling
8 min
EDUCATION

Isotonic calibration vs Platt scaling — why your ML model lies when it says '70%'

An ML model that says '70% chance' is rarely right 70 times out of 100. How isotonic calibration fixes that lie — and why it's critical for a crypto quant bot.

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