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0 Trexquant - Anyone heard of them? 0 10y
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+7 Does AQR run quant trading strategies? 4 10y
+174 Random musings that sound like venting 22 10y
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0 How common are "pump & dump" microcap stock schemes in Hedge Funds? 0 10y
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