Quant/System Research Without Math Theater

Most people who say they "do quant research" are actually doing something else: they hunt for a chart pattern that looks good in hindsight, then dress it up in math to feel legitimate. That is not research. That is decoration. This course strips the theater away and teaches the discipline underneath it — a falsifiable hypothesis, honest point-in-time data, robustness over a single lucky backtest, out-of-sample proof, per-regime evaluation, a reproducible record, and the nerve to retire an edge once it decays. You leave able to defend a system to a skeptical panel before the market becomes one.