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Knot on front-running FTX's leveraged token rebalances
Knot, one of the engineers behind Insilico Terminal, joins Sokio to talk about how a degree in jazz performance and coding audio plugins turned into a career building trading systems. A TradFi systems trader told him "TA is astrology for men", so he went into arbitrage instead, running fat-finger and new-listing loops across exchanges when crypto still felt like easy mode. We get into the FTX leveraged-token trade he ran for about a year and a half: working out how much each daily rebalance had to buy or sell against the market's open interest, scraping FTX's token pages into Excel with VBA…
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