The Symmetry Compulsion
An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and time’s arrow—is the texture that makes life and meaning possible.
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The Market’s Blindfold: Understanding Dark Pools, Hidden Venues, and Information Asymmetry
About half of US share volume now trades away from the exchanges, in dark pools, wholesalers and dealer platforms, and reaches the tape only as prints after the fact. Where trades happen, how they're reported, what your chart's volume leaves out, who sees what first, and two dark pools that didn't work as advertised.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi20 min readThe Invisible Balance: Understanding Pareto Efficiency, Markets, and the Zero-Sum Game
Why most traders lose and why a visible edge stops paying. A reference guide to the Pareto distribution of outcomes, edge decay under attention, the zero-sum arithmetic of trading, and a study of every persistent day trader in Brazil's main index future.
SFSayed Hamid Fatimi14 min read