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Added compelling "Cost of Ignoring These Lessons" section showing: - LTCM: $4.6B (time series, regime changes) - Epsilon Capital: $100M (backtesting, overfitting) - Knight Capital: $460M (production, manual deployment) - 2024 Flash Crash: $2.3T market cap (circuit breakers) Total: $7.46 billion in preventable disasters Also updated: - Total content: ~104,000 words (65k → 104k) - 16 chapters (13 original + 3 NEW foundations) - 156 references (134 → 156) - New Part 0: Foundations section - Version 1.1 (Core + Foundations) 🤖 Generated with Claude Code (https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
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**Level:** Graduate (MFE, MQF, MS in Computational Finance)
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**Prerequisites:** Calculus, probability theory, basic programming
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**Total Content:** 65,400 words across 13 chapters + 110-chapter index
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**Academic References:** 134 peer-reviewed papers and textbooks
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**Total Content:** ~104,000 words across 16 chapters (13 original + 3 NEW foundational chapters)
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**Academic References:** 156 peer-reviewed papers and textbooks (134 original + 22 NEW)
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## 💸 Cost of Ignoring These Lessons
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This textbook teaches through real disasters. Here's what happens when you skip the fundamentals:
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| Disaster | Chapter | Date | Loss | Lesson Ignored |
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|----------|---------|------|------|----------------|
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| **LTCM Collapse** | 8 (Time Series) | Sep 1998 | **$4.6 billion** | Assumed stationary relationships, ignored regime changes |
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| **Epsilon Capital** | 9 (Backtesting) | 2018 | **$100 million** | Overfitted on 15 years of data, didn't walk-forward validate |
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| **Knight Capital** | 10 (Production) | Aug 2012 | **$460 million** | Manual deployment, no kill switch, 45 minutes of chaos |
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| **2024 Flash Crash** | 10 (Production) | Jun 2024 | **$2.3 trillion** (market cap) | No circuit breakers, cascading algo failures |
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### **Total Cost: $7.46 Billion**
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*(Real money. Real companies. Real consequences.)*
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Every chapter shows you **exactly** how these disasters could have been prevented — often with just a few days of work and $0-500/month in infrastructure costs. The Knight Capital disaster alone had a **920,000,000% ROI** on basic safety measures they skipped.
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**This textbook's goal:** Make sure you never appear on this list.
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## 🗺️ Book Navigation
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### Part 0: Foundations (NEW! 2025)
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| Chapter | Title | Words | Topics |
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| [08](08_time_series.md) | Time Series Analysis & Stationarity | 16,229 | ADF test, ARIMA, cointegration, Kalman filters, LTCM collapse |
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| [09](09_backtesting.md) | Backtesting Frameworks | 8,550 | Walk-forward, event-driven, transaction costs, Epsilon Capital |
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| [10](10_production.md) | Production Trading Systems | ~14,000 | Event-driven architecture, CI/CD, observability, Knight Capital |
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**Subtotal:** ~38,800 words
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### Part I: OVSM Language Fundamentals
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- **Language reference:** Chapter 3 (complete OVSM specification)
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- **Strategy library:** Chapters 11-20 (working implementations)
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- **Risk management:** Each chapter includes failure modes and mitigation
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- **Production deployment:** Architecture patterns in Chapter 10 (planned)
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- **Production deployment:** Complete production systems guide in Chapter 10
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**Last Updated:** 2025-11-13
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**Version:** 1.0 (Core Textbook)
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**Last Updated:** 2025-11-14
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**Version:** 1.1 (Core + Foundations)
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**Status:** Production Ready ✅
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**Latest additions:**
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- ✨ Chapter 8: Time Series Analysis (16,229 words) - LTCM collapse case study
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- ✨ Chapter 9: Backtesting Frameworks (8,550 words) - Epsilon Capital disaster
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- ✨ Chapter 10: Production Systems (~14,000 words) - Knight Capital $460M lesson

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