study / 2026
Quant Atlas
A static map of quant: four desks, six beginner modules, a diagnostic, and an edge-versus-friction simulator.
Try it here.
Open full page01 / The idea
Three files. The question was: if you are not already on a desk, what do you study first? Intro, beginner path, practice, then primary sources — top-down, not a MOOC clone.
02 / Engineering
Four tracks in script.js: systematic equities (default), market making / HFT, vol / derivatives, crypto. Each has a 2026 stack, weekly cadence, and master pillars.
Beginner is six modules (map, probability, markets, data, validation, specialization). Practice is a five-question diagnostic plus a 126-day canvas sim: hit rate, win/loss bps, bets per day, cost, regime tilt, seeded mulberry32. It reports edge per trade, Sharpe, CAGR, max drawdown. It is not a backtester. Progress in localStorage.
03 / In practice
The iframe on this page is the whole product — same files as Projects/Quant-Atlas. Pick a desk, walk intro → beginner → lab → master, run the sim.
04 / What I learned
Honest as a curriculum map and a toy expectancy lab. Not a trading system. Not a claim about 2026 papers beyond the listed primary sources.