u/Beautiful_Jeweler_63

Hi,

I am a computer science graduate, who left physics in high school, I used to be good at it but still didn't really scratcch beyond the surface of special relativity. Recently I was talking to a physics + CS grad working in quant in commodities trading and he told me that most of his alphas come from some modification of applying his understanding of space time to market dynamics. That left me curious, how direct is the application of such thinking when formulating alphas ? Do some model dynamics in quantum / relativistic physics really translate directly to the stock market that well ? Thanks !!

Like in tennis, you know doubles players are failed singles players who chose a safe route and are generally nowhere close in skill to singles players. How much would you say is the skill difference between some of the top singles players and doubles players ?