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We're excited to share we are joining Y Combinator's W23 batch! Our goal is to make it easy for financial companies and individual with an audience to launch an investment fund to their audience
Welcome to YC W23, @som_mohapatra, @calderwoodra, @_thomasstewart_, and team @quantbase_!
Quantbase makes it simple for financial companies and individuals with an audience to turn their investment research/data into an investing strategy: producthunt.com/posts/quantb…
“Do your own research” shouldn’t mean scrolling until you find confirmation.
It should mean:
• Understanding the data
• Knowing what you don’t know
• Being honest about your risk tolerance.
You cannot control markets.
You can control:
• What data you see
• How fast you see it
• The rules you follow when acting on it
Some losses are tuition.
Some losses are avoidable.
The difference is whether you wrote a plan or improvised.
Diversification is humility in disguise.
It says I do not know the future.
So I will not bet everything on one story.
Education is free right now.
Regret is not.
Learning how risk really works is cheaper than pretending you already know.
Every trade is a hypothesis.
The stop loss, sizing, and time horizon are the actual research design.
Every investor reads price.
Fewer investors read their own behavior.
Your reactions to fear and greed matter more than any chart.
One way to think about risk
“What happens to me if I am early” is usually more important than
“What happens if I am right.”
Information has a cost even when it is free.
The cost is your time and attention.
Choose datasets that genuinely improve your understanding instead of ones that simply create more alerts.
Volatility is the price of participating in something uncertain.
The question is whether you sized for that price.
Judging every decision only by its outcome is dangerous.
Sometimes a good process leads to a bad result.
Fix the process, not the last coin flip.
The most dangerous phrase in markets is everybody knows this.
If everybody truly knew and agreed, the price would already reflect it.
Treat crowded certainty as a signal to slow down.
You will never see all the information.
You can still make good decisions with partial information if your process is consistent.
Consistency is more important than perfection.
Being early and being wrong feel exactly the same in your brokerage account.
That is why risk management matters more than being “right” on the story.

