Gate Design and Stage-Dependent Incentives in Retail Proprietary-Trading Evaluations: Why passing is not standalone evidence of skill, and why the product fails to pay under measured trading constraints

By Nicholas Hall

Published 2026-09-13

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1493.3

Relevance to quantitative trading

9 / 10

Implementation complexity

6 / 10

Reproducibility

5 / 5

About this paper

Methodology: Two-stage Monte Carlo simulation with first-passage analysis and zero-edge control. Problem types: Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization, Optimization, Causal Inference, Survival Analysis.

arXiv:2609.14859 · Code · Paper rankings

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