Hi — I'm
Siddhant Shah
I do quantitative and computational research on financial markets, with a focus on financial technology and digital-asset market infrastructure — and I have built the systems I cover. Equity Research Associate at Rosenblatt Securities in New York. This is where I write about what I'm building and thinking about.
Who I am
I came to markets from mathematics. The research — Bayesian inference, ensemble methods, a great deal of time with messy data — all happened during my years in Boston, and it is still the toolkit. For four years I taught maths and physics to olympiad students in India, which did more for how I explain things than anything since.
Equity Research Associate at Rosenblatt Securities, covering financial technology, digital assets and high-performance-computing infrastructure. Before that, quantitative research at Boston University — most recently as a Visiting Researcher, on the market microstructure of DeFi perpetual futures.
MS in Applied Data Analytics from Boston University and CFA Level I, both January 2026; BS (Honours) in Mathematics and Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute. Series 7 and Series 63. Python, R, SQL and a great deal of Excel.
Six peer-reviewed papers, in Stocks & Commodities and MDPI journals: momentum in crude oil, the link between overnight silver and Bitcoin, and most recently the structure of perpetual contracts and the macro factors moving them.
Four years spent designing and teaching advanced maths and physics for students preparing for the International Junior Science Olympiad in India. Teaching is still the thing I am most enthusiastic about, along with motorsport.
What I'm thinking about
Whatever has hold of my attention — something I'm building, or something I want to understand properly. Some of it is code, some of it is maths, and some of it is a question I couldn't put down.
Recently
- 9 Mar 2026 series The Flywheel Hidden Inside Coinbase's Income Statement A bottom-up look at seven business lines, one accounting rule change, and the single contract renewal that determines whether the margin story holds in 2026
- 18 Feb 2026 The Lego-fication of Finance Why Composability Is the Most Important Word You're Not Talking About
- 10 Feb 2026 Crypto's Transparency Paradox: How We Built Something We Can't Explain This piece references the crypto market crash of January-February 2026, triggered by broad risk-off sentiment.
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