About / Resume

Woosub Shin

Futures trader and quantitative researcher. My work connects financial econometrics, market microstructure, and systematic research.

Background

Trading, research, and systems

I approach markets as a trader first. I use financial econometrics, reproducible research, and systems engineering to test hypotheses, measure risk, and make trading decisions more explicit.

My current work focuses on BTC market microstructure and low-latency market-data systems. Earlier work independently confirmed short-horizon BTC risk information and separately tested its policy translation. Forecast information survived; the preregistered policy-utility claim did not.

My focus is trading, quantitative research, market microstructure, and execution systems.

M.Sc. Economics

University of Copenhagen

Financial econometrics, time-series analysis, empirical asset pricing, volatility modeling, and systematic strategy research.

The academic foundation informs how I define a question, align information in time, compare alternatives, and communicate uncertainty.

Undergraduate degree

University of California, San Diego

Quantitative Economics & Econometrics

Selected research

Research supporting trading and risk decisions

Each study keeps its own assessment context, evidence class, and limitations.

Independent Risk Forecast Confirmation

Independent assessment

Context adds short-horizon BTC risk information beyond historical volatility persistence: H+C improves both primary losses against HAR-basis on the frozen independent assessment.

Risk information, not directional alpha, a trading signal, sizing approval or execution authority.

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RETROSPECTIVECOMPLETEDINDEPENDENT REPLICATION NOT ESTABLISHED

MSc Futures Volatility Thesis

MSc thesis

The thesis compares an EGARCH participation gate and exposure-scaling bundle in a long-only intraday breakout framework. The revised interpretation is retrospective development evidence, without separately identifying the gate, scaling or asymmetry effect.

Full-sample volatility ranks use future observations; development exposure, source provenance and execution accounting limit the reported backtests. The revision is not a fresh empirical replication.

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R15: From Signal to System

Signal design / Model development / Validation

I built and compared a raw-return benchmark, a volatility-normalized model and a dual-head ensemble. Both extensions produced positive gross results; RAW remains the fixed reference while incremental value is assessed against predefined statistical criteria.

Hypothetical, zero-friction historical development results. Paired comparisons did not establish a sufficiently consistent upgrade; neither extension has been promoted. No net executable-return or live-account claim.

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Methods and systems

Research methods and technical systems

Methodology and infrastructure

Data contracts, point-in-time information, deterministic replay, immutable artifacts, content hashing, frozen comparisons, and reproducible experiments.

Ablation, placebo tests, cost stress, bootstrap analysis, and walk-forward evaluation challenge the result. Historical selection and prospective observation keep separate boundaries.

Technical tools

  • Python / SQL / SQLite / Git / GitHub / Linux
  • AWS / CI / market-data and research pipelines
  • Time-series analysis / backtesting / walk-forward validation / bootstrap

AI tools support implementation and review. Research claims remain tied to explicit tests, evidence, and human responsibility.

Certification

Certified Investment Manager

KOFIA / Korea

Languages

Contact

Trading, quantitative research, and professional opportunities

I am interested in trading and quantitative roles where market judgment, research, and systems work meet.