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FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS · DERIVATIVES · STRUCTURED PRODUCTS

Become a Quant,
one level at a time.

A playable path through Chan, Guo, Lee & Li's textbook. Start on the trading floor with zero math, then build — chapter by chapter — to Black–Scholes, risk-neutral pricing and the structured products that need it all.

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World 1

The Trading Floor

Financial Markets

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Step onto the floor. Learn what is traded, why, and the language of markets — assets, rates, bonds, equities, FX, options. Almost no math: just the lay of the land.

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    Level 1 Introduction to Financial Markets
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    Level 2 Transactions & Counterparty Risk Needs: L01
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    Level 3 Interest Rate Instruments I ◆◆ Needs: L01
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    Level 4 Interest Rate Instruments II ◆◆ Needs: L03
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    Level 5 Equities & Equity Indices Needs: L01
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    Level 6 Foreign Exchange ◆◆ Needs: L01
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    Level 7 Commodities Needs: L01
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    Level 8 Credit Derivatives ◆◆ Needs: L03
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    Level 9 Investment Funds Needs: L05
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    Level 10 Options ◆◆ Needs: L05, L01
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    Level 11 · BOSS Intro to Structured Products ◆◆ Needs: L10
📜 Optional Deep Dives — go in-depth, earn XP, no pressure
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World 2

The Engine Room

Stochastic Calculus & Modelling

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Descend into the machinery that prices everything. Probability, Brownian motion, Itô's lemma, Black–Scholes, risk-neutral pricing and the numerical methods that bring them to life.

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    Level 12 Probability Refresher ◆◆ Needs: L10
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    Level 13 Stochastic Calculus I ◆◆◆ Needs: L12
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    Level 14 The Black–Scholes–Merton Model ◆◆◆ Needs: L13, L10
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    Level 15 Stochastic Calculus II ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L13
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    Level 16 Risk-Neutral Pricing ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L14, L15
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    Level 17 Numéraires & Rate Options ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L04
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    Level 18 Foreign Exchange Modelling ◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L06
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    Level 19 American & Exotic Options ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L14, L10
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    Level 20 Hedging in Practice ◆◆◆ Needs: L19
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    Level 21 Monte Carlo Simulation ◆◆◆ Needs: L14
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    Level 22 Binomial & Trinomial Trees ◆◆◆ Needs: L14
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    Level 23 · BOSS The PDE Approach ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L21, L22
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World 3

The Frontier

Advanced Modelling

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Where the textbook ends and the desk begins: volatility surfaces, jumps, the term structure of rates, credit and commodities. The models real quants argue about.

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    Level 24 Variance Swaps & Volatility Index ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L10
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    Level 25 Local & Stochastic Volatility ◆◆◆◆◆ Needs: L14, L16
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    Level 26 Jump-Diffusion Models ◆◆◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L12
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    Level 27 Interest Rate Term Structure ◆◆◆◆◆ Needs: L16, L04
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    Level 28 Credit Modelling ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L08, L16
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    Level 29 · BOSS Commodity Modelling ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L07, L16
📜 Optional Deep Dives — go in-depth, earn XP, no pressure
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World 4

The Structuring Desk

Structured Products & Solutions

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The boss world. Assemble everything you've learned into real structured products — autocallables, accumulators, CPPI — that demand instruments, math and intuition all at once.

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    Level 30 Structuring Toolkit ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L11, L10
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    Level 31 Popular Structured Products ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L30, L08, L06
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    Level 32 · BOSS Dynamic Allocation & Systematic Strategies ◆◆◆◆◆ Needs: L31, L16
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🎮 LIVE SIMULATION · FINAL LEVEL The Desk Run a derivatives desk for one week — it does not stay calm. 🔒 Clear Level 32 to unlock
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The Quant's Oath

Clear all 32 levels to graduate from Quant Quest with the full toolkit of a derivatives quant — from a forward contract to a local-stochastic-volatility autocallable.

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