Week 8 — Portfolio polish + demo

Milestone

Create a demo-worthy v1 of the quant research platform.

Success criteria

A single notebook or CLI command demos the full pipeline: data ingestion, analytics, backtest, simulation.

Deliverables

• [ ] Clean up repo structure.
• [ ] Improve tests and documentation.
• [ ] Create demo notebook.
• [ ] Create dashboard or simple CLI report.
• [ ] Write retrospective: what I learned, blockers, next phase.

Books

• Quantitative Trading - Ernest P. Chan — Market intuition, systematic trading workflow, backtesting mindset.
• Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics — Exercises for probability, statistics, distributions, covariance, regression.
• Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra — Exercises for vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, least squares, PCA foundations.

Retrospective

Fill this in during the Sunday review.

What did I finish?

What is blocked?

What confused me?

Key takeaway this week: