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Research, working papers, and technical writing on quantitative finance, functional programming, and trading system architecture.
Echoes from the Machine · Part III
The Zero Signal framework describes a market state in which classical indicators signal calm while structural fragility is already building beneath the surface. The single-name CDS market is a …
Pavel Miska
Senior Software Engineer / Quant Systems Architecture
Nuremberg, 2026
This paper presents a structural risk framework designed to detect systemic fragility in financial markets – not …
Object-Oriented Programming — what it promised, what it delivered, what it broke, and what we quietly kept anyway
This is not a literature review. It is not a polished academic paper. It is a practitioner’s reckoning — written by someone who spent …
This paper presents Practical Work — derived from applying functional programming to production trading and risk systems. The patterns are grounded in real deployments across commodity desks, credit portfolios, and multi-asset pricing engines.