# No Risk No Reward

DevFeed: [No Risk No Reward](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/no-risk-no-reward-1803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/no-risk-no-reward/>)

Published: 2015-08-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [finance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/finance.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [leaving](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaving.md>), [trading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trading.md>)

## AI overview

A finance professional reflects on leaving options market making and algorithmic trading to join the Open Whisper Systems team and support secure, private communication. The transition is challenging but rewarding, requiring continuous learning across technical subjects and user advocacy.

## Source excerpt

After immersing myself for years and years in the world of finance (specifically, options market making and algorithmic trading), there was no escaping this mantra of "no risk, no reward." Most of the time, my (trading) style was fairly risk-averse. I knew how to find the signals of opportunities among the daily noise to reap small rewards. Fortunately, I also learned how to think about the outliers and to take the occasional big but calculated risks. Read more...