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The headline about a White House press secretary’s job security illustrates how quickly market participants assign probabilities to political outcomes and adjust positions. Quantitative traders face a similar problem: turning noisy signals into reliable forecasts while avoiding the trap of over‑fitting. This article connects the political news example to core concepts from a finance‑focused mathematics curriculum and shows how to build robust models that survive out‑of‑sample testing. The Anatomy of a Market Event When a political figure receives praise from a former president, traders immediately ask: what does this mean for policy continuity, fiscal stimulus, or regulatory risk?...