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The recent criticism of a primetime program for being “detached from reality” offers a timely reminder that financial models must stay grounded in observable risk. In quantitative trading, the discipline of corporate risk management provides a framework for aligning theoretical insight with the practical limits of capital. This article connects the media misfire to core risk‑budgeting concepts and shows how to embed them in a systematic trading process. The Gap Between Theory and Reality Financial engineers often build sophisticated models that assume perfect markets, continuous liquidity, and infinite capital. The media example highlights how easy it is to lose touch with the constraints that actually govern outcomes....