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  "id": 541326,
  "title": "time gaps for symbols, and symbol constancy ",
  "url": "/competitions/jane-street-real-time-market-data-forecasting/discussion/541326",
  "author_name": "Michael Benton",
  "post_date": "2024-10-18T19:18:38.760000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>My first intuition is that a \"symbol\" is a \"TSLA\" or something that can be traded, but if that is the case there are massive gaps in time for a given symbol, which I can't guess why that would be. Is that interpretation incorrect? </p>\n<p>Are matching symbol_id in the test and train data referring to the same financial instruments, and can be used to estimate symbol specific information? </p>",
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      "content": "<p>My first intuition is that a \"symbol\" is a \"TSLA\" or something that can be traded, but if that is the case there are massive gaps in time for a given symbol, which I can't guess why that would be. Is that interpretation incorrect? </p>\n<p>Are matching symbol_id in the test and train data referring to the same financial instruments, and can be used to estimate symbol specific information? </p>",
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