Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events

yourquant_rick on Instagram: "What is Extreme Value Theory (EVT)? Extreme Value Theory is a branch of statistics that focuses on modeling rare, extreme events rather than typical outcomes. In finance, EVT is used to analyze the risk of unusually large losses (or gains) that occur in the tails of return distributions—events that traditional models often underestimate. Why isn’t the normal distribution enough for financial risk? Financial returns frequently exhibit fat tails, skewness, and volatil