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Changing Market Strategies

Apr 01
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QuantBeats Ep. 08

By QuantBeats Changing Market Strategies

Discussion Points:

  • What it takes to build crypto quant multifactor models and market-neutral strategies.
  • Why automation beats emotional decision-making.
  • How systematic crypto trading systems can do the work for you, how quant models can adapt dynamically, and how investors spend less time watching charts and more time living their lives.

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Feb 27
Love1

QuantBeats Ep. 07

By QuantBeats Changing Market Strategies

Discussion Points:

  • How value investors can adopt conviction in a process, not in individual names.
  • Avoiding style drift: the importance in exercising consistency and patience, especially during times when value is most tested.
  • How value investors can adopt data-driven rules instead of using subjective gut feelings, removing bias and opinion from execution.

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Jul 09
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QuantBeats Ep. 04

By QuantBeats Changing Market Strategies

Discussion Points:

  • How alternative data such as website visits, search trends, and app usage could be used to seek to predict company performance ahead of Wall Street analysts
  • How machine learning turns this data into real trading signals, and
  • How to construct portfolios - long, hedged, and market-neutral - based on these insights.

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Oct 10
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Seasonal/Calendar Trading Strategies – Quantpedia Explains (Video Series)

By Quantitative Research Changing Market Strategies
September was tough for the stock market, as often happens.  Now that we’re in October, can we learn anything from the ‘Halloween indicator’, aka ‘Sell in May and go away’? Another way to ask the same question - are we witnessing seasonal effects?  And if so, do other seasonal phenomena exist? The "Quantpedia.com Explains" trading strategy video series continues with Seasonal/Calendar...
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Aug 15
Love1

Asset Class Trend Following – Quantpedia Explains (Video Series)

By Quantitative Research Changing Market Strategies
If I said, “Trend following trading strategy,” which single asset class would you assume that I am talking about? When I learned trend following, I was told, “Equities”, or separately, “Most CTA’s are trend followers” (i.e., “Futures”). Can both be true at the same time? Or, alternately at different times within the same strategy? What about other asset classes too? Enter the concept...
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Aug 09
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Market Sentiment and an Overnight Anomaly – Quantpedia Explains (Video Series)

By Quantitative Research Changing Market Strategies
Have you ever watched a stock’s movements breathlessly during the trading day, from market open to close, only to realize that bigger movements sometimes happen overnight? Have you ever wondered what happens when you combine the effects of market sentiment with the overnight anomaly?  Why would you even wonder such a thing? A recent Seeking Alpha article called this phenomenon...
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Jun 26
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Momentum Strategies – Quantpedia Explains (Video Series)

By Quantitative Research Changing Market Strategies
“The trend is your friend” is a memorable Martin Zweig stock market quote.  More instructive aphorisms might be: "The trend is your friend until it bends." (thanks to Investopedia: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pattern.asp), or: “The trend is your friend, until the end when it bends.” (thanks to How The Market Works: https://education.howthemarketworks.com/the-trend-is-your-friend/). But what exactly is a trend, and how is it related...
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Jun 20
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Because I was Blind, Only Now Do I See: Blind & Anonymous Win/Loss Analysis in FinTech

By Win/Loss Analysis in FinTech Changing Market Strategies

In the introduction to the Win/Loss Analysis in FinTech interview series, “It’s Not What You Think!”, we launched a discussion about topics including what is win/loss analysis, who it is for, why FinTech is different, and how to run an effective analysis program in that market.  In this interview, Richard Case and I talk about blind interviews, including issues around…

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