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A big part of the job of the indie trader is data analysis. We’re always looking in the past data to validate (or more often, invalidate) a hypothesis about what might predict future returns. And one could argue that recent data is more useful than past data, since it may reflect the current state of
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Your job, as a trader, is to take all the information we have available now and make a judgment on whether something is trading at the right price or not, given things you can know here: Is it the wrong price? Can we buy it too cheap, or sell it too rich? Let’s say we
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I’ve previously discussed the Volatility Risk Premium (VRP) and how it differs from the Equity Risk Premium (ERP). Probably the most interesting difference, from the perspective of the trader, is that the VRP may be somewhat amenable to timing – more than the ERP at any rate. In this article, I’ll use some of the
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Volatility Risk Premium (VRP). The VRP makes much more sense (to me, at least) when I have the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) for context and comparison. So, in this article, I want to discuss the ERP and the VRP, their similarities and differences, and how I seek
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Sometimes it’s nice to step away from the deep technical stuff and just build something simple and useful. What Is an IPO Calendar and Why Use One? I’ve linked the free IPO calendar below if you just want to jump in and explore. But if you’re not familiar, an IPO calendar is a tool that
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I want to discuss a couple of simple trade-off considerations around quant trading signals that may not be obvious. Here’s the price of some asset: Our main job is to predict how it’s likely to move. To do this, you use information about it that you think is predictive. And at any point in time:
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Traders typically have many ideas for trading strategies – more than they can ever implement in practice! Therefore it’s useful to be able to move quickly in the early research phase. You want to disprove things as quickly as possible so that you can move onto the next thing. Obviously there is immense value in
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In 2021, James, I, and a small team decided to set up a crypto trading venture. We faced several problems, but knowing almost nothing about crypto was the most significant. We sensed that the fractured, developing nature of the crypto market would likely be a good place to seek out inefficiencies, but beyond that, we
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When you do anything with data, you should think about the intuition of each thing you do, and what it represents “in the real world”. Let’s take the example of log returns, which some people tell me they find confusing. Consider an asset whose price goes from $100 to $200 Assume there are no other cash
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In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to work with stock price data using the DuckDB database management system in R. DuckDB is a fast and lightweight analytical database engine that is designed to work with various programming languages, including R. You can use Duck DB from the command line or from a client
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Independent traders don’t have the same resources, speed, or balance sheets as large institutions. But that doesn’t mean they can’t compete. The key is to avoid crowded battles and instead focus on niches where the playing field is uneven. Alpha, consistent trading profits above the market, comes from exploiting these edges. Why Traders Buy and
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dplyr 1.1.0 was a significant release that makes several common data operations more syntactically intuitive. The most significant changes relate to joins and grouping/aggregating operations. In this post we’ll look at the changes to joins. First, install and load the latest version of dplyr: install.packages("dplyr") library(dplyr) A new approach to joins The best way to
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