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Ask Me Anything with Euan Sinclair 19 June 2025
Replay the June 2025 AMA with quant expert Euan Sinclair, where he shares hard-won lessons from decades of experience in
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Think like a traderDon’t Over-Engineer your Trading Business… Make Money Instead
Someone sent me their trading technology blueprint. It was a thing of beauty: timeseries databases, Grafana dashboards, message queues, and
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Quant tradingReduce Trading Costs and Boost Profits with the “No-Trade Region” Strategy
An easy, practical way to harness an edge in the face of trading costs is the “no trade region” technique.
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Think like a traderStop Losses: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom
How often have you heard someone say, “I use a stop loss to manage downside risk”? You see this repeated
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Think like a traderNo Magic Formulas: How I Actually Decide What to Trade
Someone recently asked me if I have a checklist for adopting new trading strategies. You know, a neat little formula
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Quant tradingWhy data mining risks your trading career
I was recently talking to someone about data mining as an approach to finding edges to trade. I get the
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ExcelThink like a traderTools of the trade
Researching trading ideas in Excel
In this webinar, James explores a simple seasonality effect and finds that there’s more to the story than an upwardly
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Debunking market myths in Excel
Having the ability to call bullshit on market claims is a superpower. There’s some ancient trader lore that says it’s
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Think like a traderEasy games vs hard games in trading
In Trade Like a Quant Bootcamp, we talk about win-win risk premia harvesting. It’s a game where no one’s really
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ExcelQuant tradingQuick fix: Yahoo Finance data access with Excel
Having a reliable source of free data is extremely handy for the independent trader. It allows you to move fast
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Think like a traderThe Volatility Risk Premium in a tumultuous market
I don’t need to tell you that the stock market’s been on a wild ride these last few weeks. But
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Think like a traderDoes gold belong in a risk premia portfolio?
With GLD up 40-something percent since early 2024, I’ve been thinking about gold’s place in a risk premia harvesting portfolio.