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Trading Signals in High Definition
We’ve all used on/off type trading signals at some point. But you can nearly always extract more insight with a
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Understanding “why” beats statistical significance
Do you find yourself obsessing over p-values and t-stats when evaluating trading ideas? I get it. If you come from
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Think like a traderIf your edge is so good, why share it?
The market is a highly competitive beast. If you’ve spotted an edge, others have too. And as capital piles in,
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When your strategy works, is it just dumb luck? How to stack the odds in your favour
Recently, we had an excellent question on the Trade Like a Quant Discord server: “How do you know if your
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CryptoFactorsQuant tradingUnravel Data: A Cheat Code for Crypto?
The best trading edges are often found in places most people don’t think to look. It’s why being a bit
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Don’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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Reduce 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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Stop 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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No 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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Why 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
