Think like a trader
Stop Trying to Beat Djokovic at Tennis
The first fundamental problem traders run up against is that there’s no beginners’ market. You have to compete for good
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Beginner Trading Tips: How Part-Time Traders Can Win
Your job, as a trader, is to take all the information we have available now and make a judgment on
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Beyond Stocks: The Surprising Volatility Returns of Oil and Gold
I’ve previously discussed the Volatility Risk Premium (VRP) and how it differs from the Equity Risk Premium (ERP). Probably the
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Diving Deep: My Personal Approach to Equity and Volatility Risk Premia
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Volatility Risk Premium (VRP). The VRP makes much more sense (to me,
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A Free Interactive IPO Calendar
Sometimes it’s nice to step away from the deep technical stuff and just build something simple and useful. What Is
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Quant Signal Trade-Offs in the Real World
I want to discuss a couple of simple trade-off considerations around quant trading signals that may not be obvious. Here’s
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Price data from Yahoo Finance in R – the Easy Way!
Traders typically have many ideas for trading strategies – more than they can ever implement in practice! Therefore it’s useful
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Don’t major in minor stuff
If you try to teach yourself quant trading from the internet or from scientific papers, you run the risk of
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Case Study: Lessons Learned from 9 Crypto Trading
In 2021, James, I, and a small team decided to set up a crypto trading venture. We faced several problems,
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The Intuition of Log Returns
When you do anything with data, you should think about the intuition of each thing you do, and what it
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DataRTrading infrastructureA Beginner’s Guide to Using DuckDB with Stock Price Data in R
In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to work with stock price data using the DuckDB database management system
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Finding Exploitable Edges as an Independent Trader
Independent traders don’t have the same resources, speed, or balance sheets as large institutions. But that doesn’t mean they can’t
