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To Trend or Not To Trend? (Wrong question)
Someone asked me recently whether strategies based on mean reversion, trend following, and momentum are “good” or just data mining.
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Think like a traderBrave New Backtest
My last two articles on AI and trading research got more engagement than almost anything I’ve written. “More of the
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AI Will Create Millions of Quants
(Most of Them Will Lose Money) AI makes it easier than ever to build trading strategies. Prompt a model, run
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Think like a traderMore of the Disease, Faster (What happens when you ask an LLM to find you an edge)
This week I discovered the “vibe quant” movement (or rather, it discovered me). People using LLMs to find trading strategies,
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Think like a traderEverything Everywhere All at Once
The four hats of the solo trader At a trading firm or fund, the researcher doesn’t run the execution desk.
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Why You Can’t Tell if Your Strategy “Stopped Working” (Statistically Speaking)
Traders love the illusion of precision. A few bad weeks go by, and you think, “Let’s run a t-test and
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Think like a traderTrading Without Edge? That’s expensive gambling, I said…
When I first got interested in trading, The Whitlams were all over Australian radio, and I was making all the
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Finding Edges
How do we find edges? First, we must be clear about what constitutes a good idea. It isn’t as simple
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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
