Think like a trader
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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Think like a trader
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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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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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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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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The 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.
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Confessions of a recovering engineer (or why engineers make bad traders)
Here’s something that might shock you: Engineers make the worst traders. I’m speaking from experience here. As an engineer who
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Quant tradingThink like a traderTrading strategies
The Hidden Gems of High Yield Bonds: Fallen Angels
What’s a Fallen Angel Bond? It’s a bond that’s been kicked out of investment-grade paradise. Once upon a time, it
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Relax and trust the market gods
With the recent sell-off in pretty much everything, it’s a good time to talk about managing your expectations of trading.
