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What Would it Feel Like to Invest in RenTech’s Medallion Fund?
Nearly everyone starts trading with unrealistic expectations. “If I make a 0.5% returns every day I can make over $100k
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RThink like a traderTrading strategiesZorroGet Rich Quick Trading Strategies (and why they don’t work)
Every aspiring millionaire who comes to the markets armed with some programming ability has implemented a systematic Get Rich Quick
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A Review of Zorro for Systematic Trading
One of the keys to running a successful systematic trading business is a relentless focus on high return-on-investment activities. High
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Are SPX Options Expensive?
Options are non-linear financial products that allow you to do useful things that you can’t easily do with other financial
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A Quant’s Approach to Drawdown:
The Cold Blood IndexIn part 1 of this series, we talked about how a market-savvy systematic trader would approach a period of drawdown
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A Quant’s Approach to Drawdown: Part 1
Imagine you’ve tinkered for days or even weeks, perfecting a strategy idea that’s showing a whole lot of promise. You’ve
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Think like a traderTrading as a businessRun Your Trading Like a Business
One of the biggest wins we have at Robot Wealth is in helping aspiring traders see the markets, and profitable
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Humility and The Pain Trade
If you don’t bring a humble attitude to the markets, the markets will quickly humble you. Being humble is fundamental
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Trading Lessons from Gamblers
Pick the Easy Games Like many sociopaths, Frank Wallace was a fan of the philosophy of Ayn Rand. He wrote
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Backtesting Bias:
Feels Good, Until You Blow UpIn an ideal trading universe (free from backtesting bias), we’d all have a big golden “causation magnifying glass”. Through the
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Momentum Is Dead! Long Live Momentum!
In our inaugural Algo Bootcamp, we teamed up with our super-active community of traders and developed a long-only, always-in-the-market strategy
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Risk Premia Harvesting:
Investing in Things That Go UpThis risk premia post is part of a series derived from one of our recent Bootcamps, in which we developed