In this webinar, James explores a simple seasonality effect and finds that there’s more to the story than an upwardly sloping equity curve. Watch the video to see how you can use Excel to explore market phenomena efficiently and gather evidence that you can use to make practical trading decisions. If you’d like to master …
Having the ability to call bullshit on market claims is a superpower. There’s some ancient trader lore that says it’s a bad idea to hold SPY when it’s under the 12-month moving average of its price. Is there anything to this idea? Check out the webinar below to see how we put this idea to …
Having a reliable source of free data is extremely handy for the independent trader. It allows you to move fast and look into your ideas quickly. Yahoo Finance recently changed how you can access their historical stock data. No more simple downloads from the website and programmatic access now requires a different approach. For the …
Ever met a quant who was slightly religious about their tools? I’ve had Python zealots, R devotees, and MATLAB missionaries (well, back in the day, at least) all claiming their way is the best way. I use R for most of my analysis. The tidyverse libraries make sense to my brain, and I can move …
UVXY is an ETF that targets 1.5x the daily returns of a 30-day constant-maturity position in VX futures – the SPVIXSTR index. Before 2018, it targeted 2x returns – but Volmageddon ruined the fun. UVXY has to trade every day: Anyone can trade UVXY in the market, and it trades close to the index because …
