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I was recently reading the book The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. A succinct description of the book is best given by relating an example he puts forward in …
I was recently reading the book The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. A succinct description of the book is best given by relating an example he puts forward in …
This is probably the most exciting post on this website as it shows the power of the quantitative investment approach. Although conventional investing wisdom talks a lot about the power …
In the posts Quantifying Market Risk and Quantifying Trading System Risk we had a look at the risks involved in the financial markets in general and the risks involved in …
In the previous posts The Quantitative Process Part I and The Quantitative Process Part II we talked about how to develop a quantitative trading strategy. In particular we saw how …
There is a widely held perception that investing in the futures markets is risky. In particular, the possibility that you can lose more than your invested capital is a big …
Conventional investing wisdom says that investing in stocks is riskier than investing in bonds. In fact, the percentage allocation of a portfolio to stocks vs bonds is usually determined by …
In the post Past Performance Is NOT Indicative Of Future Results we saw that there is great variability in the returns of the S&P 500 over a ten or even …
It is relatively easy to find an investment strategy that performs well in one kind of market but it is hard to find a strategy that performs well in all …
You might be interested in using a quantitative approach for your investing but you do not have the background or the time to develop your own quantitative strategies. If you …
One of the tenets of conventional investing wisdom is Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA). This means buying a fixed dollar amount of the underlying security on a regular basis as discussed …