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Two outsiders from Berkeley turned a small $110,000 account into millions by spotting what Wall Street missed that markets often misprice uncertainty.
September 6, 2019
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Discover how elite investors use Section 351 ETF conversions to move billions without triggering capital gains taxes a legal loophole reshaping modern portfolios.
October 29, 2025
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A deep dive into the 1929 stock market crash, examining the economic factors, investor behavior, and lasting consequences that reshaped financial markets for decades.
September 26, 2023
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Post-hike market moves are unpredictable history offers clues, not certainties, for investors navigating interest rate cycles.
September 21, 2023
Was Jesse Livermore right when he said, “I learned early that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.”
February 14, 2018
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Exchange rate fluctuations influence economic activity not only via the standard trade channel, but also through a financial channel, which operates through the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on borrowers’ balance sheets and lenders’ risk-taking capacity. The paper explores the “triangular” relationship between (i) the strength of the US dollar, (ii) cross-border bank flows and (iii) real investment.
April 15, 2017
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practical guide to key SEC filings, highlighting the forms traders and investors should monitor to spot market-moving information.
April 4, 2017
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Securities class action filings for February - Under Armour, FXCM Inc, Psychemedics Corporation, Stemline Therapeutics, DaVita Inc, Neustar, Roadrunner Transportation Systems.
February 15, 2017
Discover how to use COT commercial short data to anticipate commodity price moves and gain an edge by following the market’s smartest players.
October 25, 2016
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The commercial net positions are a mirror of the large trader net positions. Most of the time commercial net positions mirror the funds trading patterns but there are some important exceptions to this rule.
April 4, 2016
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March 27, 2016
We want to fill a gap here. A lot of economic data is published day in and day out but yet most of us don’t really understand the lingo behind it. Let’s bring some clarity into this. Regularly we come across certain terms dealing with measures of economic activity. Most of them are pretty straight forward if you give it a chance. So let’s proceed with some of the more common concepts you will run across when analyzing economic indicators.
March 18, 2016
Explore the LTCM collapse and what it teaches about high leverage & risk management.
June 11, 2021
On October 13th, 2016 WINS Finance Holdings (WINS) closed at $25.22. On March 09th 2017, the obscure Chinese financial company, headquartered in New York, trades at $315. Yes $315. That is not a typo. Up +1200%. The high was on February 8th, 2017 WINS closed at $452.
March 10, 2017
A company’s 10 Q report is one of the most important tools an investor has to decide if and when a particular stock is a buy/short opportunity.
August 17, 2016
Ben Graham, the father of value investing, once said of the stock market, “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” To Graham the market was like a popularity contest. Investors “vote” for a stock out of considered enthusiasm for its prospects. Results however are determined in the long run as profits are “weighed” year after year and intrinsic value is revealed.
March 9, 2017
Track fear and greed in the markets with this multi-factor index to make smarter trading decisions in volatile times.
September 23, 2023
A trader’s guide to probabilistic neural networks and market uncertainty.
May 10, 2021
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Optimize and backtest mean-variance & CVaR portfolios with real-world examples in R.
January 28, 2021
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The purpose of portfolio optimization is to minimize risk while maximizing the returns of a portfolio of assets.
January 22, 2021
Bollinger Bands reveal market volatility and trend shifts, but using them alone can be misleading learn how to trade smarter with proper risk and filters.
Learn how mean reversion systems spot extreme price moves and structure trades around the market’s natural tendency to return to its average.
November 15, 2016
Read Next 10 Key Points in a Companies 10Q Report In this article we will look at the futures market and how statistical analysis can pave the way for better trading results. What makes the statistical analysis we are going to show you even more important is the fact that you are going to learn how to increase the odds of your trading success in a simple but effective way.
July 18, 2016
When it comes to trading there is a common belief that most behavior in markets can be explained by assuming that market participants make ‘logical’ trading decisions. In reality we know it’s not that easy. However there are market movements that are predictable because they repeat every year. We call this seasonal movement. You don’t have to be a math wizard to see seasonal cyclic movements in assets repeating year over year. To be able to predict the movement of a particular market it’s useful to analyze the seasonal pattern over a certain time period that should usually range from 10 to 15 years.
May 6, 2016
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Inter-Market Correlations for the major futures markets including time intervals of 1 Year - 6 Months - 3 Months - 1 Month
April 18, 2016
Money management implementations should be monitored on a periodic basis if you want to maintain your exposure. Two aspects of your trading system should be monitored one is your risk and the other one is the volatility.
February 25, 2016
Discover how traders use ATR and daily volatility to calculate optimal position sizes, keeping risk in check while capturing market moves.
February 24, 2016
Read Next Volatility Risk Management Volatiltiy Method If one thing can be called the holy grail of trading or at least come close to it then its money management. Some people call it diversification while others call it how to wisely invest your hard-earned dollar.In simple words money management is the rule book that tells you how much of your money you should put at risk for a particular trade.
February 23, 2016
Seasonal trading isn’t just market folklore it’s grounded in decades of recurring patterns influenced by investor behavior, macroeconomic cycles, and calendar-based events. If you understand the rhythms of the market, you can align your trades with high-probability windows that give you an edge.
May 27, 2024
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From card counting and roulette arbitrage to hedge funds and crisis-era trades, this article examines how Ed Thorp systematically exploited edge, risk asymmetry, and market dislocations across decades.
September 25, 2023
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Discover how crypto arbitrage works, why true low-risk opportunities are rare, and what separates successful traders from the crowd.
June 30, 2023
Learn how cointegration uncover lucrative trades, with Python examples.
November 12, 2021
Inside a backtested pairs trading system logic, results, and code revealed.
May 21, 2021
Bitcoin Price Prediction with Python and Technical Indicators.
April 30, 2021
Using Python to visualize price data and spot potential market turning points.
April 13, 2021
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Discover why the golden cross outperforms the death cross in long-term market trends, backed by decades of Dow Jones data and robust backtesting.
February 23, 2021
Unlock hidden market opportunities with the accrual anomaly: learn how savvy investors exploit balance sheet quirks to spot mispriced stocks and boost returns.
February 17, 2021
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Ever wondered if you can design a profitable trading strategy by trading volatility ETFs ? Well, yes you can. Those ETFs are highly ineffective vehicles on a long term investment horizon. However short term strategies have shown to be a rewarding way to trade these ETFs.
December 23, 2016
Time frames are used in order to forecast future price trends. Many traders are missing out on this important aspect of trading by only looking at one time frame when trying to define a trend. Therefore its important to categorize trends as primary, intermediate and short-term trends.
September 29, 2016
The trend following model by Kaufman says that trading by the direction of the trend is a conservative approach to the markets.
April 14, 2016
The walk-forward analysis is the most crucial building block of your trading strategy. At this stage it is determined if the hypothetical returns are a result of overfitting or the result of a robust trading system. If the walk-forward analysis produces negative results you must go back to the first step of your strategy development process. The analysis answers three essential questions: is the trading system profitable, what is it the profit factor to be expected in real time trading and how will changes in market conditions affect my strategy performance.
May 25, 2020
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This article breaks down how experienced traders recognize range-bound formations, quantify mean reversion, and manage risk when markets oscillate instead of trend.
March 30, 2020
Build smarter trading strategies using event-driven price patterns and statistical analysis.
March 9, 2020
The goal of this research is to find various set-ups and exit strategies that could be used for trading the opening range breakouts. The time frames we will be looking at are 10min, 15min and 30min opening range breakouts. We will focus our attention on the very liquid futures markets in particular we will analyze the S&P500 futures. We would like to encourage you as the reader to participate in the discussion and share your knowledge and/or ideas about opening range trading systems.
May 18, 2016
Today we gonna show you something really interesting and when done correctly it can be exploited. We are talking about imbalances. You can basically do this with any time frame and any contract especially those with rising volatility and severe directional price changes for a prolonged period of time.
March 22, 2016
While Indiana Jones might have found it safely tucked away in the Temple of the Sun, to legendary investor Ray Dalio, the "Holy Grail" is a sweet spot between diversification and correlation.
May 17, 2019
The concept of diversification is based on the concept that a trader can reduce his risk exposure by entering several positions at the same time. The success of a traders portfolio is therefore based on reducing risk rather than maximizing returns.
April 27, 2016
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, is a documentary, which shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power.
September 23, 2018
A thrilling documentary about a genius algorithm builder who dared to stand up against Wall Street. Haim Bodek aka The Algo Arms Dealer. Haim Bodek is a former Goldman and UBS trader who has come firmly out against how stock exchanges work with high frequency traders. Mr. Bodek had worked with rapid-fire trading firms to give them an unfair edge over everyday investors. He became convinced exchanges were providing such an edge after he says he was offered one himself when he ran a high-speed trading firm—a way to place orders that can be filled ahead of others placed earlier. More information on the different order types can be found here.
October 18, 2016
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