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Leverage and Trend Following
We typically discuss trend following in the context of risk management for investors looking to diversify their diversifiers. While we believe that trend following is most appropriate for investors concerned about sequence risk, levered trend following may...more
Improving data diversity. Synthetic Financial Time Series Generator
When dealing with data we (almost) always would like to have better and bigger sets. But if there’s not enough historical data available to test a given algorithm or methodology, what can we do? Our answer has been: creating it...more
A Historical Look At Employment Days
Friday the employment report will be released about an hour before the NYSE open. Employment days have an interesting history and they have contributed to some worthwhile studies over the years...more
Following Sell-Side Analysts? This Paper Identifies Who You Should Chase.
Constructing a database of Star analyst designations collected from Institutional Investor, the Wall Street Journal and StarMine for the period 2003 to 2014, the authors document the differences in profitability of following Star and nonStar analyst recommendations as an investment strategy....more
CONSTANT MATURITY DATA
I’ve been asked multiple times why/when I use constantly maturity data for research and modelling. I thought I’d cover it here on my blog since its been a while. I hope to post more in the coming months/future as it has been a good way for me to organize my thoughts and share what I’ve been working on....more
