Author: Adam Coons
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Quantitative Investing Explained: 6 Common Quantitative Strategies – SpiderRock Platform
It is estimated that roughly 90% of trading on U.S. public markets uses algorithmic quantitative trading strategies, a number likely to grow as investors leverage technology and modeling techniques to exploit the smallest market inefficiencies. But what is a quantitative trading strategy? We covered quantitative investing basics in What is Quantitative Investing? In this follow-up…
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8-10-21: Are We Addicted to Hearing “Bad News First”?
by Jason Bodner August 10, 2021 Want the good news first or the bad news? Before you answer that question, let me tell you how most other people answer that question. According to a March 2014 paper in “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,” 78% of people prefer to hear the bad news first. Maybe that’s…
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8-10-21: The 10-Year Treasury’s Successful Retest of 1.12%
by Ivan Martchev August 10, 2021 The drama last week was not so much in the stock market as in the Treasury yields, when they dropped like a rock to 1.12%, then rose sharply on better-than-expected economic data to touch 1.30%. The question now is: Will they continue to rise, or head back towards 1%?…
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8-10-21: Fifty Years of Free-Floating Currencies
by Gary Alexander August 10, 2021 As an avid “gold bug” 50 years ago, I knew that a dollar devaluation was coming soon – I had read Harry Browne’s book on the coming devaluation – but I didn’t think the gold standard would die along with it. On Sunday night, August 15, 1971, I was…
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8-10-21: The “Voracious Appetite for Greedy Profits” Strikes Again
by Bryan Perry August 10, 2021 Income investors who depend on yield for pension distributions and general living expenses are finding it more difficult than ever to find assets with dependable, low-beta features that pay decent dividends. With the latest CPI data showing annual inflation running at 5.4%, one needs to make 15% just to…