Browsing All Posts filed under »research«

How Does a State’s Party Bias Relate to Per Capita GDP?

March 26, 2016 by

1

Recent data shows that there is a weak relationship between Democratic bias and higher per capita GDP.

How do stop-loss orders affect trading strategy performance?

February 10, 2016 by

3

By Tucker Balch, Ph.D. and Anderson Trimm, Ph.D. “A stop order is an order placed with a broker to sell a security when it reaches a certain price. A stop-loss order is designed to limit an investor’s loss on a position in a security” —investopedia.  In this article we investigate how the addition of stop-loss orders affect […]

Could Artificial Intelligence have predicted this correction?

January 15, 2016 by

5

To answer that question, we asked our Machine Learning-based forecaster what it thought would happen a month ago.

Why multiply by SQRT(252) to compute the Sharpe Ratio?

September 2, 2015 by

1

This question comes up every time I teach Computational Investing.  Here’s my attempt to create the best, (final?) answer to this question.

WSJ: Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version

August 10, 2015 by

4

The Wall Street Journal interviews a student who completed my MOOC.

9 Mistakes Quants Make that Cause Backtests to Lie

April 27, 2015 by

1

“I’ve never seen a bad backtest” — Dimitris Melas, head of research at MSCI.

Upcoming Courses for 2015

April 27, 2015 by

15

Brought to You By

Lucena Research

Blog at WordPress.com.