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Python is useless. That's what most beginners make themselves believe after trying (and failing) to use it well. • Information overload • Learning by example • Time constraints...
ChatGPT will never work for trading. That's what I thought 3 weeks ago. Then I spent 35 hours in the GPT-4 rabbit hole. These 6 blogs show you what you can do. And it doesn't t...
The most popular part of trading: Backtesting. But most beginners get backtesting wrong. How to get up and running with the most popular Python backtesting library—Backtrader....
Quants use principal component analysis to find alpha. Blackrock uses it to manage $100s of billions in factor funds. Northfield uses it to earn $10s of millions selling factors...
The undisputed champion of the markets: Renaissance Technologies. They use top-secret data processing techniques to return 66% every year. You can't be Jim Simons, but you can u...
Turn $1 into $14,000,000. (You could have if you invested with Jim Simons in 1988.) The most successful hedge fund ever, trading bots, and the 9 steps to build an automated tradi...
Some market data costs $1,400 per month. The oil that makes the world's financial markets operate. Unaffordable for 99% of us. A profit center for countless Wall Street firms....
The Treynor ratio measures the reward-to-volatility ratio. It helps traders understand how much reward they get for each unit of risk. You don’t need to be a high-flying trader t...
Save your $90,000 and skip the quant finance degree. Dive into 17 code repos that will teach you more than all your professors at school. All without costing you $90,000:
I spent a good portion of my $90,000 master's degree learning 1 thing: Simulating stock prices. The good news? You don't need a master's degree to build your own stock price sim...
ChatGPT is overhyped. That's what I told myself after 2 weeks of failing to use it well. Turns out, I was just a poor prompt writer. But after spending 100 hours with it, I've c...
Statistical arbitrage is scary sh*t. That's what I used to think until I spent 25 hours studying pairs trading. Now I realize it's a great way to get started with algorithmic tra...