Quantitative Analysis

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• Consensus shifts ahead of Copenhagen

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 486
  There are many crowded trades in life and in finance. One crowded trade that I am comfortable with is “the earth is spherical” trade. If the consensus was to shift off that paradigm, analysts would, after the fact, label that view a “bubble” and the market fallout from such a change would be extremely ugly. ...
  2 days ago

• Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Stanford English professor Franco Moretti, famous in bookish circles for graphing, mapping and charting novels by hand, is going digital. He hopes to soon be flying through the creative output of entire eras, ultimately changing the way we look at literary history. read more
  4 days ago

• The turkey problem in trend work: is your prediction robust to Thanksgiving?

  
  Future Savvy: Turning Foresight Into Value — Authority: 107
  We owe a debt to Nassim Taleb for memorably encapsulating the demerits of predicting by extrapolating trends as “The Turkey Problem,” and now seems the moment to reiterate it: Imagine you are a turkey. Every day someone comes to feed you. Every day you get bigger. Your portion sizes get bigger too, brought by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 505
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unemployment and stock prices

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 486
  I normally have a live and let live attitude toward other peoples market analysis. Once in a while, I come across research that seem so misguided that I feel compelled to speak up. A blogger recently posted an intriguing bit of analysis on a discussion group that I subscribe to and it was entitled 10% Unemployment: ...
  3 weeks ago

• 18 rules of complex system failure

  
  designing better futures — Authority: 104
   This list below was on ZDnet and is a cut and paste job from this Brief Paper  "How Complex Systems Fail"  by Richard I.  Cook.   I suggest reading Normal Accidents if this field of extreme risk interests you. In finance complex failure at the largest level is called systemic risk and it is what we are ...
  4 weeks ago

• Canadian Market Timer - November 1, 2009

  
  Commodity News And Mining Stocks — Authority: 122
  The embedded report is one I compiled over the weekend to give myself some clarity on the current state of the Canadian equity market. Canada Market Timer1
  5 weeks ago

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (18): Comparing Apples and Oranges

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 505
  ( source ) Throughout this blog-series on abuses and mistakes in statistics , we’ve often seen how the failure to compare things that can be validly compared leads to error or deceit. Here’s another example: the introduction of tin helmets during the First World War . Before this introduction, soldiers only ...
  5 weeks ago

• The elusive search for a quant alpha

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 486
  My post Why I am not a bottom-up equity quant generated a fair amount of feedback, both on the comments section and by email. I have had a number of interesting exchanges, particularly on where I believe a quantitative alpha can be found. To briefly summarize my point in my previous post, the barriers to entry of ...
  5 weeks ago

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