This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Thursday, 02/06/2020. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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The Case Against REIT’s [Alpha Architect]Surveys often reveal investor behavior that is challenging to understand. For example, Preqins Alternative Investor Outlook for H2 2019 highlighted the following: 65% of institutional investors believe that real estate is overvalued and a correction likely to occur in 2019, 2020, or beyond. However, 45% want to allocate the same amount of capital to real estate and 28% want to allocate even
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What is the right way to set stop losses? [Investment Idiocy]Stop losses are the most common method used by traders to control risk. However, they're often used inappropriately. In this post I'll quickly bust some of the myths around them, and explain how to use them properly. This is the first of three posts aimed at answering three fundamental questions in trading: How should we control risk (this post) How much risk should we take? How fast