This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Saturday, 10/10/2015. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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The Zweig Breadth Thrust as a case study in quantitative analysis [Humble Student of the Markets]Academic financial quantitative analysis began in earnest in the 1970's as a response to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). EMH proponent believed that you can't beat the market with stock picking because everything about a stock is already known by the market. As a test of EMH, researchers began to scour the CRSP tapes of stock prices and found "anomalies". They found that
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All Trading is Quant Trading [MKTSTK]Quant trading is a redundant term: all trading is quant trading. Whether your an arbitrageur or a technician, fund manager or high frequency trader, you are basing your trading on the quantitative analysis of the market, you just might not realize it. A lot of times there seems to be an artificial divide between the realms of quant trading, technical analysis, and fundamental analysis. Ultimately