This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Tuesday, 11/02/2021. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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Reddit for Fun and Profit [part 1] [Alpha Scientist]The news story in 2021 that captured the complete attention of the financial press was the Gamestop / WallStreetBets / RoaringKitty episode of late January. A group of presumably small, retail traders banded together on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets forum to drive the price of $GME, $AMC and other "meme stocks" to unimaginable heights, wreaking havoc with the crowd of hedge funds who
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What Is Machine Learning? [Enjine]Im South Korean by birth, but I spent most of my highschool years in Ireland. I wanted to remain in an English speaking country after I graduated, so I chose to go to the University of Waterloo, located in Canada. During the first lecture I attended, I needed to edit something I wrote. I rummaged through my pencil case, but failed to find what I was looking for, so I turned to a couple of
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Hong Kong Machine Learning Meetup [Gautier Marti]When? Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E2 Programme: Talk 1: Systematic Pricing and Trading of Municipal Bonds Petter N. Kolm Professor at New York University (NYU) – Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Sudar
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A Complete System for New Traders: Adding Entry Signals [Raposa Trade]If youre new to trading, it may be challenging to know how to get started. There are so many new terms, maths, and concepts, it can seem overwhelming! Now you have to take all that stuff and figure out how to make a profitable system out of it? Most people give up at this point. To address this, were building on a system thats built for newbies, Rob Carvers Starter System as outlined
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Short-Term Momentum in Stocks, Commodities, and Cryptos [Factor Research]Developed markets have evolved from momentum to mean-reversion markets Other markets like EM or cryptos are momentum-dominated Likely explained by the distribution of retail vs institutional investors INTRODUCTION Markets evolve constantly, but they rarely change structurally. When they do, it is usually either due to new policies or products. Regulations tend to have a more immediate effect, e.g.