This is a summary of links recently featured on Quantocracy as of Sunday, 03/02/2025. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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Learning to Rank [Quantitativo]Give me a firm place to stand and a lever, and I can move the Earth. Archimedes. Archimedes, the brilliant Greek mathematician and engineer, was so fascinated by levers that he claimed he could move the Earth with one. His deep understanding of mechanics made him a legend, from designing war machines to discovering buoyancy while lounging in a bathtub. Just as he used levers to amplify
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Can you trust the “Fear & Greed Index”? [Unravel Markets]In the last couple of days, X and other crypto social media is flooded with screenshots of the Fear & Greed Index printing Extreme Fear, usually with a Warren Buffet quote, or something similar. Lets dig into whether it really has any predictive power at all! The common assumption is that Extreme Fear cant last long, and this is the time to buy. What is it, at all? So
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Confessions of a recovering engineer (or why engineers make bad traders) [Robot Wealth]Heres something that might shock you: Engineers make the worst traders. Im speaking from experience here. As an engineer who transitioned to trading, it wasnt until I stopped thinking like an engineer that I started to make progress. You can read all about this in my case study, by the way. Engineers like me are trained to solve implementation problems. We build bridges based on
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Valuations Reflect U.S. Exceptionalism [Alpha Architect]Conventional wisdom can be defined as ideas that are so ingrained in our belief system that they go unchallenged. Unfortunately, much of the conventional wisdom about investing is wrong. One example of erroneous conventional wisdom is that investors seeking higher returns should invest in countries that are forecasted to have high rates of economic growth, such as India and China. It