TL;DR Broadly speaking there are two sources of investment returns available to investors – risk premia...
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Protecting your Portfolio from Crisis
You Insure Big Ticket Items, Why Not Your Portfolio? Most people choose to insure their largest...
Read MoreApplying Corrective AI to Daily Seasonal Forex Trading
By Sergei Belov, Ernest Chan, Nahid Jetha, and Akshay Nautiyal Abstract We applied Corrective AI (Chan,...
Read MoreMetalabeling and the Duality Between Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Factors
By Ernest Chan and Akshay Nautiyal Features are inputs to supervised machine learning (ML) models. In...
Read MoreThe Amazing Efficacy of Cluster-Based Feature Selection
One major impediment to widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) in investment management is their black-box...
Read MoreIs News Sentiment Still Adding Alpha?
By Ernest Chan and Roger Hunter Nowadays it is nearly impossible to step into a quant...
Read MoreThe Most Overlooked Aspect of Algorithmic Trading
Many algorithmic traders justifiably worship the legends of our industry, people like Jim Simons, David Shaw,...
Read MoreLoss aversion is not a behavioral bias
In his famous book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman described one common...
Read MoreOptimizing trading strategies without overfitting
By Ernest Chan and Ray Ng Optimizing the parameters of a trading strategy via backtesting has...
Read MoreParadox Resolved: Why Risk Decreases Expected Log Return But Not Expected Wealth
I have been troubled by the following paradox in the past few years. If a stock’s...
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