Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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The document introduces risk parity as a portfolio allocation method that sets weights according to asset risk rather than equal capital or expected returns. Its basic procedure estimates each asset’s volatility, assigns larger weights to lower-volatility…
The document lays out a workflow for turning financial text into trading signals: collect news or social posts, preprocess the text, assign sentiment scores, combine those scores with technical indicators to form signals, and backtest the resulting model. It…
This interview follows Srinivas Hosur’s path from an MBA in finance and a trading job into compliance and risk analysis at a high-frequency trading firm. He describes moving from manual trading toward systematic methods after encountering the limits of…
The document explains market making as a liquidity-providing activity in which a trader posts bid and ask quotes and seeks to earn the spread. Its examples show how buying at the bid and selling at the ask can generate a per-share gain, while also…
This tutorial describes a basic workflow for retrieving continuous futures data with a Python finance library, preparing date-indexed price data, and plotting closing prices. It demonstrates fetching one contract and then multiple contracts, grouping the…
The author examines the risks of manually changing or exiting trades generated by automated futures systems. The central recommendation is to let a system manage an open position when its rules remain valid, while reserving intervention for rare, unusual…
The article introduces macroeconomics through national output, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, and government policy. It explains three approaches to calculating GDP, distinguishes nominal from inflation-adjusted GDP, and describes per-capita and…