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Finding Quantitative Trading Strategy Ideas in Research and Blogs

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The document answers a broad question about finding ideas for quantitative trading strategies. It points readers toward several kinds of sources: blog aggregators that collect technical posts, community discussions focused on strategy ideas, and academic preprint or working-paper repositories. These sources can help a researcher discover approaches and methods worth investigating.

The answer is a short list of starting points rather than a strategy-development method or a comparison of source quality. It gives no examples of strategies, criteria for judging research, or evidence that any particular source produces useful or profitable ideas. Readers still need to evaluate claims, test ideas independently, and account for the time required to follow the literature. The suggestions are broad and may change in relevance as websites and research communities evolve.

Key ideas

  • Blog aggregators can surface quantitative methods and strategy discussions.
  • Community forums may provide collections of trading strategy ideas.
  • Academic repositories can help researchers find papers to investigate.
  • The listed sources are starting points, not evidence that an idea is robust or profitable.

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# Where can I find ideas for strategies?


# Where can I find ideas for strategies?












Every book I read refers me to many other books, there is practically no way I can read all this text in my life time. Once and for all, where is the best place to fish for ideas?

## Answer by AK88 (score 3)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/31438

There are lots of different sources out there where you can find various quantitative strategies.

Usually, different blog aggregators like https://www.r-bloggers.com post on their websites interesting new approaches and techniques.

You can also find great deal of information on Quantopian's dedicated page here: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/trading-strategy-ideas-thread

ssrn.com and arxiv.org also may be useful.

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