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Can Genetic Algorithms Beat Buy and Hold? A Test on the S&P 500

Can Genetic Algorithms Beat Buy and Hold? A Test on the S&P 500

The Short Answer is Yes, And It Only Took 3 Trades

Oct 29, 2025

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19 min read

Transition Densities and Partial Differential Equations in Quantitative Finance

Transition Densities and Partial Differential Equations in Quantitative Finance

How randomness becomes structure through density functions, stochastic processes, and PDEs

Oct 29, 2025

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12 min read

I Used Bayesian Optimization to Optimize a Trading Strategy on the Top 10 Most Active Stocks

I Used Bayesian Optimization to Optimize a Trading Strategy on the Top 10 Most Active Stocks

How randomness becomes structure through density functions, stochastic processes, and PDEs

Oct 28, 2025

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15 min read

Understanding European and American Options: A Quantitative Approach

Understanding European and American Options: A Quantitative Approach

Oct 28, 2025

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11 min read

Extracting Future Price Expectations from Options

Extracting Future Price Expectations from Options

Deriving Risk-neutral Price Forecasts, Estimating Expected Price Distributions and Foward-looking Market Implied Probabilities.

Oct 27, 2025

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23 min read

Stock Price Prediction Using Wavelet Transform and Deep Learning

Stock Price Prediction Using Wavelet Transform and Deep Learning

Comparing LSTM and CNN-LSTM Models

Oct 27, 2025

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13 min read

Finding Mispriced Stocks with a 6 Factor Model

Finding Mispriced Stocks with a 6 Factor Model

Using the Fama-French 5-Factor Model Plus Momentum to Identify Undervalued Stocks and Analyze Alpha Contributions

Oct 27, 2025

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33 min read

Testing the "Internal Bar Strength" strategy

Testing the "Internal Bar Strength" strategy

Looks more or less OK.

Oct 27, 2025

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12 min read

How to detect Hidden Market Patterns with Latent Gaussian Mixture Models

How to detect Hidden Market Patterns with Latent Gaussian Mixture Models

Oct 27, 2025

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11 min read

Setting up a Portfolio of Futures Trading Strategies

Setting up a Portfolio of Futures Trading Strategies

The holy grail of investing: Uncorrelated Strategies

Oct 26, 2025

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17 min read

Trading Strategies: Double Moving Average Crossovers

Trading Strategies: Double Moving Average Crossovers

Learn how to implement and backtest the Double Moving Average Crossover Strategy in Python to identify potential buy and sell signals in trending markets.

Oct 26, 2025

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15 min read

The simplest football betting strategy I’ve ever designed

The simplest football betting strategy I’ve ever designed

Oct 26, 2025

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12 min read

Volume Spread Analysis (VSA) Strategy: Quantifying Market Action for Trading Signals with Rolling Backtesting

Volume Spread Analysis (VSA) Strategy: Quantifying Market Action for Trading Signals with Rolling Backtesting

Oct 25, 2025

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28 min read

Ditch Excel: Build a Live-Updating Trading Dashboard in Notion with Python

Ditch Excel: Build a Live-Updating Trading Dashboard in Notion with Python

Oct 25, 2025

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21 min read

Dynamic Risk Management with a Volatility-Adjusted Grid Strategy

Dynamic Risk Management with a Volatility-Adjusted Grid Strategy

Oct 24, 2025

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16 min read

Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) Strategy? Backtesting using Python and Backtrader

Fractal Adaptive Moving Average (FRAMA) Strategy? Backtesting using Python and Backtrader

Oct 24, 2025

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12 min read

Unsupervised ML in Algorithmic Trading

Unsupervised ML in Algorithmic Trading

Oct 24, 2025

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11 min read

Generating Trend Lines Algorithmically

Generating Trend Lines Algorithmically

Manual Trend Lines are Subjective and Slow. Use Multi-Anchored Regressions to Find Direction, Strength, and Confluence.

Oct 23, 2025

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17 min read

How to Perform Bitcoin Price Feature Engineering Using Python

How to Perform Bitcoin Price Feature Engineering Using Python

Understanding Bitcoin Price Behavior Through Statistical and Visual Analysis

Oct 23, 2025

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13 min read

Stock Price Forecasting: Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)

Stock Price Forecasting: Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)

Using Gated Recurrent Units to Predict Future Stock Trends with Python

Oct 23, 2025

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20 min read

Build a Lightning-Fast Research Database: Polars with DuckDB

Build a Lightning-Fast Research Database: Polars with DuckDB

Algorithmic Trading with Hedge Fund Level Analytics with Polars and DuckDB

Oct 22, 2025

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15 min read

Building a Production-Ready Mean Reversion Strategy

Building a Production-Ready Mean Reversion Strategy

IBS + Momentum Analysis

Oct 22, 2025

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14 min read

Understanding Volatility Drags: A Stochastic Approach to Leveraged Investing

Understanding Volatility Drags: A Stochastic Approach to Leveraged Investing

Exploring the relationship between leverage, volatility, and returns.

LockSimple

Oct 22, 2025

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14 min read

I Handed ChatGPT $100 to Trade Stocks — Here’s What Happened in 2 Months.

I Handed ChatGPT $100 to Trade Stocks — Here’s What Happened in 2 Months.

What happens when you let a chatbot play Wall Street? It’s up 29% while the S&P 500 lags at 4%.

Oct 21, 2025

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10 min read

Filtering Through Market Noises: The Time-Decay Adaptive Exponential MA

Filtering Through Market Noises: The Time-Decay Adaptive Exponential MA

Oct 21, 2025

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13 min read

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