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I Read My Own Filing Cabinet
I accidentally ran a twenty-one-year experiment on myself. Here is what the subject revealed.
Aug 24
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Trading 000: Your Thesis Cannot Post Margin
How a -67% month separated AI foresight from risk management.
Aug 5
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The Emperor Has No Benchmark
Alpha is a function of two things. The field keeps pretending it is a function of one.
Jul 27
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Big If True
Can a government roll its debt forever? A forgotten French bond supplies a strange piece of evidence — and a forty-six-page “if.”
Jul 20
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The Emperor Has No Identification
Why asset demand elasticities don’t mean what you think
Jul 6
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I Won’t Show You Mine
Twenty years ago, a famous pod shop sent me their standard IP form. I walked away. The contract that landed on my desk in 2005 is about to land on…
Jun 8
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Bitcoin doesn’t bounce back. It slouches back
What the math of telephone exchanges and queues tells you about Bitcoin.
Jun 1
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So You Want to Be a Quant
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
May 4
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The Simplicity Tax
Why Retail Investors Pay More for Worse Products (And What It Reveals About the Limits of Behavioral Finance)
Mar 23
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The Emperor Has No Alpha
What Data Mining Reveals About Academic Finance
Feb 16
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The Stop-Loss That Stops Gains
Why Your Drawdown Rules Are Probably Hurting You
Jan 19
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