Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Investing
Have you considered diversifying your investment portfolio?
Of course you have.
Have you considered diversifying the tools you use for investing?
Maybe not.
This is exactly what financial management firms are beginning to do. Industry-wide changes are happening...
Alternative Data is the Key to Investor Success
Today’s hedge fund managers and analysts are increasingly shifting their gaze toward alternative data as a linchpin asset to drive investment decisions. In fact, seventy-eight percent of hedge funds are currently using or are...
Web Scraping and Hedge Funds’ Alternative Data Strategy
Data that was once hiding in plain sight can hide no more. With sophisticated software, new data continues to be extracted – or ‘scraped’ – from a growing variety of online sources. Coupled with...
Your Mobile Phone as a Gold Mine (for hedge funds)
The alarm sounds. Time to wake up.
Still bleary-eyed, you reach for your phone to check your messages. You turn the phone on. Before you know it, the tracking begins…
But this tracking is not some...
Alternative Data – A Beginner’s Guide
Alternative data is gaining popularity among hedge fund managers and financial institutions these days. Despite the fact that it opens up new layers of challenges and complexities in the asset selection process, alternative data...
A Stock Trading Below Net Cash Balance: Cross-Harbour Holdings (0032: HK)
Foreword:
Small-cap ($300M — $2B USD market cap) stocks provide immense opportunity to outperform the general index because bigger managers move to large-cap stocks where more capital can be put to work. This leaves many...
Using Google Search Trends to Predict Initial Jobless Claims
For several years now, my focus has been on using alternative data of many kinds to predict macroeconomic statistics. When ran the Futures Group for the PDT Group at Morgan Stanley in the 1990’s...
6 Alternatives to the Yahoo Finance API
Yahoo Finance API is over -- long live New Finance APIs!
The Yahoo Finance API has long been a reliable tool for many of the data-driven investors. Many have relied on their real-time data-flow and have...
What Repo Market Injections Say About the Economy – Follow the Breadcrumbs
How did we get here? One big clue lies in the repo market.
We’ve found that people tend to forget (ourselves included) important factors, events, or definitions that are important for understanding what is happening...
The Gem in the North: North Korea’s Untapped Mineral and Industrial Potential
When North Korea appears in mainstream media headlines, one of the last descriptors you’d expect to see is “tremendous opportunity.”
And yet, now that the U.S. and North Korea have concluded an apparently successful summit...
Why Is That Entrepreneur Raising So Much More Than Me?
How much to raise is both an art and a science, a topic discussed at length in many other posts. What this article will focus on are the reasons specifically an entrepreneur similar to...
The Best Way to Use Stock Market Correlations
When Alfred Winslow Jones pioneered the world's first "hedged" fund (the "d" was dropped later) he blew other investors away by borrowing funds to short 20% of the stocks trading at the time. He...
How Hedge Funds Are Profiting From Your Data
The Full Extent of How Your Personal Data is Being (Mis)used
You are going to the supermarket for groceries; on your shopping list, you have fruits, chocolate, and paper towels. While this is a simple...
Quandl 2020 Alternative Data Conference
Alternative data conferences connect actors in the buy-side ecosystem to explore novel use cases as the demand for alternative data is increasingly intense. Only the largest and most sophisticated players with distinctly unique roles...
Portfolio Diversification: How to Potentially Gain Better Returns per Unit of Risk
This research article analyzes the impact of portfolio diversification when applied to a portfolio of stocks and bonds. In particular, it shows that by spreading the investment on uncorrelated asset classes an investor may...
How Finance Sector Can Benefit by Machine Learning Development and AI
Making the right decisions and grabbing opportunities in the fast moving world of finance can make a difference to your bottom line. This is where artificial intelligence and machine learning make a tangential difference....
Quandl and the Alternative Data Revolution
Alpha, as a measure of active management skills in the fund’s world, gauge the manager’s ability to beat the market. Skills aside, it is also largely related to information sources that the manager uses,...
Is Our House On Fire?
Exploring Future Scenarios with the Changing Climate
The growing number of high-intensity acute physical hazards like wildfires and floods have been a source of increasing alarm and concern for public and commercial interests alike. Right...
A Quick Guide to Investment Algorithms
Let's picture the stock market 30 years ago:
Let's picture it now:
Like many other areas now, the investment market has changed immensely with the help of technology. There is a new overlord- investment algorithms, which...