Investing Strategies

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?...
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Artificial Intelligence is an Efficient Banker

The innovative use of artificial intelligence in the financial industry is no passing fad. It is a must and a trend...
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Ponzi Financing, Negative Interest Rates and Bitcoin

In previous series of our Ponzi analysis, we have established a simple model – the old school Ponzi model. In this...
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Hot Times in Cold Storage

Why Cold Chain Logistics is on Fire Cold-storage warehousing is hot. In the past year, we have seen a flood of capital...
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Thousand Years of Hedging History, Part 2

This article will bring you through the transition from regionalization risks to globalization risks, the weakening of gold as a safe...
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4 Reasons Why Starlink is a Terrible Investment

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana  In 2015 Elon Musk presented Starlink as...
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Thousand Years of Hedging History, Part 1

This article will bring you through the evolution of hedging, from natural risks to single-point measurement risks, and regionalization risks. Following,...
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Privacy vs. Alpha: A Conversation

You are the CEO of a well-known asset management company and are sitting in a meeting with a new data vendor,...
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