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The Achilles heel of the quantitative analysis of stocks

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Something that knocks the pins out from our normal understanding of price earnings ratios, return on invested capital, discounted cash flow analysis, smart beta/factor ETFs, value at risk models (VAR) and even company financial statements

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Quantitative vs intuitive in investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 15, 2022August 15, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Human decisions affecting the future, whether personal or political or economic, cannot depend on strict mathematical expectation, since the basis for making such calculations does not exist.

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Random walks and butterfly effects on Wall Street

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 6, 2022March 6, 2022
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Movies goers will report liking a movie more when they hear beforehand how good it is

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Do quants with algorithms have an advantage over other investors?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 2, 2020November 21, 2021
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Math and algorithms will give precise answers. And therein lies the problem.

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