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Trend recall: A novel approach to trend following

The following example of a breakthrough in pattern-recognition technology is reprinted from my book The Alpha Interface: Empirical Research on the Financial Markets, Book Two. It exemplifies the level of creativity and power available to the new generation of personal

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Identifying expert microblog forecasters

Bar-Haim and colleagues (2011) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem downloaded tweets from the StockTwits.com website during two periods: from April 25, 2010, to November 1, 2011, and from December 14, 2010, to February 3, 2011. A total of 340,000

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Supercomputer research uncovers factors leading to CEO recklessness

Many respondents to my previous post on the rise of supercomputers in the world of finance focused on high frequency trading (HFT). However, I believe that the use of supercomputers for financial research is at least as important. Here is

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The rise of the supercomputer

In this era of cloud computing, big data, server farms, and the smartphone in your pocket that’s vastly more powerful than a roomful of computers of previous generations, it can be easy to lose sight of the very definition of

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The adaptive markets hypothesis

There is a view, developed primarily by Andrew Lo (2004), at MIT, that financial markets are ecological systems in which different groups (“species”) compete for scarce resources. Called the adaptive markets hypothesis (AMH), it posits that markets will exhibit cycles

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“Reverse engineering” a financial market

Wiesinger, Sornette, and Satinover (2013), of the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich, developed a method to “reverse engineer” real-world financial time series. They modeled financial markets as made of a large number of interacting rational Agent Based Models (ABMs). In

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Forecasting with natural language processing

IBM’s Watson computer, which beat champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” two years ago, is now being employed to advise Wall Street on risks, portfolios and clients. Citigroup Inc., the third-largest U.S. lender, was Watson’s first financial services client. The

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The future of forecasting in financial markets

My article on “The Future of Financial Market Forecasting” is to be published in the forthcoming issue of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. This journal is something of a link between the academic and business communities. There is also an

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Can this incredibly fluid, political situation be modeled mathematically?

It has only been a few minutes since my previous blog post that was based upon a news announcement, this morning, that the Republican House of Representatives planned to offer its own bill to end the government shut down and

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Where do we go from here?

On Thursday, October 3, I impulsively posted an unusual blog entry. It was not typical of the posts on this Alpha Interface blog as it largely contained political content. It suggested a scenario by which the Republican dominated House of

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Book Three: Trading With The News

Learn about a news-based trading system that yielded a back-tested, average annualized, compounded return from 2000 to 2011 of 58.6%.

“Only once you’ve done your homework will you be able to understand how the stock market works and learn to distinguish between news and noise.” Maria Bartiromo, Use The News

Book Two: Technical Analysis

Learn about the "trend recalling" algorithm that yielded researchers a simulated annual return of greater than 400% in multiple tests.

“The scientific method is the only rational way to extract useful knowledge from market data and the only rational approach for determining which technical analysis methods have predictive power.”
David Aronson, Evidence Based Technical Analysis

Book One: Analysts’ Forecasts

Learn the strategy, based on analysts' revised forecasts, that yielded researchers an average of 1.13% - 2.19% profit per trade, for trades lasting one to two days?

Learn how certain analysts' recommendations, following brokerage hosted investment conferences, yielded profits of over 3% during a two-day holding period?

Learn how researchers found an average profitability of 1.78% for two-hour trades following an earnings announcement?

"This set of tools can help both ordinary and professional investors alike to re-think and re-vitalize their stock picking, timing and methods. A young, aspiring Warren Buffet could put this book to good use."
James P. Driscoll, PhD, investor

Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments by David Aronson (software included)

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David Aronson

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