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Skepticism toward the possibility of scientific understanding of financial markets

Recently, I posed a question on several different LinkedIn discussion groups. The question was worded somewhat differently for each group, in order to maintain an alignment with the group focus. But, essentially, all of the question asked “When is studying

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Scientific approaches to building trading strategies, part 2 of 4

Jeffrey Mishlove interviews David Aronson. Aronson is author of Evidence Based Technical Analysis and Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments. Here Aronson describes some of the pitfalls and biases that effect traders and how the scientific

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Scientific approaches to building trading strategies, part 1 of 4

Jeffrey Mishlove interviews David Aronson. Aronson is author of Evidence Based Technical Analysis and Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments. Here Aronson describes how traders can benefit from the application of statistics and probability theory.

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Research using news-based indicators, part 4 of 4

In this final segment, Peter Hafez, Director of Quantitative Research for the data provider RavenPack, addresses the question of the potential diminishing utility of news-based indicators as more traders incorporate them in their trading arsenal.

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Research on news-based indicators, part 3 of 4

In this segment, Peter Hafez describes particular details concerning empirical research studies that show how both stocks and currencies respond to news-based, sentiment indicators. Peter Hafez is Director of Quantitative Research for the data provider RavenPack. Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is

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Research on news-based indicators, part 2 of 4

In Part 2, Peter Hafez, Director of Quantitative Research for the data provider RavenPack, describes a new indicator he has developed and researched called “news beta.” This is a measurement of the degree to which a security responds to market

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Research on news-based indicators, part 1 of 4

In the video here, I interview Peter Hafez, Director of Quantitative Research for the data provider RavenPack. Hafez has published a number of empirical studies dealing with ways of measuring the impact of news stories on securities prices. He has

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Using business and financial news, part 5

The number of good news events reported in the business press is very similar to the number of bad news events. However, Green, Hand, and Penn (2012) – from Pennsylvania State University, the University of North Carolina, and Florida State University

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Using business and financial news, part 4

Groß-Klußmann and Hautsch (2011) confirmed the usefulness of the machine-indicated relevance of news items. Significant market responses to news were only observable for items which were identified as being relevant. Their results showed that the classification was crucial to filter out

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Using business and financial news, part 3

Prototype experiments for predicting market reaction to financial news. The research literature has described a number of prototypes for predicting market’s reaction to news. The first recorded approach was by the trader Victor Niederhoffer in the early 1970’s. Niederhoffer organized

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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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