Adventures in Data Science
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Adventures in Data Science

Graham Giller

Feb 28

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No Future! Thinking about Trading Strategy in a Punk Rock World

What’s the Utility of Future Returns to Traders?

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My work on trading strategy analysis departed from Mean-Variance Optimization, as studied by Markowitz and developed in most finance theory text books under the name Modern Portfolio Theory, the moment I had to consider three aspects of trading in the real world:

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Graham Giller

Graham Giller

Predicting important variables about companies and the economy, I turn data into information. CEO of Giller Investments.

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