Quant Models For Box Office Movie Returns

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If you have one, now you have your exchange. Maybe Ryan Kavanaugh should start a hedge fund?

Links

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CXO is definitely one of my top 5 favorite blogs.  Where else can you find an analysis of 100+ years of stamp returns? ---- Anyone looking...

Links

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One of the original reasons I started blogging was to chat more about publicly listed hedge funds.  I gave up the topic after realizing...

Suvivor Bias

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Is an enormous issue, and one of the biggest NO-NOs if you are a quant. If you are not familiar with survivor bias it is...

Is Whitney Tilson Running a Best Ideas Fund of Funds?

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I like Whitney Tilson and the research he puts out.  His housing work is some of the best and thorough research I have seen...

Taleb & Faber & Gomez & Hendry

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Great Great Interview http://2010.therussiaforum.com/news/session-video3/

Airplane Reading

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Most of the way through The Quants and it is delicious reading.  While a lot is review for someone who is well versed in...

Your Irrational Brain & What Happens When You Are Loss Averse

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Lots of buzz about a new study involving the brain and losing $.  We have been chatting about that on WB for a long...

Yield Curve Predictors of Foreign Exchange Returns

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Yield Curve Predictors of Foreign Exchange Returns I can't figure out why DB doesn't launch ETFs/ETNs on the other currency strategies they have (they did...