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Short reads on quant, trading, and the math behind both
Not pitches. Not signals. Not guru fluff. Just the work, written down. Longer-form, course-style material lives on tradeprepared.com — that's the sister property where structured content goes once it's mature.
Why most “indicators” are nonsense
The honest case for technical analysis, and why 90% of what you see online isn't it.
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What a backtest is supposed to look like
If your equity curve goes up and to the right and you didn't reserve out-of-sample data, you don't have a strategy. You have a curve fit.
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Markov chains, in plain English
States. Transitions. Probabilities. No PhD required.
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The 80% rule
Markets range most of the time. This is empirical, not opinion. Acting on it is half the game.
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