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Why Markets Move Before the News: The Hidden Impact of Macro Indicators on Asset Prices

You have probably watched it happen in real time. Futures lean lower an hour before a…

Kahneman and Risk: Why Humans Can’t Understand Probability — and How Algorithms Can

We are brilliant at spotting faces in clouds and patterns in prices, less brilliant at judging…

Thinking, Fast and Slow in Investing: How Kahneman’s Biases Destroy Portfolio Returns

Kahneman does not teach us how to outguess markets. He shows why our own minds quietly…

Black Swan Indicators: How to Detect the Improbable Before It Happens

We like to tell ourselves that Black Swans are cosmic jokes. They arrive unannounced, overturn our…

Antifragile Portfolios: How to Build Strategies That Benefit from Black Swans

Antifragile portfolios are built to do something markets rarely reward with kindness: welcome surprise. The point…

Black Swans and Volatility: Why Extreme Events Break Most Risk Models

The everyday market feels busy enough. Prices twitch, headlines flare, and risk dashboards glow with precision.…

GARCH Volatility: When Markets Have Memory

Markets do not forget their last scare. They carry it forward, often quietly, until another surprise…

When Volatility Normalization Doesn’t Work: The Hidden Pitfalls Nobody Talks About

Volatility normalization promises the investing equivalent of cruise control. Scale your positions by recent volatility and…

How Volatility Destroys Returns: The Sequence-of-Returns Effect and How to Fix It

Volatility is not just noise. It quietly lowers the wealth you end up with and, if…

Volatility Normalization: The Hidden Hedge-Fund Technique Behind Simple Formulas

Volatility normalization sounds like something whispered on a trading desk at 6:30 a.m., not a concept…