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Rise of the Quantitative Robots

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[edit] After this post we had another quick look at the S&P 500 and its monetary base counterpart, with a view courtesy of our good friends as SlopeCharts 😉

I read an article at Bloomberg the other day that focused upon a former mathematics professor who now runs his own Mom & Pop ‘quant’ shop (his home) from the desert plains in New Mexico. The article noted that there are big, powerful quants in New York City and there is a constellation of little guys out there writing their algos and skimming the markets with the precision that mathematical codes instruct.

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Meet the DIY Quants Who Ditched Wall St for the Desert (more…)

Engine Trouble

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I was saying yesterday that SPX was in an inflection point and the direction of the resolution was important, and the bears then immediately dropped the ball at the open to allow the cycle trend day to deliver a strong trend up day. This has brought SPX up to another inflection area in the 2040-50 range that was range support February through July last year, and that is being tested hard this morning. If bulls break through it that opens up the IHS target in the 2082 area and a possible retest of the all time high at 2134.

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