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Derek Melchin
Idea Streams #8 – Reducing Portfolio Political Risk Using “Trump Beta”
Reduce political beta in your portfolio to decrease drawdowns and the variance of returns.
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Derek Melchin
Idea Streams #7 – Why Is Everyone Buying Gold?
Apply machine learning with alternative data to detect under-priced gold.
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Derek Melchin
Idea Streams #5 – Tail Risk Hedging
Hedge with put options to improve your Sharpe ratio over the long-term.
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Raul Pefaur
Harnessing the Twitter API for Sentiment Strategies
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In this project we will be writing an application which downloads tweets from Twitter. We are continuing our journey leaning C#, as we started with our Yahoo Finance data downloader. Twitter has a REST API that allows us to search for tweets, users, timelines, or even post new messages. We will use an incredible C# Twitter Library […]