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Also hydromatic, automatic: "It's Geeks Enlightening" Rob Carvers blog about quant trading, investing, and economics.

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Monday, 19 January 2026

Prediction markets and lotteries (and my one simple trick for winning the lottery)

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 A short and slightly mad post today, inspired by weird thoughts I was having when I awoke from my sleep this morning (yes, you are all thin...
Friday, 9 January 2026

Are markets that are good for trend good just because they have also gone up a lot, or because carry, or...

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I have a friend, ex-colleague and TTU co-host who runs a fixed income focused CTA. We have regular coffees (he pays, so his fund is doing o...
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Friday, 14 November 2025

Wordle (TM) and the one simple hack you need to pass funded trader challenges

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An unusual (but quick) mid month post, as this is a live issue I thought I'd publish this whilst it's relevant. There has been some ...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Is predicting vol better worth the effort and does the VIX help?

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 I'm a vol scaler. There I've said it. Yes I adjust my position size inversely to vol. And so should you.  But to this well we need ...
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Saturday, 1 November 2025

R squared and Sharpe Ratio

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 Here's some research I did whilst writing my new book (coming next year, and aimed at relatively inexperienced traders). Imagine the sc...
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