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LEAPS Options: Trading Strategies, Limitations and Examples

LEAPS options are option contracts with their expiry date longer than a year. With this blog, we will understand LEAPS with a few examples as well its application with a few trading strategies as well as its limitations....
8 min read

Spotlight On Algorithmic Trading With EPAT

This article shares glimpses of our series of 'Spotlight on Algorithmic Trading with EPAT' events across the globe....
2 min read

Carry Trade Strategy In Forex

In this blog, we will learn about the Forex Carry Trade Strategy, through various examples and understand the various aspects of the Carry Trade Strategy....
7 min read

Ensemble Methods - Bagging And Boosting

This blog demonstrates some methods to improve the performance of decision trees & focus on ensemble methods like Bagging and Boosting to build decision trees....
4 min read

Combining Trading And Coding Skills: How Vishnu Started Algorithmic Trading

This success story of Vishnu Bharath demonstrates how he entered into the field of algorithmic trading by merging his technical and trading skills....
4 min read

Independent Algo Traders And Their Recipe For Success

This article talks about the various ingredients that have helped Independent Algorithmic Traders succeed....
4 min read

Learning To Upgrade: Zahra’s Journey From Manual Trading To Algorithmic Trading

This blog presents the success story of Zahra Devjani, who started trading at a young age and developed her trading skills by learning algorithmic trading....
3 min read

Fama French 5 Factor Model and Its Applications

A robust read about the Fama-French 5 factor model and its applications, as well as the drawbacks and improvements of the Fama-French five-factor model....
5 min read

Introduction To Monte Carlo Analysis

This article talks about Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and understanding of the “Black-Box” called Monte Carlo Methodologies....
14 min read

Intro To Hidden Markov Chains

This blog explains the concept of Hidden Markov chains and goes on to demonstrate the construction of HIdden Markov Models....
9 min read