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Nov 04, 2026
Investors are repricing who pays for AI capex once free cash flow turns negative and the Fed is hiking.
Nov 02, 2026
For every backtest there are two default assumptions. First, the backtest engine knew only what was knowable at the moment of execution. Second, the engine saw every liquid stock that was available to trade at that moment.
Nov 02, 2026
Investors fled AI stocks into Treasuries and pulled real yields lower, while oil kept a December hike priced.
Oct 31, 2026
Bitcoin is pinned between institutional cost basis near $80K and long-term holder supply at $85K.
Oct 29, 2026
OHLCV data records each bar's open, high, low, close and volume, and its timestamp decides what your backtest can know.
Oct 27, 2026
Data cleaning finds and fixes wrong, missing and mistimed price data before it reaches your backtest.
Oct 26, 2026
France has not balanced a budget since 1974, and its politics can no longer agree on who should pay.
Oct 23, 2026
Whether a footprint signal works depends on the open, the initial balance and the liquidity behind it.
Oct 19, 2026
You don’t show weakness to a rival, and you certainly don’t win a war by being weak. That is precisely what Trump is doing right now.
Oct 18, 2026
Iran’s tanker attacks hit a wartime high after Trump ruled out strikes before November 3
Oct 16, 2026
Earnings options price the move in advance, and that premium disappears the moment results are out.
Oct 15, 2026
Higher US rates, a China chip scare and exhausted local buyers hit the two stocks that make up half of Korea's index.
Oct 15, 2026
The Fed announces its next decision on October 28. September PCE, the inflation gauge the Fed targets, comes out on October 29.
Oct 14, 2026
Headline CPI runs hot on gasoline; the 10-year’s 5.24% is a long-end problem a soft core print won’t fix.
Oct 09, 2026
Order flow becomes tradable once the data, settings, levels and position size are fixed before the open.
Oct 09, 2026
Here’s the paradox: AI fundamentally cannot tell the difference between elite prose and derivative garbage, just like it can’t tell clean, architectural code from a chaotic mess of glue code holding broken logic together.
Oct 07, 2026
When the strike was hit, S&P 500 short puts recovered half the time and short calls one time in four.
Oct 05, 2026
Match each strategy to its volatility regime using IV Rank, the volatility risk premium, and term structure.
Oct 05, 2026
S&P 500 forward earnings yield (5.26%) now trails the 10-year Treasury (5.28%) because rates rose faster than earnings estimates.
Oct 04, 2026
Contango prices surplus, backwardation prices scarcity, and roll yield pays only when spot defies the curve.