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Why travelling can teach you a lot about the markets. We were halfway to London when the captain gave an update from the flightdeck....
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Christian Armbruester
Feb 7, 2022
Locusts
Why the grasshopper ate the market makers’ free lunch. When the world moved to electronic trading, there was much resistance. Mostly from...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 11, 2021
Long and Short
Why trading can lead to baldness. The concept of betting on prices falling is not really that complicated to understand, so long as you...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 27, 2021
Arbitrage
Why hair care is better than quantitative analysis. When I first heard the term statistical arbitrage, I thought it was a joke. The kind...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 20, 2021
Darling Buds of May, Revisited, Again
Why September is a month to remember. Thankfully, we didn’t sell in May and go away. Global equities are up another 7% since then and...
Christian Armbruester
Aug 23, 2021
Casino
Why we all need Justin Bieber to help us beat the markets. Everybody thinks they are better than average. Why else try anything? So, it...
Christian Armbruester
Jul 26, 2021
Crash
Why it is not a question of if, but when, and what we are going to do about it. If something has gone up a lot, there is the possibility...
Christian Armbruester
May 4, 2021
Stop Loss
Why there can be only one number to rule them all. There comes a point in every relationship when things are not so nice. Couples argue,...
Christian Armbruester
Apr 12, 2021
Lessons in Love
What are the big takeaways from a very strange year in the markets? It has been more than a year now that COVID-19 has taken over the...
Christian Armbruester
Apr 6, 2021
Archegos and the Blue Light Special
Why you should never risk thy whole wad. People seem to always confuse trading and investing. Ultimately, it comes down to the same thing...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 15, 2021
They Took Our Jobs
Why machines have taken over investment management. There is long, there is short, things either go up or down and you really have to...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 1, 2021
The Big Short
How Reddit and Robinhood became like a swarm of locusts. The whole idea of speculating on prices falling seems wrong from the outset....
Christian Armbruester
Jan 18, 2021
Day Trader
Why I will never win Wimbledon. It seems we have all turned into avid armchair traders during our time in lockdown. Online trading...
Christian Armbruester
Nov 23, 2020
Vixer
Why the measure of volatility on the S&P 500 is as important as ever. Any words that contain the letter “x” are quite rare and inherently...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 19, 2020
Electric Dreams
Why machines are our best friends. What is the difference between an active or a systematic trading strategy? This question is probably...
tomtardif23
Sep 21, 2020
Wheel of Fortune
Why trading is very different to investing. When we manage our wealth, we need to look beyond our current needs and to the next...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 14, 2020
(Asset) Class Wars
Why some people work in equities and others in fixed income. The first time I entered the building of one of the big investment banks in...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 1, 2020
The Dark Side
How risk-free trading was created and why it was too good to last. In the late eighties, we learned how to use computers to manage our...
Christian Armbruester
May 11, 2020
Looking Glass
Why focus is the only thing that matters when it comes to managing our money. There are a lot of things to look at when it comes to...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 30, 2020
Female Dogs and Blind Chickens
Why betting on prices falling isn’t as easy as it looks. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, particularly when it comes to predicting market...
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