Category Archives: Algos

Some Perspective

Posted on March 16, 2020 by macromon

In our March 7th post,  Stages Of A Pandemic: Denial, Panic, Fear, and Rationality, we suspected the country was about to move from denial to panic over the coronavirus pandemic.   It sure did and infected the global markets in a … Continue reading →

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S&P’s Great Run…What Next?

Posted on December 1, 2019 by macromon

The S&P500 price index is up 25.30 percent going into December, the 9th best performance for the index from January to November since 1950.   What makes this year’s rally unique to the prior big years is that it launched from … Continue reading →

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China’s AI News Anchors

Posted on February 21, 2019 by macromon

Scary real if not a deep fake…  Or just fake. Xinhua's male #AI anchor can now broadcast news in a standing position, with more body language pic.twitter.com/2YZLouhYnN — China Xinhua News (@XHNews) February 20, 2019 China's Xinhua News Agency on … Continue reading →

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World Cup Prediction: Spain or Germany?

Posted on June 14, 2018 by macromon

The machine learning random forest algo predicts Spain is favored over Germany mainly due to the fact that Germany has a comparatively high chance to drop out in the round-of-sixteen. Combining the odds from many different bookmakers puts Brazil as the … Continue reading →

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The Tale Of Two Fat Tails

Posted on June 6, 2018 by macromon

In a normal probability distribution…blue curve), the odds of risky outcomes (bad stuff happening) are thin at the extremes. In fat-tailed distributions, such outcomes have a greater chance of occurring (the [greenish] curve). Source Non-normal distributions can be heavily skewed and … Continue reading →

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The Cycle of Market Emojis

Posted on June 3, 2018 by macromon

Love this.  Based on the cycle of market emotions. Wonder if there is an algo out there that trades on emojis?  Would not doubt it. Hat tip Kazonomics! Long Only Short Sellers

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Stock Bull & Bear Traps Galore

Posted on May 7, 2018 by macromon

The S&P500 could not hold the 50-day moving average today, setting, yet again, a nice bull trap to hang out the MoMo crowd.  Seeing a lot more traps, both bull and bear,  these days.  It is the result of the … Continue reading →

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How Good, or Bad, Will AI Get?

Posted on May 1, 2018 by macromon

Even as the use of artificial intelligence has grown over the past decade, outsized predictions about it destroying humanity or creating utopia haven’t come to pass, at least not yet. Bloomberg QuickTake explains what AI does for us now and … Continue reading →

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Robots Are Even Coming For The Fashion Models

Posted on March 2, 2018 by macromon

This is astounding.  Not so much robots but artificial intelligence (AI), The world of fashion is always looking ahead to the future for the latest innovations and avant-garde ideas. However, models could be facing the prospect of being rendered useless … Continue reading →

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Just Another Day At The Office

Posted on February 9, 2018 by macromon

Wola-freakin’-tility! The Dow traded in a 1,022 point, or 4.3 percent, intraday range today.  That is emerging market volatility, folks. What a close to an ugly week and a bookend win to the week for the bulls. Classic double bottom … Continue reading →

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