Tech media has become a political mess. Reporters think their mandate is to catch venture capitalists saying horrible words like “retard” (some now refer to it as “the r-slur“) so they can engage in public condemnation. Incompetent “AI ethicists” are now paraded around as martyrs. And during all of this, the necessary stories that provide […]
The old adage about a fool and his money being easily parted overlooks the intelligent people who get conned and are too embarrassed to ever admit it. Getting fleeced isn’t just for beginner investors. There are some incredibly sophisticated scams out there, and today we’re going to use our platform to warn readers about a […]
Here’s a fun exercise to think about. If you managed your own portfolio of tech stocks over the past 20 years, what sort of return would be considered good? (Don’t cheat and try to Google some numbers. Bear with us here please.) How about +400%? If we told you we returned +400% over the past […]
We spend a lot of time talking with startups that are trying to solve problems using artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, call it what you will. In order to understand if they’re actually using machine learning to achieve a competitive advantage, we need to know if they have access to any proprietary datasets. Without […]
Unless you work in finance, you may not be aware of a fundamental shift that’s underway at the moment in the industry. On Tuesday, October 1st, 2019, Charles Schwab rocked brokerage firms around the globe with their announcement to drop all commissions for stocks, ETFs, and options on U.S. and Canadian exchanges – permanently. Within a day, Ameritrade and E*Trade […]
In the past year, we’ve looked at various ways alternative data can be used for investing, from satellite imagery that forecasts metal prices to predicting geopolitical risk between the world’s countries. If you’re a large company of any kind, it’s likely that you have your own valuable alternative data laying around. A company called Eagle Alpha […]
When you decide to do an MBA, one thing you’re able to do at that point in life is change the direction of your career dramatically without anyone labeling your decision as brash. Most MBAs will shoot for the Holy Grail of career changes, investment banking or consulting. For all the alphas in the bunch, […]
A meritocracy is all about rewarding people on the basis of their abilities. This almost always turns out to be those people who work harder and take bigger risks. It’s what has made our present day society so great. Everything you see around you today is the result of a meritocracy that rewards those people who work […]
A topic here on Nanalyze that has generated a great deal of interest is that of using artificial intelligence for stock trading. When we talk about stock trading though, it’s too vague unless we provide some sort of time frame. There are black box trading algorithms that can conduct 100s of trades per second and they don’t need […]
While the majority of our readers hail from the United States (~66%), the second largest representation in our readership is the U.K. (8%, innit) and of course Canada is in third (5%, eh). What this means is that a majority of our readers deal primarily in U.S. equities. Finance people call this “domestic bias”, sociologists call […]