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Questions worth testing.

A map of the research: the market question, the technical approach and the limits of the evidence. These are studies and archived systems—not a list of strategies offered to investors.

33 research profiles12 domainsNo investment recommendations
33 research profilesIdeas / systems / evidence
Mean-reversion & statistical arbitrage

OU statistical arbitrage

An Ornstein–Uhlenbeck framework for examining cross-asset spread relationships, mean reversion and the stability of pair selection.

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Cross-asset OU multibot

A multi-system extension of cross-asset mean reversion. The archive allows comparison of configurations without treating a retrospective replay as live performance.

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Mean-reversion & statistical arbitrage

Closed-end-fund discount reversion

A study of how listed closed-end funds trade relative to their reported net asset values, and whether apparent convergence survives realistic implementation.

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Dual-class share spread

Relative-value research into two share classes of the same issuer, including liquidity, voting rights and the practical cost of holding both legs.

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Trend & momentum

Cross-asset trend following

Research into time-series momentum across asset classes, with volatility-aware sizing and explicit attention to market exposure.

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Trend & momentum

Carry & trend

An examination of currency carry alongside trend conditioning: a risk-premium question as well as a timing problem.

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Trend & momentum

Jump momentum

A study of market behaviour following unusually large price moves, where timestamp quality and event definition matter as much as the predictor.

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Futures term structure

Research into information in futures-curve shape, roll effects and the difference between a quoted contract and an investable return series.

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Intraday index systems

NAS100 opening-range breakout

An archived intraday index-system project examining opening-range structure, session definitions and execution constraints.

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Intraday index systems

NAS walk-forward study

A study of rolling evaluation for intraday index models, examining how parameter selection changes across market conditions.

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Commodity systems

Gold H4 system

An archived gold-system project combining forecasting and risk controls. Later replay work revisited alternative historical configurations.

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Commodity systems

Gold directional overlay

Research into directional-change and risk overlays on gold, separating an overlay’s contribution from the underlying market move.

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Macro-regime ensembles

Macro-regime ensemble

An archived multi-sleeve research system combining macro-regime and trend inputs with portfolio-level risk allocation.

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Cross-sectional equity & factors

Equity cross-sectional momentum

Cross-sectional research into relative equity performance, with an emphasis on point-in-time membership and investable comparisons.

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Cross-sectional equity & factors

Low-volatility equity factor

An examination of low-volatility equity portfolios and the distinction between factor exposure, selection and incremental return.

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Cross-sectional equity & factors

Equity seasonality

Research into calendar structure in equities, including turn-of-period behaviour and the risk of selecting the attractive dates after the fact.

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Cross-sectional equity & factors

Cross-sectional value

A study of equity valuation signals using fundamental information, where reporting lags and universe construction are part of the signal definition.

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Cross-sectional equity & factors

Symbolic-regression equity alpha

A symbolic-regression research project exploring machine-generated equity expressions and the challenge of evaluating an adaptive search.

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Microstructure & order flow

Order-flow imbalance & DeepLOB

Research into order-flow imbalance and limit-order-book representations, connecting microstructure prediction with the cost of an executable trade.

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Microstructure & order flow

Order-flow imbalance v2

A follow-on order-flow project examining whether the available information can clear an execution-cost hurdle before model complexity is added.

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Microstructure & order flow

Futures microstructure

A futures microstructure study focused on event timing, the order book and realistic interpretation of short-horizon signals.

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Alt-data & nowcasting

Weather-to-gas nowcast

A forecasting study connecting population-weighted weather measures with US natural-gas storage. Forecast accuracy and trading value are separate questions.

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Alt-data & nowcasting

Shipping-manifest equity signal

Research into shipping records as company information, including entity mapping, publication delay and the boundary between a pipeline test and market evidence.

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Alt-data & nowcasting

COT positioning

A study of reported futures positioning and what can still be inferred after accounting for the delay between positions and public release.

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Alt-data & nowcasting

Post-earnings drift

Research into post-earnings-announcement drift, linking surprises to subsequent returns under point-in-time data and cost assumptions.

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Sentiment & NLP

Macro news sentiment

A study of text-derived macro information and its potential role as a market feature or risk indicator.

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Sentiment & NLP

Political-sentiment overlay

An archived event-driven gold research project examining political text and price behaviour. Price-only proxies are not equivalent to the original information feed.

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Crypto

Crypto small-alt tail (Tidewater)

A digital-asset cross-sectional research design examining the less-liquid tail, with explicit venue, survivorship and execution questions.

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Machine learning & crowd platforms

Numerai RESIDUNET-CR

A machine-learning project for the Numerai setting, where raw predictive correlation and marginal contribution are distinct evaluation objectives.

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Machine learning & crowd platforms

Alpha factory

A research-generation workflow for screening candidate mechanisms and keeping the search history visible to subsequent evaluation.

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Machine learning & crowd platforms

Genetic multi-strategy optimisation

A genetic-algorithm research project exploring model combinations and the distinction between search fitness and out-of-sample evidence.

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FX systems

Forecast-to-fill

Research connecting a forecast to position construction and execution—the steps that sit between a prediction and an implementable system.

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FX systems

FX strength & trend

A foreign-exchange study combining cross-currency strength and trend information, with turnover and sizing as first-class concerns.

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