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Mitigating Common Mean Variance Optimization Process Challenges

Mean Variance Optimization is primarily the concern of institutional investors and quants, but this blog can still be of interest to individual investors who actively consider their personal asset allocation. With month end, quarter end, and fiscal year end approaching, many institutional investment teams are in the late innings of portfolio strategy and asset allocation […]

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Analyst Price Forecast Evaluation Case Study: Gold as of 9/13/2024

In this case study we illustrate how the VecViz’s Dashboards, can improve understanding of and provide fertile material for dialogue related to a price forecast by (1) placing the forecast in the context of the strongest historical price channel trajectories (i.e., Vector Sets) supporting it, (2) providing related probability estimates, and (3) allowing for efficient

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SPY as of 9/9/2024: Downside Cognition Case Study

With “#stockmarketcrash” trending on Twitter / X pre-market yesterday morning, and as a counterpart to “SPY 572… 22 points (and a paradigm shift?) away“, in which we explored the SPY’s upside prospects, here we use the VecViz Dashboard platform to explore the downside prospects of the SPY. We consider the 1 month forward time horizon

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Comparing VecViz’s V-Score to a Chart Image Recognition Based model recently Featured in the Journal of Finance

When a recent contact forwarded “(Re-)Imag(in)ing Price Trends” to me this spring, I was greatly heartened. I knew my undertaking in developing VecViz’s Vector Model and V-Score – distilling predictive performance insights from price history charts, was ambitious. I believed that I had done so, but convincing others that it was even theoretically possible was

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An LLM’s Comparison of VecViz to Established Vol Models

Comparison can aid definition. In other blog posts we have discussed the approach of VecViz and its Vector Model to price probability. Here we seek to further illuminate that approach through qualitative comparison to a few well-established volatility model archetypes that enjoy significant institutional money manager use. Specifically, we seek to compare the Vector Model

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Realistic Vol Estimates through Support, Resistance and Machine Learning

“Sigma” vol is familiar and easy but has important flaws. “Sigma” type volatility metrics that rely on assumptions of normally, independent, identically distributed returns have many shortcomings when applied to financial markets, including: More realistic, established vol models are challenging to implement. Sigma’s shortcomings have for decades motivated the creation of many flavors of “local

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“Vector Strength” quantifies support and resistance

Vector Set Strength decreases with distance and time Like the wake behind a speedboat, Vector Set Strength generally dissipates with distance and time from the model date price. Therefore, Vector Sets anchored by recent tops and bottoms have greater strength than those formed from tops and bottoms that occurred in the distant past. Likewise, Vector

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“Let me warn you…” of the limitations of VecViz’s Analytics.

“Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way, in case the moisture weighs down your wings, if you fly too low, or if you go too high, the sun scorches them. Travel between the extremes.” Ovid, Metamorpheses Similar to Daedelus’ warning to Icarus regarding his wings, VecViz advises you use the Vector Model

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