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  • Background and Orientation

    Gladvin Lawrence on June 21, 2019

    Personal Finance revolves around planning your financials today so you can have a better tomorrow. This chapter explains the importance of having a personal financial plan and how you can build the sa ..

  • Momentum Portfolios

    Gladvin Lawrence on March 15, 2019

    16.1 – Defining Momentum If you have spent some time in the market, then I’m certain you’ve been bombarded with market jargon of all sorts. Most of us get used to these jargon and start using th ..

  • Interesting features on TradingView

    Faisal Mohammed on March 9, 2019

      If you don’t know already, then TradingView is now available on Kite. Here is the TradingQ&A post announcing the beta launch. Given this, I could share a few of my favourite features ..

  • Calendar Spreads

    Gladvin Lawrence on June 23, 2018

    15.1 – The classic approach I had briefly introduced the concept of calendar spreads in Chapter 10 of the Futures Trading module. Traditionally calendar spreads are dealt with a price based approac ..

  • Live Example – 2

    Gladvin Lawrence on May 30, 2018

    14.1 – Position Sizing I know, the discussion on pair trading was to end with the previous chapter, but I thought I had to discuss a special case before we finally wrap up. I’ll also try and keep ..

  • Live Example -1

    Gladvin Lawrence on May 25, 2018

    13.1 – Tracking the pair data We have finally reached a point where we are through with all the background theory knowledge required for Pair Trading. I know most of you have been waiting for this m ..

  • Trade Identification

    Gladvin Lawrence on May 4, 2018

    12.1 – Trading the equation At this stage, we have discussed pretty much all the background information we need to know about Pair trading. We now have to patch things together and understand how al ..

  • Government Securities

    Gladvin Lawrence on May 3, 2018

    19.1 – The new beginning In a fascinating new development, NSE in collaboration with RBI has recently made it possible for retail investors to start investing in Government Securities, mainly the lo ..

  • PTM2, C4 – The ADF test

    Gladvin Lawrence on April 12, 2018

    11.1 – Co-Integration of two-time series I guess this chapter will get a little complex. We would be skimming the surface of some higher order statistical theory. I will try my best and stick to pra ..

  • PTM2, C3 – The Error Ratio

    Gladvin Lawrence on March 9, 2018

    10.1 – Who is X and who is Y? I hope the previous chapter gave you a basic understanding of linear regression and how one can conduct the linear regression operation on two sets of data, on MS Excel ..