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One episode a week: the chart they show you, where we cast, what we found and what we learned, told for someone who is new to trading. Each episode has a short and a full log entry with the gate table. Subscribe on YouTube to get them first, or watch them in order as a playlist.

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H-059 · cross-sectional

Testing the shorting premium: what a rebalancing bug taught us

Empty because: a short leg that loses once positions are held for the month, and a fee ranking that does worse than random

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H-044 · trend / momentum

Short-term momentum in large caps: no robust edge in our test

Empty because: negative net return, and no convincing evidence that the ranking added value before costs

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H-016 · carry / funding

Collecting the funding rate is not free money. The price eats what the funding pays

Empty because: an out-of-sample Sharpe of zero, a ranking indistinguishable from rotating at random, and the whole edge living in one month