The Research Handbook
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- Investing, Trading, and Quantitative Research: The Big Picture
- Define Your Goals and Constraints Before Investing
- Separate Essential Money: Household Assets, Debt, and Emergency Funds
- Low Risk Is Not Risk Free: Cash, Deposits, Money Funds, and Short-Term Bonds
- Long-Term Thinking, Compounding, and the Cost of Active Research
- Your First Research Note: From an Idea to a Testable Question
- What Do You Own When You Buy a Stock?
- Indexes, ETFs, and Fair Benchmarks
- From Quotes to Fills: How Trades Actually Happen
- Calculating Investment Returns: From One Period to Compounding
- Risk Beyond Volatility: Drawdowns, Losses, and Liquidity
- Understanding Volatility: Standard Deviation and Annualization
- Dividends, Splits, and Adjusted Prices
- Using U.S. Stocks to Learn Research Across Markets
- Facts, Interpretations, and Forecasts
- Base Rates, Probability, and Calibrated Judgment
- Is Beating a Benchmark Alpha? Returns, Risk, and Luck
- Where an Individual Investor Might Find an Edge
- Value, Quality, and Momentum Without the Hype
- Turning Investment Ideas into Research Projects
- Working with AI as a Research Assistant
- Researching a Company: From Questions to Ongoing Review
- How Professional Investment Research Teams Work
- Finding Reliable Sources: Filings, Reports, and Disclosures
- Business Models and Competitive Advantages
- Industry, Competition, and the Macro Context
- Reading Financial Statements: Earnings, Balance Sheets, and Equity
- Why Profit Is Not Cash
- Using Financial Ratios: Profitability, Capital Returns, and Solvency
- Earnings Quality and Accounting Comparability
- Management, Governance, and Capital Allocation
- Valuation Multiples and What They Really Compare
- Discounted Cash Flow Without the Mystery
- What Is Priced In? Expectations and Reverse Valuation
- Scenarios, Margin of Safety, and Uncertainty
- Writing a Decision-Useful Investment Research Report
- Updating a Thesis After New Evidence
- What Quantitative Research Really Means
- How Professional Quantitative Research Teams Work
- When Data Becomes Knowable
- Building a Universe Without Survivorship Bias
- The Math You Need for Research: A Task-Based Learning Path
- What Data, Tools, and Computing Resources Does Investment Research Need?
- Understanding Uncertainty: Samples, Distributions, and Correlation
- Statistical Significance and Economic Value in Investment Research
- From Indicators to Signals: Windows, Timing, and Rules
- Specify a Strategy Without Writing Code
- Using AI to Implement a Strategy: Checking Rules and Results
- How a Backtest Turns Signals into an Account History
- Sharpe, Sortino, and Calmar Ratios: Meaning and Limitations
- Reading a Backtest Report Beyond Its Return
- Look-Ahead Bias and Data Leakage
- Overfitting and the Cost of Repeated Trials
- Out-of-Sample and Walk-Forward Validation: Development, Testing, and Forward Observation
- Costs, Turnover, and Strategy Capacity
- Robustness Checks and Sources of Strategy Returns
- Concluding a Quantitative Research Project
- Starting Factor Research: From Company Characteristics to Signals
- Testing a Factor: IC, Ranked Portfolios, and Stability
- Industry, Size, and Factor Exposure: What Neutralization Changes
- Combining Factors: Redundancy, Simple Weights, and Incremental Value
- From Factor Rankings to Research Portfolios: Holdings, Constraints, Turnover, and Costs
- Complete a Factor Study: Evidence, Reproduction, and Decay
- Asset Allocation and Portfolio Constraints
- How Much Can You Put at Risk? Work Backward from Loss Capacity
- Diversification Beyond the Number of Holdings
- Allocating Strategy Capital: Evidence, Risk Budgets, and Scaling
- When Strategies Lose Together: Combined Exposure and Risk Budgets
- How Much per Trade? Position Size, Capital Used, and Estimated Loss
- Losing Streaks and Position Changes: Fixed Risk, Adding Positions, and Martingales
- Leverage and Margin: Buying Power Is Not Loss Capacity
- Stress Testing and Loss Budgets When Risks Arrive Together
- Responding to Drawdowns: Reduce Risk, Pause, and Define Recovery
- Investment Account Cash Flows: Contributions, Withdrawals, and Reinvestment
- Rebalancing a Changing Portfolio
- What Did Your Account Earn? Cash Flows, Time-Weighted and Money-Weighted Returns
- Where Portfolio Returns Come From: Benchmarks, Active Risk, and Attribution
- From Paper Research to Ongoing Monitoring
- Combining Strategies: Comparable Evidence and Simple Allocations
- Multi-Strategy Portfolios: Shared Accounts, Validation, and Retirement
- Loss Aversion and the Disposition Effect
- Overconfidence, Hindsight, and Outcome Bias
- Confirmation Bias, Anchoring, and Investment Narratives
- FOMO, Social Comparison, and Information Noise
- Making Decisions During a Drawdown
- Decision Journals and Evidence-Based Reviews
- Organizing and Reviewing Research with CoTrading
- Capstone: Research a Company and Revisit Your Thesis
- Capstone: Test a Strategy That May Have No Alpha
- Making Research Reproducible: Records, Versions, and Handoffs
- Is Machine Learning Worth Using? A Fair Comparison with Simple Methods
- Your Research Skills, Professional Gaps, and Personal Advantages
- Build a Sustainable Personal Research Practice