September 23, 2026 · 6 min read
A Newey-West standard error corrects a t-statistic for autocorrelation. On my engine's 12-month panel it turned 18 monthly readings with a t-statistic of negative 18.8 into about two independent observations. The arithmetic, the lag choi…
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August 27, 2026 · 3 min read
A viral post claimed a simple 5/10 moving-average strategy that has not lost in eight years. I codified the most charitable readings of the claim, ran each one over SPY with costs, and checked the claim against its own success metric. It…
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August 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The order block is trading social media's favorite glossary card. I wrote the definition down as code, ran it across 30 large-cap names and five years of daily bars, and measured what the retest entry actually earns net of costs. The ver…
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