Weekend Reads - Jul 06, 2024

Gold and Inflation: An Unstable Relationship; The Unexpected Origins of a Modern Finance Tool; How 'Nowcasting' Outperforms Traditional Analyst Estimates; A Changing Yield Curve Signal; and more...

• Gold and Inflation: An Unstable Relationship (Enterprising Investor)

• The Unexpected Origins of a Modern Finance Tool (MIT)

• How 'Nowcasting' Outperforms Traditional Analyst Estimates in Japan (Man Institute)

• A Changing Yield Curve Signal (Verdad)

• Useful and Overlooked Skills (Collaborative Fund)

• Buffett's Alpha: Skill or Luck? (Market Sentiment)

• How To Build A Systematic Relative Momentum Strategy (The Chartist)

• How to Track Retail Investor Activity in TAQ (Alpha Architect)

• Diversifying via Time Zones (Finominal)

• Why Stocks Are the Greatest Asset Class (Of Dollars and Data)

• Options are just options – Why are they valuable? (Robot Wealth)

• Garrett DeSimone, Head of Quantitative Research at OptionMetrics (🎧 Alpha Exchange)

• Roaring Kitty, Factor Concentration and Investing Conviction (📺 Alpha Architect)

• An 'Acquired' Taste (Investment Talk)

• Good Models do not Match Variance (Win Vector)

• Procyclical Stocks Earn Higher Returns by Goetzmann et al. (NBER)

• The Unseen Cost of Inflation: Measuring Inflation Uncertainty and Its Economic Repercussions by Londono et al. (SSRN)

• A Century of Profitable Industry Trends by Zarattini and Antonacci (SSRN)