How to Start Using MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Learn what MCP is, why coding agents need it, and take one official quickstart step tonight—USB-C for AI tools.
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Learn what MCP is, why coding agents need it, and take one official quickstart step tonight—USB-C for AI tools.
Hoseinzade & Haratizadeh (2018) propose CNNPred—CNN models for stock market prediction from crafted feature representations. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Harvey, Liu & Zhu (2016) raise the multiple-testing bar for factors—often summarised as needing much higher t-stats than 1.96. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Asness, Moskowitz & Pedersen (2013) show value and momentum premia—and their negative correlation—across markets and asset classes. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Moskowitz, Ooi & Pedersen (2012) document time-series momentum: trend-follow each asset’s own past returns. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Giglio & Xiu (2021) provide a multiple-testing toolkit for thousands of alphas—guardrails against fake discovery. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Feng, Giglio & Xiu (2020) tame the factor zoo with double-selection LASSO: does your new factor add incremental information? Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Tan, Roberts & Zohren (2023) study spatio-temporal momentum—combining time and cross-asset structure. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Wood, Roberts & Zohren (2021) explore slow momentum with fast reversion—multi-horizon trend vs mean-reversion features. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Jegadeesh & Titman (1993) document cross-sectional momentum: buy recent winners, sell losers over 3–12 month horizons. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Asness, Frazzini & Pedersen (2018) build a Quality-Minus-Junk (QMJ) factor from profitability, growth, and safety. Plain-language intro. Not investment advice.
Clone NVIDIA NOOA labs, run one class-as-agent sample, and study object-oriented agent design after work—carefully, as a lab.