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Today’s Listen

Mon, Nov 2

SI423: Why Trend Following Might Outlast the AI Arms Race ft. Mark Rzepczynski↗QUANT & TECHNOLOGY

Top Traders Unplugged · 74 min · Crowded AI and machine-learning models may be shortening the useful life of alpha, while trend following rides structural shifts.

Why it’s worth your time: A systematic-trading discussion of how market structure, liquidity and capital flows shape trend-following returns. It also asks whether crowded quant models are wearing down their own edge.

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Today’s Read

Mon, Nov 2

Who's Borrowing and Lending in Repo Markets?↗MARKETS & ECONOMY

Liberty Street Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) · 10 min read · by Gara Afonso, Jun-Davinci Choi, Gonzalo Cisternas, and Will Riordan

Why it’s worth your time: Explains how repurchase agreements let firms borrow cash against securities, and shows who the big borrowers and lenders are. It is a clear entry point to the plumbing behind the bond market and the hedge-fund basis trade.

Today’s Market Term

Mon, Nov 2

Yield curve

A line showing the interest rates on government bonds that come due at different times, from a few months to 30 years. Long-term rates are usually higher; when short-term rates rise above them, many read it as a recession warning, though it has given false alarms.

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond↗

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Online events and free courses

Online Events

Free live webinars and workshops traders anywhere can join. Times are Eastern.

How to Win a Trade War (livestream)↗FREE

Wednesday, November 4 · 6:30 PM ET

Chicago Council on Global Affairs, with the Becker Friedman Institute (UChicago)

Economics: Are We Ready for Tomorrow? Austan Goolsbee with Leadership Greater Chicago (livestream)↗FREE

Monday, November 9 · 10:00 AM ET

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Option Conversions and Reversals↗FREE

Wednesday, November 11 · 4:30 PM ET