Category: Authored by Steve Large
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06.17.22 – Of Waves and Waterbeds
Building a successful long-term financial portfolio is all about “weathering the storm”. It’s often easy to fly high when the market is booming, but a portfolio only shows its resiliency and robustness in how it responds to crises and changing market conditions. Such crises emerge when unforeseen circumstances impact the financial market and can manifest…
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05.20.22 – Of Rockets and Wax: Know Your Limits, and Fly Within Them
The Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus tells the story of a son and his father in their attempts to escape the island of Crete by crafting wings from wax and feathers, enabling them to fly away. While their engineering prowess was enviable, and they succeed in constructing a functioning set of wings, the fate…
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03.11.22 – “dragon kings”
Here Be Dragon Kings Author: Steve Large — PhD, Data Scientist Patterns and structure can be found everywhere in the world around us. From the symmetries in snowflakes to the self-similarity of Romanesco broccoli, we really can’t get away from it. However, while these examples are drawn from the natural world, the result of human enterprise can also…