Buying the first Bitcoins. The easiest and most obvious choice is to open an account at Coinbase. You will have to verify your identity by uploading a few documents. Once you are verified you can transfer money via bank transfer. If you have a European passport you can do a SEPA transfer for zero fee but …
Bitcoin Investing, Ethereum & Alt Coins: Entering the world of Cryptocurrecies
Bitcoin investing and crypto portfolios For some time now, I have been following news on various “crypto-coins” including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, XPR and others. I have watched in awe at the booming world of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and the millions willingly thrown at dubious new ideas (just look at MatchPool a “dating” service that raised $6 …
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Intro to rules based Investing – Why follow an investment strategy?
1. Basics What is rules based Investing? In rules-based-investing we define a clear set of rules. These rules comprise an investment strategy. Here is an example strategy: “At the first day of the month, look at the performance of bonds versus stocks by calulating the 3-month performances of two exchange traded funds, SPY (the SPDR …
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QUANTtrader -The Logical-Invest investment software for building and backtesting rules-based strategies
Investment software to easily create and backtest a rules-based investment strategy QUANTtrader is a swiss-made software tool used to develop, backtest and implement rules-based strategies. It was initially developed by Frank Grossmann as his personal investment software. After having sold two companies, Frank trades for a living and his software reflects this. QuantTrader is available from Logical-Invest.com …
Day of month effect on rebalancing a portfolio
In this post we will: Take a look at a simple, momentum based, monthly rebalanced Equity/Bond portfolio consisting of two ETFs: SPY and TLT. Search for what has been the optimal dates in the month to rebalance such a portfolio. Each month we allocate to SPY and TLT. If SPY has outperformed TLT we rebalance …
