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Creating Long Short Portfolios in Equities Lab
Shorting stocks is hard to do profitably. Very hard. That said, adding a short component to portfolios can reduce drawdown. Long/Short portfolios are also useful to see if factors are important for good investment performance.
Using the islongshort macro
To model a long/short portfolio with maximum control, use the islongshort macro.…
Henry Crutcher
How to analyze a factor without ranking in Equities Lab
Create a screen
Everything starts with creating a screen. So, onward!
Name your screen
Screeners with names can be found later. If you want to put your screens into categories, simply put MyCoolCategory: at the front.
Limit your stocks
You can type “Market Cap > 500m” here.
Create A Screener
A quantitative mutual fund is a screener. 
Should you be Scared of the Dow’s 1700 point drop?
On the fifth of February 2018 the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its largest single day drop in history. This drop coming off a market sell-off at the end of January has caused many investors to call for the start of a bear market.…
Sometimes it’s better to not reinvent the wheel. A number of our existing professors have allowed a few of their class homework assignments to be publicly available to other professors. You can import these assignments into your Equities Lab class environment and either use them as-is or change them to follow your syllabus.
So you’ve just downloaded Equities Lab and are ready to set up your account for the class you’re teaching next semester. To successfully do this, just follow these steps:
1. Navigate to Account Settings
2. Click on “Create Course”
3. Name your course following the rules
4. Click on “Create new homework”
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Now, this flag looks incredibly simple, but whenever you see orange text in Equities Lab, it means that there is a deeper formula to explore. Clicking on that formula we are presented with the following –
Though the flag itself is simple, the underlying formula is not. Understanding and analyzing cash flow statements takes time.…
If you’re a short seller, then I’d like to introduce you to the Ohlson O-Score. This is a score created by Dr. James Ohlson of New York University, aimed at predicting the financial distress of a company. The Ohlson O-Score is the result of a nine-factor linear combination of coefficient-weighted accounting ratios that are found from financial disclosure statements that are provided by publicly traded companies.…
I’ve been seeing a lot of articles recently that are very focused on the idea, that by purchasing the industry or sector that performed best over the past year you are giving you the best chance at making returns. I’m a little skeptical, but just as hopeful to see whether or not this is a potential new avenue to take in my portfolio.…
When investing, for every fairy tale stock like an Amazon(AMZN) or Nvidia(NVDA), there’s an equally disastrous stock like MoSys(MOSY) or Gevo (GEVO). To avoid getting into stocks like these, it’s important to look at their failures and analyze them to avoid getting into the next potential train wreck of a stock. …
