As an illustrative example of a trading strategy, we consider in detail an investment strategy, titled “The Bounce Basket”, designed for someone to express a bullish view on the market by allowing them to take long positions on securities that would benefit the most from a rally in the...

We can overcome uncertainty with uncertainty. Using randomness in our choices and in what we control and hence in the decision making process, could potentially offset the uncertainty inherent in the environment and yield better outcomes. This methodology is suitable for the social sciences...

We consider the essential elements of problem solving that will be useful from a business perspective in addition to being applicable to other areas of life. The discussion revolves around certain well-known problems from real life scenarios and a demonstration of how trial and error techniques...

Nature and Science are presently considered the leading journals among the academic community. The terms also indicate the prevailing approach and mindset to research, knowledge creation and dissemination. We discuss some of the (mis)-trends in the publication process and show that it is now...

We look at the effect of the tick size changes on the TOPIX 100 index names made by the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan-14-2014 and Jul-22-2014. The intended consequence of the change is price improvement and shorter time to execution. We look at security level metrics that include the spread,...

We look at the effect of the tick size changes on the TOPIX 100 index names made by the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan-14-2014 and Jul-22-2014. The intended consequence of the change is price improvement and shorter time to execution. We look at security level metrics that include the spread,...

We utilize a fundamentally different model of trading costs to look at the effect of the opening of the Hong Kong Shanghai Connect that links the stock exchanges in the two cities, arguably the biggest event in international business and finance since Christopher Columbus set sail for India. We...